Earlier today, my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and I were watching some cinema scenes and I was like, wait a second, this gives me an idea for a video. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell.  First off, I appreciate your concern. Second off, if you followed me on Instagram at the Rewired Soul, you would know exactly what happened to my eye. So go follow me on Instagram at the Rewired Soul, alright? But anyways, yeah, so Tristan and I were watching cinema scenes earlier and I was like, this is a great way to talk about negative bias. So I've talked about negative bias plenty of times on my channel. But I think this is a great example of, you know, of the good that can come from negative bias as well as some of the cons to which I'll talk about later. But anyways, just to lay it all out, let's talk about what Cinema Sense is for those of you who don't know. And then let's talk about what negative bias is, alright? So Cinema Sense is a channel here on YouTube and basically what he does is he breaks down different movies and he goes through just like all of the mistakes in it, right? And not even like mistakes. I remember when I was a kid there was like movie mistakes and like you just saw like, oh, this thing was up in this scene. Now it's down. It's just weird things.  So it's pretty interesting. And he pointed out like the one behind me on the screen, like Tristan and I were watching the happening and I think he pointed out like 167 Cinema Sense in it, right? But anyways, as I'm watching and I'm like, man, this dude's negative bias is just like darn. So what is negative bias? Negative bias is our ability to detect, you know, something's wrong, right? So basically the way we evolved, we needed negative bias. This is why you're more likely to notice the bad things rather than the good things. So this can hurt us when we're like reading through our comments and all that kind of stuff because someone like me, a YouTuber, I can focus on all the bad comments rather than the new ones. Well, based on our evolution, we need to do that because it helped us survive, right? So if something was off, if something didn't look right or maybe like we heard a wrestling in a bush and then a lion jumped out or something, like we needed to be able to connect like, okay, that bad thing or this trigger means that something else is going to happen, right? Or this noise or whatever it is, sound, smell, whatever, right? It helped us survive. The problem is that this can lead to anxiety and depression because some of us still have a very strong negative bias. But I did want to talk about like there's definitely some positives to having a negative bias. So many people who have a strong negative bias, they're more prone to anxiety, all right? Because we're always noticing all the problems. But as you can see with somebody like CinemaSense, he has turned it into a career and I was just fascinated, right? Like I'm sitting here watching and he's noticing so many different things that I probably wouldn't even have caught on while I was watching the movie, right? And like, I just imagined, I was like, could you imagine just sitting with this guy and watching one of these movies and seeing all the mistakes he's pointing out? Because I make a lot of videos. A lot of you know I make a lot of videos and some of it is just because I've trained myself. A lot of it comes from public speaking and running groups and things like that. So I just kind of go off the top of my head and it's because I've had so much practice. So with him, based on, you know, what he's doing for his content, he has trained his mind to spot all of these different mistakes, which is actually a very good thing. So the other day, or actually I think when was it? When I talk about Kanye West, I pointed out that book, The Power of Difference. I highly recommend you check it out. I'll link it down in the description again. But it talks about the benefits of different mental illness. So again, people with anxiety have a negative bias, but this is good. So people with a strong negative bias, they're also more likely to live longer. They're more likely to do a good job. Like you got to think about it. Somebody who's able to spot mistakes, they're often better when working on projects, you know, because they double check everything, triple check everything, you know what I mean? So they're very meticulous about these things and they can find these errors. People with a negative bias are also natural problem solvers as well, right? Because like this is something that I have a bit of like something I've always prided myself in is noticing the problem, but focusing on the solution.  Like when I saw problems, like I just became this like fixer, right? Like I was like, okay, here's a problem. What's the solution? And after I got my mental health under control, it's been a great benefit to me because like when I work, like when I was working at the rehab center or I used to work at a content management company, right? And I like finding things and just getting to like figure out how to fix them and solve them because my brain just spots all of these issues. And maybe that's one of the reasons why when I'm watching other YouTubers and I'm pointing out different things that they're doing that maybe you can benefit from, you know, it's because I'm spotting those things. But something else is, is that we need to turn that into some introspection, right? We need to become more self-aware of our own problems, of what we're doing. We need to spot our own faults so we can start working on those as well. Now, here's another fun fact that I learned from that book. People with a strong negative bias, their best match is somebody who has symptoms of ADHD, right? So people with ADHD, they get really passionate about something, they get really in there and they'll just start go, go, go, go, go. But what they were talking about, they actually did studies where they paired somebody with anxiety or more of a negative bias and they work very well together because the person with the negative bias, they can like sit there and point out all the mistakes, they can say, hey, let's slow down. I think there was actually a story in there about business partners, right? Like one of them was like, you know, the creative one and they were all over, you know, like just making things and making things and making things, but the other person was in there to kind of like manage it and structure it better. So there's some great teamwork that can be in there, right? But then we also need to talk about the cons, okay? So one of the issues is something like I mentioned with social media, okay? But it can even be just in your different social situations, like how many of you, and feel free to leave a comment down below, are you more likely to notice, you know, the bad things that people say about you rather than the good things? This is something that a lot of people with imposter syndrome struggle with. You notice all of your faults. You notice all the people who are critiquing you rather than all the people thanking you. And this is something that I actually have to work on regularly, right?  And I'm having to really identify and work and really intentionally find the good comments and really focus on them. And notice how it makes me feel, right? By the way, that's a mindfulness practice.  So if you struggle with this, intentionally focus on the positive, right? And notice how it feels in your body because what it's doing is it's actually like, it's kind of like logging data in your nervous system.  It feels good to notice the positive.  I also just posted this picture of a comment up on Instagram and this is one of my favorite things on earth. By the way, like that you guys are learning about the prefrontal cortex and its responsibilities. Oh, oh, that just warms my heart, right? But I actually talked about negative bias in my video about the YouTube rewind. So people who are prone to spot all the mistakes or complain, they train their brain to do that more often, which can actually affect us in social situations, right? Like, does anybody really wanna hang out with somebody who's pointing out all of the mistakes or complaining about everything? So not necessarily cinema sins I don't know the guy, right? But I would ask you to look at this with yourself. Like, even though you're really good at spotting mistakes, do you sometimes go overboard? Are you constantly spotting mistakes? Like, could you imagine going out to dinner with a friend, right?  Oh, they shouldn't have done this with this recipe. Oh, oh, look at that, the draperies over there. Oh, this glass and you know what I mean?  So it's important that we find that balance because a lot of this stuff with our mental health, like I made a video a while back, like people with depression, they're more empathetic, they're kinder, they're gentler because they know that pain, they know that feeling, so they naturally wanna help more people out. And a ton of it I learned from this book that I keep mentioning. By the way, what if you guys asked me like, oh, I don't know if they're sponsored or anything? Like full disclosure, no, I wish, I wish that some of these places sponsored me, some of these authors or publishers sponsored me. I would love if Audible sponsored me because Audible is my jam, but no, I will let you know this, like down in the description when you click those links, those are Amazon affiliate links. So it's great if you click on those links and get the book because what it does is you get the book for the exact same cost and I get a little bit in return. It helps support the channel by using my links whenever I link your books. So just keep that in mind, all right? But I know a lot of you, in all honesty, you asked me about book recommendation, so I'm just trying to plug them here and there and just let you know where I'm learning what and where I'm citing some of my information and knowledge from, all right? Anyways, let me know down in the comments below, like how is your negative bias? Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Are you good at spotting things and problem solving? Is it becoming an issue in your life? Like let me know down in the comments so I can make some more content for all of you beautiful people out there, all right? But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing. And if you'd like to become a patron and get some exclusive videos and perks and get into the Q and A and all that, click or tap right there. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


We'll start right here in front of the old Jenkins School. And we're gonna work our way slowly up to the park. And on the way, I'm gonna point out different areas that people have reported are haunted and tell stories about different experiences. And then when we get to the park, then we're gonna have refreshments and people can sit around and talk about, cuz everybody's got a ghost story. So then they're gonna sit and talk about some of their ghost stories. And that's gonna be it, we're gonna try to raise some money for the fire department, and we're gonna try to have a good time, more than anything else. So just seems like something that would be fun to do. I've been wanting to do it for a few years, but everything sort of fell into place this year, so we're gonna try it.


As Christians, we are not lucky. No, we've got a God who looks over us and protects us and keeps us. One of the more famous passages in the Bible, Psalm 23 says the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. But then it says that even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why? It says for you are with me, your ride and your staff, they comfort me. And so even though we go through things and looks like it's chaotic, God still protects us. And it's not being lucky, it's being blessed. Amen.


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Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another weekly WW grocery haul today I am getting my groceries from both Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store and Walmart grocery pickup So if you want to see what I have in store this week for groceries I'm also going to walk you through my meal plan and what's on my agenda for meal prep then just stay tuned So here is my grocery haul from Walmart I just picked up a few things by pickup and the majority of my groceries you'll see next from Fred Meyer or Kroger So from Walmart, I picked up the Pillsbury sugar-free yellow cake mix. This is for my upcoming breakfast recipe I can't wait to share this with you guys Also, as always, I just grabbed another can of the Hershey's whipped topping. I love this. It is so good It is only one smart point. It's delicious on yogurt pudding desserts amazing So I picked that up a big tub of I can't believe it's not butter light This is definitely a better value than the smaller tub and I can only find this at Walmart So I added that Two cases of coca-cara one vanilla one cherry. This is just for me to restock my supply Two bags of rice cauliflower. This is for an upcoming recipe I needed quite a bit of rice cauliflower in this organic rate value It's really good and really reasonably priced compared to the bird's eye So if you can find this at your Walmart highly recommended. I also picked up some fat-free mozzarella and fat-free cheddar Again, Fred Meyer does not carry fat-free cheese. So I always grab it at Walmart Parmesan cheese. This is just the free-go shredded Parmesan cheese Really good price at Walmart. So I picked that up and lastly two cans of the Great Value organic 100% pure pumpkin. I wanted to have this on hand because I have quite a few pumpkin fall recipes coming up So that is everything I grabbed from Walmart grocery pickup And here is my groceries from Fred Meyer minus a case of water So let me show you what I picked up for the week. So I grabbed some more mustard I was just about out and this is on sale right now for 99 cents, which is a great deal Also, I grabbed one of the Fred Meyer brand of the Greek yogurt in strawberry This was a free Friday download. So I actually got this yogurt for free So these are two points just like the Dan and light and fit and they're actually really good They're just the Kroger or Fred Meyer brand. I also picked up some natural sour cream for my husband I'm making him tacos for lunches this week and this was on a great deal dollar 25 Of course, a dozen happy eggs. Love my happy eggs These were on sale and I also had a coupon. So it was a double bonus best eggs if you can find these in your local stores In my opinion, they have the oranges yolk the best flavor delicious Also string cheese mainly for my husband's lunch, but we like to have this on hand as well And this is just the low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese the 24 pack Mini chocolate chips. I've been on a kick with these. This is for an upcoming recipe So I like to have these on hand. You can have quite a few for the smart point So kind of is a nice sweet treat and satisfies that chocolate craving My normal private selection center cut bacon they changed the packaging I almost panicked because I couldn't find it in the store and I need this for an upcoming recipe Two slices one smart point love this bacon for canned goods I picked up a can of Campbell's cream of chicken. This is the healthy request So it's lower points than the fat free and has a little bit better flavor I think so cream of chicken for a dinner recipe and then I also picked up cream of mushroom for a dinner recipe and For canned goods lastly a can of mild rotelle for a recipe French fried onions. I need this for a dinner recipe that I have coming this next week of Course fat-free ready whip. There isn't a week that goes by that. I don't pick this up. So my fat-free ready whip These were on sale for 99 cents So I thought these would be a good snack for me to take with me when I'm out showing houses This is the parmesan roasted garlic Harvest snap peas never had these before but again, they were 99 cents and I thought that they would be a really good snack Bacon pieces for a recipe. I really like this. It's real bacon. It's already pre-cut up Perfect easy for recipes. So Kroger real bacon pieces They also have their meal on sale for 99 cents, which is such a great deal So I picked these up just to have on hand for when I'm traveling this one is the meal strawberry watermelon and The meal sport in the Arctic grape and by the way, you can buy five of these on the 99 cent deal So I picked up four and I also grabbed the meal sport lemon lime And lastly I really like this one. This is the meal energy tropical fusion So four things a meal that will definitely last me a while a bag of frozen peas This is for an upcoming dinner recipe. I also grabbed another package of flour I was completely out of just regular flour and with fall baking coming up I have lots of recipes down on my menu plan. So flour was definitely needed. Oh lay wraps I've actually never tried this flavor. This is the tomato in basil I'm really excited to give this a try one smart point Just like the high fiber and I thought this would be really good on breakfast Or I'm sorry lunch wraps with some meat and some cheese. It just sounds really good. So really excited to try those I also grabbed two big boxes of chicken stock I need quite a bit for some upcoming recipes this next week and these were a great deal two for $3 So that's great for organic chicken stock and the rest of what I have is produce So we'll start back here with our grapes green grapes and red grapes. These were 99 cents a pound So I picked up quite a bit of grapes for the week My second fruit is going to be blueberries 299 so good deal for blueberries. So I'll have blueberries and grapes as fruits this week I needed a lot of mushrooms. So I found the organic on clearance for $1.39 whole mushrooms So I picked up two packages of those a couple of yellow onions Some stocks of celery for a recipe green onions.   So that's everything that I picked up at Fred Meyer So let's get into this week's meal plan and what's on the plan for meal prep So now let's get into this week's meal plan. This is my Keriel meal planner. You know, I love this meal planner I have the 8 by 11 one. It is absolutely beautiful There is tons of tabs for you The resource tab is where you can log your favorite recipes plan your meals your blogs Anything that you want to just take note of you can use the resource tab for that There's also the inventory tab where you can inventory your freezer your pantry and also your spices So it makes it really easy to know what you have on hand when you're planning your grocery list So you're not buying extra items will come back here to the meal plans tab There's the gatherings and that is where you can plan an event So whether you have a party a birthday any type of event You can plan out all of your meals and then there is also a detachable grocery list for you to remove and take with You to the grocery store So this is great if you host a lot of gatherings or you have a lot on your plate as far as events go this tab is perfect for that and Lastly and the back here is the notes tab and that's where you can take notes of anything I will usually jot down recipes that I didn't print off or screenshot so that I can have them easily accessible When I am cooking and then one last thing before we go to the meal plans There is a cute little double-sided folder in the back of the meal planner as well where you can put things that you want to have on Hand so let's revisit the meal plans tab So each month there is a monthly meal plan. Let me pull up the current month here So August so you can plan out all of your meals for the entire month I do like to do this because at a glance. I know what is on my meal plan for that night I can make sure that I'm pulling out my meat out of the freezer And then I have all of my ingredients on hand so that I know whether or not I need to make a quick run to the store So I love this. It's at a glance It's easy to plan and then also there is a weekly menu for each week where you can write out What is on your meal plan for dinner? You could do all three meals breakfast lunch? Whatever you prefer and then there is also a detachable grocery list I do use this every week to take with me to the grocery store. So let's go to this week's meal plan So my week runs Saturday through Friday. So it starts on Saturday August 31st I'll be going out for dinner as I'm showing houses and things today. So I'll be grabbing some dinner while I'm out and about Tomorrow I am planning on making ground beef dinner with So on Monday, I'm gonna be having mushroom meatballs with pasta and vegetables This is going to be part of my vegetarian series. It sounds super good Tuesday, I'm gonna be doing a chicken inch a lot of skillet and vegetables This is a low carb recipe. So you'll see that coming out here shortly Wednesday in the instant pot. We are going to do comfort food We are gonna have mac and cheese with chicken and vegetables and Thursday I'm gonna be making some baked potato soup in my instant pot now that it's not so hot out I'm feeling some comfort food and then Friday. We will do leftovers So for meal prep this week what I am planning on doing for breakfast I'll be making cake batter pancakes with turkey bacon and eggs. You will see this on Monday's meal prep video I can't wait for this breakfast Lunch I'm making carbonara pasta with chicken again really excited about this recipe and then for a snack this week I'm gonna be making homemade chewy granola bars with all whole delicious ingredients and great smart points compared to store-bought Granola bars, so stay tuned on Monday for meal prep. So that is my meal plan for the week This is my Keriel meal planner if you are interested in picking up a meal planner My code is here on the screen. It will give you 10% off click the link down in the description box Check out our website. She has some great products. Definitely helps you stay on track and plan a lot easier Thank you for joining me on another WW grocery haul I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the good stuff that I picked up throughout the week my meal plan and of course what You'll be seeing in meal prep Monday If you're new to my channel make sure you take a moment and hit that subscribe button and that little bell So you're notified every time that I upload a new video thumbs up this one comment down below Let me know what recipe or recipes you are most excited for I hope you guys have a great day And I'll see you in my next video. Bye


Okay, let's start with this one about lunch boxes. I like it I think it describes the problem well all those plastic containers polluting our beaches and what I hadn't thought about Was the threat to fish and marine animals through them swallowing the plastic But he's not talking about all plastic is he if you look at the objectives He only mentions producing both degradable lunch boxes and saving fish That's one of the good things about it He's narrowed his field down to a specific manageable project more would have been too ambitious, I think Well, he's certainly for it through the schedule is realistic and the budget is doable But I feel he's let himself down in his executive summary It's very weak and doesn't do justice to the ideas and really fails to inspire In fact, it's boring Yes, I have to say I agree. It's a pity because the idea is good When are these design schools going to start teaching the importance of a good executive summary? They just get tagged on as an afterthought Anything else we need to say about it? Is it in or out at this stage? Out too boring. Mmm pity. I like the idea of saving the fish Okay, let's move on to the second one This is the one about having a festival of street art That's a nice take on the environment and I think is it a man or a woman a Woman, okay I think she puts the case very strongly as she points out There are a lot of boring walls and spaces in Hong Kong that need brightening up. I Really like the idea of ads around building sites. They are so boring. They don't even carry advertising It's painful to have to look at them. Hmm. I don't know if I can help it Her objectives are clear to brighten up dull spaces encourage creativity and Give space for graffiti artists to work. Hmm. The idea is imaginative and fun The executive summary is well written. I Got quite excited and she included a good summary of the whole thing, too Didn't you find the creative strategy a bit vague? I don't really have a clear idea of how she's going to pull it off She talks about having a competition for designs, but she doesn't say more. Who will it be open to? Will there be a theme how about involving non-professionals very airy-fairy Hmm So is the schedule she hasn't given any dates That kind of shows she hasn't seriously thought it through or she wrote the whole thing in a hurry Same difference. There are still no dates. So we'd have to pin her down on that What's the verdict? Does she stay in definitely in for now? I wouldn't want to turn down the idea not for the moment Mm-hmm. Okay. Here's the third one. I love this one What a brilliant idea a Statue made out of used plastic bags And I mean a huge statue made of used plastic bags and she was very specific about how it would all work How to make it solid enough to stand up, but I was a bit worried about all that glue Doesn't that go against the environmental theme? Wouldn't the glue pollute as badly as the plastic bags? I think you can get non-smelly ones Well, she should say that in the proposal Let's not be too hard on her at this stage Presumably she'd be willing to go into all that if she was chosen. I can't believe she won't have thought it through She could do with putting one or two more objectives To create an app work made out of used plastic bags is obviously the immediate objective But there are surely long-term ones she could have given Mm-hmm, but I just love the idea a giant plastic bag made out of thousands of plastic bags with the slogan This is not a plastic bag Wonderful totally irreverent and sending up consumerism gives it a double-edged and environmentally the more we talk about it the more I like it It's certainly the most original. I will look forward to seeing some sketches. So she stays in definitely


Hello again, so in this video I'm going to be talking a little bit about how you can use one article to leverage your way into finding some other articles that might be related to your topic and this is Something that where it's just for fun I like to call it time travel with an article because if you think about an article as sort of a snapshot in time around a Particular topic in this case. I'm looking at the nose comma comial bloodstream infections and I have that Being talked about in this particular article I'm going to be able to find other articles that have cited it plus I can use the reference list in order to leverage my Way into other sources now the tool that I'm going to be using in this process is Google scholar so it's scholar google.com or you can Google your way to Google scholar as well and So the reason why I'm going to be using Google scholars because it's really good at doing that cited article activity and finding other sources that are Being cited by different ones, but if you're coming at Using Google scholar from off-campus. You're going to want to connect it to the library subscription resources So that it'll get you into those whenever we have access to something so in order to do that if you go to the bars and Then you go to where's the settings and don't get confused by the my library because that that could kind of make you think That that's where the library stuff is but go into settings and then go to where it says library links And then search for ww. Make sure you tick the box next to the correct ww because there are a couple of them out there Click save and now in your browser whenever you go to google scholar Is going to try and connect you to our subscription resources along the way So going back to the article that I had just a moment ago I um since this article is a little bit on the older side, so it was published in 2004 I want to see what other articles maybe have cited this because it's On that older side and I want to find stuff that's more current because that's oftentimes a good idea when it comes to medical related research, so I'm going to go ahead and put the title of the article I'm going to copy and paste that into a search And then when I search for it, I'm probably going to find an instance of that article coming up So here's the article that I was just looking at but now I want to be finding the other sources that have cited this particular source One of the other things is that this Approach can be a really useful way to determine sort of the impact that an article has had Because you can see how many other people have chosen to cite that source And so in this case, there are 3813 other Articles or papers out there or books that have chosen to cite this particular source. That's that's sort of notable That's uh, that's uh Kind of makes you you know pay attention to it So if I want to find all those extra sources Then I can follow that link and it's going to get me to a lot of those extra sources In this case, it does mean that it's a pretty big range of sources to be looking at So that can be one challenge to kind of uh to work with with so I can Search within the citing articles if I wanted to so I could get a little bit more specific Because uh google scholar does not provide me with a lot of tools in order to do my Focusing I don't have anything in terms of subject terms to build in the relevancy like I normally would with an academic research project I could limit by a particular date range. So the things that are a little bit more common since 2014 then that may be a useful way to do it So you do have a couple of different options But again, not as much as you might have in some of the other databases But then you can get those good leads to find uh the sources too And so if I have access uh, it's going to indicate that a couple different ways But if it's coming through the western library subscriptions, then I'm going to see that find it at w w showing up on the right hand side But this is also a way in which you can find some uh free versions of pdf's that are also available On the sort of open web Now I can take a very similar approach here by mining the reference list if I want to go backwards in time and find articles that um that have been cited in here So let's say I wanted to just go ahead and go with this uh this older article here I can copy and paste it over Oftentimes what you're going to find is you're going to get some strange line breaks that come in with some of the pdf's so you want to fix some of that and Get that figured out Especially if it's a scan pdf like I was just using But google scholar can be pretty helpful at getting focused I oftentimes like to use author names as a way to get more focused too because those are um oftentimes very specific And so then once I find the source that I'm looking for or sometimes this gives you some other interesting leads as well Then that's where I have my access links over on the right hand side that will actually get me to the article that I want itself


Good morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN at 10 a.m. Eastern time 30 minutes into the trading day and we got volatility in both directions already folks the market at 7 a.m. trading at 43 70 we trade up all the way to almost 44 20 at 9 a.m. This morning and we've given up 20 points since then market trading right near 4400 you're positive by four tenths percent in the S&P Nasdaq 100 up 25 right now make it 37 you're up a quarter percent at 14,000 273 we again give up some of the gains that we had earlier this morning Dow up 180 you got the Russell only major index in negative territory and what you talk about volatility man Russell just gives up 30 points or a percent and a half from where you were at 9 a.m. Commodities we get some serious volatility man that crude market whoo one 16 57 folks you're talking about prices we haven't seen in like 14 years in the crude market and then just like that you get a sell off from 115 down to a level of 106 43 you're back to 110 right now all the volatility having to do with Russian energy you had a comment out there from an official in Germany saying maybe they weren't ready to do that quite yet that is some of the pain in the crude market but man it ain't over and that going to be ain't going to be over anytime soon with volatility in the energy market over there you back down to notes and bonds man and this is quite the volatility as well we're sitting flat right now on your tenure we're trading with a yield right now in the tenure at 1.8 78 percent so about 1.88 percent the yield on the tenure boy we were at 1.7 percent not that long ago in terms of early early yesterday huge moves in the yields we jump around to some of the companies that have earnings this morning we jumped to best buy their trade and hire up 9.5 percent I went over their numbers on my program last hour some mixed numbers in there in terms of some misses but seems like their forecast and optimism of the years to come of exceeding pandemic levels in terms of exceeding the pandemic highs that they reached for revenue and earnings the market liking that and on the flip side of it we get some companies trading lower you got big lots they claw back some of those low losses you're down only eight tenths percent after trading at thirty five going to be an interesting day as it's been folks lots of all volatility to put it lightly in this market our man Basil Chapman did his program at eight o'clock this morning that's coming up right now you have Larry Pezzvento live at 11 am Eastern time folks fast market at 12 they're talking Boeing they're talking Marvel technologies along with another equity in there Steve Rhodes statewide Tom Obain this afternoon thanks so much folks have a great Thursday


Good evening everyone. Good evening and welcome to this University of Texas celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I'm Douglas Dempster, Dean of the College of Fine Arts. On behalf of Randy Diehl, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and of all our many other sponsoring organizations, I want to thank the endowments for making this visit of the chairman possible. A visit from either one of the chairs during this 50th anniversary year would have been a very special occasion for us. Having them intersect on the same day in Texas while school is still in session before this 50th anniversary year expired felt like a small touch of divine intervention, confirming something all good Texans believe anyway about our special place under heaven. So, welcome to Texas. We're grateful to the LBJ Library and Museum for hosting this semi-sentennial celebration, bringing the endowments back symbolically to where they began at the end of President Johnson's pen in that miraculous great society year of 1965. I want to thank Mark's up-to-growth staff, especially they are an amazing group who are experts at wrangling cats and deans. I want to thank all of our partnering organizations in addition to the College of Fine and Liberal Arts, the Harry Ransom Center, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Blant Museum, the Briscoe Center, the Humanities Institute, the Texas Cultural Trust, Humanities Texas, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Bullock Museum, those are all the cats. And we're all enjoying this partnership. Many others were eager to commemorate the enormous good influence of the endowments on Texas and we thank all of you for coming. Thanks to all of our friends for pitching in to make this visit of the Chairman to the Lone Star State a memorable one. I hope after the formal conversation with the Chairman that you'll join us for a brief reception in the Great Hall downstairs and you'll have a chance to welcome them personally to Texas. And you'll also get to hear from our very own student Longhorn singers who were good enough to take some time off from finals week, which is this week, to entertain us. Earlier this fall, Mark and the LBJ Library organized a performance at the White House commemorating the 50th year of the endowments. President Fenves and his wife, Carmel, attended that event. It was a star studded evening, I gather, and it began with remarks by President Obama himself about the endowments. And we wanna play a bit of that for you right now. Well, good evening everybody. Welcome to the White House. You all look very sharp. Tonight we honor the 50th anniversary of the national endowment for the arts and the humanities with a celebration of one of our most precious gifts, American creativity. I wanna begin by thanking tonight's performers. We have an unbelievable lineup. There's Carol Burnett, Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, MC Light, Audra McDonald, Ryan Stokes Mitchell, Kev Moe, Smoky Robinson, and Trombone Shorty, Esperanto Spalding, James Taylor Usher, this is an eclectic bunch. But that's what tonight is all about. In 1965, a year that President Lyndon Johnson signed into law some of America's most important achievements, Medicare and Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act, the Immigration Act. He also signed a law creating the national endowment of the arts and the humanities. And he did this because he believed in a great society that in his words serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce, but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. Creativity, it's always played a central role in the life of our nation. It's our artists who hold up a mirror to our society, reminding us of our common purpose and our collective obligations. But that quintessentially American creative spirit sowed in our own soil defined by our own experience flavored by each new wave of immigrants that reaches our shores. That may be our greatest export, the American soundtrack. To believe that you've just gotta watch the way that people around the world who weren't born in the USA fall in love with it, it gives you a sense of the chords we touch through our music, through our art, through our creativity. We've gotta support our artists and celebrate their work and do our part to ensure that the American creative spirit that has defined us from the very beginning will thrive for generations to come. It was tougher to get a ticket to that event than to Hamilton, I've heard. You can see the entirety of the president's remarks by Googling performance at the White House, the celebration of American creativity. And you'll be able to watch the whole evening's performance, which I don't wanna miss, on PBS on January 8th next year. So you can check your local public television listings to find out how to see that. And now I'd like to invite Dr. Greg Fenves, whom we're thrilled to have as the 29th president of the University of Texas at Austin to come up and introduce this evening's speakers. Well, thank you, Doug, and good evening. Welcome to the University of Texas at Austin for our visitors, and I'm glad we have so many students and members of our faculty here. We are delighted to host the conversation tonight. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities have been not only important to the country as President Obama spoke about, it's been enormously important to our great university since the establishment of the endowments in 1965. Could go through a long list of our faculty who have received grants or fellowships from the NEA or NEH, disciplines that cover the spectrum of human creativity and thought and humanities and the arts, everything from music to Germanic studies to the classics. So I don't want to go through all of those, but let me just identify a couple to just demonstrate and exemplify the impact that the endowments have had on UT. In 2012, Professor Francie Ostroer in the College of Fine Arts and here at the LBJ School of Public Affairs was awarded an NEA grant to study diversity on governing boards of American cultural organizations. And her research focuses on access to cultural opportunities in our increasingly diverse society. As we think about all the issues that are facing the country, that are facing American campuses today related to diversity, this is the kind of fundamental and creative thinking that's so important that's taking place in our university thanks to the NEA. The NEH has enabled our faculty to serve and strengthen society by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons to Americans, everything from school children to the general public. For example, in our great history department, Bill Brands, HW Brands has led multiple workshops throughout the state to explore the US Constitution and American history with school teachers. And there's no better way to leverage the great ideas and thoughts and insight that comes in the humanities than through educating our school teachers and the children that they educate themselves. This and numerous other public programs in Texas are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and our own Humanities, Texas. Our community has been made better by the legislation that was signed half a century ago by this school's namesake and this building's namesake, President Lyndon B. Johnson. We are very pleased to have Lucy Johnson and her husband Ian Turpin here with us today to celebrate this. We were just talking about the White House performance that you just got a glimpse of that we were at a little over a month ago and it was truly an honor for me to represent the University of Texas at the White House and celebrating the arts and humanities with President Obama. Now he listed the performers who performed at that event and you'll be able to see on January 8th but I have to admit he lost me after Carol Burnett. But it was a great show. Now to introduce tonight's headliner, tonight's panel. Jane Chu is the 11th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and is also an accomplished artist and musician herself. In her time as chairman, the NEA has awarded nearly $220 million in grants related to the arts. Our second panelist is NEH Chairman William Bro Adams who served the nation in Vietnam and is currently the 10th chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a veteran of higher education having served as president of Bucknell University and Colgate College and he was just giving me a few tips from his long experience as a university president. And our moderator tonight is known to many of you, the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, Mark Optigrove. Please welcome our panelists up to the stage. Thank you and good evening. Thanks Greg. Well welcome. Glad to be here. Thank you and to all of you. We heard Doug Dempster talk about the momentous year that was 1965 and we see back of me here, LBJ signing the Arts and Humanities Act into law in September of that same year. Take us back 50 years and talk about why these agencies were needed. Look across the cultural landscape if you will. Why did LBJ feel these agencies were needed in American life? Well when you look at and I've gone back and read not only every annual report of the National Endowment for the Arts but all of the writings related to this from President Johnson and those words that he wrote in the enacting legislation which say, nurture, elevate and sustain American creativity. And that is at the heart of the establishment of the National Council on the Arts and the Humanities leading to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. And when you think about it, that innovation and creativity, that has made America great. And so I think he really understood what seeds we could plant that would spark something far larger. Right. One of the things he said at that occasion is we in America have not always been kind to the artists and scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement. So talk about it. Have we done a good job in the last half a century bridging that disparity of giving artists and scholars a better place in society? Oh, certainly the endowments have made a huge difference in that regard. One wonders sort of what level they occupy now. I mean, I know there are still people in the country and in Washington certainly who would like to see more support for the arts and humanities from the federal government. But going back to that time, the NSF, the National Science Foundation was about 10 years old at this point in time. And certainly one of the things that was going on in the humanities community was a strong desire to see the federal government make a statement about research in the humanities and fundamental knowledge in the humanities similar to the statement that had been made for the sciences. And that was very much on the minds of the founders. And that might have been the most important thing. I don't know if it was on Johnson's mind, but it was certainly on the minds of the people who were involved in the hard work of getting this legislation created. But very soon after, and actually during the legislative process, something else started to happen. And that was the insistence that these funds make a difference in public life and in public spaces, not just in the academy, not just in places like the University of Texas where it's made a huge difference. And so gradually, particularly in the first decade, a lot of pressure coming principally from the Congress, from Claiborne Pell, among others, pushed our endowment certainly out into public spaces in new and powerful ways. And I really think that the legacy of the endowments and particularly the humanities endowment and the good that they have done the country has occurred as much in these public spaces as it has because of the work that we've done in the university community and the research community. So museums and libraries and cultural organizations, historical societies of all kinds all over the country, these institutions have flourished because of this infusion of capital over that period of time. So I think in ways that not even the founders could understand, these have become deeply ingrained in public life in America. And it's hard to imagine the arts community and the humanities communities without these two endowments, I think. Talk about, if you would, Jane, the most significant contributions the NEA has made to American life. In a couple of ways, if you look at just the numbers alone, over the past 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has given $5 billion in grants. It's awarded slightly more than 147,000 grants all across the nation. So when you start analyzing some of the grants or all of the grants and what it has the ability in terms of leverage for every dollar award that a National Endowment awards for any arts project, there's a match that's required and usually is a dollar to a dollar match from other outside funding. But the reality is $7 to $9 of additional outside funding from other sources have come in for the same arts project. So the ability to leverage and spark more giving for that project is a very strong ability than the National Endowment and I know the National Endowment for the Humanities does as well. But when you start looking at all the grants across the nation, all 50 states, every congressional district, 60% of our grants are going to small organizations as well as the large. So we love dispelling the perception that the arts are off by themselves or the humanities too, often a corner that they only belong to some people but not others when the arts and the humanities have infused life in communities as well as individuals on so many different levels, health and well-being, the beauty of the arts themselves, economic vitality, transformational opportunities for military service members who've been affected by combat induced stress. We've seen transformational changes. So they infuse our lives every day and I think that that's another way to talk about the impact these two agencies have made. Bro, brag about the NEH. What was it done in the last half a century that you can point to as a manifestation of its value? It certainly had a huge impact on the research community and the humanities. So a lot of deep fundamental research has been enabled by the fellowship grants particularly that we've given and we've given a lot to the University of Texas. I'm pleased to say including 19 Pulitzer Prizes and 18 Bancroft Prizes. The Bancroft Prize is given for the best work in American history every year. So there's been a deep impact on scholarship in the United States because of the endowments but we've also done a huge amount of work in public institutions, museums of all kinds. I was over at the Ransom Center today and non-university museums, art museums all over the United States, history museums, cultural organizations of all kinds. So there's a deep impact on the institutional infrastructure which is the value of which is very difficult to estimate. We also do a great deal of work in fundamental preservation of cultural resources. Again at the Ransom Center today, I saw the outcome of a challenge grant we'd given to help build compact shelving and do other kinds of fundamental preservation work in the Ransom Center where all those incredible documents are. So we've had a huge impact on the ability of institutions to preserve rare cultural materials and fragile cultural materials, painting documents of all kinds. And sort of last but not least, I think we've helped preserve the American cultural and historical legacy through the work we've done in history, through the work we've done in constitutional and democratic theory, through the help we've given to teachers and faculty across the country developing their resources and skills within critical fields of American cultural life and legacy. So those are the big places of impact, I think over that period of time. Looking at our country in the context of the global community, do our citizens place as much value or importance on the arts and humanities as the citizens of other nations do in their arts and humanities communities? Well, I like to look at our network and how we're shaping the arts in America together. That's a, I think America can be a model in this. A lot of times people say, especially when they look to the European countries and their value of the arts and how wonderful it is. And we want that celebration in America too of the value many of those countries have placed. But in here, we also have another model that I think can be celebrated as well. We don't have cultural ministers in these positions. This is not about somebody telling you what art is and what art is not or what humanities is. We have a wonderful network of our state arts agencies, our regional arts organizations. And I think it's really important to have this network. I know the National Endowment for the Arts gives 40% of its budget every year to these networks. And coming just from the field myself, I think we can celebrate that because when you've seen one community, and we've gone traveled a lot, when you've seen one community, you've only seen one community because everyone, no, there's not a cookie cutter approach in America. Not everybody has a template that has to look like, one community has to look like the next. And that's a good thing. You get to make it your own. So with our state arts agencies, our regional arts organizations, how we work together in partnership because you're out in the field and a nuance is in one community is a big deal and it may define that community from another one. So together, the arts and humanities are really able to be in that, sometimes it's ambiguity, but sometimes it helps define what a community is like. It helps put the personality on that community. And so to be able to do that in so many different ways, that's a really neat model. I know that's how we handle the reading of our grants. The first folks who read the National Endowment for the Arts grant applications that come in are the experts in the fields, the citizens that we bring in to tell us, make your recommendations on whether you think, and we evaluate on excellence and merit. Do you think this is excellent? Do you think it's meritorious? And so together we shape it. This is more grassroots in nature. It can be. We're shaping the arts and America together and I think we can celebrate that. Yeah. Bro, you recently said in a speech, the story of American democracy is deeply intertwined with the changing cultural landscape of the country over time. And in the present time, we are seeing again how cultural diversity and evolution are giving a particular form to political life and we hope to democracy. What is the evidence of that? People, pay attention to your speeches and our speeches. That's a little scary. Well, the evidence, I think, is abundant and I think it's everywhere in front of us. I mean, we turn on the evening news and we're watching people react to the changing cultural landscape of the country and it's been changing in recent years, principally because of patterns of immigration. Of course, the country has a long history of immigration. This part of the world, I don't need to tell you that. And the American democratic experiment and the American democratic system has evolved significantly. One of the most important legacies of Johnson is the Immigration Act of 1965, where for the first time we stopped developing quotas for certain kinds of groups. That was a huge step in realizing that aspiration to justice that Johnson talks so much about. But here we are now with another set of challenges with respect to patterns of immigration and the ways in which it's changing the country. And it's one of the reasons that humanities are so vital to this democratic system and culture. All of this is about culture and it's about understanding culture and our ability to adapt and engage cultures in new ways. And to do that, you have to study culture. You have to study people's histories and their traditions and their languages. And on the language side, frankly, the United States has been pretty frail, I think.  You go to Europe and it's much more common there to meet people who speak multiple languages and have the ability to think in other languages. But setting language aside, there is a lot of work for us to do as a people, I think, in engaging these new cultural traditions and the challenges they present to the country. And without the humanities and without that kind of fundamental educational work in the cultural landscape, we're not gonna be able to realize either the promise of those changes or really understand the challenges that they also present. So I think the humanities are more fundamental and more critical now to American democratic political culture than ever. And so it's one of the reasons why I think this federal funding for these projects and initiatives that we're involved in are so important. We've seen with San Bernardino, perhaps a greater cultural divide. The president spoke about it last night in his speech. What could the NEH do to help heal the nation, to help bring us together? Well, it's gonna take a lot more than NEH around this. Sure. But NEH... My predecessor, Jim Leach, at the end of the day, I'm gonna hit a very important program called Bridging Cultures, in which we tried to present people with opportunities to both understand different cultural traditions, and particularly the Islamic tradition, and also to learn how to talk across those cultural boundaries. Still as a people, I don't think we're very well equipped to understand the challenges that are coming from that part of the world. Who knew, I mean, 15 years ago, how many of us could parse in any significant way the differences between Shia and Sunni forms of Islam? Of course, that part of the world is being torn apart now on just along that cultural divide. So to be a responsible, engaged citizen in this country, to think about these issues that the country is being forced to think about right now requires a kind of cultural literacy. And the deeply depressing thing to me is that we're less inclined in the educational system to engage in these cultural educational practices because of all kinds of things that are going on in the educational system. So we're losing touch with that commitment. I think it'll have terrible consequences unless we restore that commitment to educate people broadly for citizenship in this century. Jane, we listened to Bro's speeches, but we also listened to yours. One of the things you talk about very movingly is being the child of Chinese immigrants and how the arts helped you to bridge your home culture with the culture of your larger American community. What can the arts do to bring our increasingly diverse America together? Well, the arts and the humanities are some of the best ways to be able to stand in the middle of ambiguity and make sense of the different types of perspectives. Yes, my parents were from China. My father came over to go to school in 1948. In 1949, you'll recall, was the change of government. The Communist Revolution was very violent at the time. He actually came to go to school in Texas. And so Texas was his first place to be. My mother was a teenager during the unrest and her parents decided they would sneak her out to have a freer life. And so they did by herself. She never saw them again. Ultimately ended up coming to the United States to go to school. So they met in Texas. And I was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Arkansas. So I have had a bok choy corn dog life. My entire growing up years. And the beauty of that, that I've now come to realize has been such a gift to me is that I had to learn how to navigate through opposing perspectives that often were at each other completely different without force fitting everybody to be exactly alike. And now as we have quickening of demographics and always ever changing perspectives and sometimes it is now time, I believe, and an opportunity to move away from the it's either this or it's that. And to be able to celebrate this both and perspective without forcing everybody to be exactly alike. It is possible to do, you have to be comfortable to be able to stand in the middle of ambiguity and you have to be able to appreciate the process and find avenues that will allow us to look at the different cultures without feeling threatened or divisive or things like that. And the arts and the humanities are some of the best avenues to do that with respect to the different perspectives again without force fitting everybody. So I now think it's a gift that I was growing up in the, so when my father died when I was nine and he was a college professor and because my parents were speaking Mandarin and I spoke English because they wanted me to assimilate in the schools, I didn't have enough words through the use of linear everyday conversation to express my own grief as a child probably many nine year olds don't but I really didn't. And so piano was really the only avenue that allowed me to have some kind of soothing form of expression that I cannot even articulate why now but I know firsthand what the arts can do to provide something that evens the playing field gives us more of an opportunity to express ourselves and that's why I'm such a proponent of what the arts and the humanities does because we're in a world now that is met all the time with different perspectives and we can celebrate that as long as we have some avenues and channels to appreciate it and bring people together. Right. Please tell me we're serving corn dogs at the reception for- I love corn dogs. So Jane feels at home. Bro, last year the Pew Research Center reported that since 1978, the number of Americans who don't read has tripled to 23%. Is that a crisis in your view? Probably. I mean, when I think about it, I don't use that particular word but I think we're profoundly aware at the endowment of how quickly and profoundly people's habits are changing, how people engage texts in different ways, the influence of information technology. I think one of the great sort of wicked problems that we face as a society is how these new technologies are affecting our ways of thinking and communicating and of course the book has been one of the, what victims I guess, reading has been certainly diminished. And that is a deep concern of mine and I think everybody who works at the endowment because we're so oriented toward the written word. At the same time, we're trying to find ways of helping humanists and humanities organizations engage that new world. So we're doing a huge amount of work in digital humanities and there are no other faculty here who are doing that work. You're really doing the work. We're supporting it financially but that work, the digital world has huge implications for the way humanists do research and the access they can get to cultural materials. So it's a double-edged sword I think in certain ways and we're also working very hard to try to understand the phenomenon of how society is being influenced by these new technologies and I think that's a great topic for humanists. Some of you saw the New York Times article last week on distraction, addicted to distraction, I think it was called, very interesting piece. That's the tip of the iceberg I think. So we live in this new world, we've got to try to understand it. I think humanists have a lot to offer in terms of understanding it and I think they'll make a real contribution to it. So the pervasiveness of technology as Bro's alluding to almost overwhelmed the human condition. How has it changed the art world? It used to be that the National Endowment for the Arts would measure different ways that people participate in the arts and they were certainly the and still are traditional ways that we've seen going to performances and seeing museums and counting tickets and things like that but as the most recent research found that three quarters of all American adults, that's 167 million American adults, participate in the arts first through digital, through technology and that had a profound way for us to say the same thing that Chairman Adams is talking about is we said we were gonna be relevant, we can't just be off doing something that's not for the American people. So we had to make sure that for example in our on a practical basis on our grants in the media area while we have always supported for 50 years grants in television and grants in a radio, we have now grants for digital, grants for the creation of videos, grants for all kinds of new ways. So we're in a transition and a change and again we're shaping this together but yes it has had a profound impact. Yeah, has it changed the way that we, you've talked about community being important to both of your efforts of trying to establish a sense of community. Has it changed the way we act toward one another, technology? I think it has. I mean I'm not sure I could describe all the ways in which it's changed us but that article got me thinking about a lot of these things. I think it has changed us and I think it's the way it's changing politics, it's changing local communities, it's changing the way people interact in local communities and I think it's made things more abstract in our relationships more abstract and less concretely experienced and lived and I think that will have huge ramifications in politics and in other places having to do with community. Jane there have been several controversies particularly in the late 80s and the 90s that have been existential crises for NEA. Bill Ivy, one of your predecessors who was said recently of the maple-thorpe controversy of the late 1980s. One of the things that we learned is that the arts can be taken into a political conversation and used for political advantage. Frankly, we haven't had any real problems in the agency since 2001. What that means to me is that government support for cultural vitality has been taken off the table and I think it's going to stay there. Do you agree with Chairman Ivy's assessment? Well, it does seem like we have turned the corner in terms of using that one topic for justification for the National Endowment for the Arts. The more we are able to communicate what the arts has really done and we meet with members of Congress a lot. Just, can I have 10 minutes of your time? Can I just explain? And they really start seeing some of the results that we've talked about before, the transformational power when you've seen kids whose standardized scores in science have risen just because of an arts curriculum and things like that and even the playing field just saw a kindergarten class of 25 kids and 23 of them did not speak English and they used an arts curriculum to teach actually. It was another science and those 23, all the kids got it instantly. We see that we do a disservice when we start saying that the arts and the humanities are not part of our everyday lives when they are. So that's the message we wanna get across and when that happens to a person, we start seeing this, I didn't realize you were doing that, I didn't realize that was happening and so we're happy to say that in the complex budget conditions of today, we're holding steady and actually this is the first year in a number that no one has attempted to cut the budget, the NEA budget, so we're appreciative of that while we're. I'm not sure I'm quite as sanguine as Bill Ivy about this, though we never do controversial things, it's just the NEA. But what I do think is true, Mark, is that because these endowments have been in place for now 50 years and because the work is so extensive and because we've affected so many institutions across the United States, it's much harder to make the argument that these institutions don't matter, that they don't do good, that they don't have consequences that are important publicly. It's hard to make that argument now. There are people that wanna make that argument that it hasn't mattered, I think it's difficult. They also wanna make the argument, well that's very nice, but we don't need the federal government, this is much more likely argument now, we don't need the federal government involved in these things, they shouldn't be involved, this should be a private sector matter. And my response to that is that it's a pure fantasy to imagine that $10 billion, actually $11 billion of our combined giving would have been, that slack would have been taken up by private philanthropic institutions. It just wouldn't have happened. It's too much money and it was arrayed and displayed and committed across too many places. So I think the record is now becoming an ally of ours and the length of the history and the length of the endowments history and the effect of the giving is becoming in our favor now in a way that it probably wasn't in 1990. We see, I'll just add one more comment. We see happening of more like a three-legged stool happening when it comes to support of the arts, support of the humanities. The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, while there are all kinds of other funders for sure, we're the only two agencies that think about all of the nation when it comes to the arts and the humanities. So there are certainly, and we celebrate together, private philanthropy that gives to specific arts projects. They may give across the whole nation too, but it's usually in their mission-driven area. It might be, yes, we give across the nation to arts education or a specific topic. Sometimes they say, yes, we give to all topics in the arts, but we only give in 14 states. So the National Endowment for the Arts, humanities are the only two agencies that have to think about all of America. That's the way the legislation went into play. So we see a three-legged stool where we can actually, we all leverage private funding, public funding, and the market, the commercial market together in different ways, and there are challenges to each area, and there are strengths to each. But instead of an either or, it should be this versus that, we actually see them leveraging each other pretty well. Right, what were the long-term effects of the controversies, the maple-thorpe controversy, which is, I think, the highest profile of the controversies that NEA faced? What did that do to the arts community long-term? There were all kinds of questions as to whether that would be stifling creativity. Would everybody be afraid that somebody else would get in trouble? There were all kinds of lingering perceptions and stereotypes about what the National Endowment for the Arts did when you see 147,000 grants going across the nation to affect other things that are mightily important and transformational for all kinds of communities. So it overshadowed for a while with its own stereotype and perception, and we didn't have enough communication strength to get out and say it's thriving out there and it's making a difference. So if there was anything that I wanted to do, and my role as chairman to amplify that, it would be to get the word out. The arts are thriving, they're making a difference. The humanities are there, they're making a difference to individuals, to communities in so many different ways, and we want to get that word out. So did it galvanize the community, ultimately the arts community, those controversies? Did it allow the community to rally around each other to protect? Some did, some did, but we actually have a very formidable strong network and I mean that in a positive way when we start talking again about our state arts agencies and all the ways we're together, we're not disassociated, we're not detached from each other, we're all together doing this work and so it probably strengthened in some ways that. I will ask, I know we have questions from the audience, we have mics on either side of the room here to ask our students in particular if you would line up and be prepared to ask your questions. I'll ask you though while they get prepared. Where do you see these agencies in 50 years? I know there's an impossible question to ask but we're celebrating the 50 year anniversary now. Where do you hope these agencies will be half a century from now? Well I'd hope we'd have bigger budgets for one thing. You know, before the Gingrich Congress in mid 1990s and the cuts that came, our adjusted budgets to inflation would be about $350 million apiece. Now we're $150 million now so that would have been a huge difference. And I would hope that over time as we get out of this malaise, this budget malaise we're in, as the economy recovers, I hope there could be some, and I think there could be, some effort in Congress to restore some of that funding. I doubt that we'll ever get back quite to that level but who knows. So I would hope that there would be a much deeper financial commitment of the country. But I think for the NEH particularly, I think we will continue to expand our imagination about what the humanities mean in the public spaces, in the public forms in which our work is now expressed. Even as we continue to be very, very serious in our support for the scholarly and academic worlds which we will be. But I think extending the reach, extending the impact, extending the consequence of humanities work in public spaces is where the foundation will logically, the endowment will logically go in the next 50 years. And from the National Endowment for the Arts, just with the numbers again and the budget, presently we're at about, with the budget about 46 cents a person in the nation. And if we could get to a dollar a person, it'd be that 300, $300 million budget because of the way we both leverage, our agency's leverage, put your return on investment hat when you're in business, one to seven return is a very good return on your investment. So to be able to get to a dollar gives us an ability to go farther, deeper, broader, at the same time. Now from the non-number's point of view, the idea that we could help change a paradigm that the arts are not and the humanities often a corner by themselves, but they really are part of our everyday lives in so many different ways. They help soothe, they help us express ourselves as our world continues to quicken its pace in terms of wildly different perspectives all at the same time, the shifting demographics, something like the arts and the humanities is a very affordable way to be able to make sense of all of it and bring people together. How has sequestration affected your agencies? It's a daily reality for you and government agencies. How has it affected your organization? Well, it froze our budgets at pre-sequestration, lower than pre-sequestration levels. This budget, this one that's coming out or the two year budget deal that was made was the first one in what, seven years, six years, where we were able to see beyond the sequestration levels for domestic spending. So it had something like a $15 million impact when it happened, a negative impact. Now we're back to close to where we were before the sequestration, and hopefully it will now start to drift up a little bit. Yeah, let's go to questions from the audience. We have any questions? I just thought we had some students out there with some, here's a question. While we're getting prepared for that, ask another question. I talked about the international community. Is there a model that you see in a foreign country that you would hope we would more closely emulate as it relates to the recognition, the protection, the bolstering of our arts in humanities communities? I've been asked by several people about the European model of cultural ministries. I've also been asked about the European model of research funding. In Germany, for example, the research funding is comprehensive. It doesn't discriminate between the sciences and the humanities and the arts. It's a comprehensive agency. I don't think either of those models are appropriate for us. Partly because I think it's a good thing that we are mixing public programs with research programs. I think that's probably an advantage to our cultural life in agencies, as opposed to separating it out, as they do in Europe. And I'm not sure, frankly, that ministries of culture would make sense here. You know, I'm still relatively new at this, but, and maybe I'll change my mind, but I'm not sure I see the advantage of sitting at the table in that way. By the way, that table really doesn't exist as far as I can tell. I mean, the cabinet comes together symbolically from time to time, but I don't know that really, it's true that the cabinet officers sit around and create a meta policy together. I don't think they do that. So I'm not sure there's a table to sit at. But I just don't know that that's right for the country. I would be happy if these two agencies were funded at a meaningful level. If the budgets were doubled, I think, and the important thing is, and you to remember, and you all know this, I think, is that these are independent agencies. That is to say, we don't get phone calls from the White House saying, this is your next, this is your next objective. Because we get money away, we're allowed to operate in a fairly autonomous way, and that's hugely important. Very important, and it sends out the message that we believe in in terms of the arts, the humanities, it's non-partisan. Arts and humanities are non-partisans. It's for everyone. I'm not a fan of a cultural minister position. Again, somebody telling you what art is and what it is and what you can and do, we're gonna miss something because we'll do to service to these wonderful topics, subjects by declaring something that is and is not. What I am a fan of, though, is when the European countries, they have at least a stereotype that they're so appreciative of the arts. It's infusing our lives every day. Our Native American friends tell us there's not even a word in their vocabulary for the arts because it's so much of their lives, it's just simply a part of everyday life. So the culture of understanding what the arts and the humanities can do can be elevated even more in the nation, but the model that we have can work. We might not have ministers of culture in this country, but you're essentially the de facto ministers, but by virtue of your positions. We heard President Obama talk about American creativity. It's far-reaching nature. What makes, I'll ask you both about your different areas, what makes the American artist distinct in your review, Jane? I'll have to think about that, but certainly there is, by nature, and I'm a trained artist, by those who are, by anybody who is an artist and professes to be any type of an artist, is this feeling of freedom and independence that they can create anything and that the world is at their fingertips. I really think that that goes back to what we talked about earlier when President Johnson had, in his words, nurture, elevate, and sustain American creativity. There are other forms of creativity besides the arts and the humanities, but these are huge avenues for people to really exercise and appreciate what creativity can do for America. So I think that they're given, artists are given that feeling of freedom to climb out of the box. Many of us didn't ever know where the box was in the first place, and so to climb out of it and see that there's either a blank canvas or sometimes creativity is rewarded when your hands are tied behind your back and you've got duct tape over your mouth and you're hanging upside down and you've got to figure out how to get yourself out of something or find a new way to solve an old, tired problem. That's when creativity comes in. And to have that freedom is, it feels like the world is at your fingertips. That's where I see the American artist. What would you say about the community of scholars? Well, something similar probably. The Walter Isaacson has famously made the argument that creativity and innovation is a single thing. It doesn't get divided out between science and technology and humanities and art. So a culture has a creative, innovative spirit and life to the degree that you reinforce creativity across the entire range of creative expression and I think that's true in the humanities as well. He talks about people like Steve Jobs, of course, and Einstein and other exemplars of these massively creative minds. Steve Jobs, of course. That don't, they're not dividing the world up into the humanities and the arts and the sciences and I think that's true. Early on, right at the time of the legislation, the head of ACLS, Jacob Burkhart, the American Council of Learned Societies, appeared before Congress and he made an argument about creativity and saying, it was a very contemporary argument in one way. He was saying that we have featured and favored in our federal policy, the sciences and technology at the expense of the arts and humanities. And the risk of doing that over a long period of time is that you freeze and diminish creativity and in the end you do poorer science and you have a less innovative spirit and technology as well. And I think that's a very contemporary argument and I think it's also true. And the thing I worry about most is the diminishing and the erosion of the arts and humanities in our educational institutions across the country because I fear that even as it erodes creativity and productivity in the arts and humanities, it will erode creativity across the entire spectrum of the things we...  Exactly. There was a dimension in there that adds to other subjects. So this erosion, as I'm calling it, of commitment to the arts and humanities in educational institutions is hugely worrisome, I think, and as I speak to audiences like this when I say, you know, the thing we have to talk about first and foremost is the educational commitment to the whole person and to the life of the whole person and that if we lose the aspiration to do that in this country, we're gonna diminish the culture as a whole. You might have just answered this question, Robert. We talked about the great advancement in the arts and humanities communities since the signing of the Arts and Humanities Act in 1965. What has been the greatest missed opportunity in your view? I don't know if I see anything in the NEH portfolio or potential portfolio that I would say is a missed opportunity. We have not been able to do certain things that we should have done in a bigger way because of the funding issues that we face. The most important one in my mind is secondary education. This is a huge sector in the country. It's fraught, as you know, better than anyone with very complex political and cultural problems and challenges, but it's the place in which the minds of young people are really formed and without strengthening the arts and humanities in that setting, I can't imagine that we're gonna see them flourish at the higher education level. So I think the place where we have not been able to be active is in secondary education in a serious way because we just don't have the resources to affect that immense constellation of institutions. If we had a lot more money, I think that would be the first place with another $100 million that I think I would go. Jane, what do you think? Ours is, I think, arts education in general, starting from kindergarten all the way up. There have been a number of cuts in the arts education area in school districts and it's so ironic to me because of what Chairman Adams was talking about. What arts education can do, not only in the arts but for the whole child even related to other topics, science and math and all the other subjects, it is so profoundly different and we do now with the cutting of so many arts education programs in school districts offer a different type of grant while the National Endowment for the Arts has always supported grants for programs for the students and professional development grants to help the educators. We now provide a much larger set of grants, the collective impact grants where, for example, school districts can have longer and much larger grants in association with community organizations that provide such quality programs all together but if we had done it earlier and had the opportunity to really infuse the whole system where everybody really got it, that would have been the great opportunity and certainly with an increase in the budget we have to focus on that. So it all comes down to money? It comes to money but it comes down to people understanding why and that is we're better when we're focused holistically and how the arts and the humanities infuse our lives every day and we want to get that mindset out first and foremost because it's a disservice to all of us to think that we're off in a corner and it's just an extra arts freely project when it affects so much of us so profoundly. You know, if I put my organizational management hat on or my business hat on and you start looking at these organizations and some of them survive and some of them don't, this is any organization it's not just government, it could be commercial. Most of the time something has happened in the culture of that organization it's not done well or sometimes there's all kinds of challenges when you merge and half of it is merging the cultures together. So this culture thing is a really big deal and the arts and the humanities have an opportunity to help us all understand how a profound culture is in all that we do, whether it's in our workplace or in our everyday lives and our personal lives or for the nation. We're sitting here in the LBJ Library. LBJ was a master of getting things done and that might be a massive understatement. And clearly what it takes to get greater funding is lawmakers to subscribe to that notion. What can audience members, those who are interested in a thriving arts and humanities community do to best influence our lawmakers to ensure that they are supportive of these efforts and perhaps willing to give greater budget allocations to your organizations? I'd go back to the educational issue and say that as citizens I think we all have to weigh in on this question of what is the fundamental purpose of our educational institutions and what are we trying to do at every level with our educational process and programs. If we're really gonna insist on the education of the whole person, that argument then rolls out I think into lots of other places, including our places. And so to me, in school boards, in local conversations, in state conversations about education, I think that's the most important challenge that we face. Is that Michelle? She's waiting to ask a question, I think. I apologize, you guys, I didn't see anyone over there. Yes, sir. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, so my question is we're talking a lot about expanding the budget, but what would the concrete steps be that we would need to take with Congress to actually do that? We're not supposed to actually tell you what those steps are. But you're a smart person, you I'm sure will be able to talk with other people and figure it out. The other version of that conversation is we don't lobby or anything like that. We are federal agencies, but in terms of steps, there's the Appropriations Committee, there's Appropriations Committees, both on the Senate side and the House side, and depending on what committee it is that oversees the budgets of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, those are out of, that's out of where our budgets form. There, thank you. That was good. Yes, sir. In terms of choosing grant recipients, what actions are the NEA and NEH taking to advocate for underrepresented groups in the arts and humanities? I asked another version of this question earlier at lunch with Chairman Chu, and an example is the 2% of female composers' works that are being performed by professional symphony orchestras in the U.S. today. That, if there's a crisis, that seems like one to me. 2% of these composers' works are out of females. So it seems, that's just one example, and there are many more analogous examples in the other arts. So I'm curious what actions are these organizations taking to correct that issue? We're mindful of that, and we're always paying attention to that as well because it matches up with the vision that all Americans should have the opportunity to be engaged in the arts and benefit from the arts, and so that includes all the challenges of when things are not diverse or when things are not spread out in a way that feels like there's equity. So we are mindful of that even as we choose panel members and council members and as everybody is reading those grants, they're mindful also as well. So because we make awards through the rec, there's a three-step process in the National Endowment for the Arts and the citizens, as you know, again, read the first applications that come in are mindful of that. So paying attention to those projects that are coming in and being proposed is one huge way to make sure that we're attention doing that, and above and beyond that, we have active conversations and we're all really mindful of that specific conversation, whether it is lack of female composers to a diversity of all kinds from racial, gender, income. Have we really represented what this vision was going to be all along? So we think about it often and we analyze our grants continuously to say, are we doing that? Or are we walking our talk or where can we get better? So the answer is it's a continuous conversation and we don't ever wanna forget that conversation because that's at the heart of the original mission. We're doing a couple of very specific things. We've created a new community college program to address some of the inequities in the higher education world. And I hope that more and more of the funding for the education sector will be directed toward community colleges which have been underrepresented in our work, but they are overrepresented in terms of underrepresented people, including new Americans, very interestingly. And the other, we're gonna redirect some of our challenge grant programs specifically to places, to regions of the country, and to different kinds of organizations that have been underrepresented in our funding activity. And most of those organizations in places are also places that represent diversity of the kind you're talking about. So we too are changing the way we make grants and we'll be doing more and more of that. As Lucy Johnson can tell you, a thriving arts and humanities community, communities were central to LBJ's vision for a great society. And I wanna thank you not only for being here tonight but for all you're doing to make a great society even greater in your efforts at the NEA and NEH. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.


Hey there gang, welcome to Game Dev Academy, I'm Shane and in today's video I want to share with you the Unreal Engine Marketplace free content for the month of October 2020. First up this month is Cemetery by Decagon Studios. This is a collection of game ready graveyard assets which contains everything you can see here and includes all associated textures and materials. The assets have a triple A quality and feature 2K channel packed textures, master material setups, collisions and LODs. A really cool asset pack just in time for the spookiest time of year. Next we have a really cool destruction system from Michael Ozelek. This is a completely blueprint based set of templates that allow you to quickly and easily set up interactive destruction in your games with physics support. It features multiple states of damage support, a damage threshold so you can base the destruction on health points, support for debris and the developer has also included drag and drop examples to get you started. If you choose to add this one to your vault you'll be getting 1 main blueprint and 8 examples. Now let's take a look at Gothic Night by Talking Drums. This is a very cool looking set of characters perfect for use in medieval or fantasy based projects. Included are 5 predefined versions of the night but you can also use the modular parts to create your own unique combinations. It's also fully compatible with the default Unreal 4 mannequin character so it can be integrated into your project in seconds. Sticking with characters the next free asset this month is GR Customizable Female by Gustavo Rios. This is a customizable game ready female character which is compatible with the UE4 mannequin skeleton and even includes cloth sets, items, a third person template and 69 animations. You can customize the character in editor as well as in game. If you're working on a creepy project this Halloween season then you'll want to make sure you have some suitably chilling music. Epic has got you covered by offering the Immersive Dark Ambient Music Pack by WOW Sound. This is a pack of 6 looping dark and immersive music soundscapes to add to your projects and even includes a bonus stinger. The next two asset packs are both environments that would fit together very nicely with the Gothic Night. The first of these is Medieval Docks from Polypixel. The beautiful and very detailed environment includes over 200 individual assets including walls, docks, houses, vegetation and marketplace props. You can create multi-level buildings with the modular kits and there are also LODs for the trees and props. Definitely worth adding to your vault for the variety of assets on offer here. The other environment pack that would be a good pairing with the night is Modular Fantasy House from Next Level 3D. This pack contains around 90 modular house pieces and another 40 props to allow you to create your own unique fantasy buildings as settings for your games. Collisions and LODs are included and texture sizes range from 1 to 8 by 1 to 8 all the way up to 4k. The next asset this month would be a great addition to your vault. Plants pack by Airhand Yilmaz includes some really nice looking low poly grass and vegetation and is made up using PBR materials. The plants will sway in the wind and you have control over the wind strength in the material parameters. Next up we'll take a look at the Polar Sci-Fi facility created by Julio Juarez. This is a very sexy looking environment which features a modular science facility as well as a mountain range vista. This is a pretty jam-packed asset which includes assets such as particle effects, decals, architecture and prop meshes as well as background vistas. You can also customise the look of the assets using the instance materials. I've already added this one to my personal library. Bringing the round up to a close this month is the talent tree builder from quick and easy. This is a blueprint based system for adding a skill or talent tree to your project. Features include the ability to modify character attributes, unlock items by name and unlock groups of items by type. They even include some presets to get you going including classic vertical tree, weapon talents, talent switcher and horizontal tree. Definitely check this one out if you're putting your own epic RPG together. That's it for this month's free UE4 marketplace content. All of the products featured are linked below so go and fill your vault while the price is right. If you liked this video make sure you give that thumbs up button a little tickle. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.


So now we're going to shift the vibration in the room. I have the gift of being able to introduce Athea Walking Tree. Y'all ready? Ready to move it? She was born and raised in Jamaica. Her drum songs are prayer of gratitude for the generosity of spirit. She is educator. She is ritualist. She is permaculturist. Her artivism addresses present day issues of social justice, wellness, and self-love, resiliency rooted in the liberation of the global family. Her most recent initiative is called Raise Your Voice, and stands in solidarity in ending violence against girls and women in Jamaica. Y'all put your hands together for Athea Walking Tree. You've been here all day talking all the good information in, and I want to invite you to join me. One of the things that I love to do is to encourage people to participate in Africa. Whenever the village comes together, the music, the drum, is always an integral, central part of helping people raise the vibration. So join me, eh? There's a call, a chant, that I want to share with you. It says, everybody. Everybody has a basket. This is from the Congo. And in the basket, what we do in the basket is we put all of the gifts that we're going to give to the community, all of the gifts that we have collected over the years. And we put it into the basket. So you want to join me? All right, so we're going to say, everybody, everybody, bring your kalabash, bring your kalabash. Moke, moke, senyaba, moke, moke, senyaba, yi, yi, ko, ko. Can I have you all participate with me? Join me if you can. Maybe raise up a little bit, do a little stretch. And down and raise up. You've been here for a while. Maybe you want to let out some noise. Ah, this is the moment you can do that. Get the stretch going. Shake it out a little bit. So the chant's simple. It says, everybody, bring your kalabash, moke, moke, senyaba, moke, moke, senyaba, yi, yi, ko, ko. The things you bring is the ko, ko, the yi, yi, ko, ko. Yi, yi, ko, ko. Yi, yi, ko, ko.  Here we go.  Moke moke senyaba, moke moke senyaba, wai wai koko, wai wai koko, wai wai koko. Join me in your kalabash. Moke moke senyaba, moke moke senyaba, wai wai koko. And let me let out the ah, when I want to find some peace of mind. I go to the ocean side, sometimes I'd make them brunt, sometimes I'd bring my rocks, sometimes I'd just go for fun. I stand by her side with my arms open wide and sing praises to her name. We're talking about the mama, the mama waters. We're right by the mama waters. We give thanks. She nourishes us.


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