Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Bighorn Level C Night Edition is stock number 14290Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used, heavy-duty truck, and Ram headquarters this 2022 Ram 2500 has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck can tow up to 19,956 pounds, has a max payload of 2,224 pounds. Found those on Ram's Toguy website, I will link that in the description below. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath. Start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options, and just give you the most accurate representation that it can of the truck. Diamond black crystal pearl color, shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access. One of the largest catalogs of vehicle in heavy-duty truck block rounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch painted alloy wheels. They are part of the night edition. It has Goodyear Wrangler Duratrack tires. These are LT 275 65R 20s. I would say they have right around 50 to 60% of the tread left, maybe a little bit more, maybe 60 to 70. Ramon Unibody is extremely clean on this truck. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car fax, and it said that was always owned in Idaho. Front fender is in excellent condition. You get the LED running lights, headlights, and fog lights. I will turn all of those on at the end of the video, so you can see just how bright they are. Front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings in there, and it does have the front bumper parking sensors. You get the blacked-out Ram grille on there, part of that night edition, and the hood is absolutely perfect. No major dents or dings on there. Passengers' side front fender is in really nice condition as well, and the passengers' side front wheel no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2022 Ram 2500 take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like the paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. So you can make a smart and informed buying decision or just make the decision to come take a look at the truck. If this video helps you do either of those things, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very nice done that side. This back wheel is in excellent shape as well. Back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires and the frame and under body is in excellent condition as well. It's like that all the way underneath. It has all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way. You get the nice factory painted step bars and the lower rockers all look really good. Didn't see any dents or dings on that passenger side box. Coming around to the back, the rear bumper is in really nice shape. It does have the full towing package, which includes the receiver hitched four-pin and seven-pin wiring. You also get the backup parking sensors conveniently hidden in the bottom plastic there. LED tail lamps and that back tailgate is in excellent shape. You get the big horn ram and 4x4 logo all blacked out. It has the shock down assist tailgate. It comes with a goose neck hitch and a very nice drop-in Dura-liner. You also get 115 volt 400 watt plug-in, side box tie-downs and LED headlights back here. That bed-liner goes onto the tailgate as well. And that tailgate shuts nice and solidly as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. No major dents or dings on the box. Looks really good. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Cab and doors all look really good on this truck. Didn't see any dents or dings. Paints in nice shape. Has the heated fold-up till mirrors built-in directional signals. They fold up like so. They also fold in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats are in really nice shape. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power slide and rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up. There is a load floor back here, which is nice. If you got muddy boots or tools, put them on there.  And they got a nice flat place to lay.  There's also storage underneath here. Some extra wiring and stuff. And then you get the all-weather floor mats back here. You do get in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Or if you're now in Wisconsin, just extra storage space. Two USBs, two USBs. Seas and then a 115-volt 400-watt plug-in. You also get side-current airbags on those front seats. Child safety locks on the back doors. And the inset on the bottoms of the doors are all in really nice condition. Here is the VIN sticker. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. There's a tire and loading information sticker. Inside the Bighorn Level C package gives you the dark charcoal and black cloth bucket seats in the front. There are no rips. There are no tears on these seats. They are in very nice condition. You get the power driver seat with lumbar factory all-weather format. You also have the auto headlamps and power pedals on there. Power windows, locks, and mirrors, as well as the cloth bolster and the wood grain trim. And we'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything the stroke has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 21,734 miles on it. You do get that 7-inch LCD display with the digital speedometer, compass, battery, voltage, and oil temperature on there. Those are all configurable on the corners. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. It does come with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, gear selector on the right as well, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. There's your shifter for that 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission, push button start, push button four-wheel drive. You do get the 8.4 UConnect 5 radio. This is AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities, as well as USB and AUG's and Alexa hookups.  This one does have the factory navigation system. This radio is supposed to be 5 times faster than the UConnect 4 radio, which was the predecessor to this one. There is Highway 41, and that is working nicely. You also have all your different apps on here. I'm not going to go through everything, but just kind of show you what it all comes with. A lot of this stuff is just links to other parts of the radio. Here is your backup cam. You can see that is crystal clear, so you can get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time. You can zoom in on that hitch to get hooked up even quicker, and then you get the cargo cam to see what's going on in the bed of the truck. You also have your off-road pages on here, which we'll check out in just a second. System and then other on there, but those off-road pages are pretty neat, so I'll show you those. You get your steering angle as I turn the steering wheel. You can see that degree change is right there. You also have your transfer case if it's in too high or too high or too low. You have your different accessory gauges, pitch and roll, and then latitude, longitude, and altitude. Down here you have your more tactile volume to and end climate controls, including those dual climate controls and heated seats and steering wheel buttons. Factory Brake Controller, six auxiliary upfits, which is Toha Mode Factory Exhaust Brake, and your front and rear parking sensor controls are right there. Two USBs, two USB C's, and an AUX jack. Down here is a 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in. You also get your coin holders and cup holders right there. And dual glove boxes, keyless entry with remote start on there as well. Passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. Smells very clean inside. The headliner's in great shape. You do get map lights right there, assistant SOS buttons, power sliding rear window controls, and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems, and lighting systems, and an auto dimming mirror. All right, let's start it up. Take a look under the hood and check out all those LED lights in the front. Starts right out. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video. You've been able to verify the quality, condition options, and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. All those LED lights are very bright and working nicely. And under the hood we have the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine, engine maze. Extremely clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Very nice shape. There's the emissions control sticker. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I think whoever's going to get this one's going to be very happy with it. I'd ship it back to Idaho, Florida, Texas, New York. Whoever's going to get this one's going to be very happy. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of the 550 new and used cars to access these. Mini Vans, Wranglers, Half-Tons, Recorder Tons, One-Tons, you name it. We've got to go to the website right there. SummitAuto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle, all at SummitAuto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to YouTube.com slash SummitAuto. Click the bell notifications. Get updates on the videos I do each and every day. As well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk around inside YouTube. 9,000 videos in county. 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Community play is the most significant role. Bullying is a very complex community issue and it's definitely going to take the community to have any impact on solving and resolving the issues around bullying. On multiple levels of the Erase Strategy, number one, it's going to be in the room with educators to talk about the evolution of student behaviors that we're identifying, work with us in developing some effective intervention strategies in addressing some of the behaviors that are identified, supporting the families that are also experiencing the effects of bullying behaviors on their child and in multiple ways. The community also includes parents. So we're also reaching out to parents as much as education through the Erase Strategy, we're definitely doing our role with our community partners, but we're also really looking at strengthening that further partnership with parents, which is so important to this very important issue.


The British celebrity chef Robert Irvine paid a special visit to the submarine USS Scranton to share some of his wisdom and experience in the kitchen. So we're showing them different ways to use the same ingredients, make it a different kind of lunch. I love the Navy, I love the sea, I think our brave men and women of the armed forces do a great job every day and they deserve to be given something back. I like coming here, preparing a lunch, it's just a good way to give back, you know, food is good stuff. Reporting from Naval Station Norfolk, I'm Petty Officer Daniel Michele.


What's that? No spoilers. Okay. I won't. No spoilers. Okay. That's okay. You're safe. But I guess my question is, let's see now, how many of you know what a superpower is? Okay. Good. All right. So before we start, what I'd like to do is just take a moment to touch back in and, you know, sort of touch back into our superpower. All right. And so what I'd like you to do is just, I mean, we've all come from various places all over, probably very busy fighting traffic, walking through the crowds, lining up outside, jockeying for seats, all of that, right? So let's just take a moment and why don't everybody just kind of sit up straight. That's right. Good. Nice. Just sit up straight. And you can close your eyes too. Let's close our eyes for just a moment and just really appreciate the fact that we're here in this wonderful place, this wonderful library. And that somehow we've all made it here today. And just take a moment to feel grateful to everything that's happened that's allowed you to be here today. I certainly feel that way too. Thank you. Can you open your eyes again? It always helps me to have that moment with people in silence before engaging in a talk like this. So thank you for that. I wanted to talk today a little bit. I want to talk a little bit about the book and about the writing of this particular book and about how books come to me generally. I mean all books come I think in a slightly different way, but how this book came to me. And then I'd like to do some reading from it as well. I think all books come to me in slightly different ways, but this book in particular, I know exactly how it came to me and I know exactly when it came to me. It came to me in December of 2006. And that was when I first heard the voice of this young girl. And she introduced herself to me and she said, Hi, my name is now and I'm a time being. Do you know what a time being is? And that was such a strange question. And so I kind of sat up and I paid attention to it. And that was when I made the first file in the computer. And that was really where the book started. And so what I thought I'd do is just read a little bit of the beginning of the book so that you can kind of get a sense of what it was that I was hearing at that time. Hi, my name is now and I'm a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time. And that means you and me and every one of us who is or was or ever will be. As for me right now, I'm sitting in a French maid cafe in Akiba Electricity Town listening to a sad chanson that's playing sometime in your past, which is also my present, writing this and wondering about you somewhere in my future. If you're reading this, then maybe by now you're wondering about me too. You wonder about me. I wonder about you. Who are you and what are you doing? Are you in a New York subway car hanging from a strap or soaking in your hot tub in Sunnyvale? Are you sunbathing on a sandy beach in Phuket or having your toenails buffed in Abu Dhabi? Are you a male or a female or somewhere in between? Is your girlfriend cooking you a yummy dinner or are you eating cold Chinese noodles from a box? Are you curled up with your back turned coldly towards your snoring wife or are you eagerly waiting for your beautiful lover to finish his bath so you can make passionate love to him?   Actually, it doesn't matter very much because by the time you read this everything will be different and you will be nowhere in particular flipping idly through the pages of this book which happens to be the diary of my last days on earth wondering if you should keep on reading and if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway but if you do decide to read on then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic So this was the kind of quality of voice that was sort of coming through the ether at me and as soon as I heard it I knew certain things about this girl about this girl now Yasutani I knew that she was a junior high school student living in Tokyo I knew that she was troubled and possibly even suicidal I also knew that she in spite of that had a kind of an attitude and a sense of humor so that was kind of interesting She was writing in English so odd, right? Why is this Japanese school girl writing in English? I also knew that she was writing to someone although she didn't know who it was she was writing to and so of course neither did I So when questions like this, you know when you start to hear a quality of voice or a quality of language like that you start to pay attention and when the questions start to arise my job is a novelist to answer them and so the question that was really the burning question in my mind was who is it that now Yasutani is writing to and as it turned out it took me about five years to figure this out and I discovered much to my surprise and I was going to say dismay but much to my surprise that now's reader was a novelist named Ruth like me who lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia like me who has a husband named Oliver like me So what a coincidence, right? So I thought I would read a little bit of Ruth's section so you have a sense of that voice as well A tiny sparkle caught Ruth's eye a small glint of refracted sunlight angling out from beneath a massive tangle of drying bull kelp which the sea had heaved up on the sand at full tide She mistook it for the sheen of a dying jellyfish and almost walked right by it The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days The monstrous red stinging kind that looked like wounds along the shoreline But something made her stop She leaned over and nudged the heap of kelp with the toe of her sneaker and poked it with a stick Untangling the whip-like fronds she dislodged enough to see that what glistened underneath was not a dying sea jelly but something plastic a bag Not surprising, the ocean was full of plastic She dug a bit more until she could lift the bag up by its corner It was heavier than she expected a scarred plastic freezer bag and crusted with barnacles that spread across its surface like a rash It must have been in the ocean for a long time, she thought Inside the bag, she could see a hint of something red Someone's garbage, no doubt tossed overboard or left behind after a picnic or a rave The sea was always heaving things up and hurling them back Fishing lines, floats, beer cans, plastic toys, tampons, Nike sneakers A few years earlier, it was severed feet People were finding them up and down Vancouver Island washed up on the sand One had been found on this very beach No one could explain what had happened to the rest of the bodies Ruth didn't want to think about what might be rotting inside the bag She flung it farther up the beach She would finish her walk and then pick it up on the way back take it home and throw it out Well, needless to say, she doesn't throw it out Instead, she takes it home and leaves it on the porch where her husband Oliver finds it He had smoothed the bags flat, laid them out on top of one another in descending orders of size, and then sorted the contents into three neat collections A small stack of handwritten letters A pudgy bound book with a faded red cover A sturdy antique wristwatch with a matte black face and a luminous dial Next to these sat a Hello Kitty lunchbox that had protected the contents from the corrosive effects of the sea The cat was sniffing at the lunchbox Ruth picked him up and dropped him on the floor and then turned her attention to the items on the table The letters appeared to be written in Japanese The cover of the red book was printed in French The watch had markings etched onto the back that were difficult to decipher so Oliver had taken out his iPhone and was using the microscope app to examine the engraving I think this is Japanese too, he said Ruth flipped through the letters trying to make out the characters that were written in a faded blue ink The handwriting is old and cursive, beautiful but I can't read a word of it She put the letters down and took the watch from him Yes, she said, they're Japanese numbers, not a date though Yon, nana, san, hachi, nana Maybe a serial number? She held the watch up to her ear and listened for the ticking but it was broken She put it down and picked up the bright red lunchbox The red color showing through the scarred plastic was what had led her to mistake the freezer bag for a stinging jellyfish How long had it been floating out there in the ocean before washing up? The lunchbox lid had a rubber gasket around the rim She picked up the book which was surprisingly dry the cloth cover soft and worn its corners blunt from rough handling She put the edge to her nose and inhaled the musty scent of mildewed pages and dust She looked at the tarnished guilt title embossed on the red cloth spine A la recherche du ton perdu she read by Marcel Proust Her French wasn't great but she opened the cover anyway curious to see if she could understand just the first few lines She was expecting to see an age-stained folio printed in an antique font so she was entirely unprepared for the adolescent purple handwriting that sprawled across the page It felt like a desecration and it shocked her so much she almost dropped the book Hi She read My name is now and I'm a time being Do you know what a time being is? So that's the dialogue that gets established between these two characters Ruth who finds the diary washed up on the beach immediately, of course, thinks it's debris from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami washing up on the coast of British Columbia and she starts to read the diary and becomes obsessed with now's life and with discovering the girl's fate and so it really is the book ends up being a kind of a conversation between readers and writers which is something I think that all readers understand and certainly all writers do and I'd like to I'd like to read another section that takes place a little bit later in the book but just for those of you who haven't read it yet I'll give you a little bit of backstory The reason that now speaks and is writing in English is because she grew up in Sunnyvale, California her father was head-hunted at a tech firm there and worked there and so she moved there when she was about three her father then loses his job for mysterious reasons which will be revealed and has moved the entire family back to Tokyo now is put in a junior high school in Tokyo and she's completely unequipped to handle life in a junior high school in a culture that is really quite foreign to her she doesn't have her Japanese is not as fluent as it should be she doesn't have the social skills and the family has no money they've lost all their savings so she doesn't have a lot of money to buy cool stuff so as a result of all of this she's being quite terribly bullied and she's decided that she's going to commit suicide she's going to end her life but before she does she wants to do one last act of redemption which is to tell the life story of her 104-year-old great-grandmother Oljiko who is a Zen Buddhist nun she's not just any Zen she's not just any 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun she's a 104-year-old anarchist feminist Zen Buddhist nun just to kind of put that into context for you and she's really the only reliable adult in now's life and so the scene that I would like to read now is a scene that takes place during now's summer vacation and during her summer vacation she's been sent to live at Oljiko's temple and so she's she's spending her summer vacation there have you ever tried to bully a wave punch it, kick it, pinch it pinch it, hit it beat it to death with a stick? stupid after Oljiko found my scars she took me on an errand into town on the way back she wanted to stop and buy some rice balls and soft drinks and some chocolate treats she had this idea that we could take the bus to the seaside and have a picnic there I didn't particularly care but she seemed to think it would be a big treat for me to eat store-bought food and play by the ocean so I was like, whatever, you know willing to go along because it's hard to disappoint someone who's 104 years old because of her cataracts Jiko can't really walk very well and she always carries a stick but what she really likes is when you hold hands with her I think holding hands makes her feel more confident and so I got into the habit of holding her hand when I was next to her and to tell you the truth, I liked it too I liked the feeling of her thin little fingers in mine that being the strong one and keeping her tiny body close to me it made me feel useful when I wasn't there she used her stick I liked feeling more useful than a stick before getting on to the bus to the seaside Jiko wanted to stop at the family mart in town to buy our picnic but there happened to be a gang of youngy girls hanging out in the parking lot in front so I lied and said I wasn't hungry they were speed tribe biker chicks with bleached orange and yellow shaggy hair and baggy construction worker pants and big flapping lab coats that looked like the kind that doctors and scientists wear only they weren't white they were neon bright and graffitied all over with giant black kanji the girls were squatting on the pavement by the door chewing gum and smoking a couple of them were leaning on wooden swords the kind you use for kendo and I was like no way grandma I'm really not hungry but old Jiko had her heart set on making a picnic for me so what could I do? I held her little hand real tight and when we got near the girls one of them spat and it landed at our feet and then they started to say stuff it was nothing I hadn't heard at school before but it shocked me because of Jiko being so old and how can you say rude stuff about manko and chinchin to an old lady who's a nun it took forever to get past them because Jiko walked so slow and they were kind of blocking our way they kept on shouting out and spitting and I could feel my heart racing and my face growing hot even if old Jiko didn't bat an eyelid finally we made it into the family mart the whole time we were looking for rice balls and drinks and deciding whether to buy chocolate or sweet bean cakes for dessert I kept looking through the window at the girls squatting outside the store I knew that when we left they would say more stuff to us maybe they would throw things at us or trip us maybe they would follow us to the beach and get their boyfriends to rape us and beat us and throw our dead bodies into the ocean or maybe they would just do the business themselves with their wooden swords I'd gotten plenty of practice at school imagining this kind of thing happening to my own body so it didn't bother me that much but the idea of someone hurting my old Jiko was brand new to my mind and it made me feel like throwing up but old Jiko wasn't paying any attention she was concentrating on selecting the flavors of our rice balls and eventually she decided on sour plums flavored seaweed and spicy cod roe she wanted me to choose a chocolate treat either pocky or melty kisses but how could I focus on something so unimportant I had to protect us from our enemies outside the door even if she was too old and blind to comprehend the danger we were in and I was trying to calculate my chances of fighting off a dozen Yankee bitches when all I had was my pathetic little super power it took forever for Jiko to pay the cashier you know how it is with old people and their coin purses but I didn't mind her offer to help I was kind of hoping that maybe she would take all day and maybe by the time we'd finished the gang would have gone but no such luck they were still there squatting on the pavement and the minute we walked out of the store they kind of locked on to us spitting and sizing us up I tried to hurry, Jiko passed them but you know old Jiko she always takes her time the girls started calling out and as we got closer their cries grew louder and more screechy and a couple of the squatting ones got to their feet I moved in front but when we were even with them suddenly old Jiko stopped she turned to face them peering as if she was noticing them for the first time and then she tugged on my hand and started shuffling in their direction I held back whispering dame na yo oba chama ikoyo but she didn't listen she went up and stood right in front of them and gave them a long look which is how she looks at everything long and steady probably on account of the time it takes for an image to form through the milky lenses of her cataracts the girls in their neon colored pants and blue and orange and red mechanical coats with the big black kanji must have been just a confusion of lines and bright colors to her eyes no one said anything the girls were jutting out their chins and hips and shifting restlessly from side to side finally I guess old Jiko understood what she was looking at she dropped my hand and I held my breath and then she bowed I couldn't believe it it wasn't a little bow either it was a deep bow the girls were like what the fuck one of them a fat girl squatting in front kind of nodded back not quite a bow not completely respectful but not a punch in the face either but then the tall one in the middle who was clearly the girl boss reached over and gave the fat one a swift punch in the head namuten no ka she snarled chuto hanpananda yo chanto ojigimo dekinai no ka she smacked the fat girl once more and then she stood up straight put her palms together and bowed deeply from the waist the rest of her crew jumped up and did the same Jiko bowed to them again and nudged me so I bowed too but I did it half-assed so she made me do it again which made things even because now it was like old Jiko was the girl boss of our gang and I was the fat screw-up who couldn't bow properly I didn't think this was so funny but the gangbangers thought it was hilarious and Jiko smiled too and then she took my hand and we walked on when the bus came Jiko sat by the window and looked back out at the parking lot I wonder what omatsuri it is today she said omatsuri? a festival? hmm, yes she said those pretty young people dressed up in their festival clothes they look so gay I wonder what the occasion is it's not a matsuri those were gangbangers, granny biker chicks, young girls they were girls? bad girls, juvenile delinquents they were saying stuff I thought they were going to beat us up oh no Jiko said, shaking her head they were all dressed so nicely such cheerful colors two have you ever buddied a wave? Jiko asked me at the beach we had eaten rice balls and chocolate and were hanging out Jiko was sitting on a small wooden bench and I was lying on the sand at her feet the sun was beating down Jiko had tied a damp white hand towel around her bald head and seemed as cool as a cucumber in her gray pajamas I was hot and sweaty and feeling restless but I hadn't brought a bathing suit and didn't really want to go for a swim but that's not what she was asking bullied a wave, I repeated no, of course not hmm try it go to the water and wait for the biggest wave and give it a punch give it a good kick hit with a stick go on, I will watch she handed me her walking stick there was no one around except for a couple of surfers way down the beach I took old Jiko's stick in my hand and walked and then ran to the edge of the ocean waving it above my head like a kendo sword the waves were big breaking on the beach and I ran into the first one that came at me yelling kiai like a samurai going into battle I smacked the wave with a stick cutting through it but the water kept coming I ran back up the beach and escaped but the next one knocked me over I got to my feet and attacked again and again and each time the water crashed down on top of me grinding me against the rocks and covering me with foam and sand I didn't mind the sharp cold felt good and the violence of the waves felt powerful and real and the bitterness of salt in my nose tasted harshly delicious over and over I ran at the sea beating it until I was so tired I could barely stand and then the next time I fell down I just lay there and let the waves wash over me and I wondered what would happen if I stopped trying to get back up just let my body go would I be washed out to sea? the sharks would eat my limbs and organs little fish would feed on my fingertips my beautiful white bones would fall to the bottom of the ocean where anemones would grow upon them like flowers pearls would rest in my eye sockets I stood up and walked back to where Old Jico was sitting she took the small towel from her head and handed it to me maketa! I said throwing myself down in the sand I lost the ocean won she smiled was it good feeling? mmmm I said that's good she said have another rice ball three we sat there for a while longer waiting for my shorts and t-shirt to dry down the beach in the distance the surfers kept falling into the water and disappearing the waves keep beating them up too I said pointing Jico squinted but she couldn't see them through her cataracts there I said see that one? he's standing up he's up he's up oh no he's down I laughed it was funny to watch Jico nodded like she was agreeing with me up down the same sing she said it's a typical Jico comment all about pointing to what she calls the not too nature of existence when I'm just trying to watch some cute guys surfing I know better than to argue with her because she always wins but it's like a knock knock joke where you have to say who's there so the other person can tell you the punchline so I said no it's not the same thing for the surfer hmm you are right not the same not different either see what I mean it is different Granny the whole point of surfing is to stand on top of the wave not underneath it saffa wave the same thing I don't know why I bother that's just stupid I said a surfer's a person a wave is a wave how can they be the same Jico looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky a wave is born from deep condition of the ocean a person is born from deep condition of the world a person pokes up from the world and rolls around like a wave until it is time to sink down again up down pass on wave she pointed to the steep cliffs along the shoreline Jico a mountain the same thing the mountain is tall and we live a long time Jico is small and we will not live much longer like I said this is pretty typical of the kind of conversation you have with my old Jico I never completely understand what she's saying but I like that she tries to explain it to me anyway it's nice of her it was time to go back to the temple my shorts and t-shirt had dried out and my skin was super itchy from the salt I helped Jico to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together holding hands again I was still thinking about what she said about waves and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again and even though I know you can't hold on to water still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away so thank you so that's the process of of writing this book it was probably one of the most convoluted writing experiments I've ever undertaken and it ended up taking a terribly long time but in the end what I realized about this book is that novels are time beings too and they simply take the time they take and as much as one might wish it to be otherwise the novel has its own timeline and its own chronology and that my job as a writer once again even though I might wish it to be otherwise is simply to try to listen and try to answer the questions that arise as they arise and hope that somehow through that process I'll find my way to the end of a book and I was lucky in this case that that happened so is that okay so I think that's it thank you so much for coming yeah thank you


This concerns Denver police case number 2002 18178 the cold case homicide that happened on April 20th of 2002 and the victim being a Rodney Tate. Rodney was shot several times. He was pronounced deceased on scene. Rodney was a big guy he was tall like he had his dad his height he was six three two hundred and sixty five pound and I always call him my teddy bear. You know how you have your sibling rivalries we fought we we fight and he'd follow me like stop following me we just got into a fight but you know we still had fun. Little Rodney was he was very he was very generous you had no fighter or nothing he was you know a very giving guy you know he was growing up growing up just going up in the neighborhood. On April 20th 2002 just prior to 6 20 at night Rodney Tate was a passenger in a Chevy Blazer driving eastbound here on MLK. At approximately Niagara the suspect vehicle pulls up alongside the victim's car and begins firing shots into the victim's car. The shooting continues as the victim's car is going eastbound. The victim's car takes a left turn in between this tree and the evergreen cutting northbound. It's going to cut across MLK to the second house here on the left. This is where the first 911 call comes in of the shooting and where responding officers and paramedics find the victim deceased in the car and the other victim of the shooting. He had just left my house on that particular day.  At 5 30 I got a call and she told me Rodney's been shot. And I couldn't believe it. I was like well this can't be. He just pulled out my alley. I don't even think I put shoes on. We were out of there so fast. When I got there and I saw the yellow tape I knew when I saw the yellow tape someone's life had been taken and I was hoping that it wasn't Rodney's life and as it continued on throughout the night couldn't find out that it was Rodney's life that had gotten taken. That was the scene was still sitting in the truck. When I got there and when I went to go up to the truck they wouldn't let me go up to the truck. So that was the day his life was taken. Further investigation led detectives to understand that there was a altercation approximately 15 minutes to 30 minutes prior to the shooting at 34th and Colorado. Two groups the victim's vehicle and the suspect's vehicle were involved in an altercation at the McDonald's. There was a verbal altercation there was no description of any weapons displayed or a physical altercation of any sort. You hear one minute next to you you're gone so I would say to anyone that knows anything about Rodney Tate's murder to please come forward say something because you never know when it could happen to your family. You know nothing's gonna bring him back but you know somebody need to pay for it. There are people out there on this case in Rodney Tate's murder who have seen who have heard things that have not come forward. I plead with the communities that are affected by this violence. If you have information please come forward please call Crime Stoppers. I don't ever want to forget. Not ever. As long as I live.


of the City Council of Fort Worth, Texas with the invocation by Pastor Marcus Brecken of Gateway Church. Welcome, Pastor, and thank you for being with us this evening. And please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States and State of Texas. Let's pray. Our dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this great city, one of the greatest cities in the world. We as citizens love living here and so we pray for Mayor Parker and those who govern us. We pray for all those who serve and we pray that you'll give them the grace to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before you with integrity. We pray that they defend the oppressed, protect those who live upright, and discipline those who do wrong.  We pray for law enforcement and first responders that you'll give them protection, discernment, strength, and safety. And God the wisdom to handle difficult circumstances with compassion toward those who suffer. We pray especially in these days for our schools, those who teach, the administration, that they do their jobs thoroughly so that those who learn can do so in safety and in healthy environments. We pray that you would protect our schools and make them safe places to grow up with knowledge, friendship, and wisdom. God we pray also that you'll bless those who are less fortunate than we are and bless in a special way those who are homeless. We pray that you will give those in this chamber wisdom to act on their behalf. We pray that everything discussed and decided upon denial will be pleasing to you in Jesus' name. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, for nomination. All right we have consideration of the minutes of the May 17th and May 24th council meetings and we need a motion please. Moved and seconded by council members Crane and Beck respectively. All in favor cast your votes. I can't vote so okay got it thank you. And with that motion is approved. Okay the first speaker is going to be Bob Willoughby. Hi my name is Bob Willoughby. We've got to talk about a two-page letter that my council gave me we're going to do it over the next couple of weeks here. They're threatening to ban me for harassment and they call what I'm doing right now harassment. That's what they're calling harassment. So what I'm doing right now this letter which I just sent a report back to the city attorney asking for immediately a letter of withdrawal and I should get one for apology because the stuff on here is just totally totally false unless now the council members seem to have been threatened. Which council member? Beck are you threatened? You want to come down afterwards and talk to me? I'll be down here afterwards to talk to any one of these council members that feel threatened. Which one? Any of them? Let's get one down here. Okay I bet we won't have none. Another thing they went after me was calling out my website fwdistrict5.com. That's an address. That's all it is. When can you come to council and not say the words fwdistrict5.com? It's the same thing as if I put a sign up in front of my house saying we'll be forgiven. You're off topic. You're off topic. It's not off topic. It is and we're going to shut your mic down. Stay on topic. Am I still on? Stay on topic. Mike's gone. Mike's gone. Your mic is gone. You don't have to jump up. Yes, he will. If they just tell me to sit down, I'll sit down. Sit down. Okay. I just didn't understand them. Thank you, Bob. Next speaker. Thomas Trollen-Cosse. Council members, fellow citizens, taxpayers, public servants, and those of you on an authoritarian power trip, I don't know how we can be off subject when it is general public comment. The First Amendment is one of those things that the council still has not even begun to embrace or recognize. You violate our First Amendment, our Fourth Amendment, our Fifth Amendment, and often our Fourteenth Amendment. But I'm going to get to the particulars of what the Fort Worth Police did and what its role was in Mr. Flores' district a couple weeks ago. You see, I could have told you sooner, but over the last 11 months, you've had a total of 19 general comment sessions in nearly a year. This is a large, diverse city with lots of issues that are hot button issues that need to be addressed a lot more often than every 21 days. You see, as five of you know, I was at a press conference. I was a legitimate press because the First Amendment guarantees the freedom of the press to all 330 million of us. And you witness TRWD detain me and not allow me into a press conference. Well, 10 days ago, TRWD's subset group, TRVA, held a meeting publicly announced it appropriately, and two of the people sitting in front of me were supposed to attend that meeting. At the last minute, after five o'clock, they canceled the meeting without proper notice to the public. The media knew, the board members knew. As also a member of the media and free press, I asked some questions about the meeting and why was it canceled and why wasn't there a proper notice, et cetera, et cetera. When we wouldn't leave the publicly accessible area, the Fort Worth police was called. Nearly 12 officers, I think, may know showed up for two men with cameras. The Internal Affairs Division now and the Office of Public Police Oversight are both investigating the series of things that happen. At least two of those officers, of course, are on this list, Officer Gilbert and, I think, Officer De La Santos. What's weird about De La Santos is, Rick Ricardo De La Santos is not only does he know me, but have been to his place to bid on a pawn. He pretended not to know me and looked like he was more loyal to the TRWD police chief, David Geary, than to his superior officers on the incident. Making it a little bit more complicated, when there was a press conference in December 14th, the mayor herself texted me and said the city of Fort Worth does not have jurisdiction on that property. So while they were about to arrest me for not failure to identify, which under state statute 3802 were not required to, it turned into a fiasco. And a number of officers were insubordinate to their own, to their own superiors, and a number of things took place. You got a long way to go to improve things in Fort Worth. Next speaker. Okay, we're going to try now to go to our caller. Her name is Carrie Hines. Recently brought to my attention. Yes. You have three minutes. Go ahead, please. My name is Carrie Hines and I live in Fort Worth. It has been brought to my attention that in 2016, 13,000 Fort Worth residents and 400 different lawsuits sued Chesapeake for unpaid royalties and received 52.5 million dollars. I repeat, 13,000 Fort Worth residents and 400 different lawsuits sued Chesapeake for unpaid royalties and received 52.5 million dollars. I also understand the city of Fort Worth and Fort Worth ISD also sued Chesapeake and settled in 2016. However, no one in the city, as far as the city manager, the city council, or the mayor notified any of the other residents of Fort Worth that they needed to sue as well. We know sign on bonuses were unfairly given out. Those who lived in areas like Stop Six received $300 sign on bonuses while others in the more affluent areas would later receive much larger sign on bonuses. To add insult to injury, some Fort Worth residents have not received one dime in royalties. Is it fair to tie the residents of Fort Worth to leases with companies that do not honor the contract and clearly have not done right by the citizens of Fort Worth? This was proven in court over and over. Yet not all residents have been fairly compensated. That said, we are tied to these leases as long as we have 667 active whales in the city. The city owes the residents to either renegotiate these leases or shut down these whales. But the damages the drilling has done to the environment has not and will not be cost effective under the current leases. We understand the city renegotiated their lease and so should every citizen of Fort Worth. Lastly, what has been done to the residents of Fort Worth is why call it theft, fraud, and breach of contract. Thank you. Thank you. We're two other callers, LaSandra Huggins. We could not reach her and neither could we reach Tuwan Fan. Okay, so all right sir, you're up for speaking. You have got three minutes. Good evening, Mayor Pro Temp and council members. My name is Tuwan Fan. I'm a director of the Fan Foundation. We are a 501c3 non-profit based here in Fort Worth dedicated to providing low income housing and jobs training. I come before you today to speak on the development of permanent supportive housing through the home ARP NOFA for which the Fan Foundation has applied, that which Tara Perez spoke on this afternoon, and for which you are to vote on next Tuesday. In speaking with neighborhood services, we were not selected due to HUD regulations that we were not that were not clear to us. I have scheduled meetings with some of you and I hope to meet the rest of you if you have the time. We have great respect and have enjoyed working with neighborhood services and look forward to continuing to work with them. However, I want to bring to your attention a different way of addressing chronic homelessness than the single site new construction projects being recommended. While these developments have their uses, they have the significant downsides of taking a very long time having high costs and inadvertently segregating citizens and concentrating poverty. We do not advocate abolishing this method. Instead, we believe that it should be supplemented by scattered site housing developments that consist of the acquisition of ready to move in turnkey properties and the renovation of existing Class C properties. New construction is considerably more expensive. Turnkey one bedroom condos have been listed for as low as $85,000 and rehabilitation can be done for less than $120,000 per unit, much less than anything recommended. New construction takes on average two years in a regular market, but in this hypercharged market two years is optimistic. The chronically homeless have been unhoused for at least a year and are we to ask them to wait for two more years. Acquisition of turnkey properties can provide housing in a matter of months. The last point is one that we believe is most vital to the long-term success of this program and that is the segregation of our most impoverished citizens and the over-concentration of poverty. We heard just this morning that even the venerated Casa de Esperanza has been getting citizen emails complaining about panhandling, unsheltered homeless, and people screaming out for drugs and alcohol. While we heard Lieutenant Gorey disabuse us of the notion that the residents are responsible for these complaints, the stigma of single site housing remains. By segregating these citizens, we cut them off from the society at large. How can we expect these citizens to reintegrate to society if we separate them away? What kind of role models would they have around them? What kind of job opportunities are available where they are? If instead, we weave them the most vulnerable citizens into the existing fabric of a neighborhood, they have a much better chance of becoming productive members of society. For these reasons, we in others, we ask the city council to give greater consideration to the acquisition of turnkey properties and rehabilitation. Fort Worth is a leader in solving homelessness with Casa de Esperanza, and we believe that it should maintain that lead and prove to the rest of the nation that we are a dynamic city that cares about its citizens. Thank you. Our next speaker is Daniel Hayes. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem and council. I'm sure all of you are familiar with the classic television show, The Twilight Zone. I'm sorry, Mr. Hayes, could you please state your residence, please? My name is Dan Hayes and I live in Fort Worth. Thank you. The Twilight Zone remains one of my favorite old school shows. Unquestionably, I find the scariest episode to be number 22 from the first season. Originally airing in 1960 in March, the monsters are due on Maple Street shows what can happen in a suburban neighborhood when unusual happenings start to take place, where there is the power of suggestion and when neighbors become suspicious of each other. But where are the monsters? The episode aired during the last year of the Eisenhower presidency. It was designed as an allegory of the political situation for a nation which, among other things, had only recently emerged from the Joseph McCarthy Communist witch hunts, was increasingly dealing with demands for racial equality, and in which there was a very real threat of nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union. The episode illustrates the tendency towards seeing those not like us as the others. The neighbors on Maple Street find there are very real consequences to their suspicions, their words, and their mistrust of each other. By the end of the episode, the fabric of this quiet neighborhood has been completely ripped apart. They are the monsters on Maple Street. This episode serves as a cautionary tale for all of us. Over the last 60 years, its concept is still as relevant as ever, playing out in the hateful acts of violence and death, committed with increasing frequency in our nation. If we fail to recognize that words matter, that what we are doing to ourselves is providing platforms that motivate some to violence, others to mistrust of people and governments, and which make us all a little more cynical. I don't know what we can do about it, but the first step towards solving any problem is recognizing that something must change. At the moment, we can't seem to agree as a nation on even that basic point. Rod Serling wrote the script for this episode, and his closing narration is worth repeating. It goes like this. The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, explosion, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. Thank you. Next speaker is David Mendez, followed by James Smith. Mayor Pro Tem, Council. David Mendez speaking on behalf of Northwest Neighborhood Alliance, 180,000 residents strong in that alliance. Important to note for you. Excuse me, Mr. Mendez, could you state your city of residence, please? Fort Worth, Texas. Unlike the president of the short-term rental alliance for Tarrant County, who actually lives in Aisle, and the vice president who lives in Arlington, who spoke last time at this council, we are all residents of here at Fort Worth. Short-term rentals, I had a really good speech planned. I did. However, I learned kind of a puzzling, troubling statistic that last year, one-third of all houses were bought by corporations in Fort Worth. Those are corporations, not families. Those are people who don't live here. They don't live in the state. They're out as state investors, California, Nevada, New York, Florida. Those homes have forever been taken off the market for families in Fort Worth. Sure, they may be long-term rentals, but on the topic of short-term rentals, imagine taking out a chunk of houses that will no longer be available to families. Those will be short-term rentals for tourism. Tourism is important. I'm not going to argue that. Tourism is actually very important to any city. However, when you talk about removing an inventory that is already, that this council has many times said an inventory that is already short to where those homes will never be available again to single families, to families that want to stay here and put down roots is short-sighted and ignorant of the problem that you have proposed that Fort Worth has. I ask that you think carefully about short-term rentals within neighborhoods. Think carefully about what that's being done to the city right now. Another thing to consider is that short-term rentals, you have no idea how many are out there. You were just briefed on this a little while ago. Code compliance does not have the capacity to do what you want it to do, to monitor and enforce short-term rentals. You're asking them to do a job that they can't even do in the course of their normal duties because they are so short-staffed. Think about this very carefully when you start putting short-term rentals in neighborhoods. They belong in the places you already have them. The ordinance already says seven street area. The places where there's tourism, those were short-term rentals belong. Neighborhoods are for families. Thank you. Next speaker is Mr. James Smith, followed by Manuel Matta. Good afternoon, council. My name is James Smith. I live in District 8. Two weeks ago, I stood before you guys and I was elated that there would be a trial June 23, 2022. Only to find out that there may not be a trial June 23, 2022. There's a 50-50 chance that this trial again would be delayed. That's problematic for me and problematic for the family. I don't know. I don't know what I mean. I'm disconvigated about this whole situation, but like I've told you before, there's nothing being appropriate from October 12, 2019. Moving on. I went to church last Sunday, Sunday before last. First time in two and a half years because that's how I've been feeling. My church is a block from my house, but the Lord sent me a mile from my house to go to church. I'm like, why am I walking a mile when I can just walk a block? I walked that mile and noticed that every alley from my home to Morningside is three feet tall or more. I spoke with my councilman last month about my alley, not knowing that every alley on the south side is beyond cold. If I get a ticket or I get threatened to get my yard cut for $300 because it's 12 inches tall, why are the alleys allowed to get three feet tall? That's unacceptable. And this has been every year since there have been alleys. It's nothing new, but nobody's come to talk about it, so I'm talking about it. I suggest you turn the alleys over to the Park and Recreation Department. They have the twos. The alley shouldn't be cut once a year. I cut my yard once a week. So why should the alley be cut once a year? Last time I was here, I talked about building trust with the police department and the citizens. I mentioned taking the logo where the west begins to where trust begins on the side of the car. I don't know whether y'all took that as a joke, but I'm serious. If you want to build trust between the citizens and the police department, you're going to have to start somewhere and that's the first place to start. Every day that officer walks to his car, he's going to read where trust begins, reminding him that that's where trust begins. I mean, I don't know the process. I've asked about the process. I haven't heard the process, which brings me to think, why do we come down here to speak to you guys if what we ask you or suggest to you doesn't get a proper acknowledgement? 25 seconds, 24 seconds. Two years and eight months. I'm broken. I've been told that by a good friend and I trust his judgment because the things he uncovers in the city of Fort Worth are astounding to me because nobody seems to care what he finds. Justice for Tatiana, thank you for your time. Our last speaker for this evening is Manuel Mata. My name is Manuel Mata. I live in Fort Worth, Texas District 9 and in 2021, $856,876 were obtained primarily by county and city investigations, primarily to low income individuals who had no chance of getting their property back. So instead of giving it into the community, they seized it from more after school programs that aim towards single parent homes or areas that are affected by gun violence. So having a free pass to continue to do this isn't enough. I come from a low income area, have most of my life. Majority of these programs don't have enough money or support to reach more kids because I can tell you what gun violence does.  I talked to as many kids in my neighborhood about the truth of committing these crimes and the consequences of them. $74 million to increase transparency. So I'm asking everyone in here to cover these two things and to give the residents that don't have a voice either because of fear or feeling small and overlooked. The human race matters to me. I hope I can convince others to see it the same way. I'm proof no matter what life does to any of us, if you believe in your heart, you are doing anything for the right reason. Walls and barriers are going to outnumber us all the time. My village overcomes odds and struggles daily. Asking any single mother or single father in my neighborhood. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem, that completes our speakers for the evening. Thank you Ron and tonight we close the city council meeting in honor of the Uvalde community, especially the friends, family, and loved ones of the 19 children and two teachers killed on May 24th. Our hearts cannot fathom the pain of a community grieving such tremendous loss. Fort Worth will continue to pray that families affected by this tragedy will be surrounded with love and support during these incredibly difficult days. Good evening.


Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests. Thank you for attending today's ceremony. And thank you to both our great pergol team for the amazing work they've been doing and for our best and band on the land that did an amazing job at playing the French national in them. Bravo and please join me in a round of applause. My name is Jean-Pierre Faguet and I'm a dogface soldier, a French dogface soldier. Today is Bastille Day. It's the French force of July. When the CG told me a couple of weeks ago that it said that the Seoul U.S. division having a French DCG should celebrate Bastille Day, I found that a great idea and I felt both honored and grateful. So thank you, sir, for this kind gesture. I know it's trying to get to us from Benning. In France, as it was just said, the 14th of July marks the starting point of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 when the central prison in Paris was torn by the population and it was the prison where the political opponent to the kings were locked. This was the starting point of the French Revolution that started on that day. More importantly, this day celebrates freedom and the values of the enlightenment that bred the French Revolution and the French Republic, democracy, individual freedom and human rights, progress and science, liberty and justice for all. Therefore, in some way, Bastille Day is not only a day of celebration for France, but for all democracies and the day to celebrate the French and American relationship. Looking closely at history, the French Revolution and the American Revolution were sisters and the universal nature of the values that inspired this post-revolution are probably what inspired Benjamin Franklin, a founding father when he said that each man has two countries, his own and France. The influence of the ideas of friend thinkers and philosophers, alongside the examples said by the US Revolution a decade before the French one, proved to be instrumental in making our two nations among the forward-leading democracies in the modern era. These values have been shared by France and the United States since the US was founded in the late 18th century and they still guide us today. They were shared by the first Americans that fled the oppression in Europe and went on to fight against the British rule in the colonies, supported by the French contingent led by General Rochambeau and Lafayette, who together with General Washington's young US Army defeated the British in Yorktown in October 1781, whoever. Actually, as a symbol of the shared value between France and the United States and this enduring friendship with the oldest ally of the US, the key to the Bastille was offered by Lafayette to Washington a couple of months into the revolution in 1790. And if you go to Mount Vernon, Washington's house, the key of the Bastille is still hanging on the wall today. My presence today wearing proudly the American flag on my shoulder is the evidence of this enduring friendship. Because Bastille Day celebrates freedom, it's a day where the French nation gets together and celebrates its armed forces who protect their freedom. And therefore it's traditionally marked in France by the national military parade that happens on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in the morning sustaining the strong bond between the nation and the armed forces and that we'll be able to watch in couple of minutes later on with a glass of wine. It's also celebrated in every military garrison and down to the smallest village in France where a ceremony will take place at the monument of the previous wars, nation will be played and all the uniformed services will parade on that day. But because the French also like to celebrate and party, the day will end up with celebrations with concerts and balls in every village.  This day is also for the French president an opportunity to give an address to the nation. He does that every 14th of July and he has also a special moment with representative of the armed forces in the gardens of the Élysée Palace or the DOD residence and that happened last night and he gave an hour speech to give guidance and a lot of things related to Europe, Ukraine and what we are well about to develop for that. I should also add that the 14th of July is a day when the French cyclists on the Tour de France, which is a July event, fight especially hard to win that stage and to make the American, the French public proud and it helps me very much to tell you that today a British cyclist won the stage. Finally let's remember that Bastille Day is also a foundational day for the 3rd ID as it is on the 14th of July 1918 around midnight that the 2nd battle of the Marne started where this division earned its nickname where the legend was born and when the 3rd ID became the rock of the Marne. So happy Bastille Day to you all, God bless America, Yves la République and Yves la France. Thank you.


Let's go how to get like bro. He did like there's no way. He's dead. Oh, I swear God my zones are just getting glitched all over the world right now like they're getting just sucked YouTube what's up weekend like I'm already 10 and O playing really good the MCS Ultimate wild card tournament is this weekend starts on Saturday. Make sure you guys tune in the twitch watch me playing that It's another quarter million dollar tournament. So we got to go ahead and do our best We're playing really good football right now. Randall Cunningham has inspired the troops Feeling strong feeling good. I'm playing my man slim again is is Gamertag is PA counter go. I'm pretty sure you guys have watched me play him a bunch Slim is actually from Philly or like a little bit outside of Philly We played a lot in person at different tournaments or anything like that. He's a good player That's a little bit a little bit off meta compared to everybody else that you guys watch He's really tough to play against. He's different and that makes you know Tough for the play again. So for me the more reps you get against somebody the more, you know The tendencies everything like that and the one thing if you guys watch you have watched me play this guy a bunch of times He's gonna run play action a lot and he's got a scape artist one play action blocks every type of glitch Blitz I I swear it just has extra protection The running back is smarter on play action after you do the fakie blocks really well And it's just it's just I can't really blitz him then he has a scape artist on top of the play action So it's really tough to blitz him. So if you watch this game I try to play as real defense as I would play against a trips tight end play action guy And this is why this I'm just gonna rush three Keep a spy try to keep everything in front of me and try to not give up a big play and not let him Scrambled too much, but it's pretty much a rush three game all the way because I have conceded the fact I won't be able to get pressure on a scape artist and play action combo Until I need to boys, but like I said check me out live on Twitch It's been booming. We've had over 1200 people in there every single night watching me play Madden Let me know you're from YouTube and vice versa if you're from twitch And it's your first YouTube video comment below. What's your twitch? Are you guys in there? Also, man, check me out on Instagram Twitter the tiktok is going up all those links are below boys I appreciate your support. This is a big close for 30,000 subscribers. Can we get there before? 2022 we are about 800 subs away So if you guys are liking this content like in Madden, please hit the sub button, but check out this game is he I adjusted You're right. That's why that's why fighters fight because like when you take it out, you go get another dub You feel me? Come on LT.  Oh My god, bro, I need y'all to get some pressure dude.   Thank you, bro. Holy I tried to maw some bro that time the curl just way too The curl just way too close like why are you close now all last night? He would go to the back of the end zone now. He's right there get out of here, man.  It's just bagging my Like last night the same exact the same exact defense the curl is going to the back of the end zone So I'm like on the seven Maybe he'll go to the middle of the end zone. No, I mean, I still just do it right at his face Wow, he actually didn't have a dirty our flat right there. I'm not stressed I'm just mad that I'm just throwing picks inside the 10-yard line.  Yo, Nickerson.  It's like I want to figure out how to throw behind Flat zones that sit in the goal line. How do I throw behind them, dude? That's what I want to know how to do don't ask how I almost didn't see that But almost didn't I was looking like I understand that play. I like look left Initially, I gotta get some type of pressure here boys will be alright.  Dude, I would like what the why are we matching right now? Why?  Zone drops base or like I just said, bro. I can't get over this right now Where is my flat zone?  It's this is like it's Not be happening like this. Oh my god. Oh, it's just no way Let's go. How the like bro. He did like there's no way. He's that open I swear to God my zones are just getting glitched all over the world right now like they're getting just sucked at a little pause It's insane. How does he like bro? I'm telling you I swear to God I'm getting I'm getting hard body cheated to that right now hard body cheated right now, dude It's good play calling. It's good play calling. All right. Can we like cover some here boys? It's good day. That's good day. Come on. It's good day. That's good day. Come on. Oh my god Come on the one time. I don't leave a quarter over there. That's my fault. That's my fault.  I've been leaving a quarter over there all day, man And just that play Yo, my yellow zone is just matching he's on a five and he's just Matching and it's like bro. It makes no sense. It makes no sense boys If he doesn't if my yellow zone doesn't match we have great defense, but he's leaving out the middle of the field I have zone drops like why is my yellow zone matching? Sack, let's go man. Let's go man. That's good protection right there Like I said, I went right to left again I call honestly that sack was big because that was the only play he put out all his players I he put up like he was play action play action play action third and three I called the blitz got a sack for them. Thank you boys finally Ggs man Ggs son. I can't I keep throwing picks inside the 10 yard line, bro I just beat you.  Yeah, I see a couple four couple four. Yeah That was just a good call for overall. Maybe I got no stick. Maybe I just got no stick For overall, maybe I have no stick, but he never catches that unless I click on


This lesson is going to go through some details on how to work with vectors because that's going to help us analyse displacement, velocity and acceleration and also we'll be able to understand and add together forces acting on objects. The most natural setting to start with is locations in space and since I'm drawing on a screen here I'm going to work with a two dimensional space. Let's look at a map of ANU. Now like most maps this one is drawn with north facing up the page and there's a little scale bar showing me roughly how far 200 metres is on this picture. My office is over by the lake here and shows us on the other side of campus. So if I go visit Joe for a chat I take this fairly indirect path but my overall displacement is given by the vector drawn in red. So if I had a programmable drone I could set it to fly 1300 metres at a bearing of 30 degrees east of north and it would get pretty close to Joe's office. So the 1300 metres is the magnitude of this vector and the 30 degrees east of north is its direction. Let's call this vector A. We write it either with a squiggle underneath or some people write it with an arrow over the top.  Our usual places are closed for the summer break so we head all the way over to the music school. Let's call the displacement from Joe's office to the music school the vector B. Then the overall displacement from my office to the music school is the vector A plus B or the purple arrow here. When Joe heads back to his office he's going to undergo a displacement that is the same distance, same length but in the opposite direction to the vector B and we're going to write that as minus B. Now each of these vectors can be defined by a magnitude which is their length and a compass bearing which defines their direction. And then the addition of vectors defined this way proceeds in the very geometrical graphical way I just drew them by joining the vectors up so the start point of the second vector is placed at the end of the first vector. But this is kind of unwieldy if you have to do it over and over again so I'm going to explain a much more straightforward approach now and it's all based on setting up a square grid or what mathematicians call an orthogonal coordinate system. So here's a grid instead of the detailed map and I've set it up so one box is 100 meters and the grid lines are running north south east west. Now imagine my programmable drone is only allowed to fly along the grid lines then to get from my office to Joe's office it has to fly 11 squares north and 7 squares to the east. It doesn't matter what order it flies these eastern north steps there will always be the same number in each of those two orthogonal directions. So I can write A as 1100 meters to the north plus 700 meters to the east and what I'm really doing here is I've broken down the vector A into the sum of two smaller vectors and the important property of these two vectors is that they are at right angles to each other that's what orthogonal means. Now the vector B points south east so it has a negative displacement in the north direction let's say it's negative 620 meters north plus 480 meters east and then if we come down to the purple vector we can count out the squares and see it's 480 meters to the north and 1180 meters to the east. The really great thing about turning all our vectors into sums of two parts that run along the same grid lines is that we just have to add the north south numbers and then the east west numbers there's no tricky drawing or measuring lines and angles and so just to check here you can see that the north part of A plus the north part of B really does equal the north part of A plus B. 1100 minus 620 is 480 and the same works for the east components of the vectors. I just need to make a final word about notation here I've used the symbols N and E to mean vectors that point in the directions north and east respectively but with just a single unit of length each.


Welcome to the 2017 NCAA World Finals. I'm here with the winner of the $35,000 on pro, Brian Pierce, who rode Raid. Congratulations to you, Brian. Thanks very much. It's been a ton of fun. I'll tell you that. Tell us about the win, what it means to you. Well, it's kind of the culmination of a long year.  Just meeting a lot of great people and doing a lot of fun stuff, and of course that doesn't always add up to a big win, but in this case it did, so very happy for that. You may not know, my wife shows it as well, so being able to show with her is kind of icing on the cake. Now, you're from Canada. Does that mean you had a lot of time? I mean, it's a little bit harder because you've got to go that much further to go to the shows. How much time away from home did you have, and how do you juggle that? Right. Well, it's not that bad, actually. We're in the U.S. about six months of the year, and a lot of that we're showing, so we kind of take our time a little bit ahead of the show and after the show to either be in the Phoenix area where our trainer, Mike Wood, is, or just enjoy whatever show we're at from California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico. They're just awesome places to be and spend some time, so we tried to smell the roses along the way. Tell me, what are some of the highlights of the year that really stand out to you? Right. Well, it seems like every place we've been, every location there is a show, it's just been exceptional. We get to see a part of the U.S. we probably wouldn't have saw otherwise. Many are small towns like Ignacio, Colorado, but they put on such great shows, and then we make some side trips and go to Durango and check out some of the restaurants and places to see, so it's just been so fun doing that. And North America is such a great place to do some traveling in. It's so pretty. No state's the same, you know, even though there's some similarities. So, you know, we checked out some craft beer in a few places and things like that, so. Did you take time off work or could you do work on the road? I could probably do some work on the road, but I've got the good fortune of retiring a couple years ago. So now my wife and I can kind of, you know, jump in with both feet and do this essentially as much as we want to do. Okay, now you've got an interesting story because you're actually like a baby in terms of cutting experience and you've already won a world title, which is very impressive. Tell us about your journey and how long ago you started and you know how it's developed for you. Yeah, sure. Well, we back in Canada had bought a few cutting horses and at that time we didn't do a lot of showing. We did some cutting at the ranch and went to some club shows, things like that. And then, I guess as I saw that retirement was on the horizon, we knew we wanted to do this a little more. So we checked out Mike Wood in the Scottsdale area and we thought, you know, that's kind of a nice place in the world. It's warm, a lot of the months and like, you know, to be honest, where we're from. So we landed there and that's just been exceptional for us. Mike and Roper Curtis, you know, the management is so awesome, all the people we've met. And then I guess what comes with that is such awesome help at the barn, at the shows, in the ring. Tell us about your horse, Raid. Well, you know, I, to be honest, don't know a lot about his heritage and breeding, but he is just such a gentleman to work with. He's awesome. And I got the best horse in the world on my jacket, because it's tough to say. You've obviously got a real bond with this horse. He couldn't be better. Like, zero complaints. He's been healthy, strong. He's still a horse.  Exactly. Yeah. Well, congratulations. That's a great effort. Thanks very much.


This is a photograph taken over the pyramids and there's still huge energy coming out of the pyramids. Even the symmetrical patterns coming out of Stonehenge, although Stonehenge has been completely reconstructed, there's still very powerful symmetrical patterns coming out of Stonehenge. It tells us that its original structure is still, was very specifically created as a resonating device, an energy device. All this ancient stuff that we're dealing with, just like I said, these ancient machines are just advanced technology on a gigantic scale.