So just for Vermonters that aren't familiar with the situation, just why are you here today, why you want to kind of bring light to the situation and what you think they should know about? So it's a few things. There's a national day of action that's been called for and going on in solidarity with the defense of the Wallani Forest in Atlanta. This is where there's a proposed almost $100 million police training facility that would be built on the site of a 90-acre forest. And there's been sort of ongoing protests, popular unrest, in a battle both in the forest and kind of in the city council and in the press about that for a number of years now. But it's really recently hit a peak since one of the protesters was murdered by the police there, Tortuguita. As I believe the pronunciation, I don't speak Spanish, so I apologize if I get that wrong constantly. So I think the rally itself is just in solidarity with that day. And then specifically, there are a number of corporations who are really directly involved with the Atlanta Police Foundation who are funding this project. And one of those corporations, one of the prominent corporations involved in that is Cox Enterprises, which is my family's corporation. They have some active businesses in Vermont in Burlington and basically in any state. So I came to speak a little bit to my family's role in that, their role in the media, because they also sort of dominate the local media in Atlanta. And then, somewhat ironically, my sort of career in anti-police organizing in Atlanta. So I actually have a lot of familiarity with the people who are involved and some of the organizations defending the forest. And I was even directly involved with a couple of the organizations when I was down there. So I came personally to speak about that. I know there are some other groups that had words about kind of overlapping issues come today. I've come from kind of New Hampshire in Massachusetts. So I'm not as familiar with the local folks who are speaking, but I understand the broader issue and kind of what my role in coming with. You're kind of speaking about your family's funding around the project, but how would the project specifically affect people in the area in that forest? Well, I mean, to begin with, Atlanta is kind of known as a very green city, a city of trees. And this specific forest in the Southwest is known as one of the four lungs of the city. What we're also seeing at the same time is a mass displacement, overwhelmingly, of the black community in Atlanta, which was historically a black majority city and is no longer a black majority city. For instance, MLK's neighborhood, you know, the Old Fourth Ward, is basically a place with like multi-use developments, you know, loft apartments and smoothie shops and like a lot of police with like robots and cameras. And this is just an expansion of that, while they continue to under-resource all of the communities, especially the poor communities and the black communities in Atlanta. You know, there are rich white suburbs that are trying to secede and become their own cities at the same time. So it's all a systemic issue of, you know, how capitalist society is developing at this point. And these expressions of police violence are, you know, are a natural development of that. And is this kind of a battle between resources for the community versus resources for police? Like, how do you kind of view this opportunity? Yeah, resources for the people versus resources for the police who serve those who are against the people. And resources, even outside of the question of financial resources, just the devastation of such a lot, I mean, 90 acres of forest in a major city. I actually, you know, I worked next to that forest, too.  And it's a beautiful thing about what's there and that, you know, they would be setting bombs off, you know, and having kind of like militarized riot squads touring around there who are immediately going to criminalize, you know, and dominate and brutalize the communities right there in South Atlanta to make way for the next wave of investment and settlement. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it.  I mean, that you haven't addressed? Well, I just think, you know, a couple things about, you know, that I did want to highlight is that I do think the media in Atlanta has been really complicit in demonizing the people involved in defending the forest, calling them outsiders when I know they're not. And this definitely has to do with the investments that my family's company has in that and that the folks that they sit on boards with and other companies have to do with that. I'm sure companies that own your station. And then one thing I didn't mention is that this unprecedented sort of leveling of domestic terrorism charges at now at 23 more sort of young people who were at a music festival, you know, against Cop City, they've been given domestic terrorism charges with carry like hundreds of thousands of dollars of bail, you know, and like incredibly serious consequences. So that should be a trend that really disturbs people interested in any kind of civil liberty. And it's put a real need out there for people to donate to the bail fund, which is the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, if you look it up. I can't remember the link off the top of my head. But for those interested, I think it's important to donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. Thank you so much, very appreciate you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Michelle McCormick from Cooperation Vermont. And I just wanted to welcome everybody for a moment. It is just four o'clock now. And so our plan is, in general, right? Roughly speaking, is that we'll just hang out here for a little bit and let folks gather. And definitely be talking to the folks around you. Look for people that you don't know. Say hi, find out what they're working on. Network, build community, right? This is a great time and space to do that. Because I think we're all coming from different vantage points and different organizations and efforts that we're all working on. And I think the name of this game is Collaboration, Connection, Coordination. So we're going to do that for a bit. And then I think we're going to go on Walkabout. And we're going to take this party to dealer.com. Not in a problematic way. My eight-year-old is here. Say hi, Jai. He's not going to say hi. So not in a problematic way, but in a real way. And we're going to go say hi to those folks. Does anybody know why we're going to go say hi to those folks? Well, in case you don't know, right? Fergie, do you want to tell them why we're going? Or do you want me to tell them? Well, you got a mic. Because dealer.com is a division of Cox Enterprises, which is my family's privately held company, which is one of the prime investors in Cop City, and the company which dominates the Atlanta media. So I think it's worth making a statement there. Well, the folks who organize this, they just ask me a question. But I think it's a play worth having that discussion. It impacts the local economy and a lot of businesses, a lot of companies that are directly involved in this. And any cop-murder project anywhere are well-funded by whatever. All the Atlanta companies from Debo, Coat, and then Norfolk Southern, who are really deeply involved in this, which is the same company involved in East Palestine, Ohio, etc., etc. So, yeah. All right, thank you. So, I'm going to put the music on for a wee bit. I don't know if we should move over to a place where we're not standing and parking. Okay, so people need to park. Maybe over on the other side towards the actual park. Yeah. I wonder what are you looking at? Oh, it's on. Yeah, it's on. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's on. What about you? I get a round. How about yourself? I'm from Vermont, and with that I'm going to return over to Jada. We're here in Vermont. So, it's a parseroll in instruction and expansion. For those that do not know us, FreeHer is a collective of prison abolitionists and community members mobilizing against the state's efforts to build four new prisons at a cost of $250 million, beginning with a down payment of $15.5 million to start with the women's prison construction first. Even though we know there are only going to be around 10 people that have sentences longer than five years in CRCF, they're going to build a new women's prison that can hold 194 people. We're here because our struggles are extremely connected. Okay, so we're here because our struggles are extremely connected and we can see this firsthand with the fact that we are also facing carceral construction with these new prisons. What we're witnessing with Cobb City and these new constructions is the counter-revolution and opposition in action. These types of carceral projects are popping up around the country following the 2020 uprisings, many utilizing COVID relief funds to bangle their plans to further deplete our communities. Our liberation is intertwined and Cobb City illustrates the collective nature of this fight because the Atlanta grounds will serve as a training space for police departments across the country to learn to exterminate and control social movements and uprisings. Our government only plans to answer our calls for freedom with more violence and containment and that must influence how we move forward. As more and more people become displaced and have less access to social services the more we will see our community members end up in prisons. They have no public safety plans that involve nourishing communities by investing in them. They only plan to control us. We cannot wait until the state has built up all their tools of domination. It's time to rise up and push back against Cobb City with everything we've got because the construction will be detrimental for our communities, the environment and our progress towards an abolitionist future. We have tangible and real solutions for the state to follow. We hope to create a model for the rest of the country to use in response to their own efforts to move towards abolition and eliminate the need for state institutions like prisons and Cobb Cities. But we need the support of neighbors like you to get stakeholders to understand that the time for abolition is now. Please join us in our collective to build up people power. We currently need a massive amount of support around pushing our priority legislation H-445 and H-438. H-445 is a prison moratorium bill which holds prison construction for five years but not necessary repairs or maintenance and also lifts the ban on school construction we have in this state. And just so folks know state aid for school construction has been suspended for 16 years. What does that say about Vermont's priorities? Our vision is that the state invests in solutions like the ones laid out in H-438 the Alternatives to Incarceration Bill introduced by Representative Brian Cina. H-438 establishes a working group of directly impacted community members to research and develop a diverse continuum of housing wrapped in varying levels of community-based supports and services. We're hoping the creation of this continuum of housing will lead to the eventual end of use of prisons by 2030. For those that are interested please use our toolkit at the hyphen council.us backslash call vt legislator but I will have QR code so come up to me if you need them and also we will be having a rally at the State House on April 15th from one to three to build momentum around the bills and our ideas for an abolitionist future so please consider joining us in mobilizing your own networks. The vision for abolition is to build vibrant whole and strong communities. We want to see facilities in our neighborhoods with wraparound services so our people can heal with us and so that funding that is meant for harm reduction, therapy, mental health, and other supports are in our hands and not in the hands of the state or DOC. People are suffering and we need to start getting creative with our solutions. Let's pause and look out the way we do things because more carceral infrastructure is a step backwards and we must demand better for our communities. Thank you so much Jaina for that and you know while Jaina was speaking just like this this imagery for me that I could not get out of my head right is thinking about the fact that we have a high school and a Macy's in this town but we have a moratorium on school construction in the state of Vermont while these clowns and I emphasize clowns have the unmitigated audacity to already be spending money on planning for these prisons here in Vermont and you can't tell me that this isn't a calculated strategy right that this is a calculated strategy on what they're planning to do as their housing and jobs program for our future right because put your money where your mouth is and that's where they're putting their money so this is what they're planning on to address the ongoing and worsening housing crisis in this state the fact that schools are clearly having some serious issues so I just want you to think about that and I'm gonna just stop talking because I could go on what I want to do is introduce Fareed and also take this moment to thank Fareed and the People's Kitchen so very much for preparing a meal for us back at Callahan Park when we're done with this party in front of dealer.com I'll be really quick most of the criminals that we call criminals they're actually people struggling with their economic situation we all need three things we need food we need housing and we need care when we need it that's it like everybody needs that and the real criminals are people who create the economic conditions so that people are not able to meet this needs it's the causes of the world and people who benefit from prison and from the social control that prison enables so food for everybody we have more than enough we have more than enough to house everybody and we need free health care for all thank you thank you so much Fareed for that and for that food that I can already smell cooking off of him it's going to be so good okay and the next person I'm going to introduce is Chris he's really tall okay so yeah I was like I can't miss him all right so Chris from Standing Trees right and and and here is another opportunity to make some additional linkages and this linkages in the same way right this this militarized training facility in Atlanta is being built on a protected forest right where do you think these prisons that they're planning are going to be built in Vermont do you think it's going to be the Macy's work Vermont has done to try and protect its healthy soils to protect the watershed to protect the forest we really need to be like reaching across you know different organizational lines on these issues and with that thanks everyone and thank you so much to Michelle and the organizers for making this happen I just want to ground us all in really briefly another aspect of the cop city project which is the land it's going to be built on the Atlanta city council and the mayor just approved leasing 381 acres of the Wallani forest to the Atlanta police foundation for ten dollars a year I think like we all could come up with more than ten dollars maybe put in a competing lease but I don't think that's how that works and this is land that was stolen from the Muscogee people in the 1820s for much of the 20th century until as late as the 1990s it was a forced labor farm where incarcerated people worked without getting compensated it's land with so so so much trauma and now it has recently become one of the most healing places in Atlanta that is at least absorbing some of the worst impacts of climate changing climate change mitigating flooding keeping the stream full clear in the creek that it drains into providing some shade and cooler temperatures for the majority black neighborhoods nearby and they want to clear cut it all to make a cop training ground for the entire country and this kind of thing is happening in Vermont as well and that's just some of these linkages that Michelle was talking about I want to make like right across the street I'll say a sentence that's the largest private green space left in Burlington they're going to build a Nordic spa there it's poison land it's was one sacred land to the Abeneke it used to be a highly productive marshland they poisoned it now they want to build a spa on it in the intervail on an Abeneke archaeological site is the McNeil plant which burns forest from all across the state and now also we have the forest service is proposing some of the largest logging projects ever in the state right now the telephone gap project is up for debate it would be almost 12,000 acres of some of the most mature forests in the state that they want to heavily log the comment period for that is four more days so you can see Laura who's walking around handing out fires in the black pants and jacket raising your hand you should talk to Laura if you want to leave a comment there's already been over 600 we're building momentum for that and again these issues are all related destruction of forest destruction of nature and destruction of each other so stop cop city and build a common car next we're going to have Andy who's going to talk to us more about these conservation efforts hey my name is Andy I haven't planned to say anything today but we're standing in front of the barge canal I've been working with a group called friends of the barge canal and it's not just going to be a bathhouse here it's going to be a bowling alley over there and the thing is that this barge canal and I don't want to go into this very long but this this area right here is a sacrifice zone it's been used as a sacrifice zone since 1849 for the prosperity of burlington industry there was lumber yards there was a manufactured gas plant this here was you know brush factory there was upholstery there was general dynamics and bell aircraft over there they all dumped stuff in this area and since 1966 when they closed the manufactured gas plant it's rewilding by itself and since 1992 when the people of burlington rose up and said to the EPA no you can't take all of this soil and water and put it into a toxic waste dump over next to Lake Champlain people actually organized and kept the EPA from doing that and for the first time ever the EPA had to shelve their plan for quote remediating this area this is why when you look out there now you see trees you see beavers and deer and muskrat and herons and it actually is as Chris said the biggest wild space in burlington right now so keep your ears open for efforts that we're doing over the next uh three months to organize around this barge canal friends of the barge canal dot com i mean by dot org and um uh you know uh it is all connected but uh i couldn't avoid saying something's interesting right here thank you thank you so much for that and uh speaking of sacrifice zones you know one of the biggest sacrifice zones that i can think of is the entire working class right and and it just continues to get worse and worse and worse as we're facing absolutely you know and i don't think this is my humble opinion right there's an entire international community of scientists that are telling us that we are facing ecological and climate disaster right as these corporations continue to try and extract every single i almost swore he's here he's heard worse every single possible thing that they can out of the planet and the working class and with that related to dealer dot com and literally related to cox enterprises my favorite absolute favorite class trader and uh furgy would you like to come address the crowd hello i haven't been a burlington in 20 years the last time i came here the iraq war started the next day and i got arrested on the new york side but i just moved to new hampshire uh i actually wanted to ask if we could uh just have a moment to acknowledge manuel tortuguita paella saran uh which i probably butchered the pronunciation of but the forest defender who was murdered by atlanta police um when things really recently escalated for sitting in a tree so we could just have uh not a whole minute but just a little moment of silence uh to remember uh them first i'm somebody who personally lost two people to police violence since i got involved in opposing police violence um so it gets really real when it gets really real um but my name is james cox chambers junior everyone knows me as furgy uh i live in new hampshire i work as a journalist and an organizer i'm uh in a leadership position of a very small organization called the berkshire communists in western massachusetts and i mostly manage our free martial arts and self defense program and i'm part of our political education um we're also developing a journal but above all my occupation in life is attempting to leverage the skills connections and resources that i was lucky to end up with towards furthering revolutionary consciousness in this region in this country and strategically allocating and redistributing the pile of generationally stolen wealth that i was born out of by origin disconnected i am from the class of people who dominates and exploits the masses and who sets the rules and standards in our society in this country and in an age of in an age of advanced imperialism or what hui newton would call reactionary intercommunalism this really extends to the entire globe right we make the rules i'm a member of the cox family who depending on who you where you look or who you ask falls somewhere in the top 10 richest families in the united states as a family we have complete private ownership of cox enterprises incorporated which is headquartered in atlanta which includes one of the largest cable and internet internet providers in the country manheim auto auctions auto trader kelly blue book dealer dot com uh a large investment in rivian cloud technology for surveillance with the department of defense and a slew of tv and radio stations and newspapers including the only paper of note in atlanta the atlanta journal constitution and the largest tv and radio stations in that city we also similarly to this swap field newspaper building to the city for free in exchange for tax breaks and i believe they built a cyber crimes uh surveillance research facility in that building um we as a company uh have hosted many events for the atlanta police foundation which is the organization behind this cop city project which seeks to annihilate 90 acres of forest in southwest atlanta which is known as one of the city's four lungs in order to build a police training ground five times the size of anything the nypd has access to access to my first cousin alex taylor who is the ceo of cox currently occupies an honorary chair position on the on the police foundation the extent of his actual involvement is unclear to me but i know he and other high ups at cox and other atlanta corporations have access to regular updates and intel on the project uh and have significant influence with every city and state office my father james cox chamber senior who doesn't work for cox but is a primary owner is also part of the state farm arena ownership group who own the atlanta hawks they are also a major funder of the atlanta police foundation let me back up one second there's been a lot of chatter as usual about the diversity of tactics used by our comrades defending that forest down in atlanta a lot of this shit we heard during fergusson george floyd about peaceful versus non-peaceful process condemnation of quote violence and predictably mainstream emphasis on love in civil society well who made the rules in that civil society connected who benefits from those rules i'm going to go back to hui one more time and i'm quoting hui newton here we condemn violence but we make a distinction between the violence of the aggressor and the self-defense of the people he goes on the only way the people of the world can resolve the contradiction between love and defense is to reverse the dominance at which point we can keep the love and get rid of the gun in the end the national movement against police violence and truly the international revolutionary struggle is all about this dynamic the reality that the violence unleashed upon the people of the world by the dictatorship of capital which is centered in this country cannot be overcome by simply reforming our system and asking daddy nicely to give us more toys and more rights anyone who's had to face the violence of the state head on understands this and that's why i ended up where i did in spite of my family when i was young really because of my family's resources i was subjected to all forms of institutional violence state medical police etc i grew up in the northeast but i moved to atlanta in 2012 to work for my family's company for a year when i was like 20 um it was in southwest atlanta next to the wilani forest uh the workers were mercilessly exploited there their hours were manipulated there were mass layoffs during the recession while my family profited in the billions i left that after a year and i came back to atlanta in 2012 and this is when my time in organizing really began mostly centered around the issues of police terrorism we worked through the spontaneous uprisings of ferguson valtimore charlotte baton rouge minneapolis charleston we organized jail support and direct actions back in atlanta we opened a gym and meeting space which didn't allow cops or active military and we caught some heat and death threats for it then i was at standing rock where we faced incredibly brutal state violence from federal local uh all sorts of jurisdictions and from g4s the largest private security firm on earth which has private prisons in louisiana which holds children in solitary confinement and occupied palestine and which does corporate security for a million corporations including cox um and i came back north and started some projects up here uh during the george floyd uprising i was arrested with 320 people in mott haven in the bronx and all of us were beaten new york city just awarded each of us 21 000 in a settlement for what happened after that when they suspended our rights for more than 24 hours um but it's not coming from the police pension fund which i wanted to mention this it should come from the new york city police pension fund and not from tax may or money in new york um i've been in war zones that were torn up by bombs from the u.s so with this and a lot of training and education from revolutionaries especially from the black radical tradition um this is how i came to orient myself as someone aiming for class tradership and why i feel so strongly about this issue um and these are are my friends and comrades who are down there fighting this fight a lot of them so that my family's paper may claim that there are outside agitators that are doing this and this is bullshit um these are the people of atlanta of all varieties saying no and surveillance state which has already displaced enough black atlanans that the once black majority in the city is now gone that martin luther king's neighborhood is nothing but multi-use development smoothie joints surveillance cameras and cops on scooters in riot gear brought to you by the convergence of ruling class interest aka the atlanta way where policy is determined by backs room deals the real estate industry and the hedge funds who dominated uh who sit on boards and work the investments of corporations like cox and norfolk southern who support the enlargement of the police state to protect their hoarded assets who destroy the communities in the ecosystems which have existed for generations um and the people opposing these measures are the workers and the students and the clergy and the hustlers and the mothers and the down on their luck and everyone in that city who didn't get lucky enough to be born on top and this is truly the american way across the board and this is the last bit i'll go on before the importance of what you know uh the calls to action that obviously my relationship to my family and the company has always been uneasy but this complicity in cop city and then the criminal nature of our media's coverage uh of the whole episode which at this point has cost one innocent life and threatens the well-being and freedom of dozens more many of whom are now charged with domestic terrorism for going to a concert or sitting in a tree um where the uh to the point where the bail fund that i used to help run uh has seen hits that we never thought imaginable like hundreds of thousands of dollars a person um you know facing like really serious sentences for doing nothing once things got to this point i made the final decision to do everything i could to divest from any association personally from my family's company legally i can't discuss the aspects of this any further but i encourage everyone who can do that in any capacity to do the same so workers in any cox companies whether it's right here at dealer.com in burlington vermont um whether it's a guy i saw driving a kelly blue book car on the way on 89 from new hampshire uh down in atlanta at the ajc driving the cable vans in phoenix you can stage work slowdowns sick outs or stoppages customers of any of cox's businesses can take their business elsewhere and tell them why and anyone can write to alex taylor my cousin the ceo to james cox kennedy the chairman to my father james cox chambers senior his sisters margaret ataylor and kathy reyner or his cousin blair this is the generation of people who hold power in that company and could tell the mayor to stop this right now if they wanted to um and could certainly divest publicly and could certainly make the media stop telling a bunch of lies about the people who are trying to say before it um uh i publicly asked my family to disavow this cop city project and i urge anyone with any connection to any of the corporations involved to do the same the cooperation of cox's media with the mayor and the pd's agenda has been seamless this is something no one ever voted for and the rest of the media have followed suit this has enabled them to maintain a ridiculous narrative and especially to trump up these incredibly dangerous domestic terrorism charges and what's the answer to this plague of police terrorism i would say that we cannot reform a system which is doing the work it is intended to do we know that this system will try to annihilate anything and anyone who meaningfully challenges it that is why tortugita is dead that is why martin luther king malcolm and hui are dead why asada shakor flew to cuba but while andy young became an ambassador and john lewis served in the senate approving every military budget he ever saw because they played ball with my family in georgia we don't need to fund stuff like this billions at cop training billions at militarization billions to send ukrainians and russians to be cannon fodder and no resources to our communities food schools housing simple shit and yeah we need community control over police but we need community control over government infrastructure and the means and rules of production so long as the police work for the rich and this is a system dominated by the rich for profit the police cannot be reformed to serve the people and the prisons cannot be a place of healing and rehabilitation the system right now must end and the displays of resistance and power we've seen in places like ferguson standing rock and willow knee forest show us that this is very possible that there will always be more of us than there are of them i encourage everyone to join a revolutionary organization today to join a revolutionary study group because if we are not organized we can never convert these moments of spontaneous uprising into sustainable power and if you have some means because we all know that the champagne left has a huge presence up in new england throw that shit down on these bell funds because it's unprecedented of atl solidarity dot org on that sign as much money as you can i've donated a lot to various groups down there community movement builders other grassroots groups the bail fund especially after this d domestic terrorism stuff i did want to encourage people to attend the anti-war rally in dc that's coming up on march 18th there are a lot of groups involved in that um and to speak to someone from one of the groups who spoke today uh if you want to get involved my message from the one percent as always is that we are paper tigers that the masses make history and that you should come and take what's yours from us all power to our comrades in atlanta all power to the memory of tortugita and much love to everyone here let's build a movement they can't stop thank you so much what do i want to say here a couple of things one is as you've you know seen just from the speaker lineup here that there's a variety of different organizations who oftentimes you know get very focused on the particular issues that we are working on why because there are a lot of work right takes a lot of effort but sometimes that does tend to make us very siloed in the way that we organize and the other organizations that we work with and i am just you know that this is my mantra for 2023 is set the bullshit aside right we as a movement need to actually be a movement right we need to be using all of the tools in our toolbox a variety of tactics and a variety of skill sets as a history of the left oftentimes we you know shoo shoo on people who focus on policy work and the people who focus on policy work you know shoo shoo on the people who are much more involved in direct action right and then everything in between we have to be using a variety of tactics we have to be showing up for each other we have to be taking a very broad based approach to how we're seeing the interconnectivity of these issues and working together right we have to coalition build we have to work together i don't want to hear anything about the people's front of judia or the liberated front of the people who knows that reference am i just fucking getting old okay there's like four of us in here that know that okay so anyway tough crowd so with that i just want to thank everybody again so much for coming up today and showing up and i want you to be on the lookout and be prepared and to be prepared to move faster than sometimes that we often do because especially in vermont with our weather all the things and the distances that people have to travel to get anywhere to do anything and the types of roads that we're having to travel on it can be tough right so we're often you know planning long times in advance to do things but the urgence we have to be able to meet the urgency of the moment we're going to have to be flexible we're going to have to be agile we're going to have to be prepared to do that so just beyond the lookout there's going to a couple of things that are coming up in in april free her is going to be planning an event in Montpelier so keep an eye out for that be prepared to be involved right and and and i'm sure stop cop city is just going to continue especially over the summer to heat up right and one thing i know about vermonters and how deep you know some of the folks here have skill sets um you know i think that you know we need to be starting to organize in our affinity spaces and circles to possibly make a trip when the call is made to do a thing right there's some discussion that this could escalate to another standing rock and uh i know folks in vermont have awesome skill sets to be able to do the things mutual aid work so i have a feeling we're going to have a strong contingency there i'd like to make that a thing so anyway thank you all so much we're going to head back the direction that we came and we're going to go and have a dinner with the people's kitchen it's so awesome awesome thank you so much


Well firefighters have made major progress in battling a wildfire located near Greenbush in Roseau County. The last report from fire officials this morning listed the fire at 90% contained. The fire started on Sunday night and has consumed about 4,000 acres of land although no structures were affected. Crews are currently doing a mop up of the area. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


I'm Genevieve Robles, Director of Talent Experience here at KBS New York, and these are some pro tips to help you jumpstart your career. So an important first step is going to events, and don't get frustrated or disappointed if you walk away from that event without an interview or a job or something like that. What you are walking away with is a connection and someone who will remember you. So if there's an opportunity two weeks in the future, six months down the line, a year, that person just may remember you and give you a call. That work above but also across. So if you're reaching out to people who are aspirational to you, that you want to eventually grow into a role in your career that's similar to them, awesome. But also reach out to people who work at the companies you're interested in. A lot of people have gotten their start by having a casual conversation with someone, meeting up for coffee, and probably want to pay it forward when they have the opportunity to. So try to make connections all across the company you're interested in. Be yourself. Be prepared to talk about who you are outside of the passion for the job you're going for and who you are in and outside of the workplace. If you love a good dance class, talk about it.   And while you're at it, clean up your social media. Make sure that the image you're portraying out there is one that you want potential employers to see and love. Pack your lunch. Food gets expensive around here. Go grocery shopping, meal prep, plan, save your money for maybe that art class you want to take or a fun activity with other people so you can bond and network. Be patient while developing your own way and your own voice. Success is a journey, not a destination. A lot of us don't start out doing the thing that we're ultimately going to master in our careers. And it's okay to start something, maybe figure out you like something else and pivot the other way. Just be patient. These are some tips to help you jumpstart your career. This is advice that I would normally give recent grads or folks that are maybe pivoting and going for a new role. But overall, just remember, you got this.


Hello and welcome back to another episode of Physics Partner. Today we delve into the captivating world of Bernoulli's principle. Let's commence by paying homage to the ingenious mind behind this profound concept. Born in 1700s, Switzerland, Daniel Bernoulli was a true visionary. His groundbreaking formulation was based on the principle of fluid mechanics, which forever transformed our understanding of fluid motion. Now let's dive into the very essence of this principle. Bernoulli's principle states that as the speed of a fluid increases, the pressure exerted by the fluid decreases. This principle reigns supreme in a multitude of remarkable phenomena and everyday examples. One such fascinating application lies within the realm of aviation. The principle of Bernoulli plays a pivotal role in enabling airplanes to defy gravity and so through the heavens. As air speeds over that curved top surface of a wing, it accelerates and generates lower pressure compared to the air below. This pressure differential creates lift, allowing magnifying flying machines to conquer the skies. Prepare to be amazed against as we witness the magic of Bernoulli at work in the realm of race cars. The streamlined designs shaped meticulously to manipulate airflow. Exemplify the principle to gain a competitive edge. By exploiting the pressure differential, these engineering marvellous hug the ground, enabling greater speed and stability through the marvels of Bernoulli's principle. Now it's time to explore everyday applications. Ever wondered how perfume gracefully dances into the air with the push of a button? Well, you guessed it, right? Bernoulli is also the driving force behind this fragment phenomenon. As air is forced through a narrow vent, its speed increases resulting in lower pressure. This creates a suction that draws the fragrance upward and disperses it like a blossoming bouquet. So there you have it, the captivating world of Bernoulli's principle, which spends centuries and shape the way we live, travel and marvel at the magic around us. Take a moment to appreciate the immense power of this concept. It's truly extraordinary.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at a Beretta APX Centurion. Midsize pistol from Beretta. The APX models had become a whole line of handguns. They originally started with the full size with the four and a quarter inch barrel back in the spring of 2017 and since then they came out with a compact and a Centurion. Now this is a 3.7 inch barrel with 15 round mags. The compact has the same upper with 13 round mags so a shorter grip and then they came out with the carry model which is a subcompact APX. But from its initial launch people took notice with the slide serrations. I don't think they're serrations. I don't know what else to call them bumps or whatever. I called that a bold move from Beretta because I've never seen anything like it before. Now it's become quite common but you can pretty much manipulate the slide anywhere on it because you have those bumpy serrations. How about if we go with that? Nice grip. These are grip modules. I'm going to show you that. Now I picked this up locally and it's it's like new. Like the owner said probably a couple mags through it. That was it. But if you go with this you're looking at on average about 360 bucks. Now it used to be around $500 so it's gone toward a budget price and I guess I could add this in my budget series right? Beretta doesn't give an MSRP on the site. Two 15 round mags, a cleaning brush and grip modules. Two others along with the one that's installed and a 3.7 inch barrel. A bit wide with the slide width. Grip not bad. Nice ergonomic feel to it. And 15 round mags does have a rail right there. They now make them optic ready. It is a modular gun so they have the serialized chassis right there. You could add a flat dark earth OD green, a gray frame if you want. People are doing that and they like that flexibility. I really don't care about that kind of stuff to be honest with you but I know a lot of people do. Nice bag deployment by the way. Check that out. Come flying out there. Three dot sights. A larger front dot. Two rear all steel sights. And a pretty nice trigger. I've always liked the APX. I like the full size. When I first got my hands on that I thought that was very cool. I like the compact. I you know same idea. 13 round mags. I didn't fall in love with it. I think I like this better. You know you get a full three finger contact on the pistol. I think I'm gonna like this better. If I didn't think that I wouldn't have picked it up. But the trigger pull is right around six pounds. It doesn't have a trigger bar safety there. You're looking at a six pound trigger with a audible and fairly short reset. And I've never had a problem with the trigger. Let's get it on the scale. It's weighing a little bit on the heavier side for a compact size gun. You know they call the the other one a compact. One pound 11 ounces just ounces. 27 but we'll go with 15 rounds here. 33 and a quarter. Add the carry around. 33 and three quarters is what we're looking at. One of the issues with the APX models is the disassemble. And the reason I say it's an issue is because I have noticed from my own experiences that it's a bit inconsistent. This button here needs to be pushed all the way in. Now when I had my compact model which is essentially the same thing I could just push that in. I make a little headway there but I can't get it to actually lock. My other one I could. And it was really easy. So I'm going to use the help of a punch and push that in and get it to lock. At this point this needs to come down. Now it kind of it doesn't want to go down easily. So what I'm going to do I had to I had to learn this. I'm just going to shake it a little bit. Make sure it's out a little bit. Shake it all the way until it goes all the way down and then off comes the slide. So if I force it I feel like I'm doing something to put stress on the internals. Here we have a steel guide rod dual recoil spring and a 3.7 inch barrel. Not too bad. I had to play around with it to figure it out. And I'm thinking how come this isn't breaking down as easy as the full size did or the compact size does. And then I remember people saying oh the disassemble on these are horrible. I was thinking I don't get it. Like what are these people not understand? Well now I get it. Okay so you bring it back to this position. You can go ahead and charge it. It'll go halfway. You'll see that the guide rod sticks out a little bit. Just kind of force it up a little bit. That'll go flush and it is reassembled. Budget series. I'm I'm convinced of it. I would not have said this three years ago because the MSRP back when they actually listed it was in the mid 500s. It was selling 500, 5.25. Now you're seeing it in the mid 300s. They make them red dot ready. Those are more. They make a full size called the combat with a threaded barrel and red dot ready. This is a standard APX Centurion with a 15 round magazine. Nice grip. I'm going to keep this same module on here because I like the way it feels. But I think it's a pretty cool gun. I'm going to get this to the range hopefully this weekend and check it out. I'll certainly record it so you can check it out too. If you like videos like this please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


The Johnson-Wax program, Words at War with Clifton Faderman. The makers of Johnson's Wax for home and industry in cooperation with the Council on Books and War Time proudly presents Words at War, dramatizations of the most representative books to come out of this great world conflict. And once again tonight we have with us one of America's foremost radio personalities, a man who knows good books, a well-known author himself, Mr. Clifton Faderman. Tonight's headlines tell you that we're winning the war, that soon the Nazi machine will crumble and disintegrate forever. But will it? Is this the end of the war or just the beginning of the next? Tonight's program will attempt to answer that question. We'll tell you something about book and author as soon as Jack Costello finishes a brief message from our sponsors. When your friends or neighbors drop in for a visit, isn't it strange how often they drift back to the kitchen? And isn't it nice when they can compliment you on how clean and sparkling everything looks? You know it's a great step in that direction when your linoleum floors are protected with Johnson's self-polishing glow coat. Then they're always presentable, always looking their best. Glow coat not only gives linoleum a lovely polish, but it keeps the colors fresh and new looking, and it saves you many hours of work because glow coat needs no rubbing or buffing. You simply apply and let dry, and glow coat does the rest. It's well to realize also that the regular use of Johnson's self-polishing glow coat makes linoleum last six to ten times longer. That's important today when we need to make our things last. All right, Mr. Padiman? Tonight's Words at War program is based on Kurt Reese's book, The Nazis Go Underground. We'll introduce this authentic expose by what's known in radio as a teaser scene. Listen, this is taking place all over Germany today. Listen and see what you make of it. Well, how do you like your new job at the hospital, Hans? Fine, Fitz. They will certainly never look for us here, huh? Everything satisfactory with your new job at the fire department here, Casper? Oh, yeah, yeah. Everything satisfactory, Herr Schmidt. Say, I hear you're working at the Red Cross now, Albert. Yeah, the Red Cross is a good place to be, too. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Simply people changing their jobs, eh? But it's not quite as innocent as it sounds. What's it all about? Well, that's what we're here to tell you tonight. Our story proper begins in Berlin, in May of 1943, in the library of one of Germany's leading industrialists. The industrialist, Helutlis Gerhardt, the girl, his daughter and private secretary, Liesel Gerhardt. The ticker, a bearer of bad news. They have captured Novorossist. The Russians are ten miles northeast of the city. You know what it means, Liesel? Nevertheless, we will win, Papa. The Fuhrer said in his speech last week. What's the matter, Papa? What does it say? Gerhardt has fallen. Our troops have surrendered in Africa. The Africa Corps surrendered. But when? How did it happen? We thought the campaign was going on schedule in Africa, but we were winning. The Fuhrer said... Never mind what the Fuhrer said. I must get to General Becker. What did you say? Never mind, Liesel. All you do is grumble, grumble. The Fuhrer said... I said never mind, Liesel. Now get those memos out right away. Don't forget you must be ready to leave in ten minutes. Why? Because you have a meeting with Herr Krupp and Baron von Schnitzler at Chateau-Ugel for two o'clock. I've already ordered the car. Oh, yes, yes, of course. Slipped my mind completely. Oh, I'm so tired.  All right, get me... Yes? What do you want, Gerta? What's wrong, Mama? This telegram team just now, from the War Department. I thought you might want to see it. What is it? Read it. Hans. Hans is dead. Killed on the Russian front. Like a common person. Fools, imbeciles. Why don't they stop this slaughter? Why do they continue fighting when they know there's no more hope? Don't you know why, Ludwig? Ask yourself that question. Who killed your son, Hans? Who killed your son, Kurt? Who? I have no time for your idle questions, woman. I have no time. No, of course not. You have only this time to start the war. You have only the time to make plans to rule the world.  Quiet! Not another word! Do you hear? I think the way both of you are carrying on is absolutely disgusting. And contrary to all national socialist principles, you should be proud of Hans. He died serving the Fuhrer on the field of honor. There is no greater reward for the use of Germany. To think, Liesl, that you were once my daughter and that you, Ludwig, used to be a man I respected for his integrity. Let's leave the Gehrhardt family now and join Herr Ludwig Gehrhardt in his important meeting. This meeting took place in the middle of May 1943, only last year, at Chateau Hugo. Among those present were Krupp, head of the famous Krupp munitions works, Baron George von Schnitzler, chairman of the board of directors of IG Farben, and Fat Herr Otto Piech, the owner of the biggest machine factory in Germany. What happened? Well, listen, you'll be interested. Herr Krupp is speaking. Gentlemen, for all purposes the war may be considered as lost on all fronts. Therefore, we must take measures to preserve the Nazi movement, so that if you say... Did you say preserve the Nazi movement happened Krupp? Correct, Herr Gehrhardt. But now that the war is lost, I can see no point in preserving the Nazi movement. May I remind you, Gehrhardt, that all the industrialists of Germany, including yourself, have done very well under the Nazi party. Perhaps you forget, Gehrhardt, that it was Hitler who liberated us from the threat of the Workers' Union. That's right. Saying nothing, of course, of the taxes, which are lower for us than in England and America. I am not arguing that point. But now we see that Naziism has failed. What reason is there to preserve them? You've overlooked something, Gehrhardt. It's always been the destiny of the German industrialists to rule the world. This destiny must be fulfilled. If not in this war, then in the next. The next war? Naturally. We must plan for that at once. But do you realize what you are saying, Baron von Schnitzel? Another war will result in... Another war will result in Germany's ruling the world. We weren't sufficiently prepared for this one, but we shall be for the next. I agree, Baron. Well, I don't. I am opposed to it. Utterly and unequivocally opposed. The idea is insane preposterous. That's enough, Gehrt. You forget yourself. You will do as we say. I think Gehrhardt understands, Baron. He is overwrought naturally because of the death of his son. Well, gentlemen, I propose we go to him, lad, once with this idea. Agreed. Absolutely. I'm for it. How about you, Gehrhardt? I am opposed. But you will follow all the same. Yes. I will follow. That was on May 10th, 1943. Six days later, at Gestapo headquarters, Heinrich Himmler called in his henchmen. Hi, Hitler. Hi, Hitler. Sit down. Hi, Smier. I will be with you in just a moment. Thank you. Herr Gehrhardt and I are having a most interesting conversation. Now, Herr Gehrhardt, you are certain. You are absolutely certain. You did not express any reasonable statements against the Führer and the Party at the meeting at Chateau Hügel on May 10th. I am sure if you will ask her von Krupp, Baron von Schnitzel, that will not be necessary. It so happens, Herr Gehrhardt, that we had dictaphones at that meeting, dictaphones to record everything you said. Well, what have you to say now? Why, it's nothing, nothing at all. You must believe me. I didn't mean to think I was upset. You see, my son... Enough. You are lucky, Herr Gehrhardt.  But I warn you, watch your step. Do you hear that, Herr Ludwig Gehrhardt? Watch your step. Yes, Herr Himmler. That's all? You may go now. Yes, Herr Himmler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Why didn't you shoot him, Herr Himmler? Time enough for that, Kaltenbunne. You may need him in the future. Now, fellow Party members, you may be brief and to the point. The news from the front is bad. It is possible that Germany will be defeated on the military front. It is even possible that Germany will have to capitulate. But never must the National Socialist Party capitulate. That is what we have to work for from now on. You are absolutely correct, Herr Himmler. The National Socialist Party must go on. Yes, yes, yes. The plan we have worked out is simple and direct. A new front is to be opened in Germany. And this new front will be the underground. Underground? Yes, Kaltenbunne underground, but well organized because we have time to prepare. Excuse me, Herr Himmler. But I don't quite follow. How will the Party members be able to work after we are defeated? It's quite obvious, Kaltenbunne, if you will only stop and think. What will happen when the Allied military government takes over? There are a great number of irreplaceable government organizations which they must of necessity let alone. For example, the numerous health departments. If there is any interference with them, the whole country, and this includes invading troops, might be swept by an epidemic. Wunderbar, Herr Himmler. How many Party members can we assign under this plan? I'm sure we can hide away between two and three hundred thousand men in plans, city administrations and so forth. Party members will be assigned to fire departments and activities. They will sit in tax collectors' offices in the police force, in the railways, mails, and even in the Red Cross. But who will their lives deal with when Germany capitulates? They take steps to kick certain high officials and businessmen out of the Party like Fritz Teessen and Schacht. They resend to Sweden, Switzerland, the United States. Once these men appear to be no longer in the good graces of the Party, no one will become acceptable to the allied military government. When will this work of going underground begin? At once. When the allies march on Berlin, we shall be ready for them. And now that we've met our principal players, let's go on and see how the master plan was put into operation. Let's see how the Gestapo organized the Nazi underground. Hi Hitler. Members of the German Women's Bund. These are the tasks which we must undertake for the coming National Socialist Underground. One, special training of stenographers, typists, clerks, in short of all female personnel likely to be used by the allied military government. Two, the training of young girls to disseminate our propaganda to foreign soldiers. Three, the training of women... From Konstantin Hill to General von Brauchich. Subject discharge of men from army. The following men, list attached, are to be discharged from the Reichswehr at once and are to be shifted to the maintenance of roads. This is to take place at once. Members of the Ordensburg-Santhofen. Today we shall take up our propaganda work in the United States. Miller? Yes, Herr Schmidt. Miller, whom would you attempt to contact if you were in the United States? I would try to reach Fritz Kuhn. To Kuhn? I'll make arrangements for you to be shipped to the Russian front. Schultz? Yes, Herr Schmidt? Why is this answer so completely idiotic? Because Kuhn is too much identified with our movement. Very well. Whom would you pick, Schultz? I would contact the real Americans who were friendly to our beliefs before the war. Good. But how would you know them? Well, I would look at their records. Yes, yes. And I would pick those who are anti-Semitic. Fine, fine. And those who have fostered all kind of racial hatred. Excellent. Any more? Yes, and the members of those many organizations which have been advocating a negotiated peace. Very good, Schultz. We'll arrange for your passage to Argentina and from there you will go to the United States. Schultz will be our underground representative in America. This is Flippton Faderman bringing you Words at War in behalf of the makers of Johnson's Wax.  We've seen how the Nazi underground has been organized, with trusted Nazis being installed in key spots which the Allies would not be likely to disturb places like health departments and so forth. Now, how will the German industrialists figure in this master plan? Let's go back to Herr Gerhardt and his family. In June of 1944, Herr Gerhardt was undergoing a typical experience in Germany, an air raid. He was getting a taste of his own medicine. Those blasted air raids, I can't stand them. Day and night, air raids, air raids, air raids. They're coming closer, Ludwig. The British and the Americans coming closer.  If I could only get out to Switzerland, Sweden. Hello. Huh? Yes, who is it? This is Himmler. Oh, Herr Himmler.  I didn't expect... I have some good news. You have? Yes, it has come. A chance to escape. They are sending us to Spain. I would like it very much, Herr Himmler. Very much. Oh, at once, right away, anytime you say. Good. Run away? Of course not. Why should I want to run away? Naturally, you can trust me, Herr Himmler. Naturally. Travel expensive? But, but I'm perfectly willing to pay my own. Must see general back at once. See general? That is their plan. What makes you think, Herr Gerhard, that such a thing would be bad? That the generals are not planning the same thing. The same thing? Do you think we will accept defeat? Crawl before the Allies. Forget our plans for conquest in the world. But nevertheless, general, the Nazi party is not working with you, but against you. You weren't consulted about this underground plan. Why then should you want to save Hitler's skin? Your own skin, yes. But why this? He is the one who is responsible for our defeat. He is the one who has countermanded your orders, brushed aside your advice, your experience. You said so yourself, general Dan. So, now you propose that I organize a revolt among the generals. Oh, I didn't say revolt, general, but... But what? If you can get him out of the way. I see. And you? What is your function in this, Herr Gerhard? You will play safe while we do the dirty work, is that it? No, no, no, of course not. I shall, of course, back you up to the fullest extent. Once he is out of the way, I shall be in favor of your taking control. I have friends who feel the same way, who will lend all necessary assistance. Do I make myself clear, general Beck? Oh, quiet. Then you agree? I will give you a proposal my utmost consideration, Herr Gerhard. We don't know whether general Beck ever carried out the plans suggested by Herr Ludwig Gerhard, but we do know this. They are coming. I'll be arrested. I must get away. You will have to help me, Jetta. Help me get away. We'll both go away. We'll fly to Switzerland. You must get to Liesl. Tell her to have the plane ready to meet us. I, Ludwig? Yes, you, don't stand there. There's no time. Take the car. It isn't safe to use a telephone. No, Ludwig. I will not. I will not help you. What? You have created a monster. And now he has come to crush you. All you wanted was money, power. As long as you got it through them, you were satisfied. You were satisfied no matter what the consequences, no matter how many people you killed, including your own flesh and blood. Stop it. Stop it, Jetta. Now you will take the medicine. I've been waiting for that for a long time. They are here. They are here, Jetta. Open the door, Ludwig. Let them in. They are your friends. But, Jetta, don't you want to help me? Open the door, Ludwig. All right, Jetta. I shall never forget this. Never. Herr Himmler. Herr Himmler. Well, aren't you going to invite us in, Herr Gerhard? Of course, of course. Come in, gentlemen. Thank you. Good day, Herr Gerhard. Now, what is this I hear about you not liking us any more, Ludwig?  Why, that's ridiculous, Herr Himmler. I never said anything of that kind. Never. Of course not. That's probably just a rumor. Yes. Naturally. Now imagine. Some rumor monger said you were actually connected with the attempted assassination of our Fuhrer. Imagine accusing you. I? That's really a joke. Who would ever accuse me after all I have done for the party? Oh, indeed. Except perhaps von Schnitzler and General Beck. Beck. The committee is over, Herr Gerhard. And since you are such an old friend of the party, I have taken it upon myself, too. No. No. Please. Please, Herr Himmler. Please. Yeah, but please tell them I had nothing to... That, Herr Gerhard, is what we do as traitors. Your turn will come, too, Himmler. The day is coming when you and your party will be crushed forever. Do you hear them? Their light planes are here again. Thousands of planes to blast you out.  Oh, no, Herr Gerhard.  We are all over the world in Argentina, England, Sweden, Turkey, Spain, Italy, the United States. And in Germany, we are underground already. We have burrowed so deep that their bombs will never reach us. Well, how do you like your new job at the hospital? Fine, Fritz. They will certainly never look for us here. Everything satisfactory at the fire department, Herr Kasper? Yeah. Ninety percent party members, Herr Schmidt. See, I hear you are working at the Red Cross now, Albert. Yeah. The Red Cross is a good place to be when the AMG gets here. Yes. They have burrowed so deep that their bombs will never reach us. Let them come. This is only the beginning. This is but a prelude to the war we shall win. World War III. Now, what can we do about it? I can hear the answer from thousands of lips throughout the United States, stamp out Hitlerism, crush the Nazi party once and for all, and thereby make another war impossible. But how? There is but one answer. Nazism is not only a German specialty. Nazism, fascism is as international as murder, as greed for power, as injustice, as madness. Let's remember this. When a man isn't hungry, he doesn't need a Hitler. When a man has a roof over his head, he won't listen to Hitler. When a man can live in peace and make a decent living, he won't turn to Hitler. As Court III says, make this a better world, and you'll stamp out Hitlerism and all other forms of fascism. After I present a message on behalf of our sponsors, Mr. Faderman will return to tell us about next week's Words at War program. You know, folks, I'm sure that no matter how good your car's engine and battery and tires are, the car only looks as good as its paint job. You may not realize that dirt and road grime and insects can do considerable damage to the finish if you don't remove them. Cleaning and polishing a car really does a lot more than keep up appearances. It saves the finish itself. When that cleaning and polishing can be done so easily with Johnson's Carnu, then I know I'm doing you a favor to suggest that you buy a package of Carnu this week and give your car a protective beauty treatment. Carnu saves work because it does two jobs at once, both cleans and polishes in one easy application. You apply this liquid cleaner, let it dry, wipe it off. It leaves the finish satin smooth, sparkling like new, easier to keep clean. Remember the name Johnson's Carnu, spelled C-A-R-N-U. And now, Mr. Faderman, what about next week's program? Well, next week we hope to bring you one of the outstanding war novels of the season, Neville Shoot's Pastoral. I say we hope to bring it to you. The reason being that so far we haven't been able to locate the author to get the necessary permission. You see, Neville Shoot is an aria flyer, and an aria flyer on active duty is a pretty hard man to track down, but we hope to catch up with him before next Tuesday and arrange to bring you his novel, Pastoral. If not, we'll delay it for a week or so and bring you another fine book instead. Now, this is Clifton Faderman inviting you to be with us again next week, and until then, goodbye. Tonight's dramatization was written by Ben Kagan and featured Peele Getz. Music was composed and conducted by Morris Momorsky, and the production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. Next week, the Johnson Wax program again presents Words at War. Jack Costello speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


Hello everyone, welcome back another Photoshop tutorial. This is a quick one. I'm going to show you how to export all your open images all at once as opposed to going in and going file export or file save one at a time. Let's do them all at once. It's very easy to do. Let's go. First step, you've got all these images loaded up here. Now we're going to go up to file at the top and then instead of going to export or generate or any of that stuff, you actually want to go to scripts. And then over on here, you'll see image processor. Click on that. And when you do that, you get a few options. You'll see here that the first one is use open images. This is important. So this is going to export the open images. Also, if you want to change the folder where they go, for example, I've got to going to desktop, but you can send them wherever you want to. Feel free to do that. Also, you can go down here and you can select the folder for the location to save the images. So wherever you want to save them, go ahead and do that. I'm just going to go ahead and use desktop as well, but you can adjust it as you see fit. Finally, it's very simple. You can adjust the quality. I believe it goes right now between one and 12. So I've selected six, which is a nice quality. And you can also save it as a PSD or as a TIF if you want to. And lastly, you can run an action because this is like a batch process. So you can run an action like, for example, if I wanted them to be vintage or vignetted, pardon me, or apply any of these other ones, gradient maps, et cetera, you can go ahead and do that. I'm going to leave it as is. I'm going to go ahead and click on run. Once this is done, it's going to cycle through the images like it's doing here. Then we're going to go back to my finder. I'm on a Mac. If you're on a PC, go to your Explorer and then to whatever folder you save them in, open it up. You'll see, should see something that says JPEG. Open that up. There are the five images exported. That's all there is to it. Thanks for watching.


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What's up everybody, I'm Evaribot, we're here on R Factor 2 looking at an Abarth 695 here in R Factor 2 to see Does VR make you faster? That question we're gonna take to the test today and answer that. Does VR racing make you faster? Make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter, I'll just follow in the description box below Let's get to it So the reason I asked this question does VR actually make you faster because it gives you a different perspective when you're racing in VR Versus when you're looking at a monitor, so we're gonna put this to the test We're going to Atlanta Motorsports Park in a Fiat and we're gonna run some hot laps on the monitor Then we're gonna switch over to the Oculus Rift S and See if the times are faster or slower and give you my perspective of how it differs when you're looking So the Abarth not sure what we can do. We got slicks. We're just gonna leave it how it sets All right, so we're gonna give this a shot here Factory settings in the Fiat Abarth here at Atlanta Motorsports Park And we're going then get in the Oculus Rift S and see if we can track faster or slower in VR And I will give you guys to take what I feel is a little bit different in feels of how you see What you see everything like that when you're going through the race track Now I know this track has a lot of elevation changes and a lot of things like that Slow down there and as you can see it's really hard to know judge exactly where you're going on the track when you're using a monitor because well It doesn't rotate I mean if you have triple screen you can see a little bit a little bit more All these brakes mark a bit sluggish So we definitely need the world brakes and the tires So that happened So this has been a question that's been on my mind recently a lot and a few of my friends as well We're trying to find out is VR Squirrely that That was not happy Back wheels picked up off the ground front-wheel drive race car problems. So we like I said, we've been wondering If I'm actually faster in the R or not because I did do some racing in the R And it seemed to be faster, but here we're gonna take the test and I cannot see Where I'm going early on the road. I kind of know the track races track a little bit, but I have no idea where I'm going on some of these turns because the elevation changes and everything like that and makes it Slightly complicated Dashboards, okay, we got dashboard in the car So we're gonna go for a hot lap now and see what we can hot lap time nearly slows to that turn But it is a very tight hairpin So we're gonna try to make the best out of this lap as possible trying to Stay on somewhat of a decent race line, but I can see not being able to see how long this turns going Definitely difficult and I mean a lot of sim racers probably know the track that you run So you kind of know where you got to put the car for certain turns and stuff like that, but first learning the track it's It could be hard because like I can't really see where that is right there Now I know where it is because I've driven the track and you kind of see it, but if you want to get that perfect racing line It is a little difficult to see on this track because like right here I can't really see where I'm going until a little bit after I know the track so I was able to make the turn But it's definitely a little bit Different to say the least and I'm not like pedaling it by any means or Like stacking, you know the deck from the arts and regular. I'm trying to put down the fastest time I can based on what I can see here Without VR and then we'll go into VR and see We're gonna run one more lap Basically to laugh and see what our fastest time is and we'll reset it in the oculus and see What we can do different and how it looks different in VR Slowly starting to feel the track and the car. Oh, I say that we go all off course Kind of saved it a little bit Love it all over the place So if you guys are not subscribed to the channel, I would appreciate it sport tap a subscribe button You want to support my channel and well sim racing and sim drifting everything on my channel? Like I do subscribe tap that like button. That's all I ask You know show your support come back watch the video I would appreciate all of that comment down in the comment section because it definitely would you know Get you interacting with some of the other subscribers and myself So with that being said This is our second hot lap in this car and across the line with I am not sure what we're gonna hit escape a 133 133 048 was our time Not in the rift s so now let's switch it up into the rift s and see what we can do So I'll catch you guys once we get back in the right All right, so we are in the rift s now and as you can see everything is a little bit different We can actually look around the car and everything like that kind of in my own body, but we're gonna go Rip this fiat here on Atlanta Motorsports Park In is he rift s as you can see already the view is much wider and as you can see I can see more of the car I can see More of the stuff that's going on So let's go for a run or two here And I'm kind of already looking like Out my side windows So we did run a 133 outside of VR So now we're gonna see what we can run in VR and already the difference as you can see I'm already looking past Where I want to go and kind of looking where I want to go rather than Where the game is actually making me look so Already being able to look apex and kind of look Where I need to point is a huge advantage for sure So that in itself is a big deal And you have more of perspective because you can kind of see more than on a single screen if you had three screens Like I said, you could see more perspective But this is giving me I can look down look up towards the track if I want and I can look over I can kind of look up kind of see where I'm going because I can move my head around like it wouldn't a real car I can look down the track So all of that is a different perspective than driving on a single monitor But the real question is is that perspective when it comes to driving on the track being able to see turns a little bit better Being able to see, you know, where you're going your throttle line points are off points Does it make you faster and that's what we're gonna find out So we're going for our first flying lap here hard on the brakes Little bit too hard on the brakes miss my braking zone in a little bit, but we managed to come out of that somewhat okay Come in here clip that apex Go this way and as you can see I'm already looking at the side window kind of looking where I want to go Kind of looking past where I'm actually at because I found when I'm racing if I'm looking ahead rather than exactly where I'm in my Reactions are gonna be faster and You know, that's just because you can see what's coming up in front of you rather than Reacting to what it is now and I that's something, you know When I used to do autocross and all that stuff like that looking at a couple cones ahead of you Makes a huge difference because you got to look where you want to go not where you're currently at in order to be faster So this will kind of be a big test of Is this faster in this car? It feels more fun being in the rift and being able to just look around in a racing aspect with other cars on the track It's definitely a big help Because you can look around use your actual mirrors and it reacts like you would be in the actual cockpit And the graphic quality is not that bad at all I'm not noticing any tearing any issues. So one lap down the tubes. We're gonna Break a little bit sooner than last time Come in there look kind of out past the turn looking where I want to go So you can see the rift does have an advantage. I did miss shift there does have an advantage with Where you can look ahead? So that's the biggest Take away. I'm getting so far and why I would think you could actually be faster in Oculus than you can three screens or single screens now Whether that is true or not or somebody who gets really used to Single screen or three screens, and then they can probably just be as fast But for me personally being able to see the corners being able to see Where I want to be is a huge game changer for me when it comes to racing And being able to control the car because right there we got a little squirrely Picking up the back tires probably when we're breaking In this up for us, I am not sure if this lab's gonna be faster because I'm a Think of pushing the car past its limits. We will definitely find out Once we finish this lap off So make sure you guys follow me on all social media all that's found in the description box below Hope you guys enjoyed this video a little bit of take a little bit different looking at comparing screen driving to VR driving Let's find out exactly what our time is going to be as soon as we cross the line And across the line What does the tail of the tape say a one thirty seven five five so Two and a half seconds faster in VR Whether that was because I got more comfortable with the track or because I could see where I was going But I'm two and a half seconds faster. So it does beg the question. Are you faster in VR? I Proved that I was definitely a little bit faster in VR. My dog over here says I think you were too So that'll do it here for today's episode make sure you guys follow me in the scrum Twitter And as always I thank you guys for watching. I'm evil rabbit and this is Kai and we'll see you guys on the track


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ere doing it usually with yoga and they had some certain constraints about how well you stand and all that.  And then it'll give you feedback saying that you know what, you are doing this incorrectly or you are not quite there, et cetera. But again, it is not, I don't know if you can solve it by single modality. It'll be, at least my personal feeling is that it's a combination of multiple modality. You need to together combine all of them together to solve it. And the reason again is because when we have used some amount of accelerometer with vision sensors, for example, augmented reality, et cetera. And you can see that a lot of sensors have a lot of sensor creep where the sensors go, their readings are not correct with the origin, which means that the readings that you're getting actually cannot be used a lot. So that means you have to have multiple, for this uncertainty in that reading and also in the visual data also, because the algorithm might be throwing you off, right? Now you'll take this multiple more uncertainties, put into a model and keep track of all of that. It's still a pretty hard problem.  And I have a advisor who actually runs the startup where the only thing they want to do is to measure the number of bytes you take. And that actually works quite well. I've used it and I've said, well, that actually quite works quite well. But that's pretty much, that's the cases where I've seen it work well. But other ones, my feeling has been that it's not, that's great. So there is some research work. So you can look it up, I think it's on the MIT website. And then there's a startup. So they basically use your indoor wireless networks to actually detect your movement based on the... Right now they're using it for elder health care, I suppose. So based on your wireless networks, they're able to track your, how is your body reacting or where your body is, like your heart rate is slowing down or not. And they're able to trigger signals. So for elderly people who are at home alone, they're able to do that. I was like, my quick story, I was making some games where you work out for 30 seconds and then you play the game for 30 seconds, like H-I-I-T game. I see a thing. This is one more similar question if you want to take it like... Last question probably, yeah. Hi, just for confirmation, can you use a tensile mechanism for autonomous driving or autonomous drones, and as well as for speech recognition? Speech, yes. Can use the same models that they've used, train and stuff for speech. Yeah, can you use it for mainly autonomous driving or autonomous drones? For cell-diving curves. So there are, I mean, so there are, there's so much of work in general in autonomous driving, right? There are particular models that use tension in various settings, like for example, which frames to pay attention to. And there are other work also where you're given an image itself, what regions to focus on. And some of those, in some cases, they even have, so I think I'm aware of this particular work where they figure out that, so there's this thing called, what in autonomous driving is a navigable region. And there are other obstacle regions and then other miscellaneous regions, et cetera. And for that, for example, I've heard of people using attention mechanisms. And some of it, again, is we know it's a mixture of many different things. It's just not attention alone. You have attention along with sensor data, along with, I mean, sensor meaning lidar data, along with other, whole bunch of other sensor data. So it's finally all this, it's a combined model of a lot of different things. So yeah, all right, right? Yeah, can take one last question. About tracking, picking photographs of food items and figuring out what you are eating, what is there in that food item? Like, maybe how many calories are in there? How easy to solve or how hard is it in Indian context? Okay, I don't know about Indian context. There was a work at University of Wisconsin where they were trying to do this, where they were using to take a picture and you'll understand what all are the ingredients in the food and the ingredients you know, or if you know the dish type, for example, we'll actually know what general calorie count is, right? And one of the problems there usually is the volume. How much volume is there? Estimating that is slightly on the trickier side. And that is one problem that I'm aware of, but there are people trying out various things, right? And so the question really here is, I'll put it this way, right? I mean, it's about how you define your business problem. If you define your business problem where you need to solve the whole problem in order to do it, it may not work, right? But maybe what you want to do is verify whether the user doing, so the user already enters for you, I'm having ice cream and it takes a picture, right? And then you can maybe this task is actually to do verification, right? So I'm probably going back to my morning talk, which is the definition of your business problem, problem definition matters a lot, right? If you give it very, very hard open mission problems or NLP problems, that's very, very hard to solve it. So the more narrow and tighter can you make it, that's a lot more functional and usable your application wouldn't be, right? And so that's one thing I would recommend. Sorry, yeah. I'm just reminded of this episode in Silicon Valley, so. Yeah, there's one more question I think there. I was wondering if there is a way to flip the attention problem, right? Instead of having the model figure out where to pay attention, can we have, you know, the annotator signify where the attention is so that you can use that as a prior so that you can have the model learn something better or faster, right? So in a image, if I can point out where the saliency is, right? So are there any mechanisms for doing that? I haven't been looking for something like that but I haven't come across. So Lauren, it is group at UAC does a quite a bit of work retention and they actually, I have used the algorithms and I would say they're pretty reasonable actually. And these are all computer vision, non-machine learning, yeah, I would say non-machine learning algorithms, right? They all are hard coded intuitions of psychologists and they are user testing in psychology labs, right? And I've seen them to be quite useful but at the same time it's not foolproof. A lot of issues where it does break. Now I actually will have to go back and read up on that particular thing whether you know, have people that are using those kind of mechanisms. Because the current, I used to have a, this used to be my big quam, right? They call it attention but it's not really attention, right? It is in a sense that attention not in the saliency sense of the word, right? That it's not doing what humans are doing because what humans are doing is in order to know what region to pay attention for, right? Whereas here it is saying what things should I give most importance for? That's slightly different from the notion of attention. There's a really important mechanism, right? What should I weigh more than other regions, right? So I am unfortunately unaware of, I do not follow up on that actually. So yeah, I should probably, that'd be a good take away from you. Yeah, I've been looking for that but haven't come across anything. That was the other thing that I had in mind. Yeah, maybe the key but you can look for saliency. That's what it is. I tried looking at cams. So you can actually search on, this is a website I don't know if you know, I mean if you might know actually, called Archive Sanity, you use that. So yeah, can we try saliency in Archive Sanity? Yeah, I tried saliency, I tried cams in reverse and what? Okay, so maybe we need today who spoke about about interpretability in models, might be a good person to talk to. He works quite a bit on the side of things. So he might be someone who might know or if we can take it offline, I can tell you. I don't know if you've seen. So there's a new, I think last week or week before, I think there was a implementation of Capsule Lengths which was released. So there they have actually showed in an image based on annotation how Capsule Length is able to zero in on exact spots of the image itself. So it's very good. So it's a very first cut of Capsule Lengths but it does look very promising. Okay, yeah. This is I think the first implementation that they've done and they've released out visits. Thank you all, I think we are done. We are out of time. Thank you all. Thank you. All right, thank you guys. Couple of announcements before you guys leave. Please drop your feedback forms at the registration that helps us improve the conference. 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