Welcome to First Unitarian Society. I'm Brian and I'm a member of FUS. I'm joined today by Drew Collins, Linda Warren, Heather Thorpe, Daniel Karnes, Stephen Gregorius, and the Preston family who will be leading us in our chalice lighting. We're blessed this morning to have three other people in the FUS community join me in sharing today's reflection. Jake Blaschik, Hannah Lee, and Reverend Roger Birchhausen. Our theme is this we believe. Each of us will share about our beliefs. Because we don't have a creed, every Unitarian Universalist has a unique system of beliefs. Because we don't believe in one truth once and forever, we also know that each Unitarian Universalists beliefs change as they go through their lives. So years from now or maybe even a day from now, please don't hold us to any of the specific beliefs that we share today. We're also so glad to have you join us this morning, though we're not together here in our beloved meeting house. We remain tied together through the bonds of community and affection. At FUS we gather to grow our souls, to connect with one another, and to embody our UU values in our lives, our community, and our world. We warmly invite you today to join in the virtual coffee hour immediately following today's service. The information for that will be on your screen again after the postlude. We also have a special announcement today about our Children's Religious Exploration Program. Hi, my name is Tamara Broniano and I've taught in the Children's Religious Exploration Program here at FUS for more years than I can count. I'll cut straight to it. We need you to teach in the CRE program this year. So why should you join me in teaching a CRE class this year? Well, I can tell you why I teach. Number one, I learned things. I wasn't raised a Unitarian Universalist, but I've adopted UUism as my spiritual home as an adult. And as I've taught CRE classes over the years, I've gotten to learn about the UU faith and lots of other fascinating stuff along with the kids that I've been leading in those same lessons. Number two, I get to give back to FUS. I'm not someone who's ever going to be able to cut a really big check, but I'm able to give my time and my effort to the kids in our congregation, part of being a good citizen of this community. Number three, I make friends. When you teach in CRE, you're teaching with a team of teachers, and I've made many friendships from those team teaching experiences. And a congregation as large as FUS, sometimes it can be difficult to forge those personal connections that we all hunger for. Teaching is a great way to start. Number four, I learn and grow from my interactions with my fellow teachers and from the kids too.  So, step up. Teaching is fun, and it's very doable for any of us, even folks like me who don't consider ourselves to be teachers. The lesson plans are clear and easy to execute, and you've got a team of teachers and the great CRE staff to help out when you need it. Please join me in spending two Sundays a month with our amazing FUS kids. Thanks. I invite you now to take a few deep breaths, to be present here together, to bring ourselves fully into this time we share. Today's opening words are from Marine Caloran. In this free church, we come together without creed, focusing instead on the core values of justice, equity, and compassion, of mutual acceptance of our diverse ways of being, as we seek to connect ourselves more fully with the unfolding truths of life and of our world. We come together in a shared conviction that all people deserve a voice in matters that concern them, and that it is up to each of us to protect the rights of all, particularly those who, for whatever reason, have long been held in silence. We come together in the stubborn belief that community is possible, and that peace is more than a dream. We commit together to affirm in our actions, as well as our words, the inherent worth and dignity of every human being. We come together in awareness of our interdependence with all humanity, and with the wider web of existence, for that too is part of what is meant by we. In this free church, we come together without creed, believing that the way we live in the world bears testament to the value of our beliefs. I invite you to light a chalice or a candle in your home, as the Preston family shares words of affirmation. You who feel your heart is breaking, come in. You who are confused and wondering, come in. You who are angry or in pain, come in. You who are hopeful and energized, come in. Come into this community of hearts where you have been held in love and in comfort, where you have shared your joy and spirit, where you have asked questions because you felt they needed asking, where you found friendship and passions, where you have sometimes not greeted and sometimes not feel comforted and sometimes not felt hurt. Bring your broken heart and your grief, share them. Bring your confusion and your questions, share them. Bring your anger and your pain, share them. Bring your hope and your energy, share them. For here in this place, we can be together. We can gather in all conflicting emotions, tumbling around in our heads and hearts. We bring them together and lay them on the altar of community. For community means, for community means the fragile, non-perfect human being can come together in the name of peace and seek to find peace again. Number 347. All kinds of beliefs by Anita Ghaneri. There are all kinds of beliefs. My family's religion is Islam. We are Muslims. We are Buddhists. We are Christians. We are Hindus. Many people have religious beliefs but not all do. Children may learn their beliefs from their parents or from teachers at their school or place of worship. My family's religion is Judaism. We are Jews. My family does not follow a religion. We are Sikhs. People's beliefs guide how they live and behave toward others. Be kind to other people. Respect your elders. Treat everyone as equal. Being part of a religion and having a faith is very important for many people. I feel safe and happy. I feel that I belong. I like being shown a good way to live. Many people believe there is a God who made everything in the world. They try to live their lives as God wants them to. In Islam, we call God Allah. Christians believe that God sent his son Jesus to earth to save people. A religion may have many gods or no God. Buddhists don't have a God. We follow the teachings of the Buddha who lived thousands of years ago. Hindus believe in a great spirit called Brahman. There are also many gods and goddesses. Some people say prayers as a way of talking to God. They may thank God, ask for help, or tell God how they are feeling. Some Muslims pray five times every day. I am a Christian. I say my prayers before I go to sleep. I'm going to try that page one more time. I can get it. Page 10. Yeah, top of page 10. Some people say prayers as a way of talking to God. They may thank God, ask for help, or tell God how they are feeling. Some Muslims pray five times every day. I am a Christian. I say my prayers every night before I go to sleep. Prayers help Hindus speak and listen to God. Jewish people say a blessing before meals to ask God to bless our food. People's beliefs can affect how and what they eat. Many Hindus do not eat meat because they believe all life is holy. For Hindus, the cow is a special animal because it gives milk. A gurdwara is a Sikh place of worship. A vegetarian meal called langur is served after worship for everyone to share. We believe that sharing food shows that everyone is equal in God's eyes. Jewish people avoid eating some foods such as pork as part of their religion. We don't eat shellfish either. Some people wear special clothing to show their religion. Jewish men and boys wear a small cap called a kippah as a constant reminder of God. I wear a prayer shawl when I pray. Sikhs have five signs of their faith called the five K's. One is cash, uncut hair.  I wear a headscarf as part of my Muslim faith. Many religions have special books that are holy to them. We are learning to read the Quran. Muslims believe the Quran is the word of Allah. They treat this holy book with great respect. The Christian holy book is the Bible. Part of it tells the story of Jesus's life. At Christmas, we listen to the story of Jesus's birth. My mom reads me a story about Rama and Sita at bedtime. Hindus have many different holy books. The Ramayana tells story about the God Rama and his wife. Religions have special places where people go to meet and worship. We have a service with hymns, prayers, and Bible readings. Christians worship in a church. Muslims worship at a mosque. We hear the call to prayer from a tall tower called a minaret. This is the ark where the Torah scrolls are kept. The Torah is our holy book. The Torah is our holy book. Jews worship at a synagogue. Many Hindus worship at a mandir or temple. They believe it is God's home on earth. We take our shoes off when we go in to show respect. Inside a Sikh gurdwara is a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib. The Guru Granth Sahib is our holy book. We keep the Guru Granth Sahib covered when we are not reading it. In a vahara, Buddhists make offerings to the Buddha. We bow and offer flowers, candles, and incense. Many people also worship at home. In most Hindu homes, there is a statue or picture of one or more of the Gods. We worship in our prayer room every day. Shabbat is a day of rest and prayer for Jews. It begins on Friday night with a special family meal. I like lighting the Shabbat candles. Festivals are times when people come together to celebrate. Many festivals remember special events in a religion's history. At Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. I love setting up the nativity scene. They have special services in church, sing carols, give presents, and eat delicious food. Eid al-Fitr is a special time for Muslims. It marks the end of Ramadan. This is a month when Muslims fast during the day. At Eid, we wish each other Eid Mubarak, which means happy Eid. There are all kinds of special times in people's everyday lives. When a baby is born, a Muslim father whispers a prayer in his baby's ear. Something sweet, such as date juice, is put on the baby's tongue for a sweet and happy life. In some Buddhist countries, boys become monks for a few months. Monks live simple lives and do acts of charity. In a ceremony, the boys' heads are shaved as they wear robes. At a Sikh wedding, a hymn is sung as the couple walk around the Guru Granth Sahib. People who do not follow a religion often share some of the same beliefs as religious people. They believe in being kind, helping others, and treating people as they would like to be treated. Everyone believes in something. So, what do you believe? I invite you into this time of giving and receiving, where we give freely and generously to this offering which sustains and strengthens First Unitarian Society and our work in the world. You'll see on your screen that you can donate directly from our website, fussmattison.org. You'll also see our text to give information there as well. We thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life we create together. Years ago, I was an elder to a young man who was going through the Coming of Age program. I met with him several times as he struggled to write his belief statement. He kept losing what he said were drafts. I never did see a final. Nevertheless, he got up in front of the congregation and as they say, knocked the ball out of the park. After receiving Roger's invitation, I, too, was hesitant and went through several drafts before settling on what I'm about to say. I began with a two-part belief. A life is a flow of joys and sorrows. And the second part, peace and contentment is possible. The Buddha is reported to say that life is filled with joys and sorrows.  In the midst of this flow, I find peace and contentment through such practices as gratitude, mindfulness, and meditation. Second and closely related to what I have already said is that life is impermanent. Life is transitory and is in constant flux. And as Philip Moffat in his book Dancing with Life states, we never know when our experiences and our states of mind will change. Living with impermanence calls for patience, courage, self-compassion, and what Tara brought from the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., calls radical acceptance. A third belief is that I'm responsible to take care of those who are in the corner of my universe, a phrase used by my good friend and FUS member Dave Cresswell. I do actions and take them unwillingly that hopefully benefit individuals who are in my corner. In my corner are neighbors who help out in prospect gardens, friends and family members, especially Anne, my wife, and Emily, my daughter. FUS is definitely in that corner and especially those members of my chalice group. Members of several Buddhist groups that I meet with are also in that corner. And then there is Chris, a homeless vendor who sells the newspaper Street Pulse in front of Trader Joe's. I frequently get the paper, make an offering, and chat with Chris. Sometimes Chris gives a picture he has taken. He likes taking pictures of the lake. Reflecting one of our UU principles is the belief that our lives are embedded in an interdependent web of existence. In short, we are closely related and interconnected and dependent upon each other. Or as Tit Nahum uses the term, interbeing, and he refers to a biologist, Louis Thomas, to talk about interbeing. Thomas says and believes that the whole planet is one giant living breathing cell with all its working parts linked. As I age this in this breathing cell of a planet, I appreciate the value of not knowing what you could consider a belief. Many times in life we just don't know. Admitting that we don't know has some benefits. It increases attentive listening, not knowing allows space for new insights to emerge and can lead to changes in beliefs. So these are some of my beliefs. Thank you for this opportunity to share. May you be showered with loving kindness as today unfolds. Good morning. My name is Hannah Lee. I'm here to tell you about my spiritual beliefs, but the problem I'm having is that I don't think I've myself as having any. Because having beliefs makes me feel trapped and I fear becoming identified with those beliefs and labeled and the reality of myself disappears into a box and anything not congruent with the belief is going to get ignored or rejected and my real living self might disappear and I would stop growing and my soul would die and that's the panic that I feel when I think about having beliefs. For the first part of my life I was forced into belief in a Southern Baptist God who didn't like me very much or anyone else for that matter. There were strict rules, mostly having to do with ways in which one could or could not enjoy oneself or one's life and severe punishment, sometimes physical for breaking the rules. I was adopted into a family of people in their 60s in the earliest infancy, people who didn't even pretend to enjoy having to raise a young child after already launching their four adult children. Their eldest who lived with them was a daughter in her 40s, a registered nurse who later retired to take care of her parents in their last years. This sister was 38 years older than I. Every effort was made to keep me from knowing that this daughter had given birth to me out of wedlock bringing social stigma and the wrath of God down upon the family. In my mid teens I was able to escape by running away to an aunt who was also considered something of a black sheep in this family. I was befriended by a librarian in the small two-year college in my town who invited me to attend the local Unitarian Fellowship where her family were members. This was in 1960, some of you may remember 1960. There were about 30 members in this group and they met in a windowless rented room in the Chamber of Commerce building, a cinderblock building in downtown Baytown, Texas for their Sunday services. The room actually reminded me of a room in a TV show that was popular then called I Led Three Lives in which an American double agent named Herbert A. Phil Brick met with his communist cell, a blank secret sort of hidden place. And attending these Unitarian meetings seemed furtive and secretive too. I'm sure in a way they were in that time and place. I heard some remarkable speakers there in addition to the members. There was a British Theosophist named Ernest Wood who'd been a civil servant in India during the Raj and had been fed ground glass and food served him by a ma, Raja, who hated the British. He had not been able to have solid food in nearly 20 years and he had known Jay Krishnamurti as a boy. Another remarkable speaker was the young Barbara Jordan who was beginning her first campaign for the Texas House of Representatives. So I was exposed to a whole new world and encouraged to leave behind the fear of God that was so embedded in my very cells. One important thing, very important thing I learned from these lovely people was simple social skills. These folks invited me to dinner in their homes, gave me a glass of wine, modeled interesting and polite conversation. I'd never experienced that and to their credit though my family had sent me, really they did, to Mrs. Tyree's School of Speech Arts and Physical Culture where Ms. Tyree taught little girls how to set a proper table, how to recite a poem in public and how to walk across a room with a book on my head. She gave recitals and luncheons for the little girls that she taught so that we could practice in vivo all dressed up in our little white, organ-y dresses and black patent leather shoes. Oh, my family were trying to make a perfect 19th century lady out of me. It was an advantage that they had not had. I did well in school. It was the one area where I could succeed and get some recognition. The reaction at home to that was to ignore it. Intellectual activity was a sign of lack of faith and so was considered dangerous. I graduated early from high school, got scholarships, went to college. After my freshman year, I married a fellow Baptist refugee and we finished college together in graduate school. He got a teaching job at UW-Stevens Point and we came to Wisconsin. It wasn't until I was married and had two children of my own that I learned that my sister was in fact my mother. She finally told me, expecting that I would of course do my duty and move back to Texas and take care of her in our old age because that's what daughters did. She had done it for her parents and she knew that once I got it, I would comply. The sheer naivete, not to mention the manipulativeness of this revelation, began a spiral for me into deep depression that lasted for some years. If anyone noticed, I think I would have been institutionalized but that didn't happen because by that time I was already a hippie living on a commune that had been an Amish farm in central Wisconsin with no running water and no electricity and a different husband and two small children. I was barely functional. I was descending deeply into what now seems to be a severe mental illness. Psychotherapy was not then what it is now.  Things only started improving when I came to Madison and got back into graduate school, a comforting environment and got another master's degree, found work I liked, things got better, then they got worse, then they got better and life went on. And now we interrupt this program to bring you a break from what is sounding more and more like relentless, boring misery and that would be a false impression. I've had good friends and laughed and learned to be present, given and received love, help and affection. Without that I would not have survived and so I go around filled with gratitude. It was in fact friends who introduced me to the most influential and helpful writings I've encountered, which have been those of C. G. Young and T. S. Elliott. I have said somewhat facetiously that I think Elliott's four quartets contains the distilled essence of Western wisdom, but secretly I think that is the case. It's given me what I needed most over and over and still does. I use it as a collection of mantras and it never fails. Here are just a few examples, although taking them out of context does them an injustice. I'll just open the book at random. It doesn't matter where. This one is from burnt Norton. The first of the quartets stands a two. At the still point of the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless, neither from nor towards. At the still point there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement and do not call it fixity where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, neither ascent nor decline, except for the point, the still point. There would be no dance and there is only the dance. And this from East Coker stands a three. I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. Wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing. There is yet faith, but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you're not ready for thought. So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. And finally, from East Coker stands a five. For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. So the Unitarians in Baytown, Texas gave me permission to learn what I needed to survive what lay ahead. Over the years, FUS has given me the warmth and acceptance to at last come to rest in compassion and forgiveness for those who never meant to harm me but did. In my twilight years, I'm finally someone who can live acceptably with myself and so can others. I've learned how not to take my own life so personally, a great relief. I'm available for service. I'm glad to give it. It's taken a long time and it would have been nice not to have been such a late bloomer, but it does make a good story. I'm going to share what I believe as a recipe. The first ingredient is one cup of agnosticism. An agnostic maintains uncertainty about God's existence. Ultimately, I am uncertain about God's existence. There might be a God, there might not be. I don't know for sure. I expect I'll never actually know for sure. Next, I add one cup of equal parts, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oversoul and the Hindu view of God. Emerson, who so consistently celebrated the uniqueness and the individuality of each person, paradoxically also believed that at the deepest level of each individual soul, there is a unity. This unity is within all of us and everything in nature. It is exactly the same in each of us. Emerson often called this unity the Oversoul. Sometimes he called it God. This central belief of Emerson reveals the great extent of Hinduism's influence on him. He drank deeply at the spiritual well of the Bhagavad Gita and other significant Hindu texts. In Hinduism, God is everywhere, embodying in stones and statues and trees, rivers and mountains and animals and people. There are millions and millions of gods and goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. Each one is unique. And at the same time, there paradoxically is only one God, the great God, Brahmin in whom everything on the earth and in the heavens is included. This is the seed of the idea in Emerson's Oversoul. Then I add half a cup of processed theology to my recipe. Like Emerson and the Hindus, processed theologians believe that God is in the midst of life with us. God is not somewhere distant or ethereal. Processed theologians believe that God is especially with us when we are suffering. With the Buddhists, they believe that suffering is inevitable in our lives. Experiencing it is part of being human. Since God is neither all knowing nor all powerful, our suffering cannot be caused by God, nor can it be prevented by God. Rather, our suffering is caused by bad luck or bad choices or a combination of those two. And though God does not cause suffering, God is there with us when we suffer. The God with us when we suffer comes in many different forms. For example, as a quiet serenity within our souls even in the worst moments, or as the outstretched helping hand of another person. Next, I add one teaspoon of liberation theology, though the ingredient represents a small volume in my recipe. It has a big impact because it is the leavening agent. It's the yeast or baking powder in the recipe. It's the ingredient that makes my recipe come alive. The most important thing about liberation theology, whether it's black or feminist or gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender theology just to name a few, is that it always puts justice at the center. Liberation theology breaks down the walls of denial that I have built up and shows me where my words and actions have contributed are contributing to injustice. It demands that I clean up my act and that I join voices and hands with others to fight injustice. Liberation theology asks me to be courageous and to take risks for justice. My recipe next calls for one tablespoon of the Star Wars Force. Hey, I wasn't a young team when Star Wars came out for nothing. There's no way it wouldn't seep in. Now, I don't believe the Force can help me levitate spacecraft or fight with a lightsaber, but I do partly envision God as the Force. In the first Star Wars movie that came out, Obi-Wan Kenobi defines the Force as an energy field created by all things that surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. The Star Wars notion of the Force is a striking contemporary mythical depiction of Emerson's over soul and the Hindu deity Brahman. Finally, for good measure, I add a quarter teaspoon each of forgiveness, gratitude, joy, and humor. Life is a lot less meaningful and fun without these things. These ingredients lift up how important these four spiritual practices are. So to recap, here's the directions for this recipe for my beliefs. Combine Emerson's over soul and the Hindu view of God in a small bowl and mix. Combine all the ingredients, including this over soul, Hindu mixture together in a large bowl and mix. Spread batter evenly into a container, namely me. Bake it in oven preheated to 98.6 degrees for 58 years, seven months, in two days. Let cool and enjoy. I believe in remembering that I will die. First, I want to make it abundantly clear I'm very excited to be alive, experiencing sound, light, taste, connecting with other people, learning new things, making choices. I think that being alive and conscious is an absolute miracle. I also know that this life and this consciousness, at least in the way that we understand it, it doesn't last forever. And I think there's a strong possibility that this is the only life I've got, that I'm here for a limited amount of time. And this is at the center of my spirituality. I want to make the most of that time. So there's this urgency that comes from remembering my own mortality, an urgency to reach out to other people today, not tomorrow. An urgency to marvel at the night sky, a piece of music or a really good slice of pie. An urgency also to really think about what do I most care about and how can I take the time that I've got and devote it to those things. I find this an incredibly useful guide to living my own life. One example for me is reading books. If you just ask me what do I think about reading, I'd say I'm really passionate about it. Books are fun. They teach you how to empathize with other people. They expose you to new perspectives. And that is a lot of talk. In reality, I'm a pretty slow reader. It can be hard sometimes to get going on a new book when I know it's going to take up a bunch of my time. There are so many other things I could be doing. But when I step back and when I ask myself that question, what do I most care about?  So I'm in a book club that holds me accountable to finishing books. And if I ever find myself too busy to read, then I will reorganize my schedule so that I do have time for it. Another example of where my spirituality shows up in my life is in how I relate to other people. Their lives are just as miraculous as mine. And I believe just as finite as mine. They're also urgently trying to establish good relationships with other people and to live in awe of the world around them. And I want to help people be able to do that. It's why I work in healthcare. It's why I support organizations that lift up other people. It's because right now we're all here together. We're sharing the same space, sharing the same time. We aren't always going to be here together. But we are now. And again, I want to make the most of that. I was raised in the Catholic tradition, and some of my beliefs have changed since then. But one story that's still important to me is when Jesus shares a meal with his friends before he dies. He offers them a cup and he says, this is my blood, which is shed for you. And he also says, do this in remembrance of me. My interpretation of that is, I dedicated my life to you.  Jesus knew that he was going to die. So he was really intentional about spending his time on the things that were important to him, helping other people. And it was also important to him in his last moments to share a meal with his friends. Knowing that I'm going to die helps me center my life around the things that are most important to me. It is worth admitting that I don't actually know what's going to happen when I die. I do have a favorite answer to that question, though. You might have seen this on the Late Show in 2019. Stephen Colbera was interviewing Keanu Reeves. Stephen asked, what do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? And Keanu paused to think and he said, I know that the ones who love us will miss us. One last thing I'd like to share is there are a couple symbols here at FUS that help remind me of the importance of remembering death. And not just my own death, but the deaths of other people, too. We often light candles to share our joys and sorrows and sometimes we will light a candle in memory of someone we love. We can't see that person, but we can see their flame and we can remember their life. We also often light the chalice and people interpret the flaming chalice in a lot of different ways. For me, the light is a reminder of those people who have shared their life with us. And the cup is a reminder to share my life with other people. Not tomorrow, but today. I invite you now to join in a few moments of silent meditation and prayer. During this time, I invite you to contemplate in particular the joys and concerns on your heart and mind today. Amen and blessed be. Today's closing words are from Michael Shuler, our minister emeritus here at FUS. Cherish your doubts. For doubt is the servant of truth. Question your convictions. For beliefs too tightly held strangle the mind in its natural wisdom. Suspect all certitudes. For the world whirls on, nothing abides. Yet in our inner rooms full of doubt, inquiry and suspicion, let a corner be reserved for trust. For without trust, there is no space for communities to gather or for friendships to be forged. Indeed, this is the small corner where we connect and reconnect with each other.


Ok, so I said I would work out this problem for you, hopefully I'll do it for the battery and the camera dies, but it might. But you'll never know because then I won't finish, so why am I wasting my time telling you this? I don't know. Ok, so here's the situation, here's the X and Y axis and here's a ring, a C is for cookie shaped rod of negative charge Q spread over that and this has a radius of R and we want to find the electric field at that point right there. So the way we do this is we always say, ok, I'm going to break this into a little piece, I'll call that DQ, I'm going to find the electric field due to that piece and then I'm going to add up all the electric fields due to all the pieces. So let's locate this piece by the angle theta right there, which isn't the normal use of theta but it doesn't matter, you can do whatever you want. That's going to make an electric field going this way, DE. And if I wanted to, I could write DE equals 1 over 4 pi epsilon not DQ over R squared because this is a distance R away right, so that's the magnitude of that and then I can write that as a vector, I can write that as negative, I want to be in that direction, negative sine theta, cosine theta, zero. That gives me the unit vector in that direction if I have that angle. So that's my piece, I mean really if I wanted to I could say add up all the pieces set up in the integral going around the whole thing but I want to be a little bit smarter than that. I want to look at another piece straight down here that's symmetrical to that piece, it's going to make an electric field going this way of the same magnitude because of the same distance and it's going to have the same, it'll have, this will be, this calls 1, DE2 is 1 over 4 pi epsilon not DQ over R squared and this one's going to have negative sine theta, negative cosine theta, zero because it's going down. So if I add those together the Y components cancel and I get two of the X components. That's if I treat these in pairs, that's what I'm going to do. So I can do that and I can find out this whole thing but the problem is, is anything changing? Yes, something's actually changing right? As I move over here theta's going to change so I need to integrate over theta and find out what happens. In fact I'm going to, since I'm including this piece down here I'm going to integrate from zero to pi over two. But my problem is that I have DQ and I don't have D theta in the thing. So let's just call this angle in there D theta, right? It's theta to D theta tells me how big of a p-set is. And then I need to get a relationship between DQ and D theta so I can say Q over pi equals DQ over D theta. If the charge evenly distributed over this angle then I can say the total charge over the total angle, which is pi, would be that little piece divided by that little angle. So that means DQ is going to be D theta Q over pi. So now I have an integral here. Now I can say E1x, I only have the x component that survives, 1 over 4 pi, epsilon knot, the Q comes out, Q, the R squared comes out, pi, R squared. All I have left is, and there's a two because I have two of those, all I have left is the integral from zero to pi over two. I have D theta, and then I have negative sine theta, let me move the negative over here. So why, wait, negative sine theta, that's right, if I'm getting another negative, because when I integrate that I get, where does that negative come from? That's right there, sine, okay, let's just proceed. Negative two over 4 pi, epsilon knot, Q over pi, R squared, and it's going to be negative cosine theta from zero to pi over two. Okay, it's going to work. Okay so this is going to be cosine of pi over two is zero minus cosine of zero, which is one. So that's going to be this whole thing is one. So the answer is equal to E, I can write it as a vector even, negative two over 4 pi, epsilon knot, Q over pi, R squared, and then I have negative one, zero, one, zero, Newton's per coulomb or volt per meter. And then we can check, we can check some things, does it have the right units, does it have units of one over four pi, epsilon knot, Q over R squared? This pi doesn't have any units, so it does, okay. I have the right direction, what about as, what about, well we can't do as you get further way because we did it at that point. So there's nothing else we can really, we can really check. I mean you could do this, you could say what if I put in the other half, then I would get the exact same answer but the electric field would be going that way and then it would cancel that up to zero which agrees with the value for the ring. So, okay, that's it, I think I made it through the battery, let's see, barely, barely.


You know, one of the most frustrating things in life is when you make a big, big mistake, but you don't have a chance to correct that mistake. So you got to sit there and you got to let it marinate for the longest. But you see, with these Baltimore Ravens, they made some huge mistakes last week, but it's only week three. So they have a chance to start correcting those mistakes right away. Opportunities like this, they don't come around too often. So it's important that Baltimore makes sure they make the most of it and it starts with the Patriots. Yeah, this feels like a dream. YouTube team keep, see my boy. He like, I done made it. I done made it. What? Right in greater. So YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's in Graven here with another video. And in this video, Ravens got a game who's sitting there one-in-one. Patriots got a game. They sitting at one-in-one and they take on each other this Sunday at Foxboro Stadium, at Gillette Stadium. I'm not even sure if the name changed. They take on the Patriots at Patriots Stadium. And this should be an interesting one. A very interesting one because I didn't know. I did not realize. I had no clue that the Ravens, they've never won up there in the regular season. And when I saw that, what are they like? 0-in-6 there in the regular season, something like that? I was like, what? Really? Because I was surely thinking, OK, I know Flacco had to have won some regular season games up there, but no. The last one I remember, a regular season game, was when Flacco and the Ravens, when they got Okidote. At the very end, it was the game where Tom Brady just looked at the ref, looked at him. When Torel Suggs was, he just sniffed Tom Brady. Tom Brady looked at the ref, the refs, oh, I'm sorry. Throw the flag. I'm like, really? Come on, now. But I was like, what? The Ravens really haven't won up there? Then, of course, Lamar in the rain game, couple years back, Lamar vs. Cam Newton, the Ravens lost that game.  And Lamar talked about that. He said that was probably the worst weather game that he's ever played in. But anyway, the Ravens have an opportunity this Sunday to right several wrongs. One, the first one being there, an opportunity to actually win at the Pate and Foxboro, but also get on the right side of the win column. Because you certainly do not want to start the season. And again, it's not just about how you start, it's about how you finish. But getting off to a better start would do very, would do wonders for you. Just for your team, obviously with the record, but for your team mentally too. Because you don't want to be sitting around, posted up, sitting at one and two, and getting ready to take on those Buffalo Bills who you know they're gonna present their own challenges, but they'll cross that road when they get there. But as far as the New England Patriots, this is a team, obviously, you got one of the best coaches in the league and in of all time, obviously had all the success in the world. Of course with Mr. Brady, and now that Brady's gone, he's trying to show like, hey, I can make this thing happen without him.  But that's a whole another story. Mac Jones, Mac Jones for the Baltimore Ravens. This is such an important game in my opinion for their pass rush to try to get back on track. Mac Jones is not this super scrambling quarterback, but he can move a little bit if he needs to. But it's important that the Ravens, they disrupt him from jump. The defense has to be on it this week. And while the Patriots may not have the receiving court that the Dolphins do, I don't think most teams do, it's still important that the Ravens, they start this thing off right and they finish it off the right way. Travis Jones, he should be back in this game. And Travis Jones, the element that he can provide is just really pushing that pocket back, providing an interior pass rush and him being back can be so huge. I would also love for Justin Maddabike to have a bounce back. Well, really the whole Ravens defense, but specifically Justin Maddabike to have a bounce back game. And week one, he looked amazing, amazing. And then week two, we didn't really hear much from him at all. So it would be nice if they could cause interior pressure on this young quarterback. Because if you start giving them interior pressure, like if you run, you could run to the right, you could run to the left for whatnot, but then, hey, that's when you got Justin Houston in the way to go ahead and close that up. Interior pressure, in my opinion, is some of the best pressure because if pressure comes from the outside, he could step up. But if it comes from the inside, where do you go? Where do you go? So interior pressure can, it can fluster even the best of the best at quarterback. So I'm hoping that, and Kalea's Campbell too. Hopefully Kalea's Campbell, with all his old man strength and old man wisdom, he can make some stuff happen this week as well. Marcus Peters, again, Tyreek Hill's Tyreek. Like, he just got beat by Tyreek Hill straight up. Straight up. I know what was live while watching the game, I'm thinking, man, he could have turned his head around. And he could have, but it ain't have. Tyreek Hill just beat him and that was that. So Marcus Peters, this game now, now he's got a game where he got to sort of get his feet under him and whatnot, get to get back in the scheme of things. And will he still be on a pitch count this week? I wouldn't think so, but hey, you never know, because Raven's made, because they've been taking a lot of stuff extra cautiously this season. So maybe they continue with Marcus Peters, we'll see. Marlon Humphrey, he returned to practice. So he should be good to go maybe for the full game, this game, because remember, he was playing last week. And he played last week and Raven's defense was doing a great job. Marlon Humphrey went out, everything fell apart immediately. Immediately, right away. And I'm like, whoa, okay, well, all right then. So again, Marlon Humphrey his value to the Baltimore Ravens, and to a lot of Raven's fans too. I think last week it certainly went up a whole lot. The secondary, all this week, the talk has been about their communication, or really all last week against the Dolphins after that loss. The talk has been about communication. This game for the defense is so important for both the players, and then even more importantly, the coaching staff. It's so important that the coaching staff, they recognize, you gotta recognize weaknesses. You gotta recognize mismatches. You gotta recognize holes on your defense. You gotta recognize all of this type of stuff and step in, step in and take over. It's very important. And this is why veterans, veterans presence and their role on the team is so important. Chuck Clark, as the communicator, he's always talked about for how smart he is, how he really understands so much different things. It's important that he, like, hey, if you see something, say something. Same with Marcus Williams. Marcus Williams was brought in to be a playmaking safety for the Ravens, and hey, that $70 million has been worth it. So it's important that they try to help the young guys, that's the safeties and also the corners too, obviously, they really try to help these guys and try to help put them in positions where they can be successful. They can have the best chance and the best opportunity as success. But again, that all starts with the coaching staff. So again, this is a huge opportunity to have a bounce back week against the New England Patriots and that offense. Now, we know, of course, a couple of years ago, the Patriots, they spent big money at tight end. They brought in what? Hunter Henry and John L. Smith. So it's important that, and I'm not sure how they're doing this season because I really haven't kept up with the Patriots in detail like that. But it's super important that the Ravens, the middle of the field, they take care of business there because a lot of times, especially against the Jets, the middle of the field was wide open. And dolphins, they got a little bit of this too, but really, with the dolphins, Tariq here and Jaylen Wilder, they were just running all over the place really. So it was like the whole field. They opened up the whole field. But anyway, with the Patriots, it's important that you take away the middle of the field as best you can. So yeah, man, I'm just, I'm hoping that my biggest concern this game is really for Ravens defense, just to get back on track. Now, special teams, I expect special teams to continue to be special teams. Devin Duvenay, he should be back. I know he was in concussion protocol, but he was practicing, so he should be good to go.  We ain't gonna complain.  But it's important that Stout put the Patriots in bad position when it comes to punting the ball.  That'd mean the Ravens are just scoring and scoring. Not that the Ravens are just not converting for it down. But hopefully it'll mean the Ravens are scoring and scoring and scoring and scoring and scoring. And we don't even have to see Stout out there. But things happen, which we understand. So when he does punt, it's important that he put them in bad field position because the worst field position you put them in, the more pressure is on Mac Jones. And then hopefully the more pressure the Ravens can get on him in turn. And everything just goes hand in hand. Football ultimate team sport. So then another part of the team, the third phase of the team, the offense. But Mark Jackson has been just phenomenal this year. They have had some hiccups. He had like, he had the fumble last game two weeks ago against the Jets. He had that the interception where he should have put the ball a little more to the outside. But hey, stuff happens. Hopefully this will be a game where there are no turnovers. I mean, and even with the fumble, he didn't turn it over, but still that moved him back. So hopefully they can clean up all the little stuff because it's been little stuff here and there. But I think one of the bigger things that the Ravens will need to clean up is just converting on short downs. That has been an issue for, and again, it's only two games, but it's still been an issue for the Ravens, these past two games, especially last week against Miami. So again, this is another opportunity for them to correct their wrongs, to fix their mistakes. Another opportunity. Obviously it's a super, super long season. And regardless of how this game goes, you still have, what, 14 games left after this. But to start early, to start building that consistency early, it can go such a long way, such a long way. So Rashad Bateman, as of this recording of this video, Rashad Bateman did not practice today. It is Friday. So hopefully it's nothing crazy cause he ain't heard about Rashad Bateman being hurt or anything like that. Hopefully it's just something minor and he'll be fine, he'll be good to go. But again, Devin Duvenay, Ravens keep using him as a receiver. He's a receiver. He said, I don't want that jet sweep name on me no more. Loved it. DeMarcus Robinson, he's made big impact plays in every game so far. Again, it's only been two games, but he's made impact games, impact plays in both. Week one, he made a huge, he made the Forza Jets commit pass and appearance. That set up a touchdown and then week two, he was like, you know what? I'm not gonna set up a touchdown. I'm gonna be the touchdown. So he caught the touchdown pass from Lamar in the end zone. So he's certainly been worth bringing him in. It's certainly paid off and he's looked good in the process. So this could be the game where James Proshay, we'll see what happens with Rashad Bateman. It's not even early, because again, I'm recording this on Friday. You know, Friday is the day where, it's usually the day where if they're gonna play, it's known and if they're not gonna play, then it's like, okay. But we'll see what happens with Bateman, but hopefully he'll be good to go. Now, I would expect J.K. Dobbins to play in this game. A lot of us were thinking that last week was gonna be the week, but it seems like this week could be the week that J.K. Dobbins really actually plays. So will he make the big difference in this run game? Hopefully a mix of him being back and also the offensive line just blocking better. If I was the Ravens, this would be a game where I would actually have Josh Oliver inactive and have Nick Boyle active. Just for the run game alone. For the run game alone. And then you could involve him in the past game too, but I would have him just for the run game alone, just to help that much more in the run game. Cause we know they've been having Pat Ricard out there a lot as an extra blocker. And he's of course been helping, but I would activate Nick Boyle too. So if you're gonna have J.K. Dobbins coming back, put J.K. Dobbins in the best position possible to have success.  Might as well. It's like, you get it. But anyway, in this game I, oh, and Greg Roman, situational, hopefully the Ravens, situationally this game, they are on point because Bill Belichick, he watches for all that stuff. Bill Belichick is a mastermind when it comes to situational play calling. Cause there have been times over the years, where you're like, what is Bill Belichick doing? Only to come to find out later on in that same game.  So it's important that Greg Roman and the Ravens, their staff just, they pay attention. But I think that they should be able to get it done. And I think that the Ravens should be able to get their first win in Foxborough this Sunday. Their first regular season win, regular season win. Cause we know in the playoffs, of course, we remember the ASC championship back in 2012. We didn't even remember the game and what season was that? Well, Ray Wright's on the first play. It was like an 80 yard touchdown run in the playoffs and Flacco only had to throw the ball like five times that game. Flacco was chilling and he was like, oh man, I can do this in my sleep. But yeah, I think that the Ravens, they come out on top on this one. I am going to say, I'm gonna say 27 to 10. I'm gonna say 27 to 10. I think that the defense has a big bounce back game in the offense. They continue to do what they've been doing. They put up points, but this time they actually get some help all the way through the fourth quarter from the defense as well. So I'm gonna go 27, 10 Ravens on top of this one and we'll see how it goes. Yeah, this feels like a dream. That's what I mean. You too, team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like, I done made it, I done made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right in Ravens? Right in Ravens. Shout out to Ravens.


This is a Witchspace News Supplemental. I'm CMDR Buur. Frontier's Elite Dangerous Community Manager Stephen Benedetti has this afternoon taken to the official forums to offer up some clarification from Ian Dingwall, narrative lead for Elite Dangerous, on the recent announcement about Galnet News and its refocusing and the move away from off-camera content in the feed. His response is directly based off of the subsequent feedback that Frontier had from the community over the issue and does make for an interesting read. Here's some specific points of interest that leapt out at me. Ian has reiterated again that the changes at Galnet are about refocusing the content that Galnet produces rather than, quote, reducing the amount of time and effort we devote to the narrative side of the game, unquote. As an example, he stated that interstellar initiatives will now get much stronger support from Galnet going forward. Ian also says in the piece that Frontier are exploring the idea of producing content for Galnet that reports on the affairs of major player groups within the game whilst there's nothing concrete to announce yet that is, I think, hugely exciting. He also stated that rather than reducing the writing staff working on the game they are actually about to gain another full-time writer on Elite. Whilst the amount of stories feeding into Galnet will, in Ian's words, quote, reduce slightly overall, unquote, moving forward everything you see in Galnet should be reflected in the game in one regard or another and may, in fact, have been something that you personally have been directly involved in or had an influence on. I personally see this only as a positive thing and it could possibly mean the narrative in Elite is much stronger going forward. But I understand not everyone will share my view. What do you think? Will you miss the off-camera stuff? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I've done a few videos recently regarding using YouTube to improve my vocabulary in a language I'm learning specifically. I'm learning modern Hebrew and my native language is English. So I was using auto translation to automatically translate video captions in Hebrew into English because there's just a lot more content than as Hebrew captions than content in original Hebrew audio that has English captions. Now just to kind of broaden this out a little bit from my context, I'm going to refer in future videos not to my specific language learning approach. I'm going to be talking about target language and native language so that this information is applicable to really just about anyone learning a language. So TL and NL are common abbreviations. Now that works really well what I showed in my last video how to turn on auto translated captions. But what you can do to kind of get to the next step is use dual subtitles. Now there's a few different extensions in the Chrome Web Store, but this is the one that I found is called dual subtitles. So what you want to do is add it to your Google Chrome. Now, this is obviously specifically regarding Chrome. I'm sure for Firefox you'll find other dual subtitle apps or browser extensions, but they do tend to be streaming platform specific. So that it's if you can find one just by searching for dual subtitle try YouTube dual subtitles. So I've added this to my Chrome here and the next thing that I did was that I added it here. I pinned it into my area and what you can do is click on the extensions thing and just pin it and then drag it over that way. It's always going to be easy to access. So I explained in the last video I built out this playlist called Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles and I just gathered up a bunch of videos on YouTube that have dual subtitles. So if you take a look at what's available here, I can click on the subtitle or closed caption button and now we're actually getting dual subtitles. You can see at the bottom there is Hebrew and on the top there is English and that's happening automatically. When I click on the cogwheel, I'm actually able to download the subtitles, the original Hebrew as well as auto translator, which is a pretty useful feature and I've set my default subtitle language to English. I can also force back single subtitles, so I'm just getting the automatic translated subtitles, but I'm going to leave on the dual subtitles because this is a whole reason I added this app. Now let's take off the app for a second and that way we're going to see what the how YouTube usually looks. So I'm going to disable dual subtitles, come back to my video, refresh the video and now we can see we just have Hebrew as the subtitles and if I go into settings, captions, we've lost all those additional options. Now I can do auto translates English to get my English subtitles like I explained in my last video, but there's no way to get the two together. So again, if I go back to my extensions, I'm going to enable YouTube dual subtitles again, refresh the video again. And now I've got my dual subtitles going. I have my native language on top and the original subtitle below. So now someone, I posted this discovery on the language learner subreddit and people were asking, well, how do you like actually use this methodology? So I just want to finish by explaining this. So what I'll do is I'll firstly listen to the dialogue and my Hebrew is getting better and it's already, it was already kind of intermediate when I started. So usually I'll just get it, but sometimes there's a word I don't understand. So in the first instance, I'll probably look at the English version and then I can generally might recognize the word. But if I don't recognize the word in the Hebrew, I can glance down at the original subtitle. Now the useful thing of course is let's say you're just going to skip ahead in this video a little bit.  So this is how to get dual subtitles running on YouTube. Just a summary is again, I simply installed this Chrome extension called YouTube dual subtitles. It's featured, there's more than 100,000 people using it, which gives me a lot of confidence that it's quite good. And it has a website called dual subtitles.com. If you're looking for information about, you know, all the functionalities here and looks like this, this particular one is also available for Microsoft Edge as well as Chrome. Hope that video was useful. Thank you guys for watching.


You will constantly have reinventions of you because you are committed to becoming the best version of you. You can possibly be, which means you have to shed the skin as it were, of the old versions of you that were good in their time. But they are not good for who you are becoming next. And I think what happens is that we do life with people who love the version of you that they've always known. And so it gets difficult to reinvent because the people that have known you the longest are the ones that most don't want you to change. In case the next version of you doesn't give them the same space in your life.


So Audrey, thanks for giving us this opportunity and the time, the precious time for us to like film you and then have an interview. So about Megaport specifically as we chatted, can you describe what is your relationship to Chantonec and then Freddie and how did the idea of the performance come about? Oh yeah, Freddie and I have been friends for almost 20 years now. 20 years ago I was running my third start-up and Jialing Gao who also appeared in some of the Chantonec's tracks actually attended band practices and so on and Freddie has hung out with us a lot and I was teaching him Pearl. So it's a programming language so yeah we used to code, stay all night, learn up without drinking caffeine, just listening to metal music and so yeah, been friends for quite a while. Sorry I was just thinking, do you prefer us to wear masks? No not at all, no this is just for the show. Oh for sure! I can do the same thing again without a mask. Okay. Alright so maybe I'll just look into this camp or at Jialing, okay sure. Yeah I was trying to look into the camp which may or may not be the best thing to do. Okay right so I'll just look naturally. Okay. I'll just do the same question again. Oh, would you want that? Sure. Yeah so the story with you and Freddie and their band. Yeah, Freddie and I have been friends for almost 20 years now, 20 years ago I was running my sort of startup, my co-founder Jialing Golf actually appeared in one of the Stonics tracks so we've been like coding all night long and staying up just by not drinking coffee but listening to metal music and Freddie also visited us, we hung out quite a bit and I tried to teach Freddie Pearl, it's a programming language so it goes way back. I was wondering how did the idea of you performing at Megaport come about and how did it start? How that idea has been developed over the years? For me personally it started when a Japanese hip hop band Dos Monos sampled my interview and the interview was not specifically for the music band, it's just I relinquished a copyright for all my interviews and their creative commons attribution license so Dos Monos when they just emailed me saying that they've successfully sampled my track into their Dos Monos hip hop song called the Civil Rap and asked for my blessing because you know they don't need my copyright permission so just my blessing and so I think it's a really good way of popularizing our ideas to the audience that otherwise would not have heard of our work so it's really a kind of transcultural communication style thing so when Freddie asked me if I would entertain the idea of attending Megaports at that time not performing I was like yeah let's do a Dos Monos right let's just record some tracks of me and you can remix it however you want and just release the result into the creative commons as well and I think he's like yeah I'll have to check with my distributors but turns out his distributor is fine with that yeah but you see in the creative commons they can actually choose the license so that for example it's freely distributable but not for commercial purposes and if you run it in a commercial setting then you have to go back to the distributor for a commercial license so in that sense it broadens the reach but doesn't hurt the cash flow so to speak so I think that's one of those arrangement they end up agreeing with the distributor yeah but my moral material is free of copyright yeah so which the collaboration is easier and probably more fun without all those restrictions I know because previously people would not think of remixing images like sound sometimes it's remixed a sample and so on but for this time I just sent to the Muchen Wude Diem right one of the tracks but the director asked me to perform various different emotions so like ten different interpretations of the same song and then they used snippets of that reaction to that song to pretty much all the songs and it looked pretty well we were there and then yeah we really loved it so sorry just to follow up questions about that performance so how do you feel about that collaboration yeah like because we know that you the idea Doris did mention to us like you're hacking into that's right that's right yeah and physically actually in the Danshui Kanding like light rail station when that happened right so I'm like literally on the other side of the Taiwan island whereas Megaport is on the southern side so I think it's quite symbolic as well that I get to you know attend my own performance but you know on the other end of Taiwan so it really speaks to digital being a kind of borderless concept yeah so have you been to Megaport basically or how do you feel or know about their brand and also they asked a Megaport? Well I've known Freddy for quite a while so of course I knew when he started putting together the Megaport Festival on the other hand though because I don't endure loud music very well like overly sensitive to to sound so it's kind of not my scene but you know listening from the other end of the island I'm totally at control I can kind of mute dial you down like way down and so I actually did hear the the feedback and so I'm from the audience but in a manageable volume that I can manage myself so that's the best of both worlds but you listen to Freddy's music way back past so that's right but at a distance at a distance yeah at a distance right so it's more about their rhythm right Jiang Yang was playing at full speed but I was living you know some distance from him so when he plays at full volume then in my room it's more like manageable noise yeah so it's great to have that distance music no noise from that to to that's the perfect distance that's right over a digital transmission yeah that sounds great thank you and so speaking of that that what I think we pretty much have already thought it at that spot in terms of the whole concept your presence there and then that's like visual image wise sad wise gray and then and then Doris was telling us that they were trying to experiment with it electronic music so I think it's a combination of everything yeah is there any specific message that you think that you wanted to kind of communicate to regardless of the audience or that I think it's just a freedom to remix right the kind of lack of the authority control on my likeness on my image on my voice and so on is a message of freedom the freedom to to remix basically and that's the freedom that we kind of taken for granted now in Taiwan but in other jurisdictions that's actually not a given well even have a megaport festival is not a given right in Taiwan last year we've had the physical pride parade and so on which we very much cherish for the very ability to to run such large gatherings and that's another message the freedom of assembly physically so following up on that I would also like to ask you about especially like because the world the rest of the world a lot of them and us of course as well still under the impact of the pandemic 2020 have not gone right it's still there it's still there let's do here so do you think that your performance also is there any message in terms of the the virus in Taiwan's position in the global community now is there anything that's also being communicated yeah I think freddy did send that message right and when he was speaking to the audience there's a segment where he spoke in English and the main message is just about that we're in this together and time can help let's time and help basically that's the main message okay so it has been over the years since you introduced the world your fun fast and fair approach to Taiwan's success in countering the pandemic with digital innovation which is also I think something that is mentioned in the performance hinted so have you adapted or developed this approach in any way since definitely so yeah I talked about pink mask when we're talking about fast, fair and fun right but rainbow mask of course is a later development right and and I think freddy and Doris did their own mask interpretation right so I think this whole mask as fashion item playing has really developed into a sort of art so that people wear it all day long even when the temperature is actually quite high nowadays but still people attending an event really like to wear it throughout the day because they understand that this symbolizes the event itself is an expression of freedom not an expression of duty this doesn't look like duty right so I think this whole mask as fashion thing symbolizes the social of society participation way that we realized the counter pandemic norms thank you and um sorry a little bit more maybe about previously the performance part because megapore obviously this year that it got sold out in like three minutes yeah I know that you were the that's right you're actually the only lineup that's been announced I know I know it's not even a line it's a dot yeah so as a we were sort of also speaking to Doris about this yesterday that has because both yourself and freddy are standing politicians it's not it's not it's not completely unheard of that a politician that is involved in musical activities we've got professional singers elected as legislators yeah and also I think in other countries maybe like Jeremy Corbyn so it's not uncommon but also I think to have this collaboration it's it's quite interesting in Taiwan and in terms of this like combination between politics and then also civil society and then also music performances is there anything that you you find quite special about this performance in megaport yeah I think freddy basically is a kind of I refer to Mr. Vesa poetition meaning that poetry is my main line of work and I do politics simply because I see it as one of the ways that those comma bars could be communicated so seeing politics as a way of communication and freddy did that as well right even after he became the legislator he made new songs and doing essentially civics education right turning what he has encountered in the legislature into metal music so that people who are previously not so interested in their civics class start to pay attention to the democratic process and so on just by listening to the music so I think this is very interesting in that this is not like our hobby this is us continuing our line of work be it's in the cabinet here or for him in the legislature or on the stage it's the same line of work this continuation I think it's one of the most interesting thing about this collaboration thank you that's great and this might be actually one last question from my end which is just connecting to yesterday because Doris is telling us about the idea of a little robot yeah can I ask that why it wasn't eventually move on to the hacking and the stage of like larger screen yeah like blanking out yeah how did it well the little robot thing is what we call Lao geng right it's a it's an old trope it was fun I mean back in 2017-18 you know when telepresence robots showing my likeness was in the UN Geneva headquarters and I attended UN on the record using such a moving robot people find it pioneering it's fun on the other hand the UN General Assembly last year was all telepresence anyway right so people have moved on before the pandemic having a roving robot sounds exotic but nowadays you know telepresence and moving robot that's just everyday life especially for people under lockdown that's really the only way they can inspect a factory a business center or pretty much anywhere right so telepresence is it's not that rock anymore so we move on yeah that that's more more interesting and I think because for for them their audience their funds usually throw the the hell money right into the air as they perform as a way to honor the ancestral spirits that was commemorated in their lyrics and so on so I think it's a really touching gesture on the other hand on the kind of popular meme of me of Audrey Tang there's always you know the wearing of the tin foil hat the wearing of aluminum foil that actually amplifies electromagnetic waves and so on so combining these two things together because in the health money print there's a paper layer but there's also a foil layer right so it's kind of a deliberately amplified meme that throwing health money actually summons Audrey and Audrey's brainwaves and so on so it's a new combination and it's a new meme and so it sounds fun and so this digital health money a lot of yellow squares end up being pasted on the digital forum when I hacked into mega ports people started to throw health money but digitally right so that's also a new combination digitally that's right digitally right digitally honoring our ancestors and Doris mentioned this this meme so this you know as a foreigner this is the first time I've heard of it and she she mentioned you guys were playing with something that was formally tried to be used as an accusation against you and playing with the idea of it could you perhaps because this film is for a foreign audience to set the scene of that sure so it all started in 2016 even before I become digital minister there was a popular rumor that Audrey will control people's mobile phones using GPS waves using GPS signals so that people who protest against the government should turn off the GPS lest they get tracked and infiltrated by Audrey and I was not even the digital minister and I did this humor over rumor thing which is basically making fun of myself saying that of course I don't track people over the GPS but if you wear aluminum foil like tin foil hat as sometimes instructed by the people telling each other to turn off GPS there's a MIT study that actually says it the tin foil hat amplifies electromagnetic waves specifically in the bands that communicates 3G 4G telecommunication and so the the idea of shielding from the extraterrestrial or whatever brain waves actually makes it easier to to amplify and so the term amplify or Zeng Fu became kind of synonym of me of my name and I then proceed to translate for example on the French counter disinformation website which I contributed a mandatory translation I just translated empowerment into Zeng Fu into amplification and so it becoming a empowering message like literally amplifying the power of the people and so that the tin foil became not a symbol of conspiracy theory but of self-empowerment through like a series of for lack of better culture gems and it has reached a kind of completeness by 2019 or so 2020 so that by 2020 when people think about me and tin foil hat and whatever people think about Zeng Fu about empowerment even about a short snippet of music right so amplify by you and and so I think Freddie was just building upon that existing mimetic connection and adding another kind of commemorating the ancestor spirit layer on top of what's already a kind of urban folklore thing right is there is there any remix of your with Zeng Fu I think that would be a good yeah that's right yeah I came with Zeng Fu right yeah I think we have to make something that's right that's right yeah of course create your work yes go ahead a remix yes it's the freedom of Taiwan yeah it's the freedom of Taiwan great so I think I've done with my part so I'm a little bit to the director of course okay she wants anything yeah I realized we referenced in the questions and the fun of Boston and prevention preventing the virus but then we actually haven't set the scene for a foreign audience so perhaps you could summarize sure that approach sure okay sure so by fast fair and fun we mean that when we counter the pandemic with no lockdown encounter the infodemic with no take down we rely on a collective intelligence so that anyone who see any new development can pick up the phone and call this toll free number 1922 to be part of the collective intelligence not only get the counter pandemic measures explained to them but actually report new things and co-develop new measures there's people calling saying hey I invented a way use traditional rice cookers with the adding water put your mask on it it kills the virus doesn't kill the mask and then it turned into the daily 2 p.m broadcast message where the minister of health actually demonstrate mask cooking or a young boy called last April saying hey you're originally on mask but oh I get this pink ones but all the boys in my class have navy blue masks so I don't want to wear pink to school and then the very next day on 2 p.m minister Chen as well as all the health officers wore this pink mask and minister Chen even said that pink panther was a childhood hero so the boy become the most hit boy in the class for he own only has pink but pink is the color of hero and heroes heroes and for a couple weeks I think all the leading brands on the digital platforms colored their afters pink and and that makes sure that by last May Taiwan largely move on to post-pandemic because three quarters or more of people start to wear a mask and wash their hands not out of obligation but out of pride like sometime out of pride literally that's fast and fair and the fairness also pertains to the mass distribution in the very beginning like last January 31st we already understood this importance of three quarters of people having access to mask but at a time in the country of 23 million people we only produce two million or so a day and so we need to implement some sort of rationing and so within just three days all the 6000 pharmacies started offering their real-time availability of the mask in stock so people do not have to queue in vain they can actually co-create a more even and fair distribution mechanism with equity and people develop more than 100 different tools to help locating the mask availability using chat box maps and so on and finally the fun part so in addition to the daily press conference there's a very cute she by you know the name sunshine dog and that lives with the participation officer a dedicated team of communicators within the ministry of health and welfare so every time the ccc the minister Chen rolls out a new measure for example physical distancing then a very funny meme is roll out within hours that says for example when you're indoor keep three she bus away from one another or wear a mask when you're out there keep two she bus away or wear a mask is very very funny and a very cute dog putting their food to their mouth and with a meme that says you know it's forbidden to to put your foot in your mouth because you know the mouse protects your mouth against your unwashed hands again very easy to remember and links has annotation with mosquitoes because it's only useful if you do both right but it doesn't really offend anyone it communicates across cultures and languages and jurisdictions so people just remixed out so the power of memes and the power of remixing allows us to counter the disinformation that was rampant during the pandemic in our jurisdictions without resorting to censorship or takedowns and so on with the democracy is the strength not as a weakness democracy allows people to remix and contribute to ways to increase the our basic reproduction rates of science and clarification so that conspiracy theorists gets inoculated thank you thank you yeah that's great I think I think I'm happy Rob do you have any contributing questions yeah I think you're living this game thank you so much for this yeah is there any like offers are there shots and we we're wondering we accept that we might not be able to film in certain areas but is there any chance just to introduce the setting that we could film you walking through the hallway sure of course oh okay that's great how about walking outside the building sure of course okay great nice and that's fantastic we'll just move to handheld okay