Good evening, I'm Peter Szaroszy and you are watching Drug Reporter Cafe, our online talk show in which we discuss interesting new developments in drug policy reform. Today, we will speak about the historic decision of the new German government to end cannabis prohibition and create a system of legal distribution of cannabis. We have a guest today, Gerhard Wurth, the chairman of the German Cannabis Association, who will explain us the details. Hello, Gerhard. Hi. So, last time we interviewed you on Drug Reporter, it was 2016, and you said that you have been working for cannabis reform for like 20 years, and you expected that you should not wait another 20 years to see cannabis legalized, and now we can see that it is happening. So, how do you feel? Yeah, great. I hope that's happening. I have experienced now that it's not a certain point, a certain day when it's all finished. It's a very big milestone that we have it in this contract of the coalition of the new government. But we had it also in Luxembourg, for example, and after three years, they said, well, we won't legalize, we just decriminalize home grow, which is also fine. But that's an example that it's not safe now, and then it's the right point to make this party, even the Bundestag, our main parliament, made the decision, or is it the right time when the second parliament of the areas, the local government, the federal parliament, also says yes to the new law, or is it when the president signed it? I don't know. So there is no certain day to make the big party. But still, it's great to be at this point now. And it's, for example, it's the first time since 25 years now that the government is not the problem and not the enemy we have to fight against. But the possible solution we have to work with that makes a completely different kind of working. And also the details we are facing now. That was my last date today with my team to discuss certain details, what is important for us in the coming discussions, what are the most important issues we want to bring into this discussion, and what is, well, also something we have to say something about, but it's not so important. You lose yourself in details at that point, which is also good. We are close to the goal. Yeah. Before going into the details of the new cannabis law or bill or whatever you will have, let's speak a bit about the current situation and what was the process that was leading to this day or to this reform. So as far as I know, you had initiatives to legalize cannabis before in the city level. Can you talk about those local initiatives? All right. Yes, that's something we have in Germany, but also in some neighboring countries. It's like building up pressure from the lower levels if the federal parliament is not ready for it. We have that in Switzerland with these model projects and several cities now on the way to be starting next year. We have the project in the Netherlands and some cities to produce for the coffee shops first time legally. And in Denmark, Copenhagen also already made four attempts to make such a project, a scientific project to give out cannabis legally and make research how it works and if it's good against the gangsters there. And Switzerland needed some time to get the permission from the government. They were faster than we were. No German city got this permission, but there were several attempts and tries. And in Denmark, four times no letting it through from the government. It's all pressure from below, like in the United States where one state after the other legalized cannabis, but not on the federal level. So that was the first movement to get majorities in parliaments. And when you started, you probably also a long, long ago, you started the fight. There was no majority in the parliament on the horizon. We were probably end of the 90s, 10% of the population for legalization. The Green Party was in the boat already that time. 2005, the Left Party came in, and I mean, 2018, it was the Liberals. And the Social Democrats had a very long way to the point to say, let's decriminalize people just a little fine, like a parking for small amounts and make more projects. So we had three and a half big parties in the parliament now and already a majority to decriminalize and to make these model projects. It was only the Christian Democrats who stopped the whole game, the whole show because they were in the coalition with the Social Democrats and could force them not to vote with the opposition. And that's why nothing happened already. And maybe that's also the reason why now we make a big step and not some small steps before. So I suppose that the country itself, because it's a big country with kind of like a divided political landscape. You have the Eastern Bundeslands, which are more socially conservative or the Southern Bayern. So do you expect some resistance from these more conservative parts of Germany when it will come to the effective debates and legalization of cannabis in the parliament? Yes, I do. I always started. Many of those conservative politicians from the area's presidents of Bundesländer already said, well, this is all a big failure and a threat and a risk for young people and so on, the usual stuff they tell all the time. But now they are not in power anymore on the federal level. But still, they are in the majority of the regional governments. And so they can stop the whole, the complete legalization probably in our second parliament, which is a big problem. It's not really completely 100% that they can stop it. I'm not really 100% sure. I'm no lawyer or something. But it seems to be clear that full legalization has to be, has to get also majority in the second parliament. But decriminalization probably not. And that's the thing we should anyway do first, which goes much faster than discussing all the details of a full blown regulation. So this is not bad for the timing. They could do it in a half a year or something without the second chamber. Then discuss two years and maybe in that time we convince the conservatives or we get rid of them in the governments with the next local elections. So the new federal government is called the Traffic Lights Coalition with the liberals, the social democrats and the greens. And these parties usually don't agree in all kind of social and economic issues or they have lots of differences. So do we see that these parties have also different visions about how to reform drug laws and especially how to regulate cannabis? Yes, there are differences. The social democrats didn't want legalization at all on the first and they just wanted to check it out with little small projects. And for me, the most important difference is home grow. The greens wanted the liberals don't and social democrats don't also. So this is not in the contract. We have still to fight for it. Probably that it's not in shows us that they discussed about it and didn't get an agreement about it. Same for traffic problems or drug license problems. We have very harsh regulations with one nanogram THC per milliliter blood zero. To look to the zero is something special in Germany. The others look to full blood. However, it makes it even more restrictive and one nanogram is still very low anyway. And because cannabis goes down in a flat curve at the end and not like alcohol straight down. Many people have those one or two or three nanograms sometimes days after consumption still in their blood and so they lose driver's licenses. Although they haven't been driving under the influence. That's a big problem in Germany for many consumers. It's a bigger problem than the whole law punishing small amounts. And so this is still a big issue for us to fight for. There's also some smaller differences or how you decide yourself if it's small or not. The liberals, for example, want also to allow genetically modified cannabis on the market and the Greens don't. Of course, these kind of details is not in the contract. We don't know any details. They probably themselves don't know any details. It's just written down. You want to legalize cannabis and sell it in licensed shops for adults. That's everything there is up to now and no further comment on it by anybody in the new government. That also means no pharmacies. What was the big discussion before? Letting they do the job, then do the job. That's good. I don't think that's a good idea to let pharmacists sell recreational drugs. But it also doesn't say special shops like the American dispensaries. What is our model? We would prefer. So maybe they are selling it in supermarkets. I don't know if they have a license. That's some of the odd things we have to discuss now. We don't really know if there is any bill or text, like a new text or any draft law in circulation among the political parties. The Green Party made such a draft in 2015 and brought it into the parliament. It was denied, of course. They were in the opposition. And in the last legislature period or how it's called, they put it again on the table and were unsuccessful. But it is the most detailed concept we have in Germany by far. It's about 70 pages and concrete paragraphs of laws, of several laws, tobacco tax law and driver's license law and drug law and lots of things and very, very many details. So that's a good blueprint to start with. Canada also watched it and made some very similar regulations.  But still, they won't just take that concept and hammer it through the parliament. They will start discussing it the whole thing over and over, I fear, or maybe it's necessary and it will take a while. I think it's two years or something, time to discuss. Like in the States, when the polls or when the people made this decision in these, how is it called, people's decision-making poll thing, then decriminalization goes fast immediately, more or less. People can carry something around and grow something, but the shops take two years around that more or less. And I think it's the same in Germany. The video you are watching now is produced by the Rights Reporter Foundation, a non-profit organization which is not supported by any governments or political parties. If you like this show, please support our work on our website, thedrugreporter.net. Make a donation today and become our supporting member. It makes a difference. Thank you. Are the civil society organizations involved in any way in these discussions, such as your association, so do you have a dialogue with political parties? I'm sure that will come, but it didn't start already. Last week, they installed a new government and voted for Mr. Scholz as our new chancellor. And then he said, well, here are my ministers and the rest of the year will be corona and Christmas. And then in January, we will see what happens. For example, we don't have a drug store on the federal level in the government and also the fractions of the parties in the parliament didn't decide for their drug policy speakers already. It all has to happen now and then they will start to discuss the details. You mentioned the Canadian legislation and that it is quite similar to the one proposed by the Greens back in 2015. But the Canadian model was also criticized a lot because the criticism said that it is too much over-regulating the market and it prefers the big companies over the small producers. So what do you think about those criticisms? And here, yeah, in all the details I was talking about, they are good parts of the law and they are bad parts. And the bad parts are not from the German Greens. For example, that advertisement is allowed. I'm not really sure if it is in Canada, do you know? In America, the States, there is an easy allowed and it's very commercial and millions of dollars spent for advertisement and I think that's a good idea. It's also no good idea for alcohol and tobacco and also not for any drug. And also the provinces in Canada had very much influence on how to deal with the issue. Many of them didn't have one single shop in the first one or two years and just allowed online selling of cannabis. And that's something we won't have here. It will be the same all over Germany. And that made the fact that it took a long time to push back the black market and they needed two and a half years or something after the first shops opened to have more than half of the market away from the black market and in regulated structures. Which still is a big success. In Germany, many of our enemies said that's a bad system and there is still a black market. That was no solution. But then I say every single percent away from the black market into regulation systems is good percent. And it's better than before. And so more than half and two and a half years, I think that's still not bad.  There are thousands of people selling cannabis making billions of dollars or euros in our country. Hundreds of tons of cannabis products on the market and they don't throw this all away. On the first day, legalization is in charge and the shops open. So which is very important is the level of taxes on cannabis. If it's too high, it's too expensive. The black market will still be there. If the price is OK, maybe even a little bit more than on the black market, but not too much, then people will love to accept that and prefer to go in a nice shop with a big variety of products and good people behind the bar who can tell the consumers something about several products. People who love that, I'm sure. I just read a report that said that there is an estimated like 4.6 million cannabis users in Germany and they consume like an estimated 500 tons of cannabis every year. And that's quite a big amount. So it will be a challenge to produce as much legal cannabis in Germany. So probably you will need some import cannabis from Canada or from other countries. How do you see that situation will be solved? That's something I'm telling journalists since many years. Don't forget the traditional countries producing cannabis when we come to the day to legalize. They have been forced by the Western industrialized countries, especially the United States, to forbid cannabis. On the whole world at the end was economical and military power, putting countries with legal sales on blacklists and don't support them anymore and so on. End of the 90s they had it done and the whole world was in the contracts to forbid a sample of diverse drugs and others not by whatever reason. And then it seemed like game over and now we see the whole system imploding. But we see also, especially those countries regulate first United States, that came from the whole problem and the whole prohibition and now they produce themselves and their own cannabis, make the money, get the money into the country and push off out the imports. In the States, it's from Mexico for example, or in Germany it would be Morocco mainly. And especially for the hush market, I must admit that changed a lot in Europe, but another issue. I think it's not a good idea now to only produce like an island every country on its own. But international trade would make necessary that there is an international law. Regulating this, I think it's not possible at the moment, or at least not legal, to sell recreational cannabis on an international level. As far as I know, even the United States, the single states are not allowed to trade between each other where it's legalized and so it's in the whole world and the traditional producers like Morocco and Nepal and Lebanon and so on don't have legal markets. I'm sure they will, if they are consumer land countries legalizing, they will follow and they will want to have a part of the cake and I would say give it to them. But until that point, we have to produce the whole amount ourselves. There is no other way up here and it's possible. I don't see a problem with this. You don't need hundreds of thousands of hectares to grow those amounts. So you already mentioned the international dimensions of this reform. And some people are now saying that maybe we would need a new international treaty on cannabis regulation replacing the single convention and the other UN conventions on narcotic drugs. So do you think that that can be possible after now that even more European countries are taking the lead in cannabis legalization? Good point. When I said before international trade is not possible, well also legalization in one single country is not possible in theory because it's a violation of these international treaties where our countries are part of. So is it more successful to try to change those contracts? I don't think so when I saw the last 20 years and attempts and tries to do that all the time and it takes five years until one proposal is discussed to the end and then it's just a very little outcome. We need it more than 20 years now to let the UN accept the medical possibilities of cannabis that was the decision from last year somewhere and I don't see on that speed so the United States have seen them taking cannabis out of the contracts in the next 20 years. So it seems to be more probably that those contracts will lose any meaning. Like for Canada they made it they showed us how it goes just ignored and that's it. The formal correct way we saw in Bolivia for coca leaves also thousands of years of tradition using it and they left the contracts and went in again with one single outtake or something I would call it and that's possible that's legally correct. And they said well we accept all the regulations but not for coca leaves and we come back into the contract. That's another possibility to to deal with the problem but we will get it done I think if Uruguay can do it well Germany should also. Yeah there is this long debate on whether it is a good idea to ignore international drug treaties because then you know some countries can just decide to ignore human rights treaties as well. And to make more treaties and so on right yeah it's a problem but on the other hand what should you do? Yeah but probably now that more countries more and more countries are deciding to reform their drug laws which is kind of outside of the already outside of the UN treaties because even if you say you know it's like okay it's a scientific experimentation which can somehow fit into the system but everybody knows that it is actually a violation of the treaties so maybe these countries can come together and do what you say what Bolivia said for example that resign the treaties in regard of cannabis and create one other treaty within these countries on regulatory rights. So I would prefer to take the Bolivian correct way instead of the Canadian we don't care way because well I also see that international treaties are important as a whole but if it's not possible to reform them in a time horizon that makes any sense then we must do it other on another way. So good luck for the United Nations to show some more uh flexibility. So finally I would like to ask you about about the future steps like what can we expect now is there any timeline we can see for the government or when can we expect any concrete proposal appearing? First of all don't be sure that anything happens until it happens. There are some threats that can destroy the whole plan like we've seen in Luxembourg it could for example it could be that this new coalition just takes for one year or something and then they have a big fight and discussion and whatever and the whole thing explodes and we have new elections like in Italy I don't know every year something in average could also be the new reality for Germany it's the first three-party government since the 50s or something until then it was also only two-party governments which is more stable at the end. So this is a problem we have those conservatives in the area governments who could stop the show at least for the full legalization so we'll see and my bet is for the timetable fast decriminalization next year and regulation law if it's good end of 23 and shops opening I hope before the end of the election term in four years that would be I hope that's not later because then the government again could turn it all backwards. Okay thank you I hope that when we will speak next time we will already have the opportunity of speaking about the about the system how it will look like in reality and how the retail shops will be organized and things like that so thank you thank you Gawork so much for being with us today and I wish you luck with your work. Thank you and good luck for the rest of the world to get there too. Bye bye.


Hi there, welcome to step one of the walk cycle tutorial. So the first thing that we need to do in this step is get hold of the rig that we're using. So the rig that I've just shown you in the example is this happy guy and he is called ultimate walker and I will show you where he lives on the internet. So if we go to this website here, so this is cgmeetup.net and I'll put the exact link in the video description but you can see on this page which was written by a Jason so I'm going to assume that Jason is the guy that created these rigs and their ace. You can see he's got loads of different character rigs here that are really good for loading animation. And if scroll down a little bit you'll find ultimate walker and it tells you what his features are and the all important thing is this download button here. So make sure you download it which I have already done. So if you have a look here I have downloaded walker so we'll just open that up. Okay so this is what it looks like once you get him open with no animation on him or anything. So here he is, handsome chap so he's quite a simplified rig. He hasn't got arms or a head, he doesn't need them because he's just we're just learning the kind of mechanics of getting the legs animated in this video. So that's that's kind of all we need. Okay so in addition to the rig that we've got we also need some reference stuff. So if we go back out to the internet, high internet and I'm going to be looking for some video reference first of all and I'm going to be using 3d.sk who have kindly agreed to sponsor this tutorial so thank you very much for that and it's just as well really because I'm using their video reference.  So to do that I'm going to go in here now the first thing I'm going to change is a clothes type because you see there's a nude thing here and if I was to leave that as anything there would be so so much nudity. So we'll just go for casual clothes I think in this instance. We're going to have a look in the video section and I want walking video and I'm also going to change the search for two videos here and then when I click on search here we go and I actually want to use this first one so she's just going to walk across I think and there's also one where she walks forward as well. So we'll just go for this first one here make sure it opens up alright and this is what I want it to be. Yeah so that's just kind of showing how she walks like that. So I'd highly recommend doing that because what I've done is I've broken this down a little bit so if we have a look here I've actually taken the video and I've broken it down into the poses and you can see I've also assigned some frame numbers to them which I'll talk about how I did that shortly. But you can see we've got each of the poses so this one here is the first contact pose. The good thing about kind of getting video reference when you break it down is you can see all the different things that change so I think if it's the first time you've done a walk cycle you'd maybe fall into the trap of thinking it's just the legs that you need to move which is not the case you actually need to be moving more than that and you see in this example here if we look at where the hip is over here um in fact that's just um yeah you can see it's more this this bit here and this bit you can see that this is kind of facing forward whereas over here that bit of the hip has gone. So the actual hips are rotating as well which is something that you really need to look at. As well as that you can kind of get a feel for what the shape of the kind of legs is in each frame so you can see that one like that is not quite the feet are up in the air so that's worth looking at and on this one here we can kind of get up from the hips and we can see there's a bend but the toes are lifting so we're going to get that kind of that shape there where there's still something in contact with the floor so breaking these down and having a look kind of what's happening on on each frame is a really good way to do things and I would highly recommend going to somewhere like 3d.sk for their reference video or filming yourself doing the movements that you're looking at because your animation will be a lot stronger because you've taken the time to do that. This is what it looks like from the side if we have a look at the front as well we can also see some important stuff so we saw that the hips are kind of rotating backwards and forwards but they also rotate up and down so if we look here so she's got her right leg down and this leg is contacting but you can see the hips are kind of going down in that direction and then when she swapped legs so once this one here is the one that's forward you can see that the hips the rotation of them has changed so when we're animating this we also need to be aware of this and put some rotation into the hips and here although it's not perfectly straight it kind of should be so you can see that the rotation of the hips is happening all the way through and that's something that we need to get into the animation as well that is what this video reference can be really critical for for really getting that understanding of what's happening so in addition to that you can see here i've got these frame numbers and these are very specific frame numbers we're going to be animating this on 12s which is animation speak for the kind of speed that we're going to be doing so that's two steps per second so we're going to have left foot forward right foot forward and that's going to happen in one second and where i've got these frame timings from is from a book would you believe so i want to show you this book because it's ace this one here there you go can you see it there it is this is called the animators survival kit and if there was a bible for animation it would be this it is so good and i will try and show you what i'll do is think i'll overlay some video over this section so you can see what i'm looking at but you've got the different poses here have been laid out but more importantly on the other page the frame timings are there so you can see that the first contact has been put on frame one and the last contact is put on frame 13 and that's for one step so we know that we are going to double that so that we can have two steps it shows you where the passing pose should be and where the up and down pose should be and this book is phenomenal so what i'm going to do is i'm going to link to this book because if you want to be an animator you should own this book it should be with you at all times to give you an idea of kind of the depth that it goes into there's about a hundred pages covering walk cycles it then moves on to runs and stuff like that so it's ridiculously good for the fundamentals so i'll put a link below to somewhere that you can buy the book probably amazon and if i can figure it out it it might be a referable link so i might get a kickback if i can work out i'd set that up but i should probably state that now just in case i do get that set up yeah check this book out this is where i'm getting the timings from for this walk cycle so i'm using a lot of a lot of reference material to get this this working so i've got video reference i'm also looking at the animation guide in this book i'm getting frame timings and it's all going to come together in the next step when we start putting the contact poses in with that said the next thing that we need to look at let's go back into maya we just want to get maya set up for creating this animation so the first thing i'm going to do is kind of change my workspace so up in the top corner we're set to maya classic which is great for most things but i want a little bit more on screen i'm just going to kind of change the layout so i'm going to drop this down and go to animation which is the one at the bottom and you'll see this changes a few things now we've got um this is a a graph editor down the bottom which is really going and we'll use the graph editor later on and we've also got this here but i don't want this so i'm going to tap space bar and it should put me into the four view which it does that's exactly what i want and then i'm going to pull this down because i only want two of you so i've got my perspective you over here and this is the top view which is not actually what i want so i'm just going to change this panel to orthographic side and this is the view i want so i'm just going to zoom in a little bit on this because i'll do most of the animation in the orthographic views so this is what i want to see here is just kind of for preview purposes but this this one here is the important view okay so i've got that set up the next thing i want to do is go into the the settings so let's click on this little chap down here i love this guy looks like he's being attacked by a cog oh he's chasing me no uh so here he is uh right so i'm just going to change that to start at one like that and um we also want to make sure that the playback speed is on real time 24 frames per second like that so that's what i'm going for so we'll leave that one there i also want to change something else i'm going to go to the animation settings here and we're looking at the default in and out tangent and what tangents are are the shape of your animation curves and we'll cover this a little bit later so at the moment they're set to auto i don't like leaving it auto because then i feel like i'm not in control so i'm going to change this to being spline which i'm quite comfortable with i may well change them away from being spline when i'm making the tweaks later but i'm going to have them at spline now because i'm comfortable so we'll click on save okay so that's basically my set up for this animation uh there's one more thing we need to do so i'm starting at frame one but i need to end at frame 25 so i'm just going to tap 25 in this box and press enter yay so we're going from one to 25 which will allow me to put in the timings um that i just kind of showed you okay so before we can actually get any animation done we're going to turn on one last thing this is called uh auto key and it's amazing so it lives here this little icon just here there you go auto keyframe toggle we click on that you see it stays on and what this does on frame one in the next step we're going to set keys on everything so all the controllers um and then whenever we move onto another frame and change anything what will happen is it will automatically drop a keyframe on their forearms which is a ridiculously good time saver it can also keep your your graphs a little bit neater as well so we need to have that on right we're now ready to move on to the next step and start doing some animation so the next step we're going to set up the first contact pose which will be on frame one um so make sure that you've got all your settings like i've got check out the animated survival kit and also have a look at 3d.sk for some reference stuff and i will see you in the next step where we'll get the first pose put together


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Hey everybody, it's Brett, and today I am super excited to go over this brand new 2024 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. So this is not only the new 2024 it's the mid-model refresh that they have done and this is also the new color for 2024, but it's PDS and I'm really excited to go over this a lot of people been talking about this This one has some of the new features that everybody's been talking about and I just wanted to go over this one in Particular I'm also going to be doing a comparison video side-by-side the 2023 and 2024 Wrangler if you want to check out that video that's going to be in the description below once that video is all done Don't have it done yet, but I'm going to be doing one Definitely check out the description for that starting off. They have redone the grille on these wranglers you can see it's a little bit more rectangular still have the seven slots of course and It's got a really good look to it And that's really the main thing that they did on the front end of these vehicles is they just made that grille a little bit I think wider and Narrower, so we'll see once they're side-by-side with the 2023 and we can really compare them Accurately, but anyways you can see this one has the LED light group. This is a Sahara You get the LED fog lamps LED headlamps LED running lights and the LED running lights in the fenders This one also has the color match fenders standard on the Sahara is the color match fenders You'll see that they have new wheels for 2024 on the Sahara's and you also have a new newly designed center cap So that's pretty cool. They still come with Bridgestone dual or 255 70 r 18s and One thing to really note one of the biggest changes is if you look here, there's no more antenna They have now put the antenna in the windshield. That's what this kind of gold yellow line is that's part of the antenna and So no more antennas on the side.  So really cool They still have the t50 on the door hinges And the videos that we did for taking those doors off are still applicable as well as the hardtop videos Take a look at the original window stickers so you can get all the options and pricing on this one You can see it is a 2024 Wrangler four-door Sahara Anvil is the color black interior I think it looks more gray, but anyways two liter turbo. This one is the two liter turbo with the 8 speed auto 270 horsepower Everything on your left is your standard equipment and the one thing that you'll notice right away is this you connect 512.3 inch radio that is new for 2024 and we're going to check that out in just a minute. So definitely stay tuned There's only about three minutes away here, so As you can see everything is standard on the exterior here including the LED headlights tail lamps and fog lights Optional equipment starts right here with the anvil clear coat, which is 595 Which I believe is an $100 increase from all the colors from last year Which used to be 495 technology group is 2295 gives you the alpine premium sound HD radio GPS nav Connected trail and traffic services. That's one of the biggest things on the new Wranglers that everybody's talking about is the travel and traffic services And they're talking about trails and stuff that you could Look at on those radios So big thing there you connect five with the 12.3 inch radio Integrated voice command and integrated off-road camera is a part of that technology group to safety group Gives you blind spot automatic high beam and park sense, which is 1295 and the body colored hardtop is 1695 I don't think there's a change in price on that the 18 inch wheels are 1095 bucks total MSRP is 56 595 to get your summit price with all the rebates and incentives on this Particular Wrangler in the upper right hand part of screen is a link to our website to this vehicle So you can check out all the pricing there also linked in the description below three year 36 bumper to bumper and five year 60 powertrain So 20 miles per gallon is the average MPT MPG City and highway are both 20 So that's a easy one to figure out and this one's not rated for safety radians yet. So coming around to the back We'll get to the interior in just a second because that's really the biggest thing Everything's the same the hard tops the same the rear bumpers the same backup cameras all the same LED tail lamps are all the same back here has not changed at all They had still have the Alpine subwoofer on the side there This is your bag for your front hard top pieces You still get the storage area back here and all the holders for the roof door and windshield bolts Speaking of the bolts on the hard top you get three on the left side one on top and same thing on the right side So eight bolts you take all those out. There's two quick disconnects. They haven't changed that at all So Or have they They might have changed it just a little bit It's a little different as far as here I don't know if there's a place in here that you can put all those cords now They used to have some plugins where you could put them That has changed. So anyways, maybe the old Wrangler hard top video is not applicable applicable anymore We'll have to check that out seven slotted Seven slots on the back gate here. You also get a jail badge right there and Everything still works the same back here door shuts nice and easily get the black fuel door Yeah, I really haven't seen anything else on the outside that's new Everything looks to be the same up top As far as how that hard top is put together has the heated power mirrors blind spot monitoring entering go system Now the new thing on the interior is that some of these are going to be coming with power seats This one has not come with does not come with power seats. This is still the old style of seat But you can see it's actually a dark charcoal and it's got like kind of yellow stitching in it You get the black Sahara stitching on the backrest But these seats do appear to be a new material for this year auto headlamps Power locks power mirrors the other thing will hop inside real quick here. The other thing I noticed right away is The dash is kind of a cloth or it is a cloth finished to it They did have leather on the Sahara's and I now I noticed that they have this one as cloth You also get this gold trim along with the gold stitching you get the gold stitching on the leather wrap steering wheel They haven't changed anything on the steering wheel This one does have the adaptive cruise and normal cruise Bluetooth and information center controls audio controls on the back It has the seven inch LCD display that hasn't changed Not sure if that little part of the screen was ever there it might have been Once again, once we get the actual side-by-side going we'll be able to look at that better so you get the digital spinometer there everything is exactly the same and Yeah, so the biggest thing on the Wrangler is the 12.3 inch touch screen radio and you can see it is very wide They had to kind of redo the dash a little bit. I think the vents are a little bit smaller because of the wider radio normally the 8-4 I believe came all the way down and I don't think these vents were here anyways, so this is the factory navigation. This is run on Uconnect 5, which is run off of Android So really a cool radio Everything is just like the 12 inch radio that Jeep offers Except it's wider. So it's just a little bit different layout Everything is your climate controls are here your heated seats heated steering wheel You know your vehicle controls so you can check out the forward-facing camera here and It's not it doesn't go all the way across to give you this Jeep logo to kind of Make it look like it's not Goofy so you do get the front-facing camera those grid lines are dynamic meaning that they change as you turn that steering wheel Kind of show you where you're gonna be going and then the backup camera. They still made all these HD So they're nice and crystal clear I think the top of the dash is a little bit different you get two kind of storage areas right there Center piece there as well and as far as apps go This one has the media you have your comfort your nav of your phone Vehicle Off-road pages I'm wondering if we go into the off-road pages. That's all the same stuff So a steering angle transfer case latitude longitude altitude accessory gauges Your front-facing camera and your pitch and roll So there's nothing else Extra there if you go into the system all that stuff So not really a lot different on the radio other than it's 12.3 inches wide, which Is obviously the new thing you can see the cloth bolster on the dash as well Down here. Everything's the same on your controls Heated seats volume tune push buttons start eight speed auto Nothing's new there. The key fob has not changed. Those are still the flipper keys Which I really like this one has remote start your media center still has an AUG's USB and USB C so nothing has changed there and Up here you get an auto dimming mirror Home link buttons assistant SOS. I don't think anything's changed up there. You get these seven little slots up there so that's kind of neat and Looks like the front hardtop pieces still all come off exactly the same The only thing with the hardtop I think is where that quick disconnect is going to be stored So that's really the biggest thing. This one also has the gorilla glass on it So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn on all the lights and then we're gonna do a final walk around here with the Lights off in the picture studio just so you can see how nice and bright they are I've been doing this on the Wranglers. I've gotten a pretty good feedback on it. So I'm gonna pause the camera. We're gonna turn all the lights off so you can see just how nice and bright all those lights are All right, so you can see just how nice and bright all the lights are they are Extremely bright. Everything is LED in the front Even the corner markers here are LEDs and the big thing is that You can everything is very well lit up And I'm hoping if Jeep is listening that they make the LED lights standard on the Wrangler I don't even know why you make it an option. They should just be standard for safety reasons and just for Building these things make just make them standard because everybody likes them everybody wants them and If they don't have them, they're gonna do it aftermarket anyways, so Just make them all LEDs is my opinion on the whole deal. Anyways, so really good-looking taillights I'll look really good as well and we'll turn all lights on here and finish this video up I just wanted to personally thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully From watching this video, you learn a little bit about the new 2024 Jeep Wrangler Actually, I got one more thing to show you just remembered it. So while I was looking around and I have to go to our Comparison video, but if you look up here and look right there these Pads now say airbags, so I'm wondering if those are side curtain airbit Well, I'm no other side turn airbags, but I think those are new for the 2024 as well so a little bit of safety Upgrade on this Wrangler everything looks to be the same back here as far as how the seats are they go down the same as well and Yeah, nothing has changed back here. There are airbags on those as well So maybe a little bit of a safety increase on the Wranglers 2024 in addition to the new radio the new grill the new windshield the delete of the antenna the new wheel center caps and Hopefully they've made the LED lights standard. Don't know yet, but thanks for checking out the video And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 550 new news cars trucks Seves mini vans Wranglers you name it. 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Semel palsy is a kind of muscular disorder where if you make a child to sit, he won't have any muscular strength, he'll just collapse. So if you make a child to stand, he'll just collapse. So by doing some kind of a developmental aid, which will be acting like an exoskeleton for the child, he'll be able to at least sit or stand for a prolonged time, which will on eventually a prolonged usage will give some kind of muscular strength or at least curb the further degradation of the child's physical status. The motivation for our entire initiative to make this product is basically when I went for Omel to India, a very good NGO, what happened was I saw a small child. She is about say four, five years old and when she was two years old, she met with an accident due to which she lost her entire right limb and her parents, both her parents died on the spot in the accident. So I just got to meet her and just casually spoke to her and then she told me a statement which tricked me a lot and that's why I took up the initiative of delimiting this entire development device. So the reply what she gave was basically, when I go back home, I feel like I'm a handicapped, but when I stay here in Mobility India, the NGO, I see so many other people like me. I feel I'm normal. You can see this device, which is a developmental aid for civil palsy. So you have a structure over here, which is basically in form of a cartoon, in the form of a giraffe, because this child who's going to use this device is going to stay in this device for at least two, three hours at a stretch. So we wanted this device to be more inviting and encouraging for the child to use it. So instead of having a very monotonous block, we just sort of making some kind of an aesthetics to it. So we came up with this idea of having a cartoonish figure. So coming to the actual USP or the novelty of this device, what it does is basically it can act as a standing frame and a sitting device also. So currently in the market, if you see, there's always two devices, one for sitting and one for standing, which means it's double the cost. Every parent who has a child as a civil palsy patient needs to buy both these devices, one for standing and for sitting, which means it's double the cost, double the space occupied in the houses. So that's why we made this device, which has this USP of doing both the things, of standing and sitting in the same single device. So we have what is called as a platform over here, which has like a seat, it's actually a mobile seat. So when the seat is upright, it's actually for like a chair for the child to sit. When you make it as a standing pan, it becomes a pocket for the child to stand. So basically the same device can be used for both sitting and standing. And one more big novelty of our device is it grows as a child grows. So basically we have multiple adjustable features like the hip width can be adjusted in the same device and the foot width can be adjusted to different levels and the backrests also can be adjusted to the different levels.  So the same device can be used as it's growing for like three years. So you have to make it as affordable as possible for the entire public domain.


Hello, October 13th, 1775, marks the establishment of our U.S. Navy. Over 250 years ago, our Continental Congress hotly debated for 11 days over its establishment. And when the dust settled, they voted to fit out two sailing vessels. Our founding leaders directed us well, but it has really been our sailors, on whom the foundation of the world's greatest Navy was built, who have been the ones that stood the watch and who have been the shield for our Republic. And it has been their presence forward deployed 24-7, 365 days a year that has safeguarded our maritime approaches and ensured our economic prosperity. This year, we celebrate Victory at Sea. Victory at Sea was seen 20 years ago when the USS Cole was attacked. We remember those 17 sailors lost and honor their shipmates who heroically saved lives and saved their ship. Those sailors left us a legacy of what warfighters must do in the face of adversity, persevere, fight, and win. In addition to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and those who heroically fought for their shipmates and ship, many more sailors have set an example of what unwavering commitment to excellence looks like. Diverse views and perspectives are an enabler for our sailors to achieve Victory at Sea. sailors who can do the right thing, carry out the right actions, and be able to inspire their shipmates to do the same. Sailors who strengthen our trust and improve our performance throughout all we do. Collectively, we must continuously work to ensure that all members of our joint community can count on the respect and support of co-workers and supervisors and have an equal chance to be recognized and succeed in our workplace. I'd like to give a very special thank you to our personnel who coordinated a series of events to include bell ringing, cake cutting, historical presentations, videos, and PT events. Thank you for keeping this tradition alive, fun, and for finding so many ways to remind us of our Navy heritage. Happy birthday, United States Navy. And now, another of our great traditions, the bell ringing ceremony. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the U.S. Naval War College's celebration of the 245th birthday of the United States Navy. Our national anthem will now be performed by Navy Band Northeast. Today, the Navy's birthday celebration encompasses the traditions of honor, courage, and commitment. The value of being second to none, and the sailors who are the very foundation upon which we've built the world's greatest Navy. As directed from the bell ringing ceremony, the bell will strike nine times at 0900 local to commemorate the 245th birthday of the United States Navy. Eight bells used to signal the end of the watch represents the end of the current birthday year. As we celebrate our Navy's 245th birthday, our history and heritage forms our identity, telling us who we are and what we stand for. Our core values of honor, courage, and commitment have been passed down from our founders who charged the Navy with the solemn duty to serve as the shield of our Republic. The first real test our identity faced was during the War of 1812. This war began at sea when United States ships were ordered to heave to upon the high seas and U.S. citizens were forcefully taken or impressed into the crews of other nations ships. The great battles that followed proved the fighting metal of our sailors and the cutting edge of our ship designs. These battles established both free trade and free navigation as critical national interests of our country, interests that endure to this day. The warrior characteristics of cutting and boldness exhibited in 1812 inspire our sailors of today's Navy as they continue to serve around the world. The War of 1812 served as a critical turning point for our Navy. On this 245th birthday of our Navy, we have the honor to serve in the greatest Maritime fighting force the world has ever seen, but we do so with humility, continuing to build upon the framework of those fighting sailors forged before us. Our Navy teaches us that with great power comes great responsibility. From the great captains and crews who fought Singleship actions in 1812, to the commerce raiders of the Civil War, from the convoys of World War I, to the major fleet actions at Coral Sea and Midway, from the blockade of Cuba in October of 1962, to the rivering operations on the Tigris and the Euphrates. Our Navy has boldly and proudly put our shoulder to a wheel. We have championed peace and we continue to shield the Republic. Years to 245 years of proud naval heritage and many more. The single bell traditionally used to signal the start of a new watch represents the start of a new year, our 246th. We will now turn it back over to the president of the US Naval War College, Rear Admiral Shashana Chatfield, for our cake cutting ceremony. Cake cutting ceremonies have become an important part and one of my favorite parts of our Navy culture. By tradition, the first piece of cake is presented to the oldest sailor present, signifying the honor and respect accorded to experience and seniority. Our oldest sailor present is Captain John Jackson, United States Navy retired, who first joined the Navy in 1969. He was commissioned in June of 1971 and continued on active duty until 1998. He has served at the Naval War College since 1996. He was born in February of 1949. Symbolically, the eldest sailor present passes a piece of cake to the youngest sailor present. Just as for years, our experienced sailors have nurtured and led young sailors who will fill our ranks and renew our Navy. The youngest sailor present this afternoon is BM2 Alan Clemson. He was born November 1995 and enlisted in the Navy on 10 March 2015. It is customary and Navy birthday celebrations worldwide to cut a traditional cake in celebration of the birth of our Navy. The birthday cake is traditionally cut with a sword as a reminder that we are a band of warriors committed to carrying arms so that our nation may live in peace. That cake looks delicious and I wish you were all here to enjoy it and celebrate with me 245 years of U.S. Naval power. Now please direct your attention to our U.S. Navy leaders for a few reflective thoughts. To our sailors, civilians, and proud Navy families, happy 245th birthday. Through your service and excellence each of you forges the next link in our chain. Extending from the days of our Navy's birth during the American Revolution to many challenges we face around the world today. 75 years ago our Navy achieved a great and unprecedented victory at sea in the Pacific. The conflict that began right here at Pearl Harbor was secured in victory through the determination and skill of every sailor who stepped forward to defend our nation in its hour of need. It took all hands to achieve such a hard fought victory that was never fully assured. Those who went before us took to the sea. The skies and the depths of the oceans in order to preserve our nation for us and succeeding generations. They served through adversity far from home with some never returning. Their lasting memorial is the world they created. The world that you now stand to protect and your service to our nation. I am honored to stand with you in that mission. Thank you for all that you and your families do for our Navy and our country and on behalf of the American people bravo Zulu to each of you. Happy birthday Navy. Shipmates, C&O Gilday here with my wife Linda. This year we're celebrating the Navy's 245th birthday virtually around the world together. Although this year's birthday celebration may be a bit different than in years past we can all be so proud of two and a half centuries of tradition and the men and women who continue to build our Navy's legacy along with honoring those family members and loved ones who stand beside them each and every day. Today sailor stand the watch from the Western Atlantic to the South China Sea and from the high north to the South Pacific. Your Navy enables prosperity 24 7365 at home and abroad by helping keep the maritime commons open and free and I promise you that our allies and our partners as well as our fellow Americans all sleep better because you are out there. Our birthday is an important occasion because we celebrate our rich past toaster shipmates accomplishments today and also look forward to our Navy's very bright future ahead. The Navy needs you to be the best that you can be, to serve others, to be courageous and to never forget that America has a great Navy. Happy 245th birthday Navy family. See you in the fleet shipmates.


From Hollywood the CBS radio workshop Funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio. I met a woman who sleeps with cats a woman who sleeps with cat Yeah, Mrs. Cat CBS radio presents the CBS radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination the theater of the mind This afternoon the workshop examines another little understood aspect of man's behavior humor in colloquy for the Joe Miller joke book Produced in Hollywood by William N. Robson and conducted by dr. Frank C. Baxter professor of English literature at the University of Southern, California Dr. Baxter if you fear that your radio is receiving two programs Simultaneously here one of very old jokes and the other a talk on literature then don't touch the dial Believe me. This is all one program Now my own interest in the ancient wheeze is a scholarly one Stepping from the fact that jokes have always had a very real part in literature at least as long as we have the spoken word Moreover, there's always been a heartening feeling of immediacy about jokes not only because so many are topical But because in one way or another we all use jokes with gratifying Regularity some of us tell a joke to fortify a point we wish to make to entertain To enhance ourselves thus in the opinion of others or perhaps we tell them for the Laudatory purpose of relieving the tedium of some dull occasion Now I can best show you what I mean by Bringing you a few examples perhaps of a classic joke a classic teller and a typical occasion Let's start with a man who's almost a semi-pro in the field the after-dinner speaker Friends and put away your watches. I'm not going to talk for an hour In fact, the brevity of my remarks reminds me of what Abe Lincoln once said when his tailor suggested Maybe Lincoln's legs were too long. No Sam the president said I reckon they're just long enough They reached the ground don't they? And all of us have met this next fellow the self-appointed life of the party hey You heard the latest story about the farmer's daughter. Well the farmer did and now she can never darken his door again Even learned men with professional degrees use jokes tellingly that's for example now the glib and successful trial lawyer Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I assure you I'm implying no criticism of my worthy opponent who found it necessary to Addest you for two hours and a half But he did put me in mind of an old farmer. They say Andrew Jackson came across one day It seems the farmer was feeding his new one piece of straw at a time neighbor Oh Hickory finally said feeding your mule that way. Isn't that going to take a long time?  I Let's not overlook the determinedly cheerful wife who feels she has to greet her husband Gailey when he returns Magruling day at the office.    They're much older Every one of those jokes in one form or another was already old before joe miller was born Professor professor are you trying to tell us that there actually was a joe miller? Yes Although the records are unclear as to the year of his birth We do know that he died in london in 1738 I get it joe miller lived.  You know, I think joe miller's still alive and he found my payroll as a writer under an assumed name He's my brother-in-law Dr. Baxter you made some pretty fantastic allegations. Are you able to prove any part of them? Well, yes counselor It happens that I have with me several monographs written by joe miller's own contemporaries in a court of law doctor That would be inadmissible as evidence. It's hearsay out and out hearsay However, since you claim he's dead acceptable proof would be the corpus itself. Oh, that's pretty ridiculous, isn't it even for a lawyer It isn't quite as impossible as it might at first seen Oh, now what sort of mumbo jumbo is that either you can produce joe miller or you cannot You know, I don't see why I shouldn't try to produce him in this bridey murphy age of supersonic animation Automation mechanical brains technology more baffling than merlin Even though I do not pretend myself to be a pure scientist merely a sometimes student This cause is a worthy one and the end of I succeed in materializing joe miller merits the means The means are never very far away these days Now here beside me. I just happened to have a mammoth mechanical brain I insert this punch card in it I depress button a so I throw the switch mark go go go And behold we get Yes, joe. We read you five by five. This is dr. Frank Baxter of the university of southern california. Ah, yes, dr Is there some service i'm able to perform for you some forgotten speech of will shake steels or ben johnson for chance No, joe not today, but right now i'd like you to drop down here It is down, isn't it joe Good well, then would you drop down for a few moments? Provide the answers to the questions I have for you Well, now let's see let me focus Yes, now go past that first thunder head on the left Turn sharp at that fluffy gathering of cumulus and then slide down the slightly tarnished rainbow Straight ahead. Ah, yes, friend Baxter. I see it now Roger wilco and out And which of you chances to be the usher in literature dr. Baxter. I'm the dominio I want you to know how much I appreciate this cooperation of yours least I can do for a fellow student and player Now how may I serve you? Would you just tell my friends here who you are what you were what connections of any you had with that famous book Entitled joe miller's jests. Oh joe miller's jests The pucks on it and the fulsome knaves who poisted it upon a half-witted world I bite my thumb at them, sir. We'll stipulate the pucks miller, but let's get to the testimony The professor here alleges you never wrote a joke. I sir and or never spoke one You see good friends. I was a leading tragedian in london theaters and a splendid one if I say so myself Which I gladly do I was a leading tragedian and not a comic clown At the time in london we had a self-styled critic of the drama a suet head one john motley The motley was an obituary of a tavern I frequented which was the gathering place for all the mounty banks and roisterers From the theaters royal of covent garden and drury lane John gay he who wrote the beggars opera among other things Mr. Professor lacy all of them the actors the writers of midday This was that famous public house on portsmouth street. Hi friend domini Well to get on this this nave this motley had a good thing going for him which profited him much Although it was equally a brim with chicane. Are you mean he had a racket? He invented the rackets this violet Would enact her by motley all the ale and sack he could hold Motley in turn would publish glowing notices on the player's performances A trap into which I would not fall good for you, mr. Meller. No, I mean thanks madam And here perhaps it is best I explained that my chiefest misfortune was the maid I had wed my wife Come lay but a complete shrew So perhaps you can understand that after an evening's performance I would repair to the tavern Spurning motley and his noisome companions and sit alone at the table the boniface reserved for me exclusively Dreading the hour when I must return to me home And de miller so all right already then what happened well after my concentrate buffs To buy his good opinion Motley became so enraged he determined he would shame me a ruin me reputed the leading perjudian so One day when he came upon an ancient jest so creaky of the joint it was repulsive He determined his chance to destroy me had come He waited until every Friends imbibers and countrymen lend me your ears I have a jest to tell you a rib tickler just told me about that ever popular tragedian none other than Joe miller Here's the jaypers miller told it to me A man asked his neighbor but late married to a widow how he agreed with his wife Marvelous well the neighbor replied when I am married she is married when I am sad She is sad but when I go out I am married to go from her and when I return she is sad to see me Thus instead of being greeted with groans and catcalls Motley was filled with amaze to find he had evoked gales of legs slapping laughter Bitter and baffled he managed to get aside john gay And beseeched him to explain this unexpected outburst of mirth holding his side gay manny Oh friend motley don't you see it isn't a horrid jest What makes it comical is that a vinegar visits like that hand-packed miller should tell it I motley that's what makes it funny joe miller telling any joke And there I was hoist by motley's own bitter They didn't blame you for the bad joke mr. Miller they mad them to the contrary They found that to ascribe adjust to me was better insurance than had it been written by Lloyd's coffee house So from that night on all ancient jakes told in the city were laid at my door But motley at first deflated finally reeked his revenge on me. How did he do that show? So identified that I'd become with jests and jives that my very presence in a play would set an audience to convulsions And since I was a trotidian soon no theatrical manager in london would give me employees I died not too long after a broken man Well granting all that you still haven't explained that book bearing your name. Hi I come now to that sit up upon my demise one thuddeus reed a shrewd publisher of folios Sort out motley and proposed he collects the deadliest of the jokes being told and published them as Joe miller's Motley refused to have anything to do with the publication which might perpetuate my name until Retempted him with visions of heady profits motley lend dear to me. There is a fortune in the book of jests I would not be associated with joe miller that's neary is Unfriendly uncounted not for say A hundred now for a thousand pounds. Yeah How much friendry From a book of jokes, I know not except the rewards are limitless Recall you myles covey dales bible published in 1535 Covey dales obtained the funds to publish the bible by issuing a collection of jokes nine years earlier The one eclips a hundred married tales and a century ago in 1630 the court jester archie armstorm Published his book and both volumes still are in good demand at the store Mill john will you join me in this enterprise? I but on one condition all under knows of my distaste for joe miller And I do not wish to be made a laughingstock I shall set down these jokes, but not under my own name We shall create a pseudonym for the acknowledged editor excellent john And there you have the entire Sordid story of joe miller's guests or the wits barimicum Edited by elijah jenkins s squad published by t reed anodomini 1739 Now joe that was a story well told indeed. Thank you dr. Baxter one and all And now my duty has been discharged. I must be going for sooth. How far sooth are you going joe? Ha ha ha Plague on you sir a pox and a plague on all hollow heads who practice what never did I preach? My lady esteemed gentlemen, it is past the time when I must return Uh Parting is such sweet sorrow joe wait. I feel I should repay you somehow for all the trouble to which we put Hey, he's gone just vanished Can you blame even him after that gosh awful pun of yours? How far sooth are you going? True the pun is the lowest form of wit Well, perhaps certainly shakespeare used many puns the great john milton even had satan make them puns are the basis of a lot of Good humor like the joke I open up with you all laughed at it the one about mrs. Katz Well, that wasn't a bad joke yet. There's another perhaps more acceptable version if you care to hear it Very well then may I ask our joke demonstrators for version 13b of the mrs. Katz joke I never thought I'd get here. I was just attacked by a man eating rabbit a man eating rabbit Yeah, I was in a restaurant and a man eating rabbit through a punch at That was pretty good doctor, but uh, was it original heaven forbid this like most jokes is What is technically known as a switcheroo? Now, let me show you how this is done historically Uh joe miller's joke number 99, please A lady questioned about her age affirmed she was 40 and called upon a gentleman for his opinion I do not doubt it madam replied he because have I not heard you say so the last 10 years Now Let's see where mr. Martley got it to include in the joe miller jests Uh, let's have the parallel joke from armstrong's book published 16 30, please a court lady had dinner and speaking of her age Said she was 40 one garlant on hearing this whispered joe's companion I have not the faith to disbelieve her for I've heard her say so anytime these 10 years That's no switch doctor. That's out now stealing even the numbers 40 and 10 Yes, but the theft was armstrong's because that joke the joke he took his joke from Was current back in latin times and romantimes in cicero's day and it went like this Oh noble cicero. Fabia dollabella. Say if she is but 30 summers, would this be true? It must be true for I have heard it these last 20 years Are there are there other examples doctor? Yes. Come on professor I've got my pencil and notebook already, but they've got to be better than that Oh, there are dozens of examples hundreds some I can't even quote because of the robustness of elizabethan humor And others which today are interesting not for their shimmering wit but only to scholars who seek sources There's several jokes appearing in the hundred merry tales printed in 1500 That's a book that shakespeare knew and referred to by the way the hundred merry tales of 1500 There are jokes there as well as an archie armstrong and joe miller all similar if not the same And few of them are funny today. Well, if they were funny ones doctor, why aren't they today? Let me give you one final example Now here's another joke just as it appears in armstrong 17th century book Two dutchmen one very tall the other of exceeding low stature were walking together A pleasant gentleman seeing them said to his friend yonder go high germany and the low countries You call that a joke doctor? Yes at one time it was a joke and a good joke and it enjoyed great vogue But now using it as a springboard Let's take a much more recent version which states back only a few years when the american fair demand marcus low And the producer lee schubert were familiar figures on broadway And marcus low and lee schubert happened to pass one day and this was their greeting highly. Hi, hello So you see that will shakespeare was right when he wrote in loves labors lost Adjusts prosperity lies in the ear of him who hears it never in the tongue of him who makes it Yes doctor, but you're quoting shakespeare, of course, haven't you a theory of your own about what's funny and why? Well, as a matter of fact, I have a lot of This is a dangerous business now if one of you will be good enough to move that chopping block a little closer I'll loosen my collar and lay my neck on the block. Okay, professor. Let's not keep a frantic world into spenders waiting for Have you given your theory a name doctor? Well, I suppose so it seems to me by the way that that when we laugh Most of the time we laugh at someone who was doing something we'd like to do We're also inhibited and ruled and regulated by laws that whenever we see any person Getting off second base safely doing something that we'd like to do and can't We acknowledge with a warm satisfaction of laughter the existence of one of our fellows who for a moment gets free We say off into ourselves. Uh, I wish I'd said that I wish I had done that Or I wish I'd seen that you might call this the I wish I theory I wish I well, uh, but doctor that's pretty much a generality, isn't it? Yes, of course No one theory explains all jokes, but to be specific Why doesn't one of you tell his favorite joke to the others and see if they think it's funny We're not professionals. Why not let the comedian tell one of his Let's let's take this one. The scene is an asylum and inmate is looking over the wall watching the gardener work Finally, he says Hey, buddy, what are you doing? The gardener says why I'm putting fertilizer on the strawberries The other guy screams, how do you like that? I put cream on mine and they call me crazy I Mind dr. Baxter's I wish I very I wish I hadn't heard You don't know what's funny and what isn't well, let's see if we do or not I'll tell one. I know knock them in the aisles It seems a farmer and his daughter were in the farmer's car driving back home with the money They'd just gotten in town selling their eggs Well, suddenly the farmers by two armed bandits approaching so he whispered to his daughter Mary quick stick that money in your mouth and hide it Well, the girl did as she was told and the holdup man couldn't find the money which made them so sore They kicked them out and took the car Well, once he was sure they were safe the farmer said, I guess we was lucky. All right But if you're more had been along we could have shaved the car too Uh gentleman can't we have some order here? Gentlemen, please dr. Baxter could I speak with you a moment good professor why joe miller back again?  You left before I could ask you to dine with me Well, I uh, I really shouldn't you know, uh hate traveling off to dark, but Well, I shall make an exception. Good doctor Even so doosid long since I've had any solid food and uh, what shall the menu be? Well now how would a steak a steak this thick strike you? Perfection itself, but then let's see then perhaps a salad of tossed california greens Oh, the very words fairly titillate the gastric juices And what shall we have with the coffee? Why anything you choose joe would you have strawberries doctor? You have all the strawberries your heart desires. Oh, not for me good friend who strawberries for you Why joe why strawberries for me? Because I want to see what you put on your strawberries Well, that's it good friends joe miller's jests or the wits what he make them Oh, may joe and his jests both leave us and rest in peace You've been listening to the cdf radio workshops production of colloquy four the joe miller joke book With dr. Frank c baxter professor of english literature at the university of southern california Colloquy four was written directed in hollywood by paul franklin Included in the cast where virginia greg joe kerns peter leads ben right dawes butler Howard mcnear jane velo and joe forte sound effects by gusts bays


Hello everyone. You all know ChatGPT, Dali, Yamato, I'm here to talk about the next revolution of embodied AI, which is the next revolution in automation, which is embodied AI. Foundation models have been the foundation for the rapid acceleration of AI the last decade. They wouldn't be foundation models if they weren't open source. So the reason why they became foundation models in the first place was because the open source community could discuss the data and the model. We saw it with computer vision. So whenever there was some company who claimed we beat the benchmark in computer vision, within very short time there would be a computer vision model open source that beat that benchmark. And so we've seen that happen over and over with natural language processing and we're starting to see that with generative AI right now, where foundational models are being open sourced and the data is being open sourced so everyone can discuss it. So we know generative AI has shortcomings. All foundation models have had shortcomings. The reason why we solved them is because the problems are out and open. So the community can discuss the issues with the model or the data. Now we've seen foundation models take over computer vision, natural language processing and generative AI. The next natural frontier for foundation models is going to be embodied AI. So we're moving from safe AI in browsers and iPhone. Everyone is talking about the AI alignment problem. The next thing we're going to experience is that this AI has to coexist with us in public spaces and operate in a safety critical environment. We're going to see this. We're going to see embodied AI in everything from our household robotics to aviation to drones to mining equipment, construction equipment and most notably what most people know it for is for self-driving cars, buses, trucks, forklifts and so on. Now right now most embodied AI is done by big corporates. It's closed source, it's proprietary data which is okay. They spend a lot of money invested in this but it's going to coexist in public spaces with us. And right now it's really difficult for everyone to actually understand what shortcomings they have. We believe the next natural step is that we need the same level of transparency in embodied AI that we've seen within all other foundation models. So some examples on this is Mercedes got their level three system certified for 10% of German highways up to 60 kilometers an hour. Crews just lost their robot taxi license in San Francisco. So why didn't they get certified for more? In what scenarios do they fail? Why do they fail? Like all of this discourse is not happening within embodied AI right now because it's simply not possible. We don't know what scenarios they fail in and why they fail it. So Jag is taking some cues from the open source community. We see hogging phase, mistral and meta proposing to use data cards and model cards to address the pitfalls of these models. It's a toolkit for transparency. Who trained the model? With what data? When did they train it? What issues does it have? It allows the community to propel and bring the AI models forward. So Jag is taking the next logical next step which is we propose scenario cards for embodied AI. Scenario cards will allow the community to advance embodied AI and accelerate the development but in a safe way where we can actually discuss the shortcomings of the data or the model that's being applied right now. So the challenge with this is that not all data is equal. So we already know right now from generative AI that you need expert data to actually train your model and you need a feedback loop. So how do we put this in the hands of the many instead of the few? Jag has built an expert platform that allows us to actually source drive data across 30 cities in Germany right now. We collect roughly 50 terabyte of curated drive data every day right now through eight cameras on driving instructor vehicles. The driving instructors give feedback on driving mistakes that the students are making which allows us to extract the scenarios and make those available to all developers of safety critical embodied AI. So the driving instructors don't only extract driving mistakes, so counterfactuals, they also actually demonstrate how an expert would have been driving in this city. So now we kind of curate, we generate the best curated drive data in the world how to drive in a city and how not to drive in a city. So one thing is to have the best curated drive data which will allow us to actually align, solve the alignment issue for embodied AI. The other issue is how do we then actually discuss how your AI is performing. And so to enable that, Jag is proposing that we start generating open metrics. So the same way that we have open data cards, and we have model cards, we're proposing open metrics that allows us to actually assess in a unified way across the scenarios. So embodied AI, in order to, we think actually in order to reach the finish line is that we actually start building a community around it that helps us get safe autonomous vehicles, aircrafts, forklifts to the masses would be by agreeing on scenario cards, agreeing on the metrics that we need to hold them to, the standards we need to hold them to, and by agreeing on the data quality that we actually need to collect to enable this. So at this point, Jag has been going for three and a half years right now, and we built an expert platform that allows us to scale across the world. So we have a backlist of driving schools who want to work with us. So the 55 cars we have driving around with our sensor kit in Germany right now is just the beginning. It's 50 terabytes a day, and it's growing rapidly right now. What's important with this is that we want to make it available to the many. So how do we make it possible for anyone to develop safe embodied AI? We do that through our expert platform. And what we're working on right now is the tool chain that allows any third party to actually access the data, access the scenarios, ingest it into their own environment, work with it, and assess their own drive models, for instance. So what we have also developed is a safety GPT. It allows you as an embodied AI developer to rapidly assess the challenges with your AI. So this is a model that's never been told what a car is, what a stop sign is, what a yield sign is. It's never been on this road segment before, but still it would be able to look at what your autonomous car is doing, or your autonomous forklift, and it would be able to tell you whether it's safe or not safe. So by doing this, we allow like we help you understand the shortcomings of your embodied AI so you can accelerate your development. That was it.