Hi, it's great to be here. Thanks so much for having me. I talked to a friend of mine who's an engineer in advance of doing this. And he pointed out to me that so often we don't realize the real impact that engineers have, the ripples that go out from the things they do. And he gave me this example. He said, life spans in the US just about double between 1900 and 2000. And there's almost one profession to thank for that change. And it's not just that engineers created, innovated things, had physical creations, were inventors, but it's also the implementation, right, the systems that came out of those innovations that had that sort of big, big ripple impact. And that's really part of the reason I'm so excited to be with you today, because of that idea of the power of impact. My own life for the last dozen or so years has been about telling stories that come from science, that come from academia, that come from engineers, and bringing them to a larger public. And one of the things that has been so striking to me is that very often the scientists, the engineers, who are there, they're so anxious to tell their stories. And yet as they aim to tell those stories, the people on the other end who are there to receive their stories, the journalists, they are also anxious to receive the stories. And yet the two hands reach out. And sometimes I think it's hard for them to connect. So I think one of the great things about the people that you're going to hear about today, that they get that stage, that they get that stage to tell their story, and they get that impact that they're making amplified. And the people that we're going to hear about today, they didn't just build physical stuff, though you're certainly going to hear some of that. They've also changed our mindset about who we are, right? They help redesign, and this is what the best engineers do, they help redesign how we think about where do we belong? What can we pull off? Who are we? Engineering really shifts those expectations. And I think not enough people realize that. Probably every person sitting out there has a friend or a family member who when they hear you're an engineer, you can see like the curtains go up, the wall goes up and they're like, yeah, I can't access that. I'm not going to understand anything that you're going to say. And so I think more and more telling the stories of invention and innovation are so crucial. It's something I have been doing for a long time and I hope to keep doing, but bringing those stories to a wider audience allows people to really access the amazing work that so many people that we've been hearing from earlier today and that we'll hear from later in the hour are doing.


One of the most crucial provisions of the last coronavirus relief package was to provide a $600 increase in weekly unemployment benefits to the tens of millions of U.S. workers who are currently out of work as a result of the coronavirus. Now the White House and many Republican policymakers want to let it expire. It would be a terrible mistake. Here's why. Today, roughly 30 million workers in this country are either receiving unemployment insurance or have applied and are waiting for benefits. That's on the order of one in five workers. These levels are unprecedented. Every single week for the last four months, initial unemployment insurance claims have been more than twice as high as the worst week of the Great Recession. One thing these workers depend on right now is that across the board, $600 increase in weekly benefits. That $600 is essential for millions of people to be able to put food on the table, to pay rent, and to afford other basic necessities. If this $600 is cut off, it will mean a sharp decline in their living standards, an increase in poverty, and completely unnecessary suffering. It will also make racial inequality worse, because black and brown communities are suffering more from this pandemic, both physically and economically, as a result of historic and continuing systemic racism. And letting the $600 expire won't just hurt UI recipients and their families, it will hurt millions more, because the spending generated by that $600 is supporting over five million jobs.  Last thing, we need to bust a bad argument about the economics of this. The White House and Republican policymakers have criticized the $600 as being a disincentive to work, because with the $600, many workers have higher income on unemployment insurance than they did in their prior job. But this concern is massively overblown. Right now, there are 14 million more unemployed workers than there are job openings, so millions will remain jobless no matter what they do. You cannot incentivize people to get jobs that aren't there. Further, many people can't go to work right now, no matter how much benefits are cut, because it's not safe, because of their health or the health of someone they live with, or because they need to stay home due to care responsibilities as a result of the virus. Cutting off the $600 will not incentivize them to get jobs, it will just cause hardship. If policymakers are really worried about a work disincentive, they can address it by letting people keep part of their unemployment insurance when they go back to work. This would solve any potential disincentive effect without inflicting needless pain. This pain is preventable. Policymakers need to take this seriously, they need to take the data seriously, and extend the $600 weekly unemployment insurance benefit.


en route to Port Moresby. Troops ships in the Coral Sea with Americans and Australians bound for secret bases in New Guinea. Nearing Port, a Hudson bomber of the Royal Australian Air Force escorts them into the harbor. With Japanese less than an hour away by air, troops of the United Nations are pushing out to meet them. Even as they go ashore, the alarm reports enemy bombers on the way. In a few minutes, they're over. Their main target, the transport. But the convoy is safe, now putting to sea with a US Navy cameraman, we see a new chapter just released of the great American naval victory at Midway, the attack on the carrier Yorktown. Filmed under fire, the battle that cost the Japs 10 warships, four carriers, and nearly 300 planes. Damaged by direct hits, the gallant Yorktown steams on. Per flight deck ablaze, the crew calmly fights the flames as gunners keep up their withering barrage of anti-aircraft fire.  Comes a Jap torpedo plane. Watch the gunners get him. Greatest sea and air victory in US history. Billions express their sentiment against the Axis, angered by the sinking of Brazilian ships. The people of Rio de Janeiro stage a demonstration of bitter protest. Floats exalt the United Nations v for victory. Accrelations with the Axis already severed. Brazil, largest of all South American nations, calls 300,000 reservists to the colors. In a mass induction ceremony, citizens receive their orders, take the soldier's oath of allegiance. In Central America, Guatemala celebrates Army Day with an impressive display of fighting strength. First to follow the United States in war upon the Axis, this staunch little republic of three and a quarter million people rallies its entire resources to the cause of the United Nations. Decorating Mexico's foreign minister Padilla, Guatemala salutes a new ally. Then with US officers as their guests, they see the great flying fortresses that guard the coast. And beneath the shadow of the planes, fresh US troops come to stand by a good neighbor, a stirring spectacle of inter-American friendship. Theme of New York's newest and most colorful skating extravaganza, stars on ice in dances of the tropics. Queen of the Carnival is Argentina's exotic Maida Montez in her own version of the Samba. World famous as the funniest man on ice. Intuned with the times, the three privates in a drill that speaks for itself, study of war begins in the classroom. Here are US Army Air Corps cadets learning to be navigators. Curtain compartments reproduce movements of the plane in flight. The student charts his course with altimeter and compass, learns all the complicated instruments of aerial navigation. Boarding laboratory planes, they go off to check book learning with practical experience. Soon they'll be ready to pilot their own ships, lead their own bomber squadrons around the world. America, training a vast army of airmen to keep pace with the biggest aircraft production schedule ever known. America, building an air fleet second to none. Somewhere along the Pacific coast, US Marines tackle the training problem of swimming in the ocean. Many of these young sea soldiers are from inland cities and have never seen an ocean. Launching rubber boats in the surf is all a part of the test, training that may someday save a man's life or the life of his comrade. And they take to it like veteran salts, showing that they're right at home on the ocean or in it. States troops make their first appearance in India. And like any soldiers 10,000 miles from home, they shop for souvenirs to send back. Gather eagerly about the native bazaars, strike up acquaintance with the snake charmer of song and story. Today, India is the last doorway for supplies to China's fighting millions. And in ever increasing shipments, the supplies are pouring in. American tanks from the great arsenals of Detroit, tanks by the train load rolling for fronts wherever they'll do the most good. By camel caravan, guns and ammunition begin the long trek across Tibet, strange blending of east and west. Asia's centuries-old beasts of burden now bearing the traffic of modern war. As natives load giant air transports for the fighting front, British Indian troops, masters of jungle warfare, plunge into the bush, patrolling the Burma border. Guns on the alert, ready for action, contesting the Japanese threat to the front door of India. They're constant guard by British troops, while India's rivers are strewn with mines. Punjab sappers rigging in genius traps, wiring rafts with charges of explosives. Huge herds of cattle are turned from their pastures to make room for more flying fields. Here at a secret air base within the shadow of age-old temples, US pilots instruct Chinese cadets in the art of aerial combat. And they prove apt and willing students, transports, bombers, and fighters, together winging their whale off, blasting the jet with bomb and shell, they're holding open the Burma road of the air.


So, when you write in the chat, do you feel like you're going down deep into the depths of your soul to produce your comments? Or do you feel like you're rising up out of the abyss? Do you feel like you're deepening some ineffable experience that you're already holding? Have you considered putting together your YouTube comments into an uvra? That's what this New Yorker essay on our current Nobel Prize winner in literature evokes for me. It is titled Memory Search. 1997. The English translation is by Tanya Leslie. Its opening is unforgettable. My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June in the early afternoon. That was in the summer of 1952. Oh, that sounds good, doesn't it? That sounds like a compelling piece of writing. So, she writes in-depth about how much she suffered because when she was growing up in Spain it was stigmatized to have sex outside of marriage and it was considered shameful to get pregnant outside of marriage. Can you imagine how she suffered? Then she went and had sex without being concerned about birth control and shockingly she got pregnant and then abortion was illegal in France until 1975. So, she had to go around as a 23-year-old woman to try to find an illegal abortion. I mean, she got the Nobel Prize in literature as a response to the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, overturning a woman's automatic right to an abortion anywhere in the United States. So, three cheers for any new. She basically just writes about herself, but so beautifully and in such a French way. When Erno was 11, it took her nearly 45 years to try to make sense of what this terrifying event meant to her. And by the book's end, she's still not sure that she has. Oh man, this sounds great. I gotta read this book. I have always wanted to write the sort of book that I find it impossible to talk about afterward. The sort of book that makes it impossible for me to withstand the gaze of others. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much what drives my YouTube live streaming. I want to produce live streams that are impossible to talk about afterwards and that make it absolutely impossible for me to withstand the gaze of other people afterwards. I mean, I just feel like that my soul and any new soul are just like commingled. We are one. We are two fine soul people. She writes, this paradoxical wish to reveal the darkest parts of herself with such pitiless accuracy that she will be forced to fall silent once and for all is an extraordinary expression of rightly ambition. Yeah, not just rightly ambition. This is what drives me the humble YouTube live streamer. In any case, it has still not come true. Still not come true for me either and I'm 56. Okay. Any new is 82. The purpose of Elno's writing, she believes, is not merely to record things that have happened, but to make things exist. Yeah, that's the same way I feel about my live streams. I'm not just here to record what's happening. I'm here to make them exist such as this boat that's now entering from the right side of the frame as I look at my phone moving towards the left frame. I summoned this, but I'm making it exist. This is strong, but it is hardly the strongest thing she has to say about her work. I am a medium, she told me. I feel that I'm someone who can transmit things.  She's a medium. She's someone who can transmit things. This is powerful stuff. I mean, I think I'm a medium too. Like I'm someone who can transmit things. What it is to grow up working class in a society that is contemptuous of workers. Yeah. So do you feel like you're here to transmit things too? Are you ready to talk about what it's like to grow up in a cruel society that is contemptuous of workers? Like this is a time to speak your truth. What it is to be a woman dispossessed of her body by the laws of the state. I too feel like a woman who's been dispossessed of my body by the laws of the state.   That's just what I'm feeling right now. Maybe we could feel like women together. Doesn't that sound like jolly fun? I think so. Or by the overpowering prerogatives of desire. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is an open space. This is a safe space for you to share what it's like for you to be overwhelmed by desire. So when men are overwhelmed by the prerogatives of desire and they have the opportunity, they rape. So how sublime is that?  Let's hear from the men in the chat who too are sublimely overwhelmed by the prerogatives of their bodies. I mean, if you feel something, then you must act on it, right? You don't want to repress your feelings. You don't want to give the state. They're the key to your soul, do you? I've made her a literary model. Even a hero. To those who have shared similar experiences or points of view. Oh, yeah. This is my hero. This is my hero, man. How wonderful to hear from someone who suffered from the prerogatives of the body, where the body just takes over and she submits to the body's desires. I mean, this is such edgy stuff. This is amazing. What world are you in? I am in Sydney Harbor, mate. And any anew, she lives in France where she had to live her life submitting to the state. Here it is pitched back and freezing. Well, we had a hailstorm about 45 minutes ago. It was very exciting. Erne's book, Happening, in which she describes seeking an illegal abortion as a 23-year-old student is a feminist touchstone. Oh, yeah. I just haven't read enough feminist touchstones. Boy, that sounds good. I really want to know what it's like to be a 23-year-old student in France seeking an illegal abortion after having sex without making any considerations of birth control. Boy, this sounds like great stuff. Powerful feminist theory. Adopted last year into a movie by the director Audrey Duane. So it is now 2.48 p.m. in Sydney, Australia. And I'm here to create a safe place for you to share about what it was like to be overcome by the prerogatives of the body's desires. Let's share some of our recollections from the male point of view. Just like Didier Eribon, Edouard Louis, and Marie and Di are openly indebted to Erno in both substance and style. Wow, I never knew that. I can't believe how indebted we are. It is now Wednesday, 2.28 p.m. Sydney, Australia. Erno has been asked if she is proud to have been adopted as a kind of literary godmother or even as a spokesperson. Yeah, I too feel proud to be adopted as a live-streaming godfather. Yes, I'm living in the future, but I'm reaching out to speak to you in the past. I'm here to warn you that if you don't mend your ways, this is the type of place where you'll end up, mate. I'm speaking as the ghost of your Christmas future. Heed my words, my son. Because he feels that pride is the wrong word. I never wanted to write for, Erno told me. I write from. Yeah, that's the same experience for me. Like I've never wanted to live-stream for. I just want to live-stream from. Such a profound difference. All right, I'm not here to serve an audience beyond the audience of me. Let's talk about me. So her entire Uber is just writing about herself and it's marvelous stuff. She produces feminist touchstones, guys. Still, she was moved by the joy with which readers greeted the Nobel announcement. I will never forget my joy when I learned that any who knew had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'll never forget where I was. I assume I was at work somewhere. Oh, such joy. Such sweet delight. Do you consider the prize a collective achievement? Yeah, I consider these live streams a collective achievement. But it's you and me having social intercourse. Am I a cannabis user? No, I looth cannabis. Looth, looth, looth cannabis. I've never tried marijuana in my life. I've never tried any illegal drug in my life. I don't drink. I looth, looth, looth these things. The same things that make many people love Erno make many others despise her. Relentlessly personal in her art she has in public life taken on the role of the écrivain engagé outspokenly committed to a host of left-wing political causes. Wow, who would have thought that someone else both in league committed to a host of left-wing causes who have drawn a negative reaction from the right? This is shocking stuff, mate. Wow. Can't believe this. And while she was being appreciated in New York, accusations lobbed by her conservative detractors were flying fast in France. Erno was an anti-Semite. She supports the boycott divestment sanctions movement as a way of... She's not any Semitic. She just believes that Jews are the one people in the world who don't deserve to have their own state. Just because she singles out Jews as the one people in the world who don't deserve their own state, that doesn't make her anti-Jewish. Does Donald Trump have a shot in 2024? Yes, he has a shot. I'd say he probably has a what a 50% chance of winning the Republican nomination and then another 50% chance of winning the election. So we're outside the crown royal casino on Sydney Harbour right now. Absolutely. Answering the Palestinian cause. An Islamophascist. She considers French antipathy to the hijab to be a means of silencing women. A pet of... Yeah, antipathy to the hijab.  Does love change for the worse in Australia depending on who is... Does life change for the worse in Australia depending on who is elected to power in the United States? Well, guess what? Life doesn't really change for the better or the worse depending on who's elected to power in the United States for Americans. Right? Life under Joe Biden is indistinguishable from life under Donald Trump unless you're a political junkie. So whoever has chosen president in the United States practically makes especially no difference to how ordinary people live their lives and it doesn't really make a difference to how Australians live their lives either. Right? If you completely ignored politics, all right, your life would just go on. It wouldn't be crippled. Right? What difference does it make to your life practically? Yeah, but everyone's suffering from inflation right now. What first war nation is not suffering from inflation? If Donald Trump was president, we'd be suffering from inflation. Now, maybe it'd be a point lower, maybe even be two points lower, but it wouldn't be more than two points lower. So instead of suffering 8% inflation this year, we'd only be suffering 6% inflation. Her latest book Le Journain recounts an affair that Erno had in her 50s with a man some 30 years her junior, Wolkiste. Oh boy, I can't wait to read that. I love reading books about 50-year-old women who have affairs with men 30 years they do it. Yeah, lower the better. So inflation points are small, but if people are struggling with inflation primarily means they don't have their lives together. I think Ed Dutton was right. We're not suffering through an inflation crisis nearly as much as a disgenic crisis. People have gotten so soft, so flabby. People have gotten out of discipline themselves to save money. People have gotten how to plant their own food, how to cook their own food, and they've just become so pathetic and weak that they're just getting smacked around by an increase in inflation or anything that goes wrong. They're absolutely devastated because they live in such precarious ways. So when I had to move in 2011, that was devastating for me because I was in such straightened economic circumstances. If I'd had more money saved and if I'd been in a better position in life, I would have been so devastated by moving. But when your hold on life is fragile, when you don't have it together, then the smallest disruption can be devastating. Smart budgeting types are not being devastated by inflation of 8%. If you're being devastated by 8% inflation, there's something wrong with you. Something wrong with how you budget. Something wrong with how you save. There's something wrong with how effectively you work and earn money. Now, it definitely makes life more difficult, particularly if gasoline prices double and you depend on driving three hours a day. So it certainly makes life more difficult. But the better shape you are, the more centered you are morally, spiritually, financially, the more savings you have, the more capable you are, the more friends you have, stronger your community, then the better you're going to be able to deal with any threat. Like, what's the best way to survive inflation? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive an earthquake? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive a war? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive a recession or depression? Have friends and community. What's the best way to overcome medical crisis? Have friends and community. What's the best way to overcome suffering a car accident? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive being disabled at work? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive the loss of your parents? To have friends and community. What's the best way to survive your computer not working? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive the loss of a relationship? have friends and community. What's the best way to survive a car that doesn't start? Have friends and community. What's the best way to survive losing your job? Have friends and community. The best way to survive any crisis, any difficult situation is to have friends and community and to reason socially. To have people you bounce things off where they learn from you, you learn from them. We learn much better when we learn together. This is from the New Yorker. Memory serves about our latest Nobel Prize winner in literature. She got the prize because it was a reaction of the Nobel Committee to America overturning Roe v. Wayne. The same things that make many people love Erno, make many others despise her. Relentlessly personal in her art, she has in public life taken on the role of the écrivain engagé, outspokenly committed to a host of left-wing political causes. And while she was being appreciated in New York, accusations logged by her conservative detractors were flying fast in France. Erno was an anti- So guess what? If you become an Asian provocateur for the right or left, the other side politically is going to oppose you. For every action there's a reaction. Semite. She supports the boycott divestment sanctions movement as a way of advancing the Palestinian cause. An Islam-o-fascist, she considers French antipathy to the hijab to be a means of silencing women. A pedophile, her latest book Le Journain, recounts an affair that Erno had in her fifties with a man some 30 years her junior. Okay, if you're in your fifties having a affair with a man 30 years your junior, that has absolutely no connection, nothing to do with pedophilia. Wauquist. She is a proponent of hashtag me too and of the gilet jaune. Decidedly, this academy of old shriveled bigwigs has gone a step further into the absurd and the indecent, railed one editorial beneath the headline, the Nobel in literature definitively discredited. Well, I didn't know about you, but how excited was I to find out that our latest Nobel Prize winner in literature was a French woman? I mean, that just had such overwhelming meaning to me. In the conservative newspaper Le Figaro, a writer disparaged the decision to award the high priestess of auto-fiction for a lifetime spent writing about herself. They think I'm not legitimate, Erno said to me. What disgusts them is that there are people who have found in literature something that speaks to them and that those people aren't CEOs or company bosses. Okay, so I don't really know any in you. I don't really know about her critics and I didn't know her box and I didn't know the criticisms of a box. I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say, I reckon that the criticisms of her have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that people who aren't CEOs can enjoy literature.  Erno is also the first French woman to win the Nobel and that doesn't work for them at all. Oh no. For years, she has dealt with sexist criticism of her work and not just from the right. Hey, no, sexist criticism. Guys, because she's a woman, she should not be criticized at all. To criticize her, a woman is to be sexist. To criticize the person of color is inherently to be racist. I didn't want to do any of that. Come on, remember guys, we have sacred groups. You need to be immune from all group level criticism or even personal criticism. You can't criticize sacred groups, protected groups, guys. He published Simple Passion, a soul-bearing account of a love affair with a married man, a literary critic at the Liberal Weekly, Le Nouvelle Observateur, took to calling her, Madame Auvary. Oh, thank God that she published this memoir about her affair with a married man who's a literary critic. Boy, can't wait to read it. I suggested to Erno that there might be something validating in the present outpouring of loathing. Haven't she been writing for years about the contempt of the rich for the poor, of men for women, of the dominant for the downtrodden? It's proof, she agreed. Still, it depressed her. In the uproar, Erno saw a renewal of the frightening wave of outrage that had engulfed her 10 years ago when she published a column in Le Monde, decrying a literary elegy for Anders Brevik, a barely concealed apologia for the Norwegian mass murderer by Richard Mille, an author and editor at Gallimard. While condemning Brevik's crimes, Mille blamed them on multiculturalism and the erosion of European Christian identity. Erno called his text a fascist pamphlet that dishonours literature. Okay, I think there are a lot of things more important. All right, an apology for Anders Brevik. Sounds disgusting. Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with fascism. He can just be opposed to mass murder and be revolted by mass murder and absolutely revolted by what Anders Brevik did. Three days later, Mille stepped down from Gallimard's prestigious reading committee. Yeah, if you write articles apologising for mass murderers, there will probably be some negative repercussions. Many others shared Erno's disgust. For instance, J.M.G. Le Cuisieu, nobeled in 2008. But Erno's column, counter-signed by 118 fellow writers, was seized… That's what I love when people write these columns that are counter-signed by 120 other writers or 88 other writers. Who needs all these intellectuals signing on to your column? Come on. I just… I'm not a big fan of group things. Became a kind of referendum on what wasn't yet termed cancel culture, with Erno denounced as a harridan intent on enforcing politically correct censorship at the expense of a man's career.  I was called a killer, Erno said. She herself felt that it was really a alali, a hunting call, with Erno as the chaste stag. Yeah, she's the victim here, all right. It's very easy to feel like the victim. One of the phrases most associated with Erno, transfuge de classe, can seem derogatory. A transfuge is a defector. But Erno herself uses the term, partly as an objective description of her situation, as a woman who, by dint of education, rose to the middle class, and then, by force of talent, to the cultural elite. And partly, it can seem, as a kind of deserved epithet that expresses her own ambivalent feelings at having moved so far from the world of her parents. Well, her parents weren't in particularly good shape, all right, they were in desperate shape, so I'm not sure exactly why you'd feel so ambivalent about that. Let's fast forward through this story. The courage of willing captivity. During the months of her affair with A, as she calls her lover, Erno bends toward him as a flower toward the sun. She stays at home when she should go out. She doesn't use the vacuum cleaner for fear of covering the phone's ring. Okay, so she's a sex and love addict, and here she is having an affair with a man three decades younger than her, and this is her in her fifties. So it sounds like classic sex and love addiction. A is a foreigner, an Eastern European. His weakness for Western luxuries reminds Erno of herself as a teenage parvenu, craving the dresses and vacations that her richer friends had. A shares none of her intellectual interests, but so what? She herself can only listen to love songs. After A returns home, Erno grows morbid. If he has given her AIDS, she thinks, at least he would have left me that. And yet? Yes, if only he'd given me AIDS. There's nothing that kind of warms the heart like a departing lover who leaves you with the ongoing gift of AIDS. As she explains in simple passion, the passage of time can also be a comfort, even a creative necessity. Naturally, I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written, when only I can see them, from the moment when they will be read by other people. Okay, if you win the Nobel Prize for Literature, you make your living writing about yourself, yeah, no need to feel shame.  The moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died. A war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at 16, or make love without contraceptives at 20, without thinking about the consequences. Yeah. So usually it's a really good idea to think about the consequences, but when it comes to writing, sometimes you need to forget them for a while, at least during early drafts. Erno sometimes ends her books with the dates of their composition. Oh, how lovely, so nice. Inspired applause, but happening when it was published got a tepid response. Right, so this is a novel about getting an abortion, right, her lightly ordered biographical novel about getting an abortion. That's why she won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. But she can focus only on her own female reality. In a strange way, my inability to write my thesis was far more alarming than my need to abort Erno writes. I had stopped being an intellectual. I don't know whether this... Well, guess what? When you have a toothache, you stop being an intellectual.  If you have severe constipation, you'll stop being an intellectual.  If you get exhausted working out, you'll stop being an intellectual. If you're shopping for food, you'll stop being an intellectual. Healing is widespread. It causes indescribable pain. A different kind of pain follows a failed attempt to solve her problem with a pair of knitting needles. All the while, she feels time flowing inside and outside of me. The common calendar moving forward, her private one moving back. It has been speculated fairly that Erno's writing on abortion may be why the Nobel jury saw fit to award the prize to her this year. Less than four months after Roe v. Wade was overturned. So remember when Barack Obama about two months into office won the Nobel Peace Prize? Like he hadn't done anything. But because the Nobel Prize Committee so low, George W. Bush, they gave Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize, even though he hadn't done anything. They give this Sheila a Nobel Prize for literature, primarily because she wrote about abortion. During her October visit to Barnard, Erno was asked, almost as if she were a politician, if she wished to say something to American women. She found it extraordinary, she replied, that the U.S., which had legalized abortion before France, should return to savagery. So get what savage? Savage isn't extinguishing life. Savagery isn't killing babies. Savagery isn't murdering fetuses. That savagery is not making it the law of the land that is absolutely legal to carry out this killing. That's savagery from her perspective. This remark inspired applause, but happening when it was published got a tepid response. It was a book that bothered people. Erno told me. Aside from the events themselves, rendered with almost unbearably claustrophobic exactitude, the abortion and what happens afterward is so brutal that even the film adaptation seems gentle by comparison. There is Erno's total lack of guilt about what she did. Well, why did Erno feel no guilt about having an abortion? Because there is not a widespread powerful movement in France to call abortion, abortion murder. Women in Australia don't feel guilt after having an abortion. Any women in America do because it's socially constructed. That's what we feel guilty about is socially constructed. Societies that try to instill guilt upon having an abortion, all right, they are frequently successful. Societies that don't have hot button culture issues such as abortion and widespread movements to declare abortion murder, all right, you're going to be much less likely to have women feel guilty about having an abortion. Guilt is socially constructed. There may be no parade, but for years she celebrated the night of the procedure as an anniversary. Well, now that's pretty cold for the past few years. She celebrates the anniversary of having an abortion. Wow, oh, she celebrates it. She celebrates her extinguishing a life that was growing within her.  Though told me. She has had the sense that she has fulfilled a certain trajectory. No, not a trajectory. A destiny. She laughed. Yeah, she fulfilled her destiny by having sex without paying any attention to birth control, being absolutely careless, and then killing the growing life inside her. What a destiny. Powerful stuff. But she meant it. Not a destiny that was written from the beginning, one that was constructed bit by bit, of course. One big reason for that is a girl's story, which Erno published in 2016. The book deals with the summer of 1958, when Erno, nearly 18, left home on her own for the first time to work as a counselor at a summer camp. On her third night there, she is selected by the 22 year old head counselor for a trist, though to put that word to their encounter would be to imply romance, or at least enjoyment. Annie is a protected only child of extreme social naivete. A girl who does not know how to make a telephone call has never taken a shower or bath. Doesn't know how to make a telephone call, has never taken a shower or bath. How did she bathe in a tub? Like, went for a swim in the lake. So she's so naive, she bears absolutely no responsibility for this trist happening. There's nothing she did. She played zero role in this happening. Abortions, their life, lovers, divorces, all these things just happened to her. She's just passive receptacle. Who feels herself free and on the verge of life ready to escape home, have adventures, fall in love. Now she is laid down on a strange man's bed and watches as her body is used for his pleasure. So this is a great time for you to share in the chat how people have used your body for pleasure.  But the experience is neither one of horror nor shame, only an obedience to what was happening. Far from seeing herself as a victim, she becomes slavishly devoted to the fact of her submission before this indifferent master. Yeah, so this is a great time for you to talk about the slavishness, the slavish nature of your submission to, you know, dominant masters, right? This is a safe space for you to share. That searing episode forms the kernel of the book. Around it, Erno builds a kind of detective story. The Annie from 1958 is a missing person. No photographs of her from that summer exist. The diaries she kept were burned by her mother. But Erno knows that the girl is still alive. She has been living inside her for decades. She is at the root of everything Erno has become as a woman and as a writer. And now she must be faced on her own terms. There seems something liberating in this, but Erno disagreed. I never considered writing to be a form of liberation. So when you write in the chat, do you find that a form of liberation? Right? Do you find it a way of reaching up or reaching down? Said the image that I have is always of descending, of deepening something. So is that your experience of writing in the chat that you're traveling down and descending and reaching for something? And there isn't much freedom down there, not really. Often when I speak with other writers, with female writers, really, the image we have of writing really varies. Some of them say that for them, it's a way of going up towards something. So when you write in the chat, do you experience that as an explosion of freedom akin to an orgasm? Feel free to share. But for me it's the absolute opposite. Not going underground exactly, but into a well. What draws her down? An idea of some kind? No, an obsession. The image of the well brings to mind a rescue mission.   I can understand why that might drive you. It seems to me that I have finally freed the girl of 58, broken the spell that kept her prisoner for over 50 years. Thank God. Have no rights of her younger self. This is triumphant, magical. Amazing. It would make a wonderful ending. Wonderful. But it is not the end of the book. Only it's halfway point. Amazing. All endings in Erno's world are temporary. Incredible. The meaning of what she describes keeps shifting as time does. Preciant. Critics will be tempted to refer to Erno's output, this 50-year spelunking of the self as an oeuvre. An oeuvre. But she hates that word. An oeuvre. An oeuvre is something that's closed, she told me. And mine will be closed when I'm dead. Wow. So please, please consider collecting your most prescient chat posts and collate them into an oeuvre. Society would be better for it. God bless.


Consistency in leadership means that you maintain the same values, standards, and principles even when it's difficult or unpopular. When leaders maintain consistency within their behaviors and character, they signal to their team that they can be trusted and relied upon. Developing trust between the leader and the rest of the team fosters a productive and psychologically safe work climate where people are motivated and more willing to adapt to change or to innovate. Similarly, organizations are wise to provide a foundation of consistency for leaders to stand upon and leverage. Consistency in organizations mean that policies, doctrine, and instruction align with the practice processes and language shared at all levels. Just as individuals and teams benefit from a climate of trust fostered by their leader's consistency, units and departments are more productive and efficient when the organization's culture depicts trustworthiness associated with consistency among their policies, practices, and messaging. As leaders, how intentional are you at demonstrating consistency? What role are you playing in assessing and addressing inconsistencies within your organization? We expect consistency from our team members and their performance, therefore we must demand it of ourselves and promote it within our organization. Lead well this week.


Hey guys, how are you? We are back for another episode of my creative year for July. This is week two and our topic for this month is tips. Our prompt for this week is warning. I want to like I did last month in June. I want to build a page over the month. Last week we used the topic for the month which is tips and the prompt for that week which was favorite go-tos to draw the tips of my favorite go-to supplies, a pencil, a paintbrush, a fountain pen, and a ballpoint pen, which I think was kind of fun. It was quick easy page. This week the prompt is warning and I want to continue to build on the page and I thought about it a bit and thought I got a really good idea. So I've got this piece of painting deli paper that I sometimes use between my pages so I don't get the rest of the book all marked up and I think we're going to cut a paint-pallity kind of shape out of this. I'm gonna just cut a square of it and then I'm gonna just freehand it. It's got layers of really great like marks and paint and all kinds of stuff on. So I'm gonna cut sort of an old-fashioned-ish shaped paint palette. I want to punch a hole in it because you know it would have a thumb hole, right? I recently moved all my punches and stuff around so it's a little interesting trying to find stuff. Okay, that doesn't even want to go in there, which is weird. Okay, I know what's wrong with that punch. Let's try this one. Yep, that one works. Okay, I don't know what's wrong with this and I'll have to see if I can fix it later.  I'll just do it in a minute. I have such a cute idea. I think it's a cute idea. So we're gonna take this and I'm going to take a black pen. I may use a Copic, which I do own a couple of Copics, not too many. I like to test the pen on a scrap of paper. Yeah, that'll work. Let's zoom in. Make sure I spell all the words correctly. That's usually a challenge for me. Once you get the letters on there and you can go back and touch them up, make them bigger or make them bolder if you want. I'm sorry if my dog barking is driving everybody crazy. So I like that, warning artist at work. In case you can't see what it says because of the glare on the camera. There you go. Oops. How cute is that? Warning artist at work. Okay, let's put the Copic marker away. Let's grab some yellow or orange neon paint as if it was an actual warning sign. Safety orange, right? So this is some Americana neon and torrid orange. That dog is just like going at it. Holy cow. All right, so we're gonna just add some, add just a little bit of this. Like that, that's cute. I'm looking at the calendar for next week and what the prompt is for next week and I want to make sure that I leave room for what I think I want to do for there. I'm thinking I want to put it somewhere like that. Okay, so we're gonna, let's dry that and let, I'm gonna get some glue out and we're going to see about getting it on there. I'm gonna use some fluid matte medium, but you could use Elmer's glue. You could use probably a glue stick and you could use any painting paper or you could make a painting paper. I happen to have this piece of painty deli paper, but it doesn't have to be deli paper. It could be anything. It could be a piece of wrapping paper. It could be a tag, could be anything. So we're gonna put our little warning sign on our page and hope that our Copic marker doesn't run too much. It looked like it did a little bit because I probably got it way too wet. There's a tip, a warning. Be careful when you're doing this that the markers you're using are water soluble. Now I like that, but I'm thinking that the warning is not showing up bright enough for me. So I'm going to dry it again, and I'm gonna come back with a different color of marker. Maybe white. I do actually have neon paint pens. So let's see what we can do with that and I'll be right back.  This is the white Sharpie and it, if nothing else will just give me a nice base to redo the letters with something else. I'm also going to take a Stabilo all pencil and I'm gonna go around our little warning sign or paint palette a little bit. Now remember what I said about this paper not being super water friendly in the other video, well, in past videos. So be careful you don't add too much water because it really doesn't like it. I have a baby wipe ready at hand. It's good to blend that out just a little bit. Let's do something about that lettering because that's really not cool. I have this jelly roll pen in neon orange like a safety color. So let's try that and see what happens. I think part of the reason it's not showing up well is because the paper I cut the palette out of is so busy. I think it's very busy and I like this jelly roll pen but it's, I don't think it's, let's see. Sometimes things are like this. I just have trouble figuring out. I have these Elmer's painters pens in neon colors but I don't use them very much because the tips, yeah a little bit on the big side. Maybe the answer is a fatter black pen. Let me think about it. I'll be right back. So what I've done is I've gone over the words three or four times with the paint pen to really make them as opaque as possible. Of course as soon as I turn the camera back on the dog starts barking. I'm going to take my neon jelly roll pen and just kind of highlight the words with the jelly roll and then I'm happy with the way that looks. It's better. And I've got the prompt for the week warning in my mind and as I was trying to figure out what to do with the lettering, I got an idea. So I like that looks much better. Okay so now I have an idea. We're going to set the journal aside somewhere out of the way hopefully. And I'm going to take my table here. Let's do Mount just a little bit and I'm going to, I wish I had caution tape, washi tape. I know it's probably out there somewhere and somebody makes it. I don't have any. But I have just plain paper masking tape. So I'm going to put a couple pieces down right on the cutting mat on my table. I'm going to get some yellow paint. I'm going to use a couple different yellows, a primary yellow and a neon yellow. Both, this is Americana, yeah both Americana. And I'm going to put them on my little palette here. Oops, that one needs to be mixed up. That's better. Okay and then I'm going to use a cosmetic sponge. And we're going to color up our masking tape. I almost forgot what it was I was using. Now if you have a nonstick mat, you want to do this on there. This is a cutting mat, a quilting cutting mat. So something the tape will peel off of and you can clean the paint off easily. I'm going to dry it. I'm going to take a black pen. I think I'm going to just use my big pen because this is the one I normally use. And we're going to just write caution on here like would be on actual caution tape. And yes I googled it to see how to spell it because I wasn't sure. Spelling is not my forte. That's why when I wrote my book I had so many editors. Use a paper tape so that you can write on it like this or paint or stencil on it easily. I want to take a black paint pen. Let's give that another dry. I do have this neon marker. This is a letre set marker. Right warning caution colors, right? Okay so now we're going to peel it off. And we have, so we're going to peel it off and set it aside. And clean the table. So on this particular cutting mat which I got at Joanne's I've had a couple of them over the years. This is just a green and yellow kitchen scrubby sponge and water. There's no soap on here. Excuse me. So there you go. Just, there's a tip for you. This whole month is going to be about tips. They're going to be hidden in some of the videos but it's just going to all be about tips. Okay so I liked the idea of putting caution tape on the journal. So like caution caution caution warning artist at work. I like the idea. So we're going to put this on our page. And I like to dry fit it to see where it's going to go. I'm probably going to put a couple pieces on here. So I think one right there and I think one up here. So but what we need to do is make sure it's going to stick by putting some mat medium underneath it. I don't know what's with my dog today. I'm going to have to go check on him. There must be somebody in the front yard. Probably gardeners. He hates gardeners. How fun is that? That's even more fun than store-bought caution tape I think. I love that. So there you go. That gives you some ideas hopefully of what you can do to build on your page this week. The prompt is warning. The topic for the month is tips. Maybe you have some tips in warning that you want to tell people not to do. For instance, here's one. I said it last week. I'll say it again. Oil pastels and those type of oily, crani mediums. You can't write over them with anything. They have to be your last layer on your page, whether it's a Faber's Castell Gelato or it's a portfolio water-soluble oil pastel or some other kind of like medium. If you're going to use a waxy oily crayon on your page, even a crayola crayon, do it last because once you do it, it's really difficult to do anything else on top of it. It doesn't want to stick. Pins don't want to write on it. So there you go. Trust me. I've done it. All right. That's it for this week. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. If you're not a member of the Facebook group and you'd like to be, by all means, we'd love to welcome you. The link is in the description below. And we would love to have you as part of our art sharing community. The most important thing is, though, to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye, guys.


Hey, DoudEvyBT or DoudEvy? What? How am I suckin' so ba- C'mon, get back here! AHAHAHAHAHA! How's it going, everybody? DoudOduay here, back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters Ranked Matches. This time, playing a suggested team of Go-Tanks, Bardock and Yancha, aka Team Spin to Win. Alright, I actually haven't had too much time to practice with this team beforehand. Really, the only character I don't play too frequently is Go-Tanks, but... I could make stuff work with him. Oh. All the air to air! Aw, and unfortunately I do miss the Bardock assist, but... You know, it was going well. Oh, going overhead. Oh, I tried to do a beam fake out, but he accidentally got hit, so... I kinda messed up my own combo there, trying to go for something fancy, but... Yeah, not the first time it just happened. Guard cancel, ooh! Down heavy, let's go! I kinda thought he would just throw out an air attack, but whatever, it catches raw tech too. Down tech? He does down tech. Pressure. And we hit the Bardock combo. It was a big no, but whatever. I mean, it doesn't have to...  Also don't... let's not talk about how I dropped it again, but... I dropped it a second time, that was much less impactful than the first. Okay. Man, we are just... are we about to pick up a quick game one? I knew that... that assist probably wouldn't have worked out. That was another thing. I don't think this team had any suggested assists, so I kinda just went with my own stuff. Meaning I went with A assist for Bardock, mainly because we want to get some big, fast, high-low mix-ups. Hmm, I try to get the standing stuff there too. And then, yeah, the B assist for Go-Tanks, because I couldn't really think of any situations where galactic donuts would help. Doesn't mean there aren't any, just means I couldn't find a... Oh, Blue Vegeta's about to take it away. Key Blast combo. Blue Vegeta has gotten better, by the way. Level 5? There's no need. Limit Break Sparking Level 5? Half my health bar just went away. We out. And by we out, I mean, we'll be tastefully taken away in maybe like an earn or something. I don't know. Bardock didn't really think about ways that he would like to leave when unconscious... Oh, back off! Oh, that's Super Dash. Vanish will do. That'll do as well. Okay. Let me just... let me... you know what? Let me spend a lot of bar... Oh, those ghosts aren't going to stay, huh? One, two, three, four. Please hit. Yes, all right. Well, we didn't wait long enough for the ghosts to connect, but I kind of wanted the level 3 more than anything else. Didn't block the 2M? Okay, that's where Game 1 ends? I wasn't prepared for the game to end there, though. I kind of thought we had another mix in us. But Game 1 goes exactly how we drew it up. Now we're moving on to the next one, where hopefully we'll be even quicker. I'm trying to get this B mix up, though. Air to air! Okay, he didn't even wait for the mix up part. Yamcha had to take care of him. That's why I like to throw out an assist there, by the way, because if people swing, that's really all I can do. Big mistake on my part. What a drop! You can let me go. I appreciate it. Okay. Oh, understandable. And here I go. And burning attack. That did a... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's cool it with the Charger. Oh, no down heavy. Wow, am I about to lose go tanks? Oh, no, down heavy. Oh, I'm panicking. I'm down heavy for that. Yeah. And that's... Oh, he dropped it. Don't do this. Yes. Man, why am I so worried?  I guess that's why I'm worried. I wasn't ready for go tanks to go yet. Back dash.  Whoo! Yes. All right, maybe next time for go tanks assist, I just might need to hold it longer. I think that might be why I dropped. I'm referring to, like, the first game. Oh, my yamcha assist. Hell, them down for just long enough. All right, here we go. We're going to try it. Ah, I still only got that first hit, but I can adjust. I can adjust. Bring it on. Damn, right into that wheel. Dude, I might need to... I might have to get back up to halfway to Super Saiyan Ultra Instinct. Been kind of slacking on the grind. I'm not going to lie to you. Neutral. Neutral has been won. Oh, wait. Paging neutrally and I dropped the combo. Be confirmed from 2M. Why not level three?  Oh, well, maybe I could have killed more by level one, but... Well, I'm trying to save a little bit of bar for defense. All right, I'm going to go high. Oh, he reflected the catch-all option. Ah, bad defense. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, oh, that's way too high. I tried to cheer myself on, but it just did not work out. It's been a win. Hey, hey, the team works, bro. All right, now let's do what the team was really meant to do. Huh? Let's do what the team was really all about. I'm going to spin. And that's all I'm here to do. Not really, not, not, not exclusively spin, but we're going to be doing a lot of it. Spin to win. Overhead. Overhead again. Overhead again. When do I add in the spin? Oh, I can do the, um... Ah, I love that new mechanic that you can go into EX moves like that. I wonder when that is... Are there any optimal Gotenks combos that use that? I'm sure there are, but I could have done something there, I think. There was definitely a combo opportunity there. Meanwhile, though, I'm just going to keep spinning. Ah, ah, ah, let's go. Man, the title of the team was correct. I cannot lie. We got every... Oh, well, that flip was amazing, but we're just going to not talk about... Oh, you know what? Couldn't technically trunks work on this team? I kind of want to maybe go around with trunks. That'd be kind of fun. Meanwhile, though, we're just going to take this drag around. Uh-huh, let's go. Spin to win. I got two bars, why not? That's why not. It counts as an air move, so that was an anti-air. That, does that work? See us, there's trunks. Father and son, wow! There was no need for that. That was sick. Oh, stop, stop, stop. My goodness, that. I think that might have been the funniest thing I ever seen, Bardock running away with EX moves. Oh my God, that found me. Was that even EX? I don't know, but the visual was still fighting me.  Speaking of insane, that air to air. All right, can I get Vegeta back in here? Cause spin covers all options. Catch him, I got him, I got him up here. No need to worry. Now, can I, can I meet trunks? All right, we're killing them with spins. What? I lost so much bar there. Man, you can really just hit that whenever you want. Dynamite kit, okay. I kind of want to do one more, but with trunks on my team.  Here we are in our second match. We have trunks on the team. It's actually kind of rare these days to hop into a next match, but I feel like the flip team was missing something with that trunks. Also the change to future assist is a must have. Overhead again, not even going to rely on bar lock, honestly, I'm just going to go ahead with go tanks, see what I can get done. Remember ghost Stokey, those were good times. I was about, I honestly was about a ghost Stokey again. Just for old time's sake. Oh, I got hits. I thought, you know, it's really early in the game still, but I was real. I had a vision of a perfect in my mind that I really wanted to obtain. Okay. But it was a, maybe I should have mashed there. I might have gotten away with it. I actually don't know if it would have been my turn or not. Vegeta vanishing after the, I mean super dashing after the vanish. Switch, spin to win. Oh, damn it. I almost lived up to the team name. Hey, down every BT or down every. Damn, what? How am I sucking so bad? Get back here. Oh my, yo, what is that? What is even happening in this video anymore, man? Nothing makes sense. Yeah, laying on that down heavy. Big mistake. Okay, I like what I'm seeing. I keep trying to go for that combo. I don't think I should probably lay off that spit. My, my, my urge to flip is getting a bit too much for me to handle. Oh, go tanks with the lock down. I was actually kind of sick. Dragon rush. I'm not even going to switch out because we can just kill them at this point. Two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, eight. Throwing a flip in there just to add the extra damage. How do we kill him right away? Glad we got to exchange assist numbers at least. He got go tanks. I got Goku blue. And I think we also just got Gojita's flip. Nice, two bars. That's an easy knockout. I'm gonna go ahead and throw Bardock in here.  I threw it up. I, I, I forgot I could do that. I just died, please. There we go. Okay. Had to run up at six and he wasn't doing anything to the key blast. You mind if I Bardock real quick? Just real quick. Real quick, I'm a Bardock. Oh no. I just can't play. I can't be a Bardock player. That was the one that got him. Behind the back. No sparking for me. Oh, Trunks is dead. He got loops. Yeah, he got them. Or at least they have the first, first cycle of loops. We shouldn't lose this game at all. A sparking should already be down. And I'm just, and I'm just a Bardock player, extraordinary. So you know how. All right, let's do one more. I'm trying to get one more with this team. Geez. Also, the matching, matchmaking system in fighters is so all over the place, man. I don't, if for some reason it's been giving me more and more like Super Saiyan Gods and Super Saiyan Blues.  You're not going crazy. I've just been cutting most of them out of the, you know, because most people want to see like high rank matches and I definitely cut a lot of games out. Trying to make sure that most of them are pretty intense, but you know, some of them from time to time are really fun. So that's why this one is going out. Spin to wit, spin to, spin to wit, ah dude. I wish I knew how to play good tanks like, like in a good way, like actually like a good player. Unfortunately, I don't think it's in my cards though. As you can see right there, which was amazing how I dropped that combo, but we'll just move on. Change the future. 6M, it's the classic. No vanish. There's vanish. Unfortunately, he's going to grab me to help. 6M, really that one got deflected. All right, but that one did it. And let's not even, let's not even do the bar.com because I feel like I would drop it. What was it? What happened that time? I went on his, man, we are really extending this game. Wow, nice dragon rush. I did not expect that at all. And when I said it like that, it sounded fake, but it was real. I didn't expect it. All right, we got him. Get him out of here. All right, onto Goku Black, which still has full house, surprisingly. I feel like he's been tagging in and out, but maybe that was just with Gojira and Goku. You confirm off that with the light. I feel like I've seen people do that. Lotus specifically. Maybe throwing that on wasn't the best, but the down heavy is going to make sure that we do get Goku Black out of here with two bars from Barlok too. One, two, and then three. All right. Nice and cheap on the bar. Now, y'all mind if I spin to win? I have no idea what just happened, Vegeta. Ah, I missed. Spin to win, oh, spin. Oh, come on, I feel like this team has to, the combo, the assistant to the spin. That's where I'm going to call it. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. And yeah, let me know if you've been experiencing those matchmaking things as well. If you have, let me know down below in the comments while you're down there. Leave a like and subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed the stuff we put out here as a whole. And hey, you can also check out some videos that should be on your screen right about now. Other than that, I can't thank you guys enough for watching this one all the way to the end. I have been Dr. Doi, and I will see you in the next one.


Hey everyone, this is Chris from Grimsby in the UK. You're watching Truckadrush Vlogs. Enjoy. Good morning folks from the bumpy highways here in North Dakota. It's a surprising. North Dakota usually has very, very fine interstates. It's interstate 94. We just went through Fargo. Getting a little later start than I wanted to today. It's because I was waiting at the shop for four hours this morning. I was busy there. I wanted to get my truck greased. And also get my fuel filters changed and the truck looked up just because we went through some cold weather. Didn't have any fuel filters on me, so I figured well. Let's just bring it in the shop, thaw it out a little bit so they can get my fuel filters changed, check everything on my truck, grease it, and now we're good to go again. But I had to wait a little while because so many people froze up overnight. So many drivers still not using anti-gel in their fuel when it gets cold. I made one friend in there. He was a Mexican guy who grew up in Texas. So I guess not make him an American guy, but he was born in Mexico. And he served time in the US military and he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was telling me stories of he was there for Operation Shock and Awe. And he was telling me stories about, you know, the borders flying around and things blowing up all around him. He was a very interesting guy. Now he's a truck driver and he had just bought a truck similar to mine. It was a Volvo. And he's from further south, so I guess the truck was probably from further south. There's a lot of water built up inside his air tanks and his air system.  Thank you. I will bypass the scale. Thank you very much. And then anyways, his air, his air froze up on his truck and then his bypass valves, they all froze up. So he needed to be thought out in the shop there and so we got to talking. What an interesting guy. Loves his country. And loves trucking. About six hours. We're not taking an easy-to-day word just giving her because we spent a lot of time there waiting. But we're still on schedule. Just not as much spare time now. I wanted to share this scenery with you once again. I always love sharing the scenery of Eastern North Dakota and Southern Manitoba with you whenever we're here, which is all the time. Notice the power lines across the road. Oversize grain bins off to the left. Holding grain. Authentic North Dakota grass. Who's in our four lane here going down to a two lane? What a never-guessed. Someone didn't get their corn harvested. So we have some frozen corn. That's pretty exciting. Welcome to North Dakota. Do you think this is the top of the world? My whole country is on on top of this yet. And there's more land area up there than there is in all the united states. So I'm not trying to brag or anything. I'm just saying this isn't the end of the world, believe me. It feels like it in wintertime. Enjoying this or what? This is North Dakota. Plan your next vacation in North Dakota. Drivening scenery. Life changing. Coda farm right over there to the left to the right. That's the right. I don't know which way is which to the right. There's also one over there to the left. Two real North Dakota farms. Don't you wish you were here? I know you wish you were here. I know I'm making you jealous right now. That's why I'm showing you this, but you know, if you look off to the right, there's a slight rise. Some might classify it as a hill where everyone cares so much about you. Harrington, North Dakota. Looks a lot different now than it did when we were here in summertime, right? We went for a walk down the street when the weather was still nice. The grass was green. Coming up to our buddy here on the right. Our buddy who's waving in ways that I'm not allowed to pay attention to the right side of the road. Right by the chieftain motel up there. Diesel, you watching? You gonna wave back? You can do it, Diesel. I can't. I do it. I get in big trouble. They'll kick me off the YouTubes. Here he comes. You looking, Diesel? There he is. I think that's how they used to say hello. Is that gesture mean something very different? About take the third exit of one kilometer. Look at all these beautiful Chevy's. Diesel, look at the Chevy's. Look at the Chevy's. Wow. So I've decided I'm probably just gonna buy out my truck. I mean, I keep going back and forth between getting a new truck and buying one out next year. So like a year from now when my lease is up, probably just buy it out. I don't want more debt. But we'll see. That changes every month. But if I did get a new truck, I've decided which one to get. Karen, this is important. I don't care about your roundabouts, Karen. This is important. New trucks. If I were to get a new truck, it would be a Chevrolet Silverado trail boss. With a standard bed. Blacked out. Black bow tie on the front. Complete midnight package. Black rims and everything. A trail boss that comes with what, a two inch factory lift and leveling kit? Uh-huh. Z-24. The whole package. Heated seats, sunroof and everything. At the roundabout take the third exit. You know, when they first released these new Silverados, I hated them.  They sort of grew on me. I'd buy one. I don't really want to. I like my truck because the truck I have now, the pickup I have now, is sort of like, it's a lot more square. It's a lot more square and I really think that these trucks are gonna be like the new box trucks. You know, like the old 80s and 90s Chevy Silverados. You know, I'm gonna go this way. I'm gonna go this way. Not bad. Don't mind me. I wish you could eat and then know where he's going. I'll probably, by my note, put exhaust on it. You know, give it a four inch lift and level, leveling kit. Get some Wrangler tires on there. It'll be good. The pickup does everything I need it to do, right? I would like to have the 6.2 liter engine. Man, whatever.  I could rebuild it and then make it last 10 maybe, but eventually I'm gonna need a new semi-truck. And that's a lot more expensive and a little bit more important because those trucks make money for you. Pickup trucks only cost money for you. What's going on? You handsome man. You stud. You looking at yourself in the mirror there? Oh, you're looking at that guy over there. That guy looks like he's going for a sleep over at your motel, man. I think you're right. I think he's gonna go and hang out in that motel. What is that? A cobblestone in it, please? Never stayed there before. It looks very nice. It does, doesn't it? I like it when they have motels right next to, right next to truck stops.  I like staying in motels every now and then. I used to do it more often, but every now and then it's sort of like a little treat on the road, right?  It's a clean room and when you leave, you don't have to clean it. It's fantastic. Right, Diesel? I bet you that dude would make a very good friend. Diesel, you just want to be friends with everybody. Everybody's my friend, mate. Everybody. One of the good things about North Dakota, you'll get awesome sunsets as the sun goes behind the horizon. It's something that, you know, I've heard people in the mountains say they've never seen anything like it. They call it the prairie sky because for them, the sun disappears behind the mountains early on in the evening already, right? We've got a pretty strong wind coming out of the south here. We're headed west. You can see the sun setting just over there. It's straight west and the wind is coming from the south and it's a strong one and you know what that means, right? Have you been paying attention to my videos? You know what that means? Fort McMurray, it should only be about minus three. That's just three degrees below the freezing point in Celsius. Thanks for blowing up this warm air for us. Really appreciate it. I haven't made miles and then this wind will be pushing me all the way back up to Canada. A vintage road event, turn left at 30 meters. Well, the sun has once again left us and gone to visit the other side of the world. We're here in Minot, North Dakota and why not get some fuel while we're here? They sell diesel number one here, which not every truck stop in the U.S. sells diesel number one. This is one of the very few that I know of. I know a lot more probably do, but Pilot Flying J, this is the only Pilot Flying J I know of that sells diesel number one, which is conditioned for winter weather. It's got additives added into it already. Doesn't mean it's never going to gel up. You should still use additives if it gets down to minus 30, but it's a lot better than the regular diesel, which is called diesel number two. Here find an empty, empty slot for myself. There we go. There we go right here. I choose this one. Oh, we don't get any roof over us here. I guess we will fuel beneath the stars. That is okay. Diesel number one, that's this first one here. All right. I don't mess around in winter time. When it gets cold, I don't mess around. Some people like, oh, you don't need to put in conditioner all the time. You don't need to do this. You don't need to do that. Those are the same people that tell me I don't need to do a tug test every morning to make sure my trailer won't fall off, but I'm going to do it anyways because I don't mess around. It's cold and I don't want my trailer to fall off either. I just don't mess around with those kind of things. There's certain things that I don't mess with. Winter is one of them. And my trailer is the other one. Rolling into the megatropolis of Regina's Saskatchewan. Look at these big buildings that got built here. These are all brand new. I don't remember these. Wow. Very nice, Regina. Very nice. Those are like four stories tall. Oh, careful now. Don't hurt yourself. Looking for parking. I've got how much time left on here? So we got a ways that we could go yet, but it's past midnight. It's 20 minutes past midnight and I want to stop and read my book before I get too tired. I want to get through at least like a chapter without falling asleep. That'd be great. Maybe I can get through two. Usually I read one chapter and I'm done. Just out. That's my way of falling asleep. I'm going to go to the husky up here. I just passed the bypass. Like we're coming in here from the south. What is this? 33? Yeah, we're on Highway 33. Is the Regina bypass open now? I saw trucks driving on it and the closed signs were gone, so I'm assuming it's open now? I thought I saw, you know, I saw some comments from some of you in my comment section once asking about the bypass. I actually haven't driven on it yet. I didn't know it was open. Like this next time I head out to Calgary or Swift Current from Winnipeg, I can try out the new Regina bypass. Actually it was pretty impressive. They, how fast they got that done. It only took, what, two years? Two? Maybe three years? Man, if that bypass was being built in Winnipeg, it would have taken them like 20 or 30 years. I'm not even joking. Ask anyone from Winnipeg. They'd agree with me and they would have done it wrong. There would have been train tracks that you got to stop for. There wouldn't have been any overpasses. There would have been traffic lights, definitely traffic lights.  Like the corner of, you know, the 52, not 52, the 59 and the south perimeter. Like when you're, when you're coming down the south perimeter from Deakin's Corner, right, for my locals and you want to turn south onto the 59 off the westbound south perimeter of Winnipeg. You know that intersection is all messed up. You want to turn south. So you got to like go up to the top of the hill and you have this blind corner where you got to try to get across with a 75-foot unit that takes forever to get moving and cars are coming flying through there at 100 kilometers an hour and you're expected to not like cut anyone off and clothesline anyone with your trailer. Yeah, that's a Winnipeg intersection. One of these days I have to show all you international people and like people who don't know what I'm talking about that intersection. It's ridiculous. It's a typical Winnipeg intersection. Makes no sense and it's dangerous. Oh yeah, Regina, you got your bypass done in just a couple of years. That is hashtag impressive. Good job. I can't wait to try it out. Give my review on it. That won't take it easy on you. I hope you did a good job. This Husky truck stop we're going to to see if there's any parking is an old truck stop that was built within the city limits of Regina and I'm thinking now that they have a bypass that bypasses the city that there won't be as much truck traffic within the city limits. So I'm kind of hoping that there's going to be a parking spot for us there because all the trucks would have gone around the city, right? I can already tell now there's less truck traffic on this road and that could also be because it's 12.30 in the morning. I don't even know if that bypass is open but I'm assuming it is. I don't know. I won't know until I see your comments because I'm not going to go check it out tonight and tomorrow morning we're heading straight north up to Fort McMurray. It's a full day's drive from here yet. We still have 1,100 kilometers or like 700, 750 miles to do tomorrow yet. And since we're in Canada we'll have 13 hours to do it in so it'll be tight. Here she be. Oh it looks full. Of course it's full. Of course. Why would there be even my special parking spot is taken.  This freight liner right here you'll see just on our left as I pull in that's my secret spot. I know it's right out in the open right? It's like hidden in plain sight but you can park there and you're out of the way. He's taking it. The big flag is at half staff too. What tragedy are we mourning? Why is the flag at half staff? Well I'm going to see if I can find a parking spot here and if not I'll have to continue down the road. Either way I'll talk to you at the end of my day. I'm going to see if I can find somewhere to park. There's always a little bit of a task even up here. We made a spot at the old flying jay card lock. I'll take it. Good enough for me. So thanks for joining us today everybody. I hope to see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't. What was that?  You know what I was going to say right? Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the like button. Helps me out a lot. 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I'm Katrina Anderson, I'm Associate Professor of General Practice here at the Medical School. What really motivates me is that I want my patients to experience people who'll listen to them, who'll be present with them and who'll be compassionate to them. She also has a love of teaching and a curiosity for, not just for medicine, but how people work and I guess the holistic approach and the holistic view of medicine that she then tries to teach students about. Not only she's demonstrated that she can be a very good teacher, but she's also demonstrated that she can also be a very good doctor at the same time. One of the challenges of medical school curriculums in medical schools is that we tend to focus a lot on the science and yet actually what patients really want is a human person who's going to be a healer and who's going to be with them through second things. And she manages to inspire people to see medicine as a healing profession, like it's an art and to be able to take clinical knowledge and really empower the patient on a healing journey is something that is miraculous and she manages to do that. She's presented medicines what it's about and the science and all the other bits and pieces, all the other skills, they're still there to be focused on the patient and in fact one of the key things is patients are the ones who can teach us how to be good doctors and there's more to being a good doctor than just knowing the science, it's actually about being a healer. It was those key moments that she taught me in using my whole self and communicating and being empathetic that has really made a difference for me as a clinician. And in the end when I'm an old retired GP or an older GP and my patients come in and say wow I saw this wonderful young doctor in the hospital, they were so lovely, they listened to me, they really understood where I was coming from. If I hear that from any patients I just think wow we've done a great job, we're getting it right.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following problem today. Given the linear equation 2x plus 3y minus 8 is equal to 0, write another linear equation in two variables such that geometrical representation of a pair so formed is first intersecting lines, second parallel lines and third coincident lines. Now let us write the solution. Given equation is 2x plus 3y minus 8 is equal to 0, there can be many answers possible. Here a1 is equal to 2, b1 is equal to 3 and c1 is equal to minus 8. Now for the lines to be intersecting, a1 by a2 is not equal to b1 by b2. Hence the required equation possible is 3x plus 2y minus 6 is equal to 0, where a2 is equal to 3, b2 is equal to 2 and c2 is equal to minus 6. And now a1 by a2 is equal to 2 by 3, b1 by b2 is equal to 3 by 2 and c1 by c2 is equal to minus 8 by minus 6 which is equal to 4 by 3. Therefore we find here a1 by a2 is not equal to b1 by b2. Hence one possible answer is 3x plus 2y minus 6 is equal to 0. Therefore this equation we have got for the lines to be intersecting. Now for the lines to be parallel, we have a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 is not equal to c1 by c2. So one possible answer is 2x plus 3y minus 6 is equal to 0, where a2 is equal to 2, b2 is equal to 3 and c2 is equal to minus 6. Now a1 by a2 is equal to 2 by 2 which is equal to 1, b1 by b2 is equal to 3 by 3 which is equal to 1 and c1 by c2 is equal to minus 8 by minus 6 which is equal to 4 by 3. Therefore we find that a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 is not equal to c1 by c2. Hence one possible answer is 2x plus 3y minus 6 is equal to 0. Therefore this is the equation for lines to be parallel. Now for the lines to be coincident a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 is equal to c1 by c2. Therefore one possible answer is 6x plus 9 by minus 24 is equal to 0, where a2 is equal to 6, b2 is equal to 9 and c2 is equal to minus 24. Now a1 by a2 is equal to 2 by 6 which is equal to 1 by 3 and b1 by b2 is equal to 3 by 9 which is equal to 1 by 3 and c1 by c2 is equal to minus 8 by minus 24 which is equal to 1 by 3. So we find that a1 by a2 is equal to b1 by b2 is equal to c1 by c2. Hence one possible answer is 6x plus 9y minus 24 is equal to 0. Therefore this is the equation for lines to be coincident. I hope you understood this problem. Bye and have a nice day.


A human trial suggests clearing plaques slows mental decline. At the 15th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, Dr. Mark Minton of Eli Lilly presented data on the performance of the anti-amyloid drug, Dynanemab. While the patients did not get better, the administration of Dynanemab appeared to slow decline by an average of 32% in combined assessment of cognitive and functional decline. The results show that Dynanemab was able to remove the plaques associated with Alzheimer's in the majority of trial participants, while also reducing the accumulation rate of neurofibrillary tangles in the frontal cortex and other regions. The results of the trial suggest that treatments aimed at amyloid can slow cognitive decline and modify the progression of Alzheimer's. But the fact that the treatment didn't improve or reverse conditions could indicate that targeting amyloid alone isn't enough. See the full video at youtube.com backslash x10 show.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that 10 identical gardens were watered different number of times each week. The number of flowers produced by each garden is given in the following table. In the first row we are given number of times each garden is being watered and in the second row we are given number of flowers produced. For the above data the regression line is given by the equation y is equal to 14.1333x plus 10.6 Interpret the slope and the vertical intercept of the regression line in the context of this situation. Now let us start with the solution of this given question. Here we are given number of times each garden is being watered, let us denote it by x and number of flowers produced, let us denote it by y. We are also given regression line which is given by the equation y is equal to 14.1333x plus 10.6. We have to interpret its slope and the y intercept. Now regression line is of the form y is equal to mx plus b where m is the slope and b is the y intercept. Now on comparing the two equations the value of slope that is m is equal to 14.1333 and the value of y intercept that is b is equal to 10.6. Now slope tells us for each unit increase in x the variable y will increase by m units. Here slope m is equal to 14.1333 which is positive so it tells the number of flowers in our garden will increase by 14 approximately when we increase watering by one unit. Here y intercept that is the value of b is equal to 10.6 which is approximately equal to 11. It tells us the initial value of y here it means even if we do not water our garden then also about 11 flowers will be produced in that garden. This is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.