This is Classics of Liberty from Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by Caleb Brown. Today's classic is Subversion for Fun and Profit with Carl Hess and Robert Anton Wilson. Carl Hess and Robert Anton Wilson are icons of libertarianism and radical individualist thinking in the 1960s and 1970s. Carl Hess was an influential figure among high-level Republicans in the early 1960s. As a speechwriter for many GOP figures, it was often his words coming out of the mouths of the party's elected officials, chief among them Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Hess may have been the author of Goldwater's most iconic line. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. After Goldwater's loss to Lyndon Johnson, Hess continued to write a column under Goldwater's byline. During Johnson's presidency, Hess, among others, was, perhaps not surprisingly, audited by the IRS. His anger at this year's audacity led him to reread the Declaration of Independence and then write a letter informing the IRS that he had abolished the agency for arbitrarily exceeding its authority. He further told them that he would no longer pay their taxes, which led the IRS to effectively confiscate Hess' future earnings. Over time, Hess became more radical, his close associations with both the GOP and broader white-collar society strained and ultimately dissolved. Hess became an anarchist. A short biographical film entitled Carl Hess Toward Liberty won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1981. Hess' discussion partner in this presentation is Robert Anton Wilson, best known for co-authoring the popular Illuminatus Trilogy published in 1975. Wilson and his co-author Robert Shea had been editors at Playboy magazine where they had begun cataloging the letters they'd received describing various conspiracies of governments and secret societies. What emerged was Illuminatus, a sprawling three-novel series that treated dozens or hundreds of real conspiracies and conspiracy theories as true and an equal measure not true at the same time. Illuminatus is often credited with creating the sub-genre of conspiracy fiction. Wilson has been described as maybe a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, and a discordian pope. The wide-ranging discussion presented here took place at the 1987 Nominating Convention of the Libertarian Party. We're supposed to do our version of my dinner with Andre. Oh, my favorite film! Which one of us is going to be Andre and which one will be Wally? I guess I was born to be Wally, so. I would start out by mentioning how I first met the person who introduced us because I think that's a, if I may, a story of some historic importance. When I was active on the New Left and therefore unpatriotic, before I learned what it was like to be really unpatriotic, I'd been approached by this young man who had the most amazing story to tell. He said that although he had appeared to be interested in all of our political activities, what he actually was doing was working for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. But he had concluded after sober thought, that is, the two or three moments he was sober, that the House Committee on Un-American Activities was considerably more dangerous than we, I even knew left. And so he was in his mid-teens at that time. This is one of the absolutely most courageous things I've ever seen a very young man do. He was scheduled to testify as a House Committee stoolie on a certain day with all of the usual things there. And instead he got, he testified publicly, had to do it out in the hallway, that he had been an informer, that he didn't think that the people he was informing on were dangerous and that the committee was violently dangerous. This is a young, very young man. And I think he's just as heroic as anybody I've ever met. He's declined in his later years. Those were great days. I was involved in the peace movement in Chicago in those days and in the 60s. In 1972 it came out in congressional hearings that between the FBI, the CIA and Army Intelligence, there were 5,000 informers in the peace movement in Chicago. And we very seldom had a rally with more than 5,000 people. And I have been wondering ever since was I the only pacifist in Chicago with everybody else intelligence agents? The circulation of the daily work or the Communist Party papers at one time consisted largely of subscriptions from the Department of Justice. And also when I was doing stuff with a new leftist, some of the young bravos in it were very angry at the CIA and they wondered what they could do to irritate them. And so I suggested, well, hell, why don't you go out to the CIA, to the entrance to it and take down every license number of a car driving in and then go to the licensed bureau and check the names and publish them, which they did. And it just irritated the CIA terribly, but I discovered in later years, and I believe there were three young people involved in it, one of them was a CIA agent.  That's my experience. I could tell people wonder why I write so many novels about conspiracies. That's because I'm convinced conspiracy is one of the continuous constant elements in human life. Not that I believe there's one big conspiracy controlling everything.  But there are multitudinous conspiracies. When I was in the peace movement, we had 5,000 agents spying on us in Chicago alone, as I said. When I was in the Leary Defense Committee in the 70s, that was a committee to attempt to get across to the American public an idea that was so radical, we could hardly get into print with it. And it still is an unpopular idea in most places. The idea that locking up scientists is not the best way to settle scientific questions. Most people still don't understand that idea. But while I was in that, everybody in the Leary Defense Committee came to me at one time and told me somebody else was a government agent. And usually the person denounced one day would be around to denounce somebody else the next day. And I remain sane all through that because I have this basic attitude that life is either great adventure or it's nothing. So I refuse to get paranoid. I just enjoy the sense of mystery. I was at a meeting one time and this fellow after the meeting had offered to drive me home. And before that he said, come to the rear of the car, he opened it and inside he had a Schmeiser submachine gun. And he said, would you like to have this? Well, I don't know. I've been relatively violent, I guess, all my life. And the possession of any submachine, I only had one. And the idea of having another one appealed to me very much, but it suddenly occurred to me this was a very strange offer to make. And so I rejected it out of hand, reminding him that it was illegal. And again, some time later he came up to me and he said, I've got something strange to tell you. Thank God here it comes again. He said, I'm working for the FBI. And he said, I have concluded that they're more dangerous than you are. That's a terrible blow to a radical's ego. Now I got a friend whose name was best not to mention at this point. And he has been urging for some years the formation of a guns and dope party. And some people think that's what the libertarian party is. His attitude is the people who do dope and the people who are gun collectors who want to have guns to protect themselves, the group generally called the gun nuts. If you add the two of them together, they make a majority. And he's got statistics to prove this. But so many of them are in the 101st Airborne. Yeah, there is that problem. Yeah, the smoke problem. I remember one day sitting around his house. He had piles of guns, including Tommy guns around that he was selling. He's in the gun business illegally and illegally, depending on how the laws are written that year. And he also deals grass. And I was sitting there looking at him and there's all these guns and pot on the floor. And I said, Bill, all you need is a teenage girl and some counterfeit money to be the ideal bust for any cop. I was, come to think of it, a little too short of my delicate name. I was in the gun running business for a time. And it was a curious thing. We see the free market at work. It makes everything so pleasant. I was more of this evil stuff. Good God. Oh. Too late. Too late. I saw a party of prosperity. But while I was, this was getting guns for a fellow in Cuba whose name was Carlos Avia. He was an engineer, which endeared him to me. And he wanted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, which seemed like a sensible idea. And so he hired me to get him some automatic weapons and some napalm, which I did fairly successfully. But while doing it, I noticed when you deal with these arms merchants, how wonderfully matter of fact they are about something that the Pentagon tries to turn into a drama. How many mortars do you want? Israelis are very big at selling mortars to people. We can get you this many. Would you like a tank? So I want to describe just briefly what happened in my illustrious career as a gun runner. The guns went fine. And so did the napalm, because I convinced the company that makes the saponifying agent that I wanted to burn off 52,000 acres of land and needed an awful lot of napalm. But this stuff isn't, you know, you think it might come already mixed up, but it comes as a powder. It's soap powder, roughly what it is. I thought, my God, there's got to be some proper way to mix this. And how am I going to tell a bunch of Cubans after we get it there how to mix it? So I went to a chemist friend of mine at Shell Oil who wrote out all of the instructions for me very seriously. And at the end, after spacing it, it simply said, and then run like hell. But the highlight of my revolutionary activity was dropping the propaganda pamphlets over Havana. Well, I don't know if you all panic easily, but when you're trying to figure out where was Florida, how are you going to get back there? And how are you going to explain that you've been in all of this restricted area? And everything goes through your mind. So we had a lot of pamphlets to dump out over Havana. And so we dumped them out in bails of 5,000. Yeah, and it occurred to me, my God, I've bombed some, I've bombed Havana. So I really feel bad about that. I think that constitutes some sort of a trespass on the pamphlets wouldn't have been so bad. Anyway, it was wonderful. I'm beginning to feel I've led a rather sheltered life. I have a couple of other friends who were gun runners, but I've never done that myself. The closest I ever came is when the Chicago Red Squad was investigating me as a gun runner, which is an amusing story in itself, at least it amuses me in retrospect. I was working for Playboy at the time. And people wonder how my novels get so complicated about conspiracies, within conspiracies and so on. This was one of the crucial incidents in the development of my philosophy of mammalian politics. I was working for Playboy in a chap whose function was never clear to me, although he was very close to Hefner. I came into my office and closed the door. I was an associate editor. He closed the door. He pulled a chair over close to my desk and he said, this is serious. You're under very close surveillance by the Chicago Red Squad. They got a tap on your phone and we think they're doing a mail cover on you, too. I said, what the hell's that all about? I mean, I was involved in the peace movement, but I didn't think that they went that far, just from watching around with a sign saying, eat what you kill. I said, what did I do that got the Red Squad so intense? And he says, they think you've been running guns for the Black Panthers. I said, running guns for the Black Panthers? I don't remember doing that.  Did I do that one day? I was so stoned. I don't remember what I was doing. Oh no, I never did run guns for the Black Panthers. And the more I searched my memory, the more I realized that I had been on platforms with Black Panthers on three occasions at peace rallies. And I said, how did the Red Squad get the idea I was running guns for the Black Panthers? And this chap said, well, they got an informer in the Black Panthers. And he says, you were bringing guns down there to the headquarters on the south side. And I said, you know, I think what happened is the informer saw me with Black Panthers at times. And that wasn't good enough to excite his superiors at the Red Squad.  A Playboy editor on a platform with Black Panthers is of moderate interest. A Playboy editor running guns for the Black Panthers is of greater interest. And so I think that's what happened because I swear. I think the statute of limitations has run out. If I were running guns, I would admit it now. I was not doing any such thing. But that's probably still in my file with the Chicago Red Squad. So I lived for quite a while with the knowledge that my phone was tapped and I was wondering what was happening to my mail. But I was more concerned with how the hell did Playboy know about this? And so I asked the person whose name I am carefully not mentioning. I asked him, how does Playboy know what the Chicago Red Squad is doing? And he said, well, we got a fellow with police headquarters. He tells us when an investigation is being opened on anybody who works with Playboy. Later on it turned out there was another member of the Red Squad who was being paid by two rich liberals in the Chicago Northern suburbs where the rich liberals live, will met, Winnetka, Glencoe, that area. These two rich liberals discovered this cop was in their peace groups. They recognized them as a cop and they approached them. And he was very glad to go on their salary. They paid him regularly to be informed of what the Red Squad was doing. So that's two agents I have personally found out about in the Red Squad. Well, there were 5,000 agents from the Chicago Red Squad, the FBI, the CIA and army intelligence watching me. That's the kind of world that we're living in, whether most people realize it or not. And it depends on the side you're on really, because I was actually running guns. And the FBI knew every single thing I did, but of course I was approved. You can be an approved gun runner. And so there was never any problem about it. That leads to another of my paranoia inducing stories. Some of you may remember about three years ago, the head of NORRAID stood at NORRAID, that's the aid for Northern Ireland. The head of NORRAID stood trial in New York for running guns for the IRA. They were theoretically collecting money for the widows and orphans of the war, but they were actually buying guns for one side. That's just prepayment. Something like that. That's right, it's prepayment, yes. And his defense, the head of NORRAID, his defense was that he didn't believe he was committing any illegal acts. He found it incredible that he was arrested. He still didn't understand what was going on because he was getting the guns from the CIA. And the government tried to squash that line of defense, but his lawyer managed to persuade the judge it was a legitimate defense. So they brought in the evidence and proved that the CIA was running guns for the IRA. And so I asked Sean McBride, who some of you may know as the founder of Amnesty International, he also won the Lenin Peace Prize, the United States Medal of Justice, the Lenin Peace Prize, the Dog Hammershow Medal of Honor of the United Nations. And in Ireland, of course, with all those honors, he's still best known as the son of John McBride, who was one of the revolutionaries of 1916. I got to interview Sean McBride and I asked him about that. I asked, why would the CIA be running guns for Marxist revolutionaries? And he said, when you get into the machinations of intelligence agencies, anything is possible. Norman Mailer's description of it is that it really is like an onion. And you can peel it endlessly. And you'll never get there because there is no thing right there. Funny business, funny business. But it's wonderful if you really want a career in high level mischief. And I must say, it really is fun.  I don't think people understand that too richly or too enough about war and why people, there's so much support for it. It isn't part of a conspiracy, it's a part of an excitement. It really is exciting. Yeah, well, people go to see horror movies. They go to see Charles Bronson blowing people away in the subway. They go to see Clint Eastwood. And they say, violence is all in the other people. I'm a pacifist, I'm a nice guy. Oh, those folks, yeah. It's a part of human nature. Of course, people enjoy it. If nobody enjoyed it, nobody would go to Clint Eastwood films. Some people are not satisfied seeing it on the screen. They want to act it out. It's just amazing how you can be an official outlaw in this country. And I must say, it has some advantages. If you are the state's radical, you are like methadone. You are the state's narcotic. And they'll help you out and do all sorts of good things. Just as a, for instance, the fellow who worked for the FBI, who was my nurse or whatever, that this person said that the reason he had volunteered, volunteered, get this, to become an informant for the FBI, was that they had offered him to take his young daughter suffering from a very severe ailment to the National Institutes of Health or Walter Reed or any place to have her worked on. So in order to save his daughter's life, a nice deal that the FBI made with him, he decided to be an informer. I don't think there's any depth to which they'll sink. At least I've never thought so. Let me just say one thing about that just occurred when I say IRS visions begin flashing. To indicate what lovely people these people are, when my tax rebellion was added zenith, which is when I had any money to tax, the IRS went to my mother, who was quite elderly, and said that they wanted to check on her health. And she inquired why. And they said, because we want to make sure that when you die, you don't leave anything to your son, or if you do, we get what he owes us. I think that's villainy beyond belief, isn't it? And my mother, she later, in talking to this young man, the agent said to her, why is your son doing this? And she said, young man, don't you read the newspapers? He's written more about it than anybody I know. But it doesn't do much good, does it? Except sometimes it may. I've mentioned several times that recently I met a guy in West Virginia where I live, and he said, I have a nasty shock for you. He said, I work at the IRS data center, which is oddly enough about nine miles from us. And he said, I'm about to retire. So I've been keeping in fairly close touch with this fellow because I can't think of anybody more interesting than a libertarian working at the IRS central computer who is about to retire. Malaklips, Malaklips the younger author of that mortal sacred scripture, Kipia Discordia, how I found goddess and what I did to her after I found her is now the head of the computer department of one of the largest banks in the United States. You will be happy to know. And very rich, I trust. Very powerful. But your stories about the FBI remind me of another colorful friend of mine, John Draper, a.k.a. Captain Crunch. He was ripping off the phone company with all sorts of cute electronic devices he invented himself, including the simple device of using a whistle from a Captain Crunch breakfast cereal which is how he got his nickname. And after years they finally made a major case against him and he was convicted in San Jose and sentenced to about five years in prison at which point he told his lawyer to contact the FBI and he had a conference with a couple of FBI agents in which he told them how he had figured out ways to tap the allegedly untappable wires of the CIA, the FBI, and the White House and how he had worked out methods of transferring money from one bank account to another by telephone and how he had worked out a way to fire the nuclear missiles in Colorado and start World War III. And he gave them full and explicit details on all of these little pranks he hadn't had time to carry out yet because he was a busy man ripping off the phone company 24 hours a day and they went back and they checked every damn thing he said was true and they had some kind of executive level decision and the FBI entered the case as a friend of the court and persuaded the judge to give John instead of five years, three months with weekends off and he could go home at night too. He was only in the prison in the daytime and he had weekends off too. And he served three months in return for informing the government how to get around, how to install fail safes against his devices and after he got out of prison he went around telling everybody in Silicon Valley the joke was of course that the fail safes he had told them about he had already figured out how to get around and what he can do there are 10,000 other genius level pot heads in Silicon Gulch you can also do and they are the people who are designing 90% of the Star Wars technology. I don't know, these people don't appreciate my jokes my jokes are too morbid for them, that's because they're true. Somebody remarked recently, Ross Overbeek as a matter of fact remarked that although it has been possible for a long time for them to listen in on everything we do that it's now possible for us to listen in on everything they do because the technology is clearly on our side for a change but I think it will continue to be another hopeful sign it seems to me you had spoken a lot about stupidity and its central activity as a tool of evolution and I think that's an interesting thing to toy with there is such a stupidity today that it seems to me it is forcing for survival brighter people to do extraordinary and new things because they understand they simply can't survive the weight of the stupidity that's my theory is that stupidity is an evolutionary driver it forces the intelligent to get even more intelligent to survive boy, isn't that wonderful my sons are going to be smart wait till I tell them that was Subversion for Fun and Profit with Carl Hess and Robert Anton Wilson this episode was written by Caleb Brown and produced by Mark McDaniel if you like the podcast you've heard today please rate it and review it at iTunes and of course find more classics of liberty at libertarianism.org


Welcome to the final week of our authority control class. So far we've been talking about how to use an authority file in order to select the authority record for the correct access point to use in a catalog record. In this session we're going to talk a little bit about maintenance of an authority file to make sure everything stays up to date and is pretty accurate. So one way to maintain your authority file is to keep track of headings that are either changed or deleted, canceled by the Library of Congress. And you can do this by periodically checking the approved lists of changed headings. The URL there says weekly lists, but they really these days come out more roughly monthly, I would say. They used to be weekly lists, but they've cut back. But these will tell you things that have changed. And then you can see if you have any of those headings in your catalog and download the new authority records that you need to. For example, recently the Library of Congress has changed all of their headings referring to insurance from inverted headings, so insurance, automobile. They've changed it to direct headings like automobile insurance. So as those changes came through, I would note them and see which ones we had in our catalog and download new authority records for those changed headings. Other than keeping up with changed headings, another thing you might want to do in order to clean up your authority file would be the deletion of authority records that are no longer used in any of the catalog records. For example, let's say you used to have books in your library about the Apple II e-computer and you've gotten rid of those from your collection because you have more up-to-date computer resources. So you might find that a subject heading for the Apple II e-computer no longer has any big records attached to it. And so if your system has a way to run a report on this and find out which authority records are unattached, if you have the time, that could be another way to clean up your authority file.


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So we hear there's ES2020, hey! So this is the micro drone 4.0, it incorporates three main features in a drone. So it's got a two-axis gimbal to show a smooth video. It's also got a ton of splites so it can hover on the spot. So this drone integrates a whole bunch of sensors at capability to do that. So it's got a downward-facing camera for optical flow. So when you're flying, it'll hover on the spot. So it doesn't drift about, it'll just hover there in the sky. It's also got a barometric pressure sensor, so it'll just hold its altitude. You can set the altitude at any angle you want, any height. It also has foldable propellers, so that's good for portability. You can just fold it up like that and then carry it with you. And then they just flip open when you're flying. A good thing about this is the way it launches. So it's got an instant launch function. So just click the button three times and it will instantly launch from your palm. And then it allows you just to kind of immediately start flying. So you just click the button, look into the camera, one, two, three, and it will just immediately fly. And you let go and it'll hover on the spot. It will follow you? Yeah, it's got follow me with tracking.  It works? Yeah, it works really well. Yeah, I've actually got a little video I can show you. So this was an Indiegogo. You guys are basically... 1.7 million on Indiegogo. We launched on Indiegogo. It was one of the highest funded drone campaigns of 2019. We've got 11,000 backers from all over the world. And we are starting to ship in February. So it's between the Tello and the Mavic Mini? Yes. We spotted a position in the market for a drone which is more than just a toy but not as expensive as the professional drones. Because most people just want a drone that can shoot really nice, good quality, smooth video. And that's what this does. How much? Two hundred dollars. So you get the drone with the gimbal, the camera for two hundred bucks. And autonomous? Really? Yeah, so hovering, self hovering. How about following you? Yeah, so that's all through the app. So it comes with the Microphone 4.0 app. Download the app and you can fly it with your iPhone or with your Android. So it's following by Wi-Fi? Yeah, with Wi-Fi, yeah. The AI runs on the phone? The phone makes a hotspot. And it connects to the hotspot? Actually, the drone connects to the phone directly. So the drone generates the Wi-Fi and that gives you about seven hundred feet of range. Seven hundred feet? Wi-Fi is not as far as some other technology, you know? Yeah, so we actually... You can have an adapter and run some other R&R? So what you can do is we're using the brand new AC Wi-Fi. That gives much more range giving you up to seven hundred feet. So previously, the Wi-Fi would only give you like a hundred, two hundred feet. And it was quite laggy. But the new AC Wi-Fi using two antennas gives you much longer range and that's perfect for streaming to your phone. Is that like two hundred meters? How far is that? More than one hundred meters. A meter is about three hundred meters? Three hundred meters. Yeah. We also do a controller, an optional handset. This is the handset here. And that allows you to fly the drone with your smartphone or with your controller. Because some people like flying with the sticks and that gives you seven hundred feet of flight range using radio.  And if it goes out of range, is it going to be smart enough to come back? So it doesn't have GPS, but this is really designed for people who want to send it out, get a nice video from the air like to see if you want to do a home inspection. It's not really designed for like, so it's super long range. But within seven hundred feet, you can see it in the air and just fly it right back. So you are extreme flyers? Correct. Yeah. London based company. London. Do you design the whole thing? Yeah. We designed the whole thing from scratch. We started in 2011. So the Microsoft 1.0 launched in 2012. The 2.0 in 2013. The 3.0 in 2015. We shipped it. People loved it. And now the Microsoft 4.0, this is available to order now. And we're shipping it in February and June. Throughout February, March, April, June. You've sold many? Pardon? You've been selling many? Yes. This is our fourth generation drone. We really want to focus on one product because there's so many big companies. How do you compete with a company like DJI? And the way to do it is by keeping a small company. DJI right here. But also super focused. We are literally just, we make one product and do it really, really well. So we're able to innovate fast. We've got a very good, talented team and who've been with us all these years. And that's how we're able to compete. And just to come up with developments really fast. Making it in China? Yeah. I'm actually going to the factory in China. I'm actually going to the factory next month for a whole month to oversee production. And our drone team is based in London. So all these backers are getting it next month? Yeah, exactly. They're going to start shipping it in February. Already people are really excited. We're going to be sending out to beta testers. This is the drone here. So what you see here is exactly what you're going to get. It's got optical flow down facing camera. It's got the battery, the gimbal. Yeah, the whole package is done. It's turned out very nice. And the flying is good. And the camera is great. So yeah, I'm really happy how it's turned out. And I know they're going to love it too. What's the status in industry for autonomous drones that follow people? Are there any good examples like these competitors you have right here? The Tello and the Mavic Mini. Are they going to do this stuff? Yeah, so actually it's a really good question until a few years ago, none of the products had this kind of features. Only the kind of premium products had it. But now it's sort of tracking, follow, autonomous flight time, smooth video. That's the kind of like people expect that now in any drone. But it's still not caught up with those micro drones. So we're the first to create all that technology into a small palm-sized device. This fits between the Tello and the Mavic Mini. The Tello and Mavic Mini don't have it? So the Tello doesn't have it. It flies really nicely. That's the good thing about that. It doesn't follow and it doesn't have a gimbal. Even the Mavic Mini doesn't have follow. It doesn't have any tracking, but it has a gimbal and an autonomous flight. So the Microphone 4.0 is actually pretty good because it has the tracking and the autonomous flight and the smooth video. What is a big challenge to do with good tracking? Do you need to have some kind of AI drone? Correct, yeah. It's on the drone. We get a really reliable video source from the drone, and then we use the computing power of the smartphone to do all the tracking. And that works really well. You can walk around, the camera keeps the person lined up in the shot, and you can walk around and the drone follows you. I can actually show you on my phone. I've got a video from my colleague who just sent it through. Where's my phone? What is it? A pocket? Is it my pocket? Somewhere. So that means you need to have a good app development because you need to do a cool app that really has AI stuff going on inside. Exactly, yeah. So the AI is, there's a lot of AI solutions now, and it's getting better and better. So I'll show you briefly how it works. So Jason's walking around, it's following him. It works really well. And as you can see, that's fully onated. Is he putting his arm up to the left to say go to the left?  Can you like to sign to it and say, I'm closing my finger away? Eventually it'll be able to recognize gestures, Jedi maneuvers, and the idea is that you can sort of do that. What's going to be the software update? Yeah, we're going to be doing a series of updates. So we're currently in progress with the AI. It's still in development. So we haven't completed it yet, but we hope to have some basic AI functions when we start shipping in February. Because many of the modern smartphones have, they have AI accelerators on the smartphone SOC. And if you have a cool app, you can take advantage of that, right? So then you can accelerate the AI in the app, make sure it's really smart and good and efficient. That's right. Yeah, you're definitely seeing a trend now where these sort of like traditional live video feeds are now being created to do smart things. So you think AI can do object recognition tracking, and those really can add to the experience of the drone. If you have a drone that can follow you with that live video feed, that's really where we're getting to in this development. Maybe you can have like some recommended phones, like minimum specs to not have the AI crash the drone on you if you don't have a fast enough phone. So what I found is that, you know, make sure the phone is fully charged up, basic stuff. There's not too many apps running. It's not laggy. The phone is running smoothly. And then, you know, an iPhone 6, 7 above, they're usually pretty capable for running our application. Could you do something kind of cool, like $200 for the drone and unlimited warranty as long as you don't do something crazy? Because you can record the session that crashed the drone, and if it was a normal session, like not hiding behind a tree or something, then it could be like, oh, you can swap it for a new drone if it crashed. Yeah, you know, warranty and repairs is actually a really good question. So from our experience of the 2.0 and the 3.0, we designed that into the drone, so the ability to maintain it quite easily. So if you burn a motor out or break the frame or break an arm, the whole thing is modular. It just unscrews. You can access all the guts of the drone, like the motors, the motor arm gears, the flight board, the camera. That just clicks together inside the actual structure. So if you want to change a motor, it's really easy. And we have those on the website, so you can order them online, and then you better get the part you need and just reship worldwide. Good price. They're really cheap. We don't make any profit on the north side parts, so we just supply them to make them available. Maybe you could even do the swapping and repair for them, but you don't need... because it's too easy to repair for yourself. We want to avoid having to send the drone back somewhere to repair it. So we made it really easy with our videos. We made the design really easy, so it's easy to do it yourself. So anyone who owns a drone, they can just get the part, ship it to them, swap out the parts, and then you're good to go again. So perhaps you could have the warranty include shipping replacement parts in case the crash happened with a reasonable situation. So you're not like having the drone follow you in a snowstorm and then diving through a tunnel or something. That's right. So the package does come with some spare parts. So in the box you get a couple of spare blades, and that's on the side of the box. We also do all the parts on the website, and yeah, we made those affordable, so we don't charge a lot for spare parts. I'd recommend just stocking up on spare parts, anything you need. Just check out the website for any videos on how to change them. Because I'm imagining that the DGI business model has a lot to do with people paying $1,000 for a drone, and it's most likely going to crash.


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So guest is up here, yeah, and we're gonna dance now. We're gonna move tonight, so yeah. Why not? Getting ready? Yeah, you're trying? He's an employee of MyJaribwana. You wanted to see him do some dance, but he's a guy from Australia. I want to go to church and see him dance. So he went to church. He said, I'm going to practice, I want to do that. This was my small boy. Manjo niksal kwa mese ma leo ni haip Mene miya muka 5, nika jarebu ma moves 1, 2, 3 So it's good to rehearse before coming to the show Na wuja hata it was Na mena gayo yu mili kwa But it's the most lemoji Burst, burst, you don't kani wu sana? Na sana, sana Ma zia tata laste bukiwa kwa uli kwa na iti laste jumeba Na kwa na muhembo Kuna siwa kaito Udi na tani wu li kwa upa Most times, uzi miwa na muhembo Twingi na danyangani swag, but it's not swag ni Wakatwingi na wanga na phobia Na jesu sezi Uzi wengi sana wana 2, taza ma sezaivin Woga mbo na en taza wakutaka jimba nuna nifanya na kwa umshae Tse na vidin nivaya miwa Na wangi kuwa pa live?  I got a curon K Costing kiaji. Like. In I think this is now and I'm sure we gonna conquer Wait to come to pass. Yes yes. Let us just go back to what you were saying about your supporting upcoming artists there as in stars Muna you've done a collab with them actually Muna wengi nusema on to wa support too Ita wambi yamwe in gear studio in Benikoras 1, 2, 3 Ah that is enough but you've gone a step further and you've done a collab with them Yes, tell us more about that It's one thing that I've realised that there's so much talent out there and I don't know why na kwangaevi that they are untalented I'm sorry to use that or they are untalented most time they get the bigger hype than they're talented and personally when I meet a talent I do there are two things kuna ele na wambi wa wenda kusumanda kusagia dakulipia studio and I come to kupa tanda na mugonjuwa when yana nita jimantibabu and then you give them short term but at a long term there are people who will watch a song because bose mojiya kondani and there are people who will skip a song because simtua na juwa yani no matter whether you are talented ya atuna pata ma DJ I appreciate what Nix is doing you play up coming you give platform and it's like everyone shusho at the same time sniki na kina revival kina bose moji kina bose moji it's good like we share same platform kuna chao juwa we see who you are which is here so for me I want to let me be part of the growth that I'm sunny flying indeed that's a good work you're doing and your new project to many why many why I think it's about relationship na bi let li kumeku ananoma relationship actually if there's one thing we need to pray God about is to the family setup is being for inakua fotsana like you see kuna i right now we don't want to work things out we want to discover things we don't want to work on relationship everybody is quick to jump into the next relationship next opportunity next human being so we need to pray that God aninia keep our families together and the foundation of family tuna tunanzia courtship tunanzia kudete and then boom the family but right now what we have is people trying to see if this thing will work so me being a gospel artist instead of figuring if things will work I think we need to figure things with Jesus let's let's figure things with Jesus but then when it comes to relationship we need to have this it has to work mentality okay tunanzia aninia kuna runa hitaku wangi but hitaku but it's good that you're speaking about it and people need to hear this innafaku because of time just maybe there's an artist watching out there like atapiamina takapanya how can they reach you for those who wanna reach bosemoji I'm a writer I'm a producer so if you're looking for an artist if you're looking for talent you can reach me Instagram make sure you're on IG Facebook Twitter TikTok let's start I've done a song with BMF it's coming soon so much album next time I think I think we'll come up shoyote Zawa Zawa namruni na piya tunawombayanga tunawombayanga tunawombayanga katu nojia mojia kwa iwi amereji amereji, amewapata besejal na tukegoja albap bula bo piya insha log dhe right here adaisu, thank you so much for coming bosemoji we appreciate your presence kwa siku kamaealo it's such a special day for us everyone watching us today umeni wai emu uhu wai microphone piya ka


So thank you so much for having us. We actually have the opportunity to present as a team here. I am Lindsay Vien and my co-worker Sally Thomas here. I am so inspired to be here today. And all this talk about bicycles that you guys are going to be learning about a seed lending library, what a great opportunity it might be to have a mobile seed lending library toad it around the community, right? So I've got my thinking cap on here. So today, Sally and I are going to present on what does it take to build and maintain a seed lending library? How many of you are familiar with the concept of a seed lending library? Oh, right on. Very good. So you actually were probably more informed than I was. A couple of years ago, our library director, Sean Reinhart, who is an innovator, and he approached library staff and said, I'm very interested in learning about a seed lending library and how we can develop that program. I thought, a seed lending library? I'm not even a gardener. How am I going to tackle this? So I'm going to kind of take you through the beginning stages of how to actually create and leverage resources to maintain a seed lending library. There we go. So through our presentation today, we're going to talk to you about how and why we launched the seed lending library and how we've continued to develop the seed lending library, how the evolution of seed saving is coming along, our future goals and some of the legal challenges associated with the seed lending library. So I just wanted to give you a little bit of background information on Hayward. So we are very fortunate to live in a very diverse community in the Bay Area. Hayward has a population of about 151,000. It's extremely linguistically and ethnically diverse. There was a survey done and there are 54 languages being spoken in one neighborhood in Hayward, which is extremely diverse. We are one of the lowest income communities in the Bay Area. According to the Bay Area census, the median family income is $67,000, some odd dollars, in comparison to the $85,000 family income and the $90,000 family income in the Bay Area overall. About 8% of families and 12% of the total population in Hayward are below federal poverty line, including 13% of those under the age of 18. And we are one of the lowest performing school districts in Alameda County. So there's a lot of exciting things that are going on in Hayward right now. There's a lot of interest in getting community engagement in increasing active living, healthy living, active living. And also, there's a lot of emphasis on academic programming. Project E through Alameda County Office of Education, they have a program called Project E, which is Educate, Act, and Thrive. In about, back in 2010, there was a lot of hype around the weight of the nation. How many of you have seen the weight of the nation? It's a long movie, but there's clips on YouTube if you can get a chance to take a look at it. And in 2010, over 63% of people in the United States were overweight or obese. So there's a lot of interest in how can we, as communities, engage through policy and change, how can we engage the community in getting back and eating healthier and living a more active lifestyle? So through Weight of the Nation, Project E started off by working with Oakland. I know there's a couple Oakland members here working with community leaders on really trying to talk to them. How can we implement policy to create this active living style? So I know biking is one part of this and also access to healthy foods. And I know that there's a lot of mobile food banks now and many communities that libraries are actually a part of. So the city of Hayward, this is definitely one of our priorities. It's to increase Hayward's sustainability as a community in all aspects of urban life and to implement the Healthy City program of focus on reducing childhood obesity in Hayward and to strengthen the city's urban agricultural program. So Hayward's a really exciting place. There's a lot of really phenomenal programs going on. In the past, everybody was kind of working in silos. And through the vision of Hayward Promise neighborhood we are recipients of Promise neighborhood funding, the Jackson Triangle. The goal of Hayward Promise neighborhood is to really align services with our community partners so that we can make a greater impact on our community. And I'm telling you all this stuff now because it's so important to get your people and your community partners in line if you want to be able to build and sustain a program such as a seed funding library. But the whole premise of Promise neighborhood is to build cradle to career support through access to effective schools and strong systems for family and community support which encompasses education, health, information and parent support. So the first thing you have to do when creating a seed lending library we like to say get your peeps together. You gotta reach out, you have to see who the movers and the shakers are, who is already experienced in seed saving, who's experienced in the Healthy Eating Active Living component and what are some of the other initiatives? Again, we work heavily with Alameda County Office of Ed Project EAT, they have community based school gardens at our local school sites and they work, they do healthy cooking demonstrations with students, with parents and how many of you are familiar with that program? Okay, a couple of you, yeah. It's a phenomenal program and they are a phenomenal resource. Champions for Change, so that's all about incorporating parents into the Healthy Eating Active Living lifestyle and of course our main supporters as well, the Friends of the Hayward Public Library. So if you have not heard of Rebecca Newburn, please be friends with her. She's gonna love this little pilot I'm gonna do for her.  So she is the seed saving guru I would say. We were urged to talk to her at Richmond Public Library. She has extensive experience in seed saving and she actually developed the seed saving library at Richmond Public Library and what she really advises is she has this phenomenal system setup where it's very advanced. They have a huge wall full of seeds, it's categorized, it's got a huge system on being able to take seeds and they do seed saving workshops. They even have a computer where things were catalogued in the computer and you can check them out. It was very far advanced and most importantly, she was very giving and sharing her resources. They have phenomenal toolkits to get you started on creating your own seed lending library. She is a volunteer, she's a math teacher I believe by day and she is a volunteer seed lending library person by night and she has just done a fabulous job with this. You can check out through Richmond Grows, up here Richmondgrowsseeds.org. I urge you to take a look at it. But you know, we saw what Richmond was doing but we said, okay, well we've gotta figure out how we can adapt this to fit what our community needs are and I urge you to think about that. Think about your population, think about what population you need to tap into, who are your community resources before actually engaging in this? Because yes, the idea of a seed lending library is phenomenal but what it comes back to in the end of the day is what does your community need from this resource? So, we took a look at what Richmond Growsse was able to provide as far as resources. It's a very comprehensive and it's very easy to follow site that Richmond has here. They have brochures that they had created, they urge you to create some sort of program goal. They talk about orientation material, how to engage local volunteers to support what you're doing. So, we took a look at all of this and mind you, remember, I didn't have a huge gardening background but I thought with my background in education, I can really start to learn about this and systematize and start to create a program, right? So, any of you can do it if I can do this. So, Sean Reinhardt, our library director on the right-hand side had a genius idea. He brought back our antique card catalog here. So, we polished and shined it up and we thought, okay, well let's start off small, let's see how we can launch this. So, we brought our piece of furniture back out and the community was actually really excited to see this back out. You wouldn't believe how many comments we actually got back on this. So, really what we need to do is we needed to create a space. So, we have an old facility and there's not a lot of space at the Hayward Main Library. So, we found space and although it was small, we were able to create its own little area so that somebody can feel like they could sit over there and look through this catalog. We organized the card catalog by plant families in plant varieties and first of all, we just wanted to first get the space actually made. Creation of a logo. So, we kind of went, we started off with the way that it was gonna look first, the way that it was gonna appeal to the community before actually really thinking about the systematizing of everything. And we actually talked to one of our graphic artists that the Friends of the Library supported and paid for and we have our beautiful logo there so that if anybody sees this in the community, they know that this is the Hayward Public Library's seed lending library. So, our motto is grow each share. So, being able to plant seeds, to grow them and to eventually save the seeds and share them. And what we really had to think about doing as we started to develop this, we had to think about community support. We needed volunteers to be able to help develop this and somebody who really had an expertise with seed saving and with gardening in general. So, we were able to reach out, so I oversee an educational program, 21st century learning centers and I actually have two Alameda County master gardeners, Lo and Behold, who I've had relationships with for about six years. So, they were really interested and were very much excited to be a part of this and to incorporate Alameda County master gardeners into what we were doing. So, it was nice to really draw in their perspective and see what their vision for this was. So, we created a very brief checkout system here because as we said, we didn't want this to be a burden on the person who was gonna be on desk. We wanted this to be maintained by the community. So, first time users, we developed a seed lending library membership form. I don't have pictures of all of this stuff, but if you guys wanna check it out on our website, all of this stuff is available and we urge you to take a look at it and to tweak it to fit your own libraries here, which Sally will talk more about here in a moment. But to fill out a membership form and there's that actual little drop box that they put the membership form in that we have a volunteer enter in the forms usually on a weekly basis. And to look into the seed catalog and see what they wanted, it's like going shopping. We didn't actually put the seed packets. We received a large donation from Richmond Grows. They were nice enough to actually give us a large quantity of some of their surplus to get started, which is what got us started here. So, our volunteers from the master gardeners came in, they sorted all of our seeds and we actually created our own envelopes because we were worried that the public was gonna come in and just take the entire thing of seeds. We had to educate them. They only need four or five seeds to get started with a garden. So we had to really start with educating the community first on what this resource actually is. So they take home seeds, two or three seeds from each of the plants that they wanna grow and to label the envelopes so that they know what seeds they're taking home to grow. Then they complete a seed lending library borrowing form. So this is on the honesty factor. I mean, really, we've had great success where they're just logging. We don't ask for a specific name. They can give us their first name. They log what seeds they took and the different varieties that they did take and the date that they did so. And we have created getting started and how to save seed brochures. So we wanted to educate the publics on a pamphlet that they could actually take home. Here's pictures of our Alameda County master gardeners, Nancy on the left and Gail on the right, who we're just phenomenal people to work with and continue to be. Here's a copy of our getting started brochure. So within our population, yes, there's a lot of people who do have a lot of experience in gardening and planting seeds and seed saving, but there's also a large population that doesn't know anything about it. A lot of families who live in apartments who oftentimes the feedback would be, well, I don't have a yard to grow seeds in. Well, let's show you how you can do this at home. You can still grow some of these seeds inside if you have the proper setup for this. So our goal was to start off with the basics. So the getting started brochure, we actually utilized an ESL dictionary to define some of gardening terms that they may need for learning this process because I found myself reading some of these definitions and maybe a little bit more confused after I read the definitions. So, you know, we collaborated and we tried to really develop some vocabulary in common language around what we're doing. We also gave them the seven steps on how to plant your seeds at home.  How deep are you supposed to actually plant these seeds? How often are you supposed to water them? So this was just the basics here. And so when somebody fills out the library membership form, they're also taking this brochure with them. And then we have the how to save seeds brochure.  This is a process, this evolves. And we're still in the process, which Sally's gonna talk to you about in educating the public on what seed saving is. You know, so our first steps that we focused on the last year and a half are getting people actually acclimated to what the system is and to plant seeds, right? Because sometimes you can just go to a nursery and buy the little seedlings and get started already. We're encouraging them to use the seeds. But we created just from the master gardeners and some of their knowledge and their resources, giving them ideas on how to save seeds, wet seeds versus dry seeds. And with the goal of that is actually all around. So the seed lending library, we had to create some sort of goal, right? To put on all of our brochures and something to really work off of here and to educate the community on. So we did a call to action piece. And the goal of the seed lending library is to increase the capacity of Hayward's community to feed itself wholesome food through education that fosters community resilience, self-reliance and a culture of sharing. So we did a press release and we thought, okay, we have our regular library patrons that come in and who've already stopped by to check out this resource. But how can we engage the greater community? We're very fortunate. We have a state college up on the hill. We have a community college. We have our very large school district. So we said, how can we engage the greater community? We need to think up an interesting launch event. So we did. So the big read, we're all familiar with the big read, correct? We put a different twist on things here and we did a seed read. And we waited actually until spring to do this. And what the goal was, we incorporated one of the well-known authors, Janice Ray who wrote The Seed Underground. And we tied that into a seed read kickoff event. So this is a whole health stable that we did here. And what the goal was, this was a five week program where on the first day we did the kickoff event and we brought all of our community partners. So remember when I said something about getting your peeps together? We got all of our peeps together and we had about 25 different organizations that came down and was available to talk to the community about mental health, about physical health, about emotional health, about, we had exercise classes. Cal State came down and led Zumba classes. We had laughter yoga going on, the different ways to engage in healthy living, active living as well. And most importantly, we did a community planting upstairs. So we created a rooftop garden outside of our library window on the second floor. And what we did is we chose seven different seed varieties that the community could choose from and plant. So we got the freshman day of service students from Cal State down in 100 volunteers here to work with the community. We got everybody who came to the kickoff event registered with a seed lending library membership forum. They got to go through, we had the little biodegradable cartons that they can actually plant the seeds into. And then in five weeks, when they came back to pick them up, just put them into their garden and the seedlings will continue to grow. So it was very successful. We had a lot of response. We brought, we partnered with Hard Heroed Area Recreation Park District and we had the bouncy houses out there. So we're just trying to put all of this emphasis on health and how it can be fun and how gardening can be fun here. And then throughout the five weeks, we did programming related to the seed underground. We did book discussion groups with that, which Sally can speak more to. We did gardening workshops, the beginner workshops. You know, everything is on this flyer here. We did cooking, healthy eating workshops. We had a Project Eek come in and they actually showed how to, through the vegetables that they were growing through the seed read kickoff event, they were given recipes on how to utilize what they're growing into their own kitchens, which was really exciting and very successful. So you're probably asking, okay, well, is there any funding available? So Kaiser, Kaiser gives back. Kaiser gives back big time in the Bay Area. So I urge you to check out the community benefits program. So we actually, we didn't think we were ready yet to apply for the grant, so we applied for the sponsorship and we actually got the sponsorship. So Kaiser donated $2,500 to this seed read kickoff event, which we used to purchase more of our gardening supplies and some more seed. Also, the friends of the library kicked over another $3,600 to support what we were doing so that we could really bump up the amount of workshops that we were gonna be offering, the supplies that would be sustainable supplies. But in 2013, Kaiser Permanente invested $1.9 billion in the community benefit programs, so which was huge. And Kaiser actually came down to our event and we had the bicycles that made the Jamba juices, which was really exciting. Here's a little bit more about Janice Ray. We had the Skype discussion. So this actually drew in another population who attended our book groups that really wanted to learn more about this seed lending library as well. And then here are some other pictures here on some of our other events that I told you about. Our cooking classes eat fresh food, Italian style. We did it geared towards teens, so we were trying to inundate all of the populations that we work with at the library. And there is our space. So we actually worked with the graphic artists as well and created a backdrop. But as you can see, it's very basic, but this very basic model is sustainable. And obviously there's staff support and Sally has been an integral part of making this program continue to grow. But the system works. It's a basic system and it continues to work and it continues to grow. So which Sally's now gonna tell you a little bit about the evolution of what we're now working on.