This is Brett with Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Today we are checking out this 2019 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. This vehicle is a Rubicon and I wanted to do a video on this particular Wrangler because it is the new yellow for 2019 also known as Hella Yellow. So I wanted to do a video so you can see it from all the different angles, the different light reflecting off of it. A lot of people like the videos with the real life lighting. A little bit better than just photographs and just a little bit better than anything else you're going to find on our website or the Jeep's website, so what I'd like to do is I'd like to do just like a walk around as I'm doing right now and then we'll get up close and personal to this particular Jeep and see what makes this one what it is. It is a Rubicon. It has the BF Goodrich All-Terrain tires. These are LT 285 70 R17s. The painted and polished aluminum factory rims that come with the Rubicon package. You can see the tread life or the tread there. Very aggressive tread on there. This one has the metal bumpers. It has the LED lighting group as well, so you get LED fog lamps, LED running lights in the fenders, and the LED running lights and head lamps. This one has the Coal Induction Hood. You get the black Rubicon lettering with the red outline, the red trail rated badge on the driver's side, the grayed out Jeep lettering with the red trim. And you also this one has the 1941 side graphics, the Mopar side graphics, upper side graphics, I should say. You get the red-toe hooks in that front bumper. This particular one has the turbocharged 2-liter. It has the rock rails part of the Rubicon package and just to give you an idea on the price on this one, it's $57,835 and you can pause right here to read all the options that come with this vehicle. It has the color-matched hardtop which is a pretty expensive option on these, as well as the front pieces. It has the steel rear bumper. Backup sensors are new for the JL model. It has the backup camera standard. This one has the enter-and-go system. We have a hitch cover and stuff back here and then the case for the hardtop pieces in the front. You have the alpine subwoofer in here. You also have a storage container underneath here and holders for your door hinges, roof, and windshield bolts.  It still has three bolts on each side, one on the top of each side. You get the JL badge right here. It tells you the dimensions of the four-door and the two-door as well as water-forting, all that cool stuff. They've made the vehicle lighter. The rear gate is lighter as well. You have the satin finished fuel door. It has the heated mirrors with the blind spot monitoring system on this vehicle, the enter-and-go system. Inside you get the black leather seats. Both of these seats are heated. The red Rubicon stitching and this one has factory floor mats throughout. Auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and as we hop inside the vehicle here has the seven-inch instrument cluster TFT display. You've got your digital speedometer, compass, temperature, mileage, all that good stuff. This one has the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls, and I believe this one has the adaptive cruise control ready, so you just turn that on and you can turn it off and you can select how far or how close you want it to be when you're going. It has the 8.4 touchscreen with the navigation system. This is the 4C radio, so it comes with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capabilities, dual climate control.  The towing package, you get four auxiliary upfitter switches, and then in the media you have an AUG's USB and USB-C. This one has the 8-speed automatic transmission, the 4x4 shifter in the middle there, and they redid the hard top pieces. It has kind of an eggshell finish to it. Looks pretty cool. Up here you have your SOS and assist buttons. Those are features of the vehicle, and on the JLs you can now get the home link system for your garage door security systems and lighting systems as well as the auto dimming mirror. Now on the Rubicons you can either get this metal piece in red or they make it in gray like this, and then on the Seheras they actually make it like leather. Back seats, lots of room back here.  They made the backs a little bit bigger, so if you have rear-facing car seats it's a little easier to get them back here, and these seats do fold down like so, like they always had. And just a really cool Wrangler. The new JLs are, they've been really hot and drive great, ride great, and thanks for checking out the video. If you'd like to see more HD videos like this one you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. 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Hey everyone, welcome back for more XoZeroes content. In today's video, we're going to discuss the ranking of all Tales of Asperia Heroes. But before that, if you want updated XoZeroes content, please hit the subscribe button down below. Hey guys, so we're going to have a small discussion and ranking of all Tales of Asperia Heroes, but there are a few things to note. Okay, so this is going to be a limited event. So the banner dropped around a few hours ago. So no guarantee that you'll get extra copies after the event finishes. So limited copies as well, except for Flynn. Flynn is actually guaranteed one copy because we're going to get him for the 7 day login event with Leafy. And you can get him as a reward for the for the core rate that's happening as well right now. So these three have no guarantees for Fatecore and will have no guarantees again for core memory. That is why they will have fewer stats. They are a fated variety actually as a as heroes. So they probably won't be meta enough without their FC. We're not sure, but I'm actually betting on one character that can be meta. So later I'll discuss that in my rankings. So if ever they have XC, most likely they will come with a hero. So again, if you're if you don't choose to summon for them now during this event, if they're going to put out their fate course, they're going to be attached to a hero anyway. So if you'd like to reserve your sets for that event for their fate core, then be my guest. But if you really want these heroes, you can actually summon for them, depending again on the capacity for Zess and how you like these characters or how you like Tales of Vesperia heroes. So again, this is only my opinion based on my ranking. So as aside from that, their stats will be harder to increase without their fate course. So without core memory, without fate core stats will be harder to increase. But one thing to note, they are solid heroes, especially in PvE, if you're going to use them in PvE. Okay, but if you ever want to summon for them, whether you are a fan or Tales of Vesperia or not, and if you just want them from your team, you should hear me out first. Again, may I remind you guys, this is just my own opinion in terms of my ranking and how valuable they are in the current meta or the current game. Okay, we have here Flynn at number three in terms of their ranking. Flynn will be at number three because he's actually not of a general level. And Flynn would be the easiest to get actually. This will go through his skills. In terms of his passive, okay, I'll go through this one at a time. So he has protect three, which grants share health to an ally. Okay, so this ability actually is similar to what Garf has already, considering that he is also of light element. So similar to Garf. This actually is a redundancy of what Garf can do already. Okay, so his other his other passive is HP Relax. So heals for 2% of own health at the start of turn other than own turn. So this actually 2% if I actually did, I did the computation. Just imagine that your total health is around 40,000 for one hero. So 10% of that is what? 4,000. And 2% of that would be around 800. So basically that is the only gain that you get per turn aside from his own turn. So basically that that's very small. Okay, so that's very small for a great passive. And his other passive is life rebirth. If you if under the effect of command, heals 30% of damage taken when receiving damage. Okay, this is actually a good passive, but they actually had a have a qualifier here that that Flynn should be under command or or the command mark. Okay, so this actually puts it down. I think they should have reversed this to HP Relax and life rebirth. So command should have been, you know, based on based on HP Relax and live birth should have been a standalone skill without any qualifiers. So that is why if you don't have Garth built up, if you don't have wasted red as a as your main nation, this really won't, you know, won't be it for you. So more or less, his passive will be useless to you if you don't carry wasted red as your main faction or as, you know, the one that you're concentrating on building together. Okay, let's go to his S1. So his S1 is deals 300% damage to one enemy blazing pillar smash. So only requires one mana. So it's a good spell. It's a good S1. It's actually common as well. Nothing unique about it. And his S2 is radiant dragon Fang. So required mana is three. So deals 262 damage to one enemy, a flick target with stun for five turns. Okay, this should have been better if this was an AOE spell. There are other, there are better heroes right now in the game that are, you know, have better skills than him, have better passive than him and his passive should could have been better. It doesn't really make sense why they should include command in life rebirth. So it should have been the regular passive and HP relax could have been added with command. Okay, for our number two, we have Yuri Lowell. Okay, so Yuri, based on the skills that I've seen from him, actually, sorry, what do you call this? Yuri is actually darkness and who's the other one? And Flynn is actually of light element. Again, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that. But Yuri is of darkness elements. So good if you lack certain darkness heroes, if you want to pull it for him. But if we, for example, go through his spells or his passive, so he has basic counter three. So and he has actually resurrect if under the command effect as well. So again, it's again based on wasted red.  But what if you don't have wasted red? What if you haven't had the faction built up? So this won't be for you. So again, resurrect is if other effect command revives 50% of health upon upon own death, two times per battle. This is actually a decent passive. It's actually good. It's quite annoying as well. As long as Yuri has fast skills, sorry, fast attack speed. So this will be good because as soon as he revives, he can attack again. So and also for his next passive skill is called loner. So mark, if there are no living allies are themselves, increase own attack defense and health by 50% cannot activate when there are no allies in team.   So I don't like this passive at all. So again, resurrect could have been good if they took out the command part of it and again, put the command probably in loner. So probably put it down there. So again, this, you know, takes away the the flexibility of this hero for this collaboration for his S1 is divide wolf. So single damage 375% damage to one enemy increases own attack by 30% upon defeating the target. Okay, so good skill, good damage and good mana as well for two mana. The increase attack. If it doesn't say stack, it's usually doesn't stack. So I think this is this is done only once. So I assume that this doesn't stack as well. So his S2 would be a savage wolf fury required mana five burst. So deals 357 damage to all enemies. So this is actually this his kit actually is similar to awaken zion. So not necessarily the passive, but the attacks the S1 and S2 is actually similar to it to awaken zion. So if you want to have a comparison, if you have awaken zion and him, so that's basically it. And right now we haven't used awaken zion that much. He hasn't been used in any, you know, in any PVP compositions. Probably he's just waiting for his FC. But again, there's a similarity between the two of them. And that is why he ranks at number two right now. Okay, for our number one ranked tales of Asperia hero, it's going to be Estelle. Okay, one, you know, right now we don't know what her her her element is. I think she is of light, or she could be nature because she's healing. And also what do you call this, we don't know her nation yet as of now. But even if we don't know her nation, she actually has a very good kit for a for a fated hero. So she is actually kind of general level, if you might, you know, say it. So for her passive, she has first aid three. So again, grants heal. Her own passive is angels tier, so revives 100% of health upon own death. So one time per battle, this is pretty much very annoying for a healer, because usually we would take out healers first to avoid them, you know, healing their own party. But this is actually making her very annoying. And if you can take note, there are no alliances, there are no, you know, dependencies on a certain mark, like command. So basically, you could use her with any team, that's actually good about her. Okay, healing our tests. Once every two rounds, gain mana five mana for herself upon using sacred penance. So what this says is just it adds to the mana count of her burst skill for S2. Okay, so before we go into that, I'll go through her S1 first. So it's extreme stars deals 525 damage to one enemy. So kind of kind of utility for a healer. But what makes her shine actually take note is her S2, because her S2 I've checked with Talia versus Talian versus April, she has one of the highest percentage of heal of own max HP of 34%. Okay, take note that right now we're having already a headache with Talia. But if you throw in her, throw her in the mix with 34%. I think for Talia, it's around 20%, around 19% of own max health. But for her, it's actually 34% already. And she is a and her S2 is actually a burst skill at five mana. And plus her passive, and this is going to be ridiculous.   Okay, she she I think will be a game changer, especially if they decide to put out her fate core. I myself actually I'm thinking of pulling for her it depends really on if for we know if after her it's going to be Schmidt and Kylox, I might not pull for her. But I'm actually right there ready and trying to pull for her. So she is actually one of the healers that I think is actually going to be a game changer from Talia. Talia is actually very good right now in terms of healing then comes Estelle. So but without her fate core, I'm not sure yet if she's going to be that competitive or not. So you could actually just share fate core share other fate cores with her to bump up her stat that could be a you know, an option you have I've tried it with Dorca before. But I think you could also do it with her. So she has actually very good potential. I'm just talking about the first line of her S2. So for her second line, it deals 178 damage to all enemies. So again, this is actually a plus already because it's already a burst skill as well. Sorry, sorry for that low battery. Anyway, again, this will just be a add on a add on damage to her skill. Okay, the third line is actually one of the most unique skills that is being placed on a healer. So it affects all enemies would provoke four or five turns. So this is the first healer that we have that has provoked. Okay, so the key with her is she's going to be very tough to kill because of her revive.   Um, actually, if, if, um, you know, I'd like to add something, she can be, she can be synergized well with FC Otar because FC Otar deals more damage for status effects. So this is actually a synergy that I'm also, you know, I'm also going to try if I do decide to summon for her. But again, she, this is a good experiment in terms of, you know, merging a couple of gold skills. So healing would provoke. She's going to be, you know, she's going to be nasty. Um, she's going to change probably some of some of the decks in PVP. But again, I'm on defense right now in terms of getting her because we're not guaranteed to get her anymore.  Actually, her banner is going to drop next week. So we're going to be forced to summon for her all out. And I think, um, I do hope they reconsider in bringing this banner back, especially with fate course, because again, I'd like to, you know, I'd like to summon for Estelle because I think she is actually, she actually has a good kit and she has a potential to change again, the PVP meta. Once this is out, because provoke is powerful. She's a healer. She has revive and, you know, and her other passive healing artist is actually very good because it fuels her burst skill. So that's it. What more can I say? So for those of you who want to summon for Tales of Isperia, number one rank would be Estelle. Both of the guys don't, you know, don't match up to her, to her skills, to what skills they incorporated in her because she can be used in any of your teams. I tell you any of your teams. Okay. So any comments, read them down, put them down below. If you have any thoughts on the collaboration, if, if you want to pull for Estelle, pull for Flynn or pull for Yuri, put them down below, put your comments. Again, guys, this is just my, you know, my opinion. And I hope I was able to help you guys and decide whether you should pull for them. Please do subscribe. If you haven't subscribed yet to my channel, around 85% of my viewers haven't subscribed yet. Anyway, guys, have a fruitful weekend ahead. You all take care of yourselves. This is The Warden and I'm out.


Cancer is a disease that affects so many people, whether they have gone through it themselves or friend or family member has had it. Sailors at Fleet Activity Saucebow gather at Nimitz Park for a run to raise awareness for those going through the fight. I think it helps give them hope, you know, seeing that all these people are here in support of them. Fighting this courageous battle is just having to go through this every day and struggle and they see all these people out here for them. I've had some shipmates that have gone through cancer and having them, you know, watch them go through the whole process with the chemo and everything like that. This run means a lot to me to kind of honor what they've gone through and still be in the Navy and do what they need to do. I had a friend that died from cancer and every year I remember him whenever Cancer Awareness Month comes around. Cancer Awareness Month is a time to commemorate those who have battled and continue to battle this disease. Seaman James Hunt, Fleet Activities Saucebow, Japan.


The researchers used next-generation sequencing to identify genes involved in the production of mogrocytes, a type of tritopenoid saponyne found in the fruit of psoriasia gross venorei. They identified several genes coding for cytochrome P for 50 enzymes and UDP glucose transferases, two key enzymes in the biosynthetic pathway of mogrocytes. This information will help researchers better understand how these compounds are produced and could lead to new methods of producing them commercially. This article was authored by Song CAI, Wilson ENW, Mo Chen Ming, and others.


Hi, she was seven so I wanted to make this video to address There are so many negative media and news stories out right now just circling Television Facebook YouTube just everything and So many people are feeding into this and buying into this and I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm saying they're taking your focus and your energy away from what you need your focus and your energy to actually be on If you have no power to do anything about these things that you're watching it witnessing and you don't plan on doing anything But talking about it Then your attention and your energy is best spent elsewhere like your family, you know creating something working towards a goal Doing something that can help you and your own family Moving yourself up in the world saving money thinking of new business ideas to improve on your lifestyle and Getting your family into better environments if you're not in the best environment right now So all your energy and all your focus is taken away from what really matters and what you can really control You can't control what other people are doing. You can't bring the dead back You can't do any of that.  I mean complaining doesn't do anything if you don't have the power to change it Focus on yourself because you do have the power to change that and you do have the power to improve on your life Your lifestyle your children's lifestyles and generations to come so When I see a lot of people posting things like that And they're just sitting in there looking at it feeding into it, you know, they're bringing their vibration down They're bringing negativity into their lives. They're now expecting these things to happen to them and they're on the lookout for it Therefore they're bringing it upon themselves So if you are a true metaphysician if you are a true believer in the law of attraction if you are a practitioner of The universal law and that's what you live by then you shouldn't even be feeding into this Okay, because even though there are injustice in the world There are good things that happen in the world.  Okay, acknowledge the fact that this happened But has nothing to do with Your immediate life, okay And I know some people are gonna say well It's not right. It's not right what it's been happening For a burr, okay in all parts of the world with all races of people Our division our division between male female black white Other races against other races That division is there for a reason and it's to keep you from focusing on Yourself and becoming a better person. So if you have if you have You know all the tools in your toolbox to better yourself, but you're focusing on something that you can't fix Then what use what good are those tools if you're focusing on what cannot be fixed when your Your toolbox is to build yourself and things for your family and things for your future generations But you're focusing on a problem that has nothing To do with your immediate family to do with you now if you are involved in some of the new stories and Does affect your immediate family? Then you need to focus on how to prevent that for the next time How to analyze it you need to seek justice because that's your battle If something happened to a people as a whole Like in like at the same time as a whole No matter what status financial status environment and da da da da then yes That would be an immediate cause for attention and action, but when things are How do you say scattered Pity you know created to cause division among people ignore that and you won't You know you won't fall victim to it I can't do anything about it. I can't bring back the dead the media makes You know awareness So I don't have to do that All I can do is say focus on yourself Create a life that you don't have to worry about certain things I really truly believe that and a Lot of people will disagree because they're stuck and it's in a place where grief worry anger and all of those things Help them to understand why they cannot move up in the world because They would rather make excuses Rather than make actions to change themselves. Okay, you can't complain about anything else Unless you're in the position to do something about it if you're not in any type of position then you can't complain Okay, that will be like somebody in jail or prison complaining about Something that's happening outside of the prison, you know That would be like a prisoner mad at who is Getting elected president. They don't have the right to vote. They're not even living in that society. They're stuck in prison serving out a sentence and They really have no input so their energy is basically wasted worrying about something like that now I'm not saying They don't have a right to an opinion, but their opinion doesn't even count. So their energy is basically wasted So don't waste your energy on things that you can't change you don't have the power to change focus on what you can change And get yourself into a better position so that you really don't have to worry about certain things You know, that's what we're supposed to do when we are faced with Things that come against us we're supposed to rise not sink to the same level that makes no sense And we're supposed to rise above it above You get it rise above it Okay And when I say rise above it I mean in every way in the physical way in the spiritual way in the financial way in any way you can rise above Your issue your problem that you see in the world do it because There's no sense of getting down and dirty if you can't clean yourself up from it There's no sense in getting involved in something you have no power to change Put your energy towards yourself and your family and in a year. I guarantee you You'll see a huge difference. I know that's what I do So when people ask me about current events conspiracy theories, this is a man I just don't why I really don't focus on that because I'm too busy focusing on getting myself and my family up and If anybody knows me, you know They'll know that my focus is never that I don't feed into it people have been saying this since 2009 since 2012 since 2013 since 2014 it's 2015 they're still waiting on something bad to happen Why y'all are waiting on this big bad thing to happen guess what you're losing time You're losing precious Moments to rise You're still here while others have come here And that's why they're not worried about all this craziness that y'all are predicting So let's just keep it positive. I Do believe that when the pendulum swings it also swings back the other way so Remember that and study your universal law Get your mind where it needs to be and turn off that television. Okay. Bye


So many people see lyric videos the wrong way. Whether it's because they aren't lyric people, or it's because they don't really watch lyric videos, I find that the biggest aversion to lyric videos is musicians feel they are too much effort for a lack of a reward. In this video, I'm gonna convince you that the hour it takes to make a lyric video is worth your time, and I'm gonna tell you how to make one. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, and this is Muse Formation. So let's talk lyric videos. If you watch the other videos in this playlist, you know I like lyric videos because they're another event you can use to tell people about your song and try to fight against the lack of attention span people have for what you are doing by reminding them that you are continuing to do eventful things and that they should listen and pay attention to you. But many people see lyric videos as way too much effort. But my argument is too many people complicate lyric videos and they should only take an hour to make and be really simple. A compelling music video could do monumental things for your following. But the fact is, an amazing lyric video rarely helps things and may even take away from what the viewer is supposed to focus on. If you're doing all these distracting things in the lyric video, it's not what the purpose is. The purpose is to build a deeper bond with the lyrics. So why don't we first think about what the purpose of lyric videos is? We're giving fans visual representation of your song that is simple, but the key is we want them to focus on the lyrics.  What a lyric video is for, first and foremost, is a vessel to get someone to listen to your song and second to get a deeper understanding and connection to the lyrics and what you do musically. So the key here is to not think so much about what's in the background and think more about letting a fan read the lyrics. So many artists get lost in the dog and pony show of wanting to compete with the visuals they have seen that are stunning that other artists have done, but this isn't the time to do that. That's for your music video. This is the time to let your lyrics do their work and create a bond with the fan. So because of that, we're gonna talk about a silly business term called MVP. No, not that MVP. I don't know anything about sports and can't explain them to you. A MVP is a minimum viable product and in startup douchebag talk, this means you're gonna make a product that is the bare minimum of features that you could show to the world. And that's what we want from a lyric video, is to put the minimum amount of effort to make something visual to get people to connect with your song. We're not trying to do an art project here. We're trying to just build bonds with fans and make people feel your song more. Now many people have written me with shame for their lyrics saying they don't wanna do lyric videos and ask me what else they could do. But if people are coming to listen to your music, they're probably on your lyrical level and even if that's not that deep, it could be party rock anthem songs and people still just wanna know what you're saying. Not every lyric video is for a TS Eliot poem or a Noam Chomsky dissertation on media reform, but I wish there were more. Whether it's politics or party gems or poetry, people of different wavelengths want lyrics close to what they're looking for.  Your audience just wants to go deeper with what you do. I think of that Chainsmokers video for closer. Oh, God, awful smell in this room all of a sudden. It was actually a lyric video for the song. And yes, that's some vapid shallow bullshit and it isn't life changing, but we have to remember it's aimed at teenagers who are feeling emotions that are new to them and it was a huge hit and got people knowing the right words to sing at concerts and it's such a hit. It mentions Bleakway 2 and it has more plays than all of Bleakway 2 songs and their top songs on Spotify combined. Ouch. But before we go further, I want you to get it right that I never feel this way about music. I think you should always strive to be exceptional in your image and most of all, your songs. You should go every extra mile, but lyric videos are not the time for that. This is the time to pick simple imagery that reinforces your image and what your song feels like because people aren't here for a music video. So let me explain this a little more. Poorly designed lyric videos have millions of hits. People are used to watching garbage videos like this Tony Braxton video with 30 million views that somebody made on their iMovie. They don't care, they just want to know the lyrics. So even if your graphic design skills are trash, just give the people what they want. Like seriously, YouTube is littered with lyric videos with tens of millions of plays that would get you an F in sixth grade graphic design course in a shitty school system. I feel a great lyric video really just feels like the emotion of a song. While a great music video can do so much, maybe just put up your single art and your album art as a background. Maybe it's an outtake from your video or a boomerang from your video. Kim Petrus did some great videos like this leading up to her Leia's LP where they're simple boomerang loops from a photo shoot from her upcoming videos. You can go film some stock footage somewhere. If you have an iPhone, it's easy or take some outtakes from your latest music video and change your clothes real fast and everybody will think it's new footage. My greatest point is unlike music videos that are rating the bank on high budgets, doing that for lyric videos doesn't give you a very high ROI, especially when starting out as a musician. So it's putting a ton of effort into animating your lyrics isn't gonna be the biggest fan builder, but it will help fans that like your music feel a deeper connection and then want to share that connection with their best friends.  So just do something simple and let the lyric video do its job. If you take an hour to make a lyric video, you can focus your time, resources and money on music videos that's done tons to help your song. But trust me, a good lyric video that's nice and simple is worth an hour of your time, especially for the event and to remind people about your music again. So let's learn how to do this yourself so you can focus your budget elsewhere. Let me first intro who we're gonna be talking about. So I'm gonna be making a lyric video for my friend Zach whose project is called Echo DDT. It's a vapor wave pop song is what he likes to call it. Zach is the singer of Man Over Board. We've been friends forever. I also mixed and mastered the song and I told him I'd make a lyric video for it since I've been talking to him a lot about promoting this thing we've been making together and I've been really psyched on it. So okay, so let's talk about the tools we're gonna use. First we have DaVinci Resolve. DaVinci Resolve is a full-fledged video editor that people make like TV, YouTube, movies with. It's super powerful and the crazy thing is it's free. So I have been editing all these YouTube videos with it and not that that should be a testament. I'm not a video editor but it's free. I didn't wanna pay for another piece of software. I already pay for way too much in audio so I use this. The graphic program we're gonna use is called GIMP. GIMP's been around forever. It's an open source graphic designer. It's toy-free. Now I'm gonna watch it on the secret. I'm not gonna do all of this in GIMP because I'm not fast with it and no one wants me to labor over anything. So I'm gonna do what I recommend you do. No one wants to pay for Adobe Photoshop subscriptions so what a lot of people do to get around that is they pay for Pixelmator Pro which is $39.99 and then you have it for as long as the software stays relevant in your OS system which I'm sure will be yours. For people who aren't gonna do anything intensive graphic design wise, it's great. The cover of my last book which is behind me had something like a thousand something layers to it in Photoshop or whatever. I actually did it all in Pixelmator and it worked fine. You can do anything you want in this app and you can do a lot in GIMP and everything we're gonna talk about today you can do in GIMP and GIMP is totally free and it takes one minute to download. Let's talk about what we're actually gonna do. I have prepared the three things you're gonna really need which is the album art, a font and the song you're gonna make. So let's start by going over to DaVinci Resolve and loading in the song. So let's start by opening DaVinci Resolve. When I open DaVinci Resolve there's these five windows here and I'm gonna work strictly out of the edit window and the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag in the master of this song. So then after that we need to have a graphic that's gonna go up for this song. So luckily I was provided the artwork for this song that was done really well. It was done by this cool guy here named Dino. You can check out his profile and if you think this art's cool and Zach from Echo DDT did one of the other pieces of artwork. So this is GIMP and if you're gonna do this in GIMP let me just give you the rundown really fast. All you need to do is make a new file and no matter what graphic design thing you're gonna do you're gonna do a 1920 by 1080 graphic with 300 PPI because that's what YouTube video is that's not 4K that's what they like to see. We're gonna say goodbye to GIMP now because we don't wanna see me struggle through graphic design in hell. Okay, back into Pixelmator. So we have two graphics for this art. We have his single art and then this is his album cover. So here's what I'm gonna do is since I've made these 1,920 by 1080p things so that they will fit the screen I will make it so that these graphics fill the screen. So I'll do that by doing this as I'll go in, I'll click on it I'll stretch it out so it's as high as it goes vertically and then I'll select the option tool and I will fill it so it fills the entire screen. This was the artwork I copied it from here from his cassette artwork. Here's the single art. There we go. Okay, so I'm gonna export this now I'm gonna call this, let's remember export as PNGs because if you're doing transparencies you need PNGs. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scan around this song and I'm gonna make it so that the single image is the first thing you see but then the owl image happens during the course. I'm also gonna put in the earphones so I can hear this but I'm not gonna put in two earphones cause you don't wanna hear me talking loud. That's called YouTubing with matters. So in order to do this all I have to do is drag these onto a new track in DaVinci Resolve. Now if there's one thing I've learned with DaVinci Resolve is there's only one crucial rule you have to remember which is the video at the top is what's in the front. So there's all these different video tracks and whatever one is on top that's what's gonna be in the front image and you have to layer things like that. So I'm gonna hit play on the song. What I'm gonna look for is when the song changes to the chorus. So right there I hit the command B button because that's what you do to make a break and what I'm now gonna do is I'm gonna make it so that this goes all the way over that break and it'll snap right there. And I'm gonna check that I got that as tight as possible. I can see I did not. So I will pull it over to where the downbeat is and then I will put in my chorus artwork which is this one and I will snap it right there. You can see in this top screen here what's gonna actually clean the screen and it's gonna switch over to that graphic for the chorus and then I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna drag the original one, the end of the chorus and I'm gonna repeat that through the rest of the song. But we don't need to do that because you get the drift and you're smart and you know how to do that. But now you're thinking, how do we get these graphics onto the screen? So now we're gonna go back to our graphic design program. So we've made these 1920 by 1080p graphics and we're gonna now get rid of that. We're gonna make it so you have a blank background. Now if you're really graphic design literate enough to not know that this big checkered board means that it's transparent. So we're now gonna make new layers of the lyrics. So I've already taken the time to put the lyrics in a text document. Now as you can see, he typed it out all in different lowercase and uppercase but the font I've chosen is a font that only takes uppercase. So I had to use this convert case website which is always good because if you wanna do funny things with your lyrics you can do all sorts of fun stuff with this site. So what I next needed to do was I needed to find a font that feels like the lyrics. So Zack is really into this vaporwave thing I said so I just googled good vaporwave fonts. I looked around and then I eventually found this Felix Boom Gartner font. It looks like this and I downloaded it for free. If you've never downloaded a font before let me show you how to do that. After it downloads you double click this OTF file and then you hit install font on a Mac and it's as easy as that. Regardless now we need to start playing some lyrics I'm gonna select text on here and I'm now gonna select the first lyric of the song but actually here's a good tip that I've learned from making a few lyric videos. You don't always wanna start with the first lyric. You wanna find the longest one to do the graphic design so I can see that this is the longest line here. So I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna paste that long line. So the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna stretch out this text bubble so it's as wide as the screen. Let's make sure it's actually as wide as the screen and I'm gonna make sure that the center text thing is checked so that it centers it and then I'm gonna make this font as big as it looks visually right to me. So let's try a little bit more. Big. That looks good to me. Let's move this down a bit. So it's centered. So that'll be the as big as the text ever is but now I'm gonna go back and select the first line of the song. So I'm gonna copy that. I'm gonna hit paste and I'm gonna go great. Now I'm gonna number these and I'm gonna export as a PNG just like I told you before because we need this to be transparent. Now I'm gonna call this one. Then I'm gonna select the second line of the song. Export again and we'll export this third line and then we shall have enough to show you what's going on. Okay, so now that we've exported those let's go back to DaVinci Resolve. So we're now gonna go up to a track above that and we're gonna go in and we're gonna take that video that I just brought and we're gonna put it on a new track above what we had. So now I have to find where the lyrics start. So I'm gonna zoom in pretty close so I can find it. All right, and I've identified it's right there so I put down the cursor and I can then bring this over and it will snap over the cursor and I will hit play. So I can hear that this goes a little too long for that lyric so I'm gonna pull it back and that's where the end of that lyric is so that it's time to bring in and you know the lyrics happen pretty fast in this song, you might have some space sometimes in your own songs and I'm gonna put the next lyric in. I can hear right there is where the third lyric comes in so I'm gonna trim this back and I'm gonna put the third lyric and trim that back to there.  I should say at the end, you need to deliver it, there's tons of presets in DaVinci on how to do this but really it's as simple as putting out a 1080p YouTube video and then uploading that to YouTube. That's it, am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? 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Now we don't hurt a lot of different takes from a lot of different people this offseason But this one right here from this NFL analyst Chris Sims This was a shocking surprising take and prediction that he had on our Baltimore Ravens and what it was He said that he feels like not only the Ravens are gonna make the playoffs He doesn't only feel like the Ravens are gonna win in the vision He said for his AFC playoff picture. He feels like the Baltimore Ravens will be the number one Seed number one seed so over teams like the Jaguars the bingles the bills the dolphins the jets But really scratch all that over the Kansas City chiefs And you know the Kansas City chiefs have been holding down that number one seed for a long Time now or they've been the cream of the crop They've been the tip top of what it takes to win in the AFC because you have to get through them They have been running this show in the AFC for a while now So for Chris Sims to say that about our Baltimore Ravens I was like whoa, but then at the same time. I was like, oh, okay I like it and I see where you're going with this and we're gonna break down exactly How the Ravens can get that number one seed what they will need to do to get that number one seed And if there's even really a real possibility that they get the number one seed But before we get into that Let's have a word from our sponsor. It's football season. 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That's pound five two nine from your cell phone So looking at Chris Tim's breakdown of how he sees this AFC playoff picture Shaking out says the number one seed will be the Baltimore Ravens The number two seed will be the Kansas City Chiefs number three Jacksonville Jaguars followed by the Miami Dolphins Then the New York Jets and then two more AFC North teams the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers So that would be there be some playoffs right there. Hey, and honestly for me As long as Ravens are in I don't care who the other six teams are man. I did really don't matter I just want to see a Baltimore Ravens in there But Chris Sims is not only saying they can get in there, but they can get the number one seed How realistic is the Baltimore Ravens getting the number one seed? Well, we got to think about the past couple of years and how things have gone for the Baltimore Ravens when Lamar Jackson has been out there The more Jackson has already shown these Baltimore Ravens have already shown that even when they have a depleted team They have a beat-up team. They can rock with anybody as long as Lamar Jackson is playing We've seen that before time and time again. He makes a lot of crazy stuff happen He is such an amazing player and that's why Ravens paid him the big bucks, but It's important that if the Ravens are gonna get the number one seed or whatever the Ravens are gonna do this year How far they're gonna go? He has to be there. He has to be there in the long run It's extremely important. It's vital. It's crucial to the Baltimore Ravens success that Lamar is there but Lamar Jackson over the past couple of years before he's went out with injury He's had the Ravens it nice the Ravens have Both years they've been either atop their division or even atop the AFC Before he's went out. So he's already shown like they've already shown like they can do that They can make it happen Even again with teams like the Kansas City Chiefs But teams like the Cincinnati Bengals Buffalo Bill I mean we can go down the long list. So Lamar Jackson the Ravens, they know they can do it it's just a matter of staying the course and being consistent and being Healthy and I know y'all are tired of hearing about that I know y'all tired of me saying it y'all tired of thinking about it yourselves, but it's real Health is so big for these Baltimore Ravens, especially this year everything that they've done For it to all come together. They gots to be healthy. That is the name of the game but Besides health it's gonna take everything from everybody in order for them not only to get a number one seat The number one seat is cool That's great because you would get home field advantage like for Ravens like every playoff game number one seed You that you got such a great advantage with that number one seed Every playoff game is at the crib every single one Now that still doesn't change the degree of difficulty for them because you're going against playoff teams So you're going against teams that has success in the regular season and they had enough success in the regular season To where they are here in the postseason and they challenging you they're trying to take the throne from you They're trying to knock you out and it's one game one win a take-off It ain't no seven game series like the NBA anything like that. No one and done That's it. So you can't mess around man, but if every game could be at M&T Bank Stadium That'd be nice. And I know some Ravens fans are scarred from time before and Ravens had a home playoff game number one seat and whatnot, but Let's let bygones be bygones man, but leave that in the past every game is different every situation is different So that would be a nice advantage for the Baltimore Ravens having that home crowd to cheer them on You know, like regular season crowds are crazy, but playoff game crowds Oh that that would be on a whole nother level because there would be so much more emotion Invested into the game because in a regular season the crowds they hype. We love it We we excited to know that to see our team play, but we know like there's always next week Because there's always a game next week, but playoff is a completely different atmosphere Because with playoffs, you don't know what's gonna happen next week You don't even know if there will be a next week for your team because nothing is guaranteed at that point You don't know what the schedule is gonna be the following week So what the Baltimore Ravens if they could get that number one seed? I would love it Because that would mean that they had consistently been playing some really really good football throughout the regular season And they had earned not a spot in the playoffs, but the spot the top spot. So that would mean they were top team That could set them up for a bye week.  They like no I don't want my team to have a bye week. They may end up coming out rusty and whatnot and a this is where preparation is key It's gonna take everybody Everybody for the Ravens not only to make the playoffs, but to reach the Super Bowl as well It's gonna take the players doing that thing because the players play the players got to execute and the players got to be healthy It's gonna take the coaching staff the coaching staff to set the players up for success have them prepared Have them have the play calling right have the decision-making right because This is football is the ultimate team sport, man. It really is Everything that everybody around around you stuff that they do it impacts you heavily heavily and You cannot get it done You cannot progress you cannot move forward you cannot have success if The man next to you if he's not having success If the man next to him, he's not having success It really takes a whole unit man. Nobody can do it all alone no matter how good or great of a player They are nobody can do it alone So if the Ravens are not only going to get this top C like Chris Sims is predicting Hey, we wouldn't be mad But if they're gonna reach that ultimate goal, then it's literally gonna take everybody and more They got the players to do it They got a coaching staff that has had a lot of success already. Let's think about that. Obviously John Harbaugh He's played in every sort of playoff game been in every single situation one a Super Bowl two So he's been there done that Todd Monk in he's had some success in the NFL and he had Championships on the college level. It's time to bring one to the pros now You think about their wire receiver coach that they hire from the chiefs use a wire receiver coach from the chiefs last year What did the chiefs do last year? Oh, they won a Super Bowl so they have some guys that have had some success and Then you think about and I'm sure there are more to that I can't think of all the top of my head right now, but then you think you trickle on down to the players Justin Tucker He was on this Raven Super Bowl team and it seems like that was so long ago. But yeah, he was there. That was his rookie year So he knows what it takes to be a Super Bowl champion Odell Beckham, Jr He was on the Super Bowl team from the Rams a couple years ago So he knows what it takes to prepare to get ready and get through and well not the whole he didn't finish the whole game But he knows what it takes to get to the Super Bowl and be a big part of it Nelson Aguilar with the Eagles a couple years back. He was part of their Super Bowl winning team So he knows what it takes. So it's it's so important that you have people that have been there done that They know what it's like so it's important that you use that and Use that so that can help you advance to get to where you need to go Let's see them Ravens take it. Let's see them Ravens go all the way this year. I Would love I know y'all would love it a lot Hey, and it's it's something that's attainable too, but it's not some far-fetched dream or anything No Ravens can actually do it. They just gotta get it done team keeping clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all We out


From the conversation, this is Don't Call Me Resilient. I'm Vanita Srivastava. As soon as you have laws that promote exclusionary politics that say you don't belong in our community and that's essentially what laws like Bill 21 are, laws that promote bans of certain kinds of clothing, that's what they do. They're saying you don't belong in our community. Last year, as a Muslim family took their evening stroll during lockdown in London, Ontario, a white man rammed his pickup truck into them. Four of the five family members were killed. The incident sparked horror and outrage, but the truth is anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise in the 20 years since 9-11. My guest today says that instead of deterring anti-Muslim hate, Canadian laws are actually making it worse, in essence legalizing Islamophobia. Natasha Buck is an award-winning legal scholar who has spent the past five years researching the rise in anti-Muslim attitudes in North America. She is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, an author of In Your Face, Law, Justice and Nicaraguanian Women in Canada.  I actually first met Natasha Buck as a child. We were members of a small South Asian community that got together for family basement parties. I'm really excited to be speaking with you again after so many years. Natasha, you may know that I used to live in New York. And even though I'm Canadian, I succumbed to all the stereotypes of Canada. And I thought, yes, I'm going to move back to a kinder, gentler, more multicultural, more accepting society. Pretty soon after I moved back, I realized things were pretty bad here in Canada, too. Professor Natasha Buck, I'm going to ask you to break it down for us. How do you think Canada treats its Muslim population, including citizens of this country? I also have some of that idealized vision. And I like to cherish that. But it's also really important to unpack what's really happening with minority communities.  It's interesting. The first time I came across this issue was I'd heard about a story in the United Kingdom of a Muslim woman who wore a niqab who was a lawyer. And she was advocating on behalf of her Sikh client at an asylum tribunal. And obviously the client didn't have a problem with who his lawyer was or what she was wearing. And she was making submissions to an adjudicator. And the adjudicator said, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Could you take off your niqab? And she said, no, I won't take off my niqab. As an adjudicator, you do need to hear the advocates. I mean, that's a fair point. But he might have said, could you speak up? Or I can't hear you. Perhaps we could get a microphone. Lots of different things that could have happened.  And she was replaced the next day by a male lawyer in her firm. And this is a very simple accommodation that could have been made. So this view that I was seeing with politicians, from the media, from educated judges, professors who seemed to be in favor of inclusion and in favor of diversity, seemed to draw a line at the niqab, that that sort of set the limit of our multicultural nation, that that was going too far. What do you think some of those reasons are? Why are we drawing the line here? I undertook a project to really look at what are the reasons that the objectors of the niqab give? What are these objections that they have? And I found I traced about 10 different objections, but some of them are the niqab makes things difficult to communicate. It's difficult to identify people. Another common objection that you hear and that you see as a justification for legislation banning the niqab is that it's a security threat. Another one that I sometimes hear Muslims offering is that it's not a requirement in Islam to wear a niqab. We have been through and are still going through a global health pandemic, which I think has actually been really helpful. Has it changed this idea that the general population is not seen as a general threat because their mouth and nose are covered? Before the pandemic, politicians were essentially making the argument that our society would fall apart. Muslim women wear the niqab. They were essentially saying this would make it very difficult for judges and lawyers to assess credibility. It would be difficult for citizenship judges to assess whether a woman was correctly saying the oath of citizenship. So they were making all sorts of arguments. And I think what the pandemic has revealed is how disingenuous those arguments are. Our society is not falling apart. We are having conversations with everyone having most of their face covered. I mean, teachers are teaching classes, you know, the idea in Quebec that people are banned from accessing certain services or leading a classroom. That's right. Teachers are teaching with faces covered. Students have been learning with faces covered. Judges, witnesses, lawyers in the early days of the pandemic were all performing their usual functions in court with their faces covered. And so clearly identification was not a problem because if you need to identify someone, you just use the government issued documents that we all have. Right. Somehow not being able to know at precisely every moment who is around you is not a security threat. You know, there may be moments in time like airports when you need to identify yourself. And the truth is, niqab wearing women have always been willing to remove their niqab in those particular situations. But what I have found in this country and others is that politicians really fabricated problems and created an issue where there was none. I think what the pandemic really reveals is these are not true justifications. They're not genuine. No. Can we talk a little bit about this idea of the legalization of Islamophobia and what that means, like how have Canadian laws supported Islamophobia? I think the most obvious example these days is Bill 21 in Quebec, in which the government has essentially said, if you wear a religious symbol, you cannot work in certain positions in the public service.  If you cover your face, you cannot receive certain government services. So that is the most, I think, blatant example of systemic Islamophobia. Even though this is legislation that affects all sorts of religious minorities, it affects Sikh men and women, it affects Jewish men and women. But when you look at the way the government has, the various ministers have promoted the legislation and talked about the legislation, you can see that their main concern are Muslim women. There's clear consensus in the legal community that a law like this is discriminatory. And it's discriminatory on the basis of religion and probably on the basis of religion and equality for women. But what they have done is they've invoked the notwithstanding clause or Section 33 of the Charter and its equivalent in the Quebec Charter. And I think that's really a declaration that they know that this law is discriminatory, but they are invoking these two clauses to essentially say, you can't rely on the usual routes to constitutionally challenge this legislation. The fact that a government can just opt out of that I think is the clearest signal of systemic Islamophobia. Some of these laws that you're talking about impact how Canadian Muslims are treated. In other words, there's a direct correlation to the restrictive laws for Muslims and Muslim women with violence and hate crimes against Muslims in Canada. Can you tell us a little bit about that? As soon as you have laws that promote exclusionary politics, so laws that say you don't belong in our community. And that's essentially what laws like Bill 21 are laws that promote bans of certain kinds of clothing. That's what they do. They're saying you don't belong in our community. As soon as you have laws like that, I think those exclusionary ideas really seep into mainstream consciousness such that ordinary people, it changes what they feel they can say and do to Muslims and in particular to Muslim women. And there are multiple civil liberties and human rights groups that have been tracing hate crimes against Muslims. And there is a clear correlation between controversies involving Nihab wearing women and the assaults and the violence and the hostility that these women then experience on the streets. It's almost as though ordinary people, some ordinary people, feel that they are like vigilante police and they're enforcing the law. I mean, once the law is put in place or once, like, as you say, if your leaders are saying this is okay or this attitude or behavior is okay. Exactly. Legal recognition has an impact on people's views. So it sounds like in some ways we could actually place blame for the increase in violence and hate crimes against Muslims in Canada on our lawmakers. Many politicians have behaved very poorly and as I said, they have fabricated issues where there have been none. There's no doubt about that. So yes, I think we can place some blame. So it's not just in Canada though. We're seeing some of these laws crop up elsewhere. Can you give us maybe a few examples? Sure. So France has a ban of Nihabs and their ban is much more far reaching than the one in Quebec because theirs covers all public spaces except places of worship. So it literally means that women cannot move freely in public spaces wearing the clothes that they want to wear. They can't work wearing the clothing that they want to wear. It's created very absurd situations such that during the pandemic people were being fined in France for not wearing medical face coverings and women who wore the Nihab were also being fined for covering their faces. One scholar commented and I thought this was such a poignant comment. He said Nihab bans have moved through Europe almost like a political swine flu. It has been picked up from one country to the next. It's like a viral negative idea you're saying, it just spreads. The justifications for the bans are very similar. Even though each country's local context is specific, their relationship with Muslim populations is different, it's local, yet these same justifications come up again and again and again even though they've really been debunked.  What are some of the things that you have learned? The book for me is really more about why is it that we as a majority community feel the need to restrict what a small minority of people are doing. But I did want to interview Nihab wearing women because I thought it was important to hear from them. And I really thought that if we heard from the wearers of the veil, it just might change the kinds of conversations that we're having in this country and others. Contrary to the idea or the pervasive, prevalent view that the men or women in their families forced them to wear the Nihab, what the women were telling me was that it was the opposite. They were actually, if there was any pressure or coercion that was being placed on them, it was to not wear the Nihab. And they asked them why they chose to wear the Nihab. The primary reason given was religious, that they wanted to be closer to God. The thing I loved about reading your stories that you talked about is the diversity, the vibrancy, the idea that the complexity of the lives. Yes. What about men have Canadian lawmakers legalized hate and intolerance towards them as well? One of the things that Islamophobia does is it promotes anxiety, fear, hostility, bias, stereotypes, rejection towards Islam and Muslims, and of course even those perceived as Muslims. And perhaps the most serious stereotype about Muslim men and the Muslim community is that they are a greater security threat.  It's prevalent within our society and it's prevalent within our institutions and it has an impact on Muslim men. And of course the violence that Muslim women have experienced on the streets, the harassment, that's also been something that has been experienced by Muslim men. We know about the shooting attack at a Quebec City mosque. We know that in June 2021 five members of a Muslim family were the victims of an attack in London that was premeditated and motivated by anti-Muslim hate. So all of these incidents have an impact on both Muslim men and women. You've talked about growing up in a Hindu-Muslim household. Your parents had to get married in England to avoid potential violence in their community because of their marriage. How has your parents' approach towards religion and beliefs shaped your work and your understanding of Canadian society or Islamophobia? My parents' values were very much about openness and respect for beliefs that may not have been their own. My father was born into a Muslim family, but I don't think he identifies as a Muslim. My mother on the other hand is a Hindu and really raised us as Hindus. And what they always said to me was you must learn about other people's ideas. And that has really been a lot of my experience, very happily, that we might encounter people who are very different from us, people who have different eating habits. You might not be able to hold a meeting at a particular time because someone might need to pray. But it's really very simple to have conversations to try to work those differences out. And I think that has always been something that my parents have instilled in me and that I have tried to incorporate into my scholarship. What I was amazed by when I interviewed the Nicaraguan women that I did, I thought they must be miserable given everything that is happening, the multiple incidents, the multiple controversies involving them in Canada. I thought they must be unhappy. And of course, they did express to me all sorts of distress around the daily incidents of violence that they encounter. But despite that, they were actually very fulfilled and very what seemed to me happy. What are you hoping that lawmakers will learn from their stories? Well, I'm hoping that it will dispel a lot of the myths that the lawmakers have themselves produced. You see how they're not promoting any of the goals of social justice that we want our laws to be a reflection of. I talked early in the introduction about the controversy from the 80s involving a Sikh RCMP officer who wanted to wear his turban as part of the RCMP uniform. And this created a massive controversy. People were like, no, no, no, this is tradition. We can't suddenly change this uniform. That particular police officer and Sikh people across Canada were receiving death threats and there were assaults. And now we don't blink an eye when we see ministers wearing turbans. And that's not to suggest that people from the Sikh community don't experience racism. But it is to note that we've been through these kinds of controversies before and we've come out on the right side of history, I would suggest. There's been so much conversation in Quebec about specific laws. But when we're talking about federal Canadian constitution, the idea that this is baked into laws across the country but also federally, are there specific laws that you can point to? You know, people often ask me whether what's going on in Quebec is somehow really specific to Quebec. And my response to that is, I don't think it is. And the reason I say that is because I can point to a number of incidents involving Nicar-wearing women that involve the same sorts of inaccurate conceptions of who these women were or indeed the kinds of laws that are being promoted federally. So for example, the citizenship ceremony controversy. Zonera Ishak was a Muslim Nicar-wearing woman who had met all of the requirements for citizenship and their onerous requirements. She had to meet the residency requirements. She had to meet the requirement to speak one of our official languages. She'd met all of the requirements and the last thing that she had to do was say the oath of citizenship, which is a requirement under the Canada Elections Act. And Jason Kenney, then minister, changed the requirement from saying the oath of citizenship to being seen to be saying the oath of citizenship. This is what I mean about politicians fabricating issues where none existed. But that was a federal issue. The Harper government tried to change the voting legislation such that Nicar-wearing women are, again, they never named them. They're, you know, pretending it's neutral and saying you cannot vote if your face is covered. Well, then the chief electoral officer said, I can't implement that because we allow people to vote as long as they can produce two pieces of non-photo identification. You can vote. We have voting by mail in this country. In other words, no one is checking to see that you're able to compare that to a photo. We don't have a problem of voter fraud in this country. And yet the Harper government at that time was trying to suggest that we do and that Nicar-wearing women were part of that problem. That's something that is not specific to the province of Quebec. It's playing out in a very particular way and it has for many years in Quebec, unfortunately. And I think that really has an impact on how Muslim women in particular feel their sense of belonging.  It's that people are now realizing they can't work. They can't feel that they belong in that province and so they're moving. And that is a real loss. It's a real loss for Quebec. I don't think it's possible to now in this day and age have a provision in the charter that says governments can opt out of basic fundamental human rights. I mean, that to me is not a progressive democracy. So we're gonna, I think, see some really creative argumentation at the various levels of court. And I hope that the judges really listen carefully to the kinds of arguments that are put forth. This is really about what kind of society do we want to live in. And I think that, for me, is what the stories of Nicaraguan women are also about. Do we really want to live in a society where people can't express themselves in the way that they want to express themselves even though it's not causing harm to anyone? Thank you very much for all of that. You know, the one thing we didn't talk about, but you are an incredible dancer besides this amazing researcher and I don't know if you want to say anything about that before I let you go. If you go to law school, then you sort of believe in the legal route being one of those avenues for change. And it is one route. But there's all sorts of other ways in which we can make the world a better place without sounding too naive or too idealistic. Art, for me, has also been another way in which to advance change in the best possible way and in a fun way. So I guess that's the only thing that I'd add. That's it for this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient. I've been speaking with Professor Natasha Buckth from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. 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So after creating our custom post type, we're now going to add a number of fields of the information that we want to actually store. So I'll come back to registering our post type here and I'm going to go to add some meta boxes. So in the codex we actually have how to create meta boxes. This one is basically we store small pieces of information about each post and they're inbuilt on WordPress. So what I'm going to do is copy this sample code that we have here and then I'm going to edit it and explain what it is all about at the end of the day. So I'll copy also this and add this here and finally I'll copy this small bit. So let's dive into what this code is all about starting from here. So I'll add meta box. So in order to add a meta box we need to use the hook which is add meta boxes here and we hook into it with this function right here. So I'll just change this meta box. I'll just change the name of this to make it very unique. So we'll have to equipress add custom box and inside here we have this variable called screens and this is going to be attached to the different screens. So in this add custom box we have a for which statement that basically gets the different screen so for our screens meaning the post type that we want to hook into we want to hook into our SMS post type. How do we know that is that is because when we were registering it here we gave it a post type of SMS. So we want the SMS to show here and the way you can also see it is if you look at the bottom here you will see when I go to messages we see that we have post type of SMS. So the first thing that we do is that this meta box has an ID which is unique. So I'll just call it take a press SMS box that's the ID for it. So we'll give it a name and say our SMS information. So we'll save that and then we need to have a callback which we have here now this callback is the one that's going to show everything on the admin side show admin side boxes. Now on the admin side that's basically in here right now we are having a label and a select which is basically HTML. So I'm going to add a break tag here so that we have our label up and this label will be for our sender ID because that's information that we'll need and we need to change this as well. So I'll just call this take a press show admin boxes. So this function in itself takes in an argument of the post and this post is basically what's going to give us the post ID and more data that we can throw in our meta box. So I'll give it a label and say this is the sender ID field and so basically this should be an input field with a type of we're going to give it a type of text. So this is a self closing it's a self closing HTML box. The only thing that's missing here is adding a value and for now we shall leave that value empty. I'll show what will deal with it in the near future. And then finally we need to save this metadata. So once we're saving the post this metadata needs to save the information will input that. So that's why we have this function and I'll just call it take a press meta save post data. For now that will be okay. Now it looks for if a particular key exists. So in this point we are looking for the sender ID field. So I'll change this here and say if it has a post if it has any data that is sent then we shall update that post data at this point. However the information we're going to be sent back will not require for anyone to change that information here. So at the end of the day I will end up not requiring for this to happen for this to be saved. So all the data will be coming back from our API. We send it to our custom post app and save it. We don't actually need to edit it. So I'm going to just remove this but ideally that's how you would save your post data. Let's just run through this so that you get the basics. By the end of the day I'm going to just remove it. So it's going to look for a particular key a meta key. So I'll just look for the sender ID. I'll just change this part to that and then change the information that is posted. So when we save this allow me to come here and reload and you will see that we have a SMS information box here that's movable. From here it can go to the side if we need b but let's keep it here. It has a sender ID and in here we can type in an ID like meme when we click update. It saves the information. However we are not calling it back here in our value of the field. So that's what we're going to do. So I'm just going to open some PHP tags and I'll say PHP echo gets the post meta and the post meta takes in a number of arguments. It takes in the post ID. So if we have the post object here we just need to append this and say let's get the post ID. This is an uppercase ID and then we need the key that is saved here. Our key was this. So we'll save that in here as the key and then we need to show that it is single so we pass it as true. So it's a boolean true. Now let me save this again and say this is a meme and I click update. You will see that we have a meme here if I go to messages click number one. We're going to see that we still have our meme saved in here. So in this particular post field we are not going to actually use this particular function of saving. So I'm going to comment it out but in the future we shall pick it and put it in the right place where we need to have it. So here I'm going to add a break tag because I'm going to add another field that we need to keep. So I'm going to duplicate this label and the field. Now in this case we're going to have if we go to our to go in SMS we have the numbers have the sender ID we have the message. So we need to also save the message and the numbers. So I'm going to have a text area block. It doesn't need to have the type of this. It has a name ID class can be given. This time I can just use maybe wide fat which is an inbuilt class of our WordPress. So I'll save this wide fat and in this particular case the value will be in between that tag. So we close this and then open text area right here. So we need to change this from sender ID to sender message field and we'll be saving it with that particular key. So I'll just duplicate this again because we need to now have another field which is going to be the sender numbers. So we have send number sender number. So I can just add space here. We should be able to read this clearly. Save this and we need to change what is coming here. So we'll call this message then we'll call this sender send numbers. So we'll save this and when we come and reload page here we'll see that this is running across. That's why we have this as wide fat. We have this is broken because of a couple of things. So let's come back and see. We didn't close our text area. We don't need this. Usually text areas are block elements. They have a CSS of block so I'll reload and we'll see this is working better but we still have something that wasn't closed well and it's because we have this social wing in our field. So I'll reload this and our messages have all this so we can add custom CSS to style this up or we can add a few more break tags. So I'll add a break tag here and then another break tag here. Let's look at this. Now it makes sense. So whenever we send information we shall be posting it to the different SMS pieces here and we shall save that for us to see on the end and next what I'm going to do is add some columns here so that we can be able to see the different fields of how we are storing that data. What we need to do right now is actually just copy this function and come back here and paste it in our document. We can always break this out into manageable files so that whenever we are looking through we are not lost with what's happening. We have filtering information generally so we use a hook which is a filter hook and we're going to manage posts here. So we're not managing product posts but rather we are managing SMS, the SMS posts. So we need to change this to SMS post and then we are going to run a function here which passes in the columns field by default because we are filtering information and because it passes in columns we have to return that column. So let me save this and show you what happens in the admin side. So when we reload you will see now we have a SMS number we have nice name and we have nothing else because we just added this line of code. So remove the title, remove the author, remove the date which we don't usually need. So at this point I'm going to add my own fields so I'm going to get the sender ID which I'll pass here and so we'll have sender ID at this point and then we are going to have we're going to need the message then we're also going to add another column and just say maybe numbers and we'll show just a few numbers not every piece of number we'll just show just maybe one two or five or so numbers. Give or take can show maybe the quantity or number count in this case maybe there'll be three or five and so on so we'll call this number count and then here we're going to show send message here. So when we save this come back reload we'll see that we have this information right here then I also want to show one other thing which is the status so I want to show whether the message failed or it was actually successful so we'll call this sms underscore status and save that which reminds me I think we need to add also the status in here when someone clicks on that message so I'll duplicate this here I'll call this sms send status so we have that and then we'll call this message status here so save and reload we'll have our status here when we go to this this we shall see that we actually have all of this right here now the other part maybe I can just add to my field here is I can just say I'm going to add a read only to my input fields so that someone will know they actually cannot edit it so I'll use the default html of read only on these text area boxes and we'll save that so come back reload we'll see these are grayed out we actually can't write anything to them we're just going to be seeing data and we're just going to be reading it so that will be all for now so I think we are ready to start getting our data from the API as we send a message send it to our messages and then just save it so let's delete just this that existed here so that we start having our fresh information stored so I'll save this so we are clean now we're going to send a message and then we're going to store all that information back here in our custom post type


Now this is a good one. I love you criticism so poignant and valid that it caused the streamer to leave the room instead of simply apologizing and rectifying the mistake. Then the mod follows suit and chickens out. There's the first ban appeal stream that we've ever done. Soy Critics is joining me. Uh, I'm not gonna do a lot of ban appeals. I'm not, I'm not, there's like 500 of them. There's some things in here that are disgusting. There's some things in here that are horrid. There's some things in here that shouldn't be ever repeated or known to mankind. However, Soy Critics, one of my mods has joined me IRL. Get her a chair. This is actually way comfier than a chair. It's just short. Okay, so I wanted to know what would happen to my spam. So I didn't, I got banned my bad. I want to return to chat. So will you unban me? He does still follow. Good man. This is actually a big deal. If you still follow the stream, then I'm like, okay, right.  Unban. NP, don't one man spam something. I mean, this is a good ban for obvious reasons. This is a good ban. This is just like, it's just like cringe behavior, dude, especially in streaming. Guys and girls can be friends and do content together. And it's just, that's it. Yeah, I banned him. Uh, why isn't I should talk about bad RP a little bit better. Not sure if my comments were panable. All these two comments were lighthearted in nature.  Why are you going to ask to get unbanned? And it's like, Hey, bro, what? Why did I get banned?  Of course you got banned. Don't unban me.  They do it as retaliation. They have to ambush because if they don't, they get shot out by 15 cops. Anime avatar though. Yo, no, like, look, this is what they do. Like, this is like cop viewers and crime viewers. They both do it act like this.  Like I don't know why I'm surprised at how many of these are just like RP people. Do you have like a bad car day? No, it's, I play cornwood and I'm not like, as cornwood, I'm not this like, you know, we have to follow all the SOPs. I do stuff for RP, right? So you're saying in RP you pretend to be a bad driver and in real life you're a very excellent, totally good driver. True. Oh my gosh. Crash RP is one of the more time-money about meta comms than paying attention. You sure? You want to go back to RP? Take a look at Abdul's stream. It's super positive. I feel like you spent less time taking time out to adjust meta comments and the general mood of your conversation and paying more attention to the game would be better for everyone. Addressing negative people only stimulates it. So I think we're gonna enjoy your stream and realize we'll try to be more positive if you unban. Let's see if you can do police work. I was drunk. I count when I unban him. I do too. Mod comment. I'll unban him.  You can't come after X. There's no way she knows unless she's stream saving. What? Oh yeah. They're saying how do you know that XUC is somewhere if you're not stream saving? Oh. All y'all mods and people shitting on X. The moment you defend X, you ban us. Ha, shits a joke. That's not defending X. Wait, hang on. Can you throw in an XUCL at the end? Cool. Way too aggressive what you write. It's not professional. Thanks. Thanks boss. Thanks dad. Question mark? Good on you. We're squashing the cursing. What is going on? It's not about being professional. If somebody, this is my general opinion on this.  No punching down. It's not punching down. It's punching back except it's not a punch.  I'm dual wielding a Kimbo rocket launchers. I don't care. I just genuinely don't care.  Sure. Oh, sports. Yay, Emma. Nobody cares about unbanned and this dead stream channel. He also went into other streamers and banned me in other channels. True. True. So true. That's all you need to know about how nice S-Fan is. It's always the ones that look the nicest are deep inside the darkest and evil ones. I love when they compliment you and they're still angry. Yeah. But it wasn't even me. This literally didn't even happen. I didn't even know this existed. Uh, banned why? I think I remember somebody posting something about this specific guy in like one of the cross band channels though, so. Oh, look at that. Yeah, let's pull that. Pull that on him. Yeah. We got it. We got him, boys. That's why somebody banned him. Banned why? I was yelling in a bold book. I regret my sayings. S-Fan is a nice guy. This guy is old. Nobody says buck if they're like. This is a classic, this is a classic wow frog. I probably said one thing positive about something that puts her dead and he's being freaking weird about it. Well, hang on. How does it feel to be in mindless shell? It feels kind of good sometimes. Nice.  It's 530. Yeah. Only did 20. Hey, that's pretty good. Bear back. Sometimes I like make fun of Texans by like yawning too hard and and howdying too hard. But I'm starting to wonder like, I feel like maybe I'm, am I racist against Texans? It's a bad thing that I'm yawning too hard. Can you check this? Can I? Yeah, I don't even know where this goes. I got one. Thank you. That's my favorite thing about this stream. It's not even S-Fan. It's just the spider slaps. Man, you don't even make an ever to sing, help non-prime. See the video, how laser you do. If you do a watch party, help non-prime is watch it. But you can watch the deal. Most streamers provide a way to do so on Discord. Not everyone has to have prime. Those are the streamers of the Discord. Organize alternative ways of watching to sing. Okay, see doesn't even give an F. No, let's make it on handle chrism and all. It's like, what? You're literally asking me to pirate something off of the platform that I'm streaming on. It's elite. Like, you're literally telling me to do something illegal. Now this is a good one. I levy criticism so poignant and valid that it caused the streamer to leave the room instead of simply apologizing and rectifying the mistake. Then the mod follows suit and chickens out. Exactly what is expected from you in cells, to be honest. That's on subs. Why did I get banned? S-Fan abused Ray Lehring. Who wants to bet within two or three? S-Fan has been able to have legendary weapons because of a forced loot from Blizzard. S-Fan, do you have a binding? I'm gonna have someone find proof of streamers and Blizzard working with each other if both of them truly got bindings this early.


the Joe Harry window graphing the sharing of self within a relationship the Joe Harry window developed by Joe Loft and Harry Ingram graphs one person's willingness to disclose and openness to feedback within one relationship think of a close relationship you have with another person my relationship with Bob the vertical line shows how willing you are to disclose or share personal thoughts with that person the horizontal line shows how open you are to receiving feedback information about yourself from that person now you can view the Joe Harry window of your relationship with Bob open what you both know about you secret what you know about yourself but Bob doesn't know blind what Bob knows about you but you don't know about yourself unknown what neither you nor your partner knows about you this completes this learning object the Joe Harry window


So the title is Improvisation or the history of improv is a tool for social change and as I started thinking about that time and This time here. I realized that there was a very good possibility of Leaving a lot of things out and I also thought it might be important to step back So what are the things that unite us? What are the things that bring us together as humans and my background is in anthropology? And so I thought it might be interesting to go back to the pre-history of Improvisation as a tool for social change And this is the scroll telling that history little prehistory history joke and Think about what are the conditions of being human that make it possible to improvise? And how can we harness that intentionally to bring about powerful positive and lasting change? So we're going to start that history of change with the Big Bang Which is when everything that's anything ever began and when our universe was created about 3.8 billion years ago So everything that ever did happen could happen might happen or maybe never will happen happened in that moment good and What's fascinating fact about the Big Bang is that we can still hear the cosmic echo of that So if you're bored someday Google Big Bang listen highly recommended and when the universe started Organizing or when it was created it had to start organizing It started creating rules for itself so that it could create more and so immediately Upon that moment when the universe began began this iterative process of taking things looking at them Organizing them making rules for them to do it and so amazingly enough the universe was kind enough to create the earth for us So then we had a place eventually to be on and do improv so about 4.5 billion years old for the earth beautiful globe in A world of a lot of globes Circling and one thing that's amazing that we'll get to is that all the people on the planet wouldn't be able to see it Actually for a really long time So now we go to 3.7 million years ago On an ash field in late July Tanzania, Africa There are three sets of footprints of our early hominid ancestors walking side-by-side After a volcano Quiet ash on the earth They walk across that Their footprints are there Another ash field falls and they're preserved for millions of years and were discovered in 1976 And in the great moments of improv I see that as the first moment of agreement Where as humans we decided to walk together to be together and in that quiet moment Just walking across and looking at the world in front of them So then we walked forward and we kept walking because as humans were really good at walking bipedalism very exciting and we walked to a bunch of caves and what's amazing about cave paintings is that they Started appearing in different places all over the world and so lots of different ideas about the dates But about 65,000 years ago the first cave paintings that were known to appear started appearing And so all of a sudden we had the ability to talk about something that wasn't there So that germ of improv where we're making something up where we're talking about something that doesn't exist immediately in front of us That beautiful eventual figurative language that we had is in those cave paintings And what's amazing about that too is those those were social spaces There were places where people get together and share stories and tell stories So being present being social listening there we are in the caves together Co-creating a world another beautiful fact about the cave paintings is that one reason that they're so hard to date is because they are layered on top of one another that One person started a beautiful buffalo and then another person was like you know what I want to do something else with that And they did so it's yes and accept and build and so then we kept doing that and we got agriculture And we kept walking and then we had cities about 7,000 years before present the first city started to emerge And what was required when we were living in cities was better ways to communicate because suddenly we didn't know Everybody we had complex systems to manage and to navigate And so we had to figure out ways to be together to say yes and to be in agreement to accept and build And so we got all these tools and we also started noticing patterns The next time you walk out of this building You will understand how the streets are organized how the buildings are organized and no one needs to tell you that that's a building That's a sidewalk. That's a shrub. If you don't know what a shrub is. It's a very low bush So so we have this beautiful ability to recognize patterns which builds on that thing of here's a thing It's not here. I understand other things and it's this beautiful generation of metaphor. Does this make sense so far? Excellent, okay And that gets us to our final moment in the prehistory of improv as a tool for social change Where we come to our time now The first time anyone saw earth in its entirety from afar was in 1972 when aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on December 7th, 1972 an image was taken of the earth and This was the very first time We had been able to see the planet that we live on and I think that is one of the most beautiful metaphors For one of the most important conditions that makes it possible to improvise and that is our ability to empathize so here we were to have the distance to see the earth that we were on and that space and that time and that moment to Reflect to pause and ponder and what happened because of that space created by us being in literal space Was a transformation of the world that all of a sudden there was a tension to the fact that the planet was in jeopardy And it was in danger and that we could see it as a whole so then we were responsible and charged with doing something about it and This is our blue marble moment in improvisation We have emerged from the cosmos a universe was created We have walked we have spread improv to all parts of the globe and now we have that moment to pause and look at the world We have created and think about the world We want to create to bring in with our imagination our socials Skills our patterns our empathy and build a better world for all of us. Thank you