What's shaking? My name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. I hope you're well. Hope the writing's been going good. We're nearly done with the first month of 2022, so I hate to say it, but I think we're past the point of being able to use New Year's as an excuse for procrastination. At least that's where I'm at. Kind of moving back into the grounds of feeling terrible about not doing enough with my time. It's a lot of fun. Anyway, today's video is about questions. It's about the big questions, the questions of life. What is life? What is we? What is we? Who are we? What are we? Where do we fit in in this universe? Will we ever find success? Is there any point to writing? What is art? Is art profitable? Is selling out required? These are just some of the questions that we will not be mentioning at all today. That has nothing to do with today's video. I made a community post on my YouTube page if you want to see future ones like this. By the way, if you want to be kind of included in videos like this one, just subscribe. That's all you need to do. I made a post on my YouTube page asking, Hey guys, it's been a while since I've done this, but how about a Q&A? Ask me anything you like about writing YouTube or the Tube, etc. And I'll answer it in a video. Have you ever gotten recognized IRL? For the not so hip, IRL means in real life. Have I ever gotten recognized in real life? For YouTube? No, not really. I don't think I'm even close to anything that would be considered someone capable of being recognized for their online presence. Plus, a lot of the people that watch me are Americans. The closest thing I've had to getting recognized in real life for the stuff I'm creating is when I wrote my first book years and years ago. It was just a crappy little YA urban fantasy that I self-published, but I grew up in kind of a small town and people writing and publishing their own books was kind of unheard of and I'd moved away by that point. I was living in a big city, but when I went back to the small town to visit family and friends, I went out to the one small nightclub there and a lot of people I didn't know at all were just coming up and like kind of hyping me the hell up. It was amazing. I was actually like just, I had just started seeing this girl at the time and I felt like to her it must have been very bizarre because to her it would have looked like I was a celebrity because we were walking through this like bar, this club and literally every second person was coming up and being like, holy crap, your cam, your cam wolf, you wrote that book blah blah blah and they're acting like I was a New York Times bestseller which was really nice of them in retrospect. It was even close to being like a big deal but it was nice. I felt like a big shot for one night. Hey cam, I'm currently working on some short stories trying to get to know a few characters better that I made up for some project of mine. So how do you work on your characters? What do you do to flesh them out a bit? So I'll leave a card up here for a video where I talked about my outlining process. I remember filming it a really long time ago but I went into very specific detail about how I do pretty much everything associated with writing a book and that process hasn't really changed. When it comes to characters specifically, what I'll usually do is I'll create a character sheet. It's the same thing that a lot of people do in their outlining. I will list pretty much every physical and personality trait to do with that character. Everything from their hair and their eye colors down to their temperament, how they would react to certain situations. If it's a character that is very hotheaded and blows up and gets very defensive anytime that they're challenged, I'll make sure I note that down. That way when I'm writing the actual story, I can refer to those character sheets and I will know exactly how they will react to everything in the story. That in my opinion is the best way to make characters feel real and authentic. Hey cam, I do have a question about anthologies.  Could you possibly do a YouTube video about that? That's a great question Joshua. Thank you. I kind of already have done a video about that. I'll leave another card up here. I'm pretty sure I covered most of it in that video. I can't really remember off the top of my head. But the main thing you need to know about kind of taking the reins on creating an anthology, meaning a book of short stories involving a lot of different authors is, I would say it's extremely accessible for anyone. You don't need to be a big YouTuber. You don't even need to be a YouTuber necessarily. You just need to be able to find a community of other writers and if you ask them, if anyone would be willing to throw in a short story for your anthology, you're always going to find people that are willing. If you're going to turn it into a physical book, there's always going to be people that want to take part in that because they, like myself, love the idea of seeing their writing published and in physical form, you know? It's not easy. I'll say that it's accessible, but it's not easy, especially if you're the one in charge. You got to keep in mind that at the end of the day, you were trying to corral and get, let's say, around 10 different authors to work together on something. That's very difficult. If I was to summarize it as quickly as I can, I would just say it's about finding people that are interested or reaching out to people and asking them. That's the first step. Once you've got all of the people that are going to be involved, that have said, yes, I will take part in this, you're done with step one. Easy. Step two, you write out an email giving very clear instructions about what you need and when you need it by. I want a horror short story that is about vacation or travel and I want it by, I would say give them at least two months to do it at least. It can't be any shorter than 7,000 words. It can't be any longer than 10. That's step two, just letting them know what you need when you need it by. Hopefully step three is you've gotten all of the stories and then it's just down to the more technical aspects and that's formatting, turning it into an actual book. This is both the easiest and the hardest part. If that makes sense, it's because it doesn't make sense. If I could give you a tip, I would say make sure that you tell all of the authors involved to not do their own formatting because I forgot to do that and I ended up having to reformat almost every story, took a long time. That doesn't mean no editing, get them to self edit the story, make sure grammar and spelling all that stuff is good, but no actual formatting, meaning no paragraph in dense, nothing like that. And then the only other thing I would say is working out what you're going to do with the profits from the book because personally, I think any anthology I'm ever taking the reins on, I'm just going to have the profits go to charity because the logistics of having the profits be split between different authors indefinitely is very complicated. Although a lot of other people when they do anthologies will just give the authors involved a single payout regardless of how popular or unpopular that book ends up being. You could say every author involved with this project will get a hundred bucks and that's it, that's all you get from the book forever. And a lot of people will be okay with that, that's a perfectly fine way of doing anthologies. There you go, there is a very long answer to your question. Is it usual for you that you get stuck during the writing process or even get into a writer's crisis? Do you have any methods that usually get you through these hard times? I am in a perpetual state of writer's block, writer's crisis, so yes. If there's anything that gets me out of a bit of a stage of writer's block, it is almost always sudden bursts of inspiration or motivation and you can most definitely kind of give yourself that. The way I do that is through a number of different methods. I will either watch movies, shows, play games within the genre that I'm trying to write in, I know that sounds like procrastination. In a weird way that's actually going to help if all you want to do right now is procrastinate, try to focus your procrastination within the genre that you're trying to create in. If I'm trying to write fantasy I might go watch Lord of the Rings and suddenly I'll be inspired to do some writing. You could listen to music that kind of goes in the genre, you could listen to fantasy soundtracks, that might give you a burst of inspiration. Or something that almost always works for me is going on YouTube and watching videos of people talking about their success stories, people talking about finishing a book or doing a cover reveal, basically seeing people being excited about a book that they're about to publish. That always gets me like in the mood. The main point I'm making here is that you can absolutely give yourself the inspiration. In fact in most cases you're going to need to be the one to do that because if you're just sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike and I know you hear this all the time, you're never going to get anything done. It's just the way it is. I'm trying to read more survival or isolation horror. Any book recommendations besides Welcome Descent which I enjoyed? Well first of all, thank you so much. They were talking about that book down there which is my Psychological Horror Novel that is the only self plug I'll do here, don't worry. If you're looking for stories like that I could definitely give you some recommendations. I'll give you some recommendations for stories that inspired that one actually because if you enjoyed that you'll probably like these. I would recommend High Rise, the short story 1408 by Stephen King was a huge inspiration in me putting out that book. More so the movie actually than the story but the story is still pretty good. If you want a bit of an old school one you could read We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson. That's a pretty good one. If you don't mind venturing a bit more into sci-fi Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is also one of my all-time favorite kind of horror slash thriller books. It has a very very unusual but entertaining kind of isolation angle where a guy is alone while not being alone he's I can't I can't explain it without spoiling it. You just have to trust me on that one. Actually on the topic of Blake Crouch also Wayward Pines the Wayward Pines series one of my all-time favorite kind of horror series very good very strong isolation vibes. Maybe you've already covered this somewhere but I've just started submitting sci-fi slash horror-ish stories to magazines and am interested in any insight on that or other people's experiences. I know you've done indie publishing and collaborative anthologies just wondering whether you've had any experience and or tips for traditional magazine submission publishing things. I actually haven't um although I it's funny you mentioned this I'll access because in 2022 one of my goals is to have some short stories go out to magazines. It's something I've never really thought a whole lot about before because I would either just put them out myself in my own collection or on Wattpad after free or in these anthologies that are happening a lot more nowadays. So there's this magazine called the darkcornerzine.limitedrun.com that I really want to get a short story into. I can't remember who it was that I saw talking about it. It might have been Mary McWilliams maybe. One of those horror tubers that I've worked with before on these anthologies had a story in one of these magazines and I just love the artwork and the whole atmosphere of the darkcornerzine. I just love it. My only tip would be make sure you are reading the submission guidelines very closely because if there's one thing that will turn them off that will make them just not even bother with your story is if you have done something that they asked you not to do in the submission guidelines. And also make sure that the magazine that you're submitting to is the right fit for the story that you're trying to tell because people underestimate how many different types of horror there is and there is a lot of different types of horror indie presses and magazines and some of them might be more sci-fi focused some of them might be more wacky focused like dinosaurs that kind of stuff.  Have you ever considered adding a small cameo from one of your previously finished novels inside your current projects? I have indeed. I love the idea of a kind of connected universe. In fact I wasn't going to even mention this I was just going to let people try to find out for themselves to see if anyone did notice but I'll mention it briefly in this one video and we'll see if people remember in the future. In the horror collection that I currently have the first draft finished of that I'll be publishing in a couple of months every story in that short story collection has something to do with one of the other short stories it's very subtle but I'm interested to see if people pick it up and one of those short stories has something to do with that novel. Why are we all if not all most of us are obsessed with the concept of the multiverse? I'm assuming that you're referring to the multiverse now because it's the big thing and in particular movies like we're seeing it and you know Marvel and DC like DC's got like a multiverse thing they're trying to work towards with the flash movie. My theory for why the multiverse is becoming such a popular thing right now is because it's kind of because of Marvel because with Endgame they topped off a 10 year long franchise they did something that's never been done before they quite literally made history they built up towards this cinematic peak and they've reached a point where you can't top that without doing another 10 years of build up so they want to find a way to tap into that same success without having to spend another 10 years making movies and the best way to do that is fan service by giving people old movies coming back in the new movies crossovers don't want to spoil the new spider-man but I'm sure you see where I'm going with this by tapping into nostalgia with fan service they're able to reach those peaks that they did with Endgame just by making people happy reminding them of their you know younger days bringing back actors playing their most iconic roles it's setting off all the neurons it's making people spend money very weird answer to your question but that's why I think the multiverse is so popular right now fan service I make that sound like a problem but I'm actually completely cool with it what do you think of the new hyperventic connection between novels cosme for example does it add to the story or take away from the potential of the story what is going on why that's three in a row about the same thing um anyway I think it absolutely adds to the story as long as it doesn't become the focus of the story let's say Brandon Sanderson's cosme because you used that as an example the reason that is such a cool and fun concept is because it's so subtle you wouldn't even know about the cosme unless someone told you about it or unless you've read the other books in the cosme to see the examples in the easter eggs so it doesn't take away from the potential at all I think um and I do think it adds to it I think I think doing these interconnected worlds kind of this like multiverse thing within stories and having authors different books kind of tied together somehow in very small ways is actually a way to reward the reader for being a fan like with Stephen King all of the Stephen King readers were rewarded with the dark tower series because they were references to all of the other Stephen King books have you ever let your characters take over the direction of your stories absolutely I think the story and the characters always kind of lead the story in their own way like when I outline I will do paragraphs for what I want to happen in each chapter but they always change it always ends up being a whole different thing because when you're actually writing the story the characters and the plot will grow in ways that you didn't expect what's your process for putting a plot together how do you come up with the different beats and put them in the right order do you start with the plot and let that dictate the characters or let the characters dictate the plot I love your videos they're wicked fun to watch thanks josey and um this ties into the outlining video that I've probably already left a card up here for in that outlining video where I broke down my whole process um I specifically mentioned when I outlined the plot again like kind of like what I just said um I outlined it almost paragraph by paragraph and the best benefit of doing that for me the main reason I do that is because it gives me the skeleton of the story that helps me with the pacing I see where the story's meant to rise and fall I know where the major conflicts are and I can build towards them and then I can like have the story kind of mellow out a bit and then rise towards another conflict when you settle on a story how do you keep yourself from jumping to different ideas and stories I don't I mean I wish I had a profound answer for you here but I quite literally have to force myself to not start on different stuff I'll just make like a notepad document giving the idea for the next story I just came up with and I have to forcefully tell myself to not start on something new even though I've done that a bunch of times I'm starting an author tube channel like you to chronicle my journey as an author what do you think is a good video to start for a new channel there is a very easy answer to this mr swam you should always start with the author tube newbie tag you should go on youtube right now and type that in and have a look and you will find plenty of people just starting their own author tube journeys if you could body swap with any author at any point in time and you would also gain their writing skills who would you pick you would expect me to jump to saying like Tolkien or something but Tolkien started with his writing career pretty late in life I think I would want to start a lot earlier and when it comes to classical writers I don't know if I would want to live in that time so I'd probably choose a new writer I guess I might have to say Brandon Sanderson because I really do think he is going to be I think a few generations from now Brandon Sanderson is going to be one of the most iconic fantasy writers of this point in time I genuinely believe that his writing is on a whole whole other level and not only that but he writes so much and of such high quality um he I honestly think he's one of the best writers ever for so many different reasons not just because his writing is good but his attitude the way he interacts with the community he has his own youtube channel where he does like movie reviews and always talks to people he has a beautiful family he just everything about his life at least from the outside uh looks amazing do you think it's possible to write a charismatic first person narrator without them being snarky or sarcastic I think the main trick there is just to make sure that uh the narrator can be kind of condescending or sarcastic at times to the characters within the story but you never want the narrator to seem like a dickhead to the reader in particular who do you think is the biggest mum is boy Jason Voorhees or Norman Bates I mean the answer to that is obviously Norman Bates right there was definitely some weird edible complex going on there what is the best fighting strategy against auto correct let me know if you find out does it really get cold enough to warrant a leather jacket where you live have I ever worn a leather jacket on this channel I don't think I've owned a leather jacket for years um look maybe like twice a year it gets cold enough as a writer do you think it's harder to see your own shortcomings or easier are you hard on yourself or more defensive lately when I noticed bad writing habits forming it's all I think about when you're doing anything creative whether it's writing or singing songwriting painting whatever it can be pretty difficult sometimes to see the flaws in your own stuff because you kind of have to believe in the best of yourself that's the only way to succeed at it noticing the flaws can sometimes be a pretty slippery slope to just feeling like everything you do is garbage when I started I had way too big of an ego when it came to my writing a lot of people in my life a lot of people in my life had told me I was a very talented writer in retrospect I think it was just being nice but it did inflate my head a little bit and it took a long time a lot longer than I would like to admit for me to realize that I had a lot of improving left to do and as far as a single piece of writing advice that I think is total BS pretty much any writing advice that deals in absolutes saying you absolutely have to do this or you absolutely cannot do this it's almost always wrong there is a balance to everything and almost every piece of writing advice should be dealt with nuance I think saying that you absolutely should never use any dialogue tags other than said is dumb I think that's stupid advice but obviously using said should be the primary dialogue tag otherwise it can distract from the story itself there's nuance there's balance have you heard of the newer kindle vela program for serialized stories do you have any thoughts about it would you write anything for it I absolutely have thought about it I would love to start doing like a serialized little story thing within the world of this fantasy series I'm writing I would love to do that for kindle vela unfortunately kindle vela is not available in Australia right now I don't know why as a nausea I'm being discriminated against and I'm not allowed to publish on there apparently which I think sucks how do you find an idea for a story most often it just comes to you it's just a thing you'll think of like you'll see something happen in real life and you'll say to yourself hmm what would happen if this happened instead and then it leads to a whole story do you have a mailing address that one can send you a postcard or something first of all Angelia I hope you are also well I've been thinking about you a lot and secondly no I don't I don't have a postal address but maybe at some point this year I will get myself a PO box I haven't really thought about it a whole lot but yeah I mean I mean it's a possibility have you ever joined a writing contest I did a lot um just after high school or around high school during high school I did a lot of writing contests I think I won two but yeah I think I won two and I'm not flexing because that's two out of like like 50 um but yeah I did enter a lot I haven't done that recently because finding writing contest now is a lot trickier as an adult the logistics a bit are just a bit more difficult and almost everything I'm writing right now I'm writing for the purpose of publishing and when you send a story into a short story competition that's not something you're always allowed to do it kind of feels like author tube is getting a little toxic not you you're quite friendly well do you think that's true as well or it might just be me I have no idea to be honest with you uh because I mean I watch author tube videos but I feel like I miss all of the drama or whatever all the stuff that happens I know I know the woman from the channel heart breathings ended up in a big legal thing recently I heard about and I did kind of look into that and I thought about making a video on it but I decided against it um like I did a lot of the research I started writing up a bit of a script for it but I decided against it because at the end of the day that's a very serious and personal thing that's going on with that lawsuit and it just felt too much like I was sticking my nose in where it didn't belong but I am very willing to say right here and now that I I land firmly on one side and that is with the side of heart breathings I think this whole lawsuit thing against her is fucking absurd for anyone who doesn't know basically here's what happened heart breathings made her own I kind of book or course or advice journal kind of thing for writers to use to purchase and use say what you want about the process of people on author tube selling services like that that's not really the the crux of the issue here they did that and they said that a large inspiration for that was let me get the names up because I should really be using the names I'm talking about this right so the woman from heart breathings her name is Sarah Cannon and the person like putting all this legal shit against her is named Alexandra Sokoloff and I did a lot of looking into this I looked through a lot of the posts on Alexandra Sokoloff's Facebook page about like what the accusations are basically it is that Sarah has taken some of the content or like the writing tips and structures from Alexandra's own like writing course stuff and used it as her own and all it took was like five minutes of looking into it to see that those copyrighted processes that Alexandra is referring to are very very generic and standard like writing advice things that have been sold and put in every self-help book for the last 50 years it's just it's ridiculous the whole situation is absolutely fucking absurd and the big smoking gun that Alexandra has is that Sarah Cannon said in a video at one point that Alexandra's stuff was an inspiration it's just fucking it's it's silly I'm sorry if I'm being completely honest I think all of these like writer's self-help books and courses and stuff are all just the same like generic information being reworded and resold by everyone with a platform I don't think I've never really found a whole lot of value in them but if you're gonna start suing people that like use the same methods that you've taken from other people as well I think you're just kidding yourself you know what is on your 2022 TBR well that's a good question and a question you can have answered by going to my youtube channel where I talk about all of my reading stuff it's called wolf the story nomad and I talk exclusively about fantasy and horror books there if it's not up already I do have a video going up there talking about all of the horror books that I'm excited for in 2022 how much does it cost to self-publish these days by stewart good question stewart and again I'm gonna have to refer you to another video I've done where I went into very specific detail not just about how much I spent but how much I made back self-publishing that is a there is a very long answer to that question I can't really go into that here it's complicated is there anything you would like to change about author tube back in the day I would have said that I would prefer if there wasn't as much drama because back in the day there was a lot more drama with all the christen martin stuff but it feels like nowadays that's the only exciting stuff that ever happens on water tube so maybe we need more of that is there anything I'd like to change about okay here's one I would say I would love to see a lot more collaboration because I think author tube has the most potential out of a lot of communities on YouTube for collaboration and there's just not enough of it for example a lot more people on author tube I think should be doing anthologies we're a huge huge community of writers we could be working together to make tons and tons of anthologies where the prophets all go to charity it could be an amazing and huge thing that's that's what I would change more collaboration but yeah there it is I think that is all of the questions wow this is going to be holy shit this is going to be a long video sorry I appreciate your questions and I appreciate you tuning in to watch me answer them thank you so much especially for watching through this whole big ass thick ass video thank you or in the meantime you can pop in and do some writing with me live over on twitch on my twitch page there it's cam underscore wolf do like three streams a week it's usually two writing streams where we write together and one gaming stream it's a lot of fun it's like a big just club for writers there's a fair few of us over there so if I don't see you there I'll see you in the next video catch ya


Before we put the explosives into the ground or introduce explosives to the pattern, there are some things that we need to consider. What are the possible accesses to this pattern? As you can see behind me, the blasters have put up a fence, put up physical barricades, and put up signage to indicate that blasting operations are being conducted in this location. That is a requirement of the code, and only vehicles authorized by the Chief Inspector of Mines may access the mine. In some mines, the access possibilities are a lot greater than in other mines. In a coal mine, you would have to guard the access from the roadside, but also from the seam side, as there may be dozers or excavators working on the seam side of the blast. I understand that you're conducting blasting operations this afternoon, and I wonder if you could explain to me how you determined what an appropriate blast evacuation circle would be. We'll have our radius map that we get from Engineering Department. Engineering gives us our 2,000 foot radius that has to be that no employee or personnel are allowed to be within this 2,000 feet. As myself, as the drill and blast supervisor, and the shift bosses that are out in the pit, we do a very thorough clear of each section that is out in the pit, so we go up to every piece of equipment that is inside that blast radius. We go up into the piece of equipment, we check everything, we come back out, we put posted guards, personnel, people that are in pickups with pan-helds and radios that can contact if needed. We go through all the radius area, and once everything has properly been cleared, that's when we know all our guards are in place, that's when we will contact the blast crew to notify them that the pit and the areas have been cleared and all guards are in place. On your maps, does it indicate any infrastructure locations, i.e. power lines, buildings, fuel stations, etc.? So on this particular map here, what we have for infrastructures is more of equipment. Okay, so if there were to be some infrastructure within the blast radius, you would have specific clearing and guarding procedures for goals? That is correct. So we would bring in specific equipment. If we're close to safe power lines, we could bring in blasting mats that would control the blast itself and any potential fly rocks. So nothing to come towards power lines, and for infrastructures and stuff like that, we would be very thorough of going through the building itself, clearing it, and having all guards placed at any accesses into doors or buildings. Do you sequence your blasts to direct the blast energies away from these infrastructures? So we'll take that into account when we're designing the pattern through timing and everything, through the engineering department. Engineering will give us the tie-in back and have everything set up so when the initiation of the blast goes, it will be away from that direction of the piece of equipment or building. Because of your proximity to the airport in the area, do you have any special procedures or precautions, like no-time airmen or notice to airmen, that you issue for this operation? So for this certain site here, we have put into notice of airmen and the local airport that this is a no-fly zone area, so that they know that flying over this general direction is that they're not allowed. So you have a standing no-time? That is correct. Okay, thank you. I understand that you're going out to conduct blasting operations now, so thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you, Greg. Have a safe blast. Thank you. Have a good day. Goodbye.


This is Brett with Summit Auto in Fond du Lac Wisconsin and today I'm showing you our very first and only 2020 Ram 2500 Power Wagon in Olive Green Metallic. Brand new color that just came out for the Rams and this is the first one that we have received on our lot. Really a good looking color especially with all the Power Wagon black decals and the two-tone black clear coat paint on the bottom there. It's got a lot of metal flake in it and we'll get up close to it in just a second here. This one also has the LED lighting group. This is a level one Power Wagon. Comes with the 6.4 liter V8 heavy motor with MDS. You're going to get the Goodyear Wrangler Dura-Track tires. These are LT28570R17s and you get the Bilstein shocks with the Power Wagon. Now unfortunately this one is sold already so there's no link to it on our website. You do get the black hood decal, but that doesn't mean we can't show it to you here. Front bumper parking sensors. 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And then you get your cargo management system and bed extender, which is pretty cool. And of course the spring and bed liner. Really nice material on there. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And we'll take a look at the inside. Now remember that this is a power wagon level one. So everything you see on the interior here is going to be a level one trim package. You get the tow mirrors. They fold out like so. They have directional signals in the side there. Inside that level one package is going to give you the kind of like a rubber and cloth mesh. You get the power wagon stitched into the side and that's actual stitching. It's kind of like a rubber up here and then you get a little bit of leather in there and leather down the sides. And then this is rubber here. It's kind of a neat design. Of course you get the tire tread pattern on there, which is cool. This one comes with the all-weather floor mats. You get the 4x4 shifter on the floor. Power pedals, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. These mirrors are power folding, which is cool. And then you get that same material that's on the seats, that rubber stuff. And then you have the diamond-plated finish look there. Comes with the 7-inch LCD display. You can see that's all digital. And we'll start it up so you can see it a little bit better here. Also has the leather-wrapped steering wheel. This is a heated steering wheel. You do get heated seats and heated steering wheel with the Level 1 group in the $2,500. It has bluetooth audio, information center controls, cruise controls, and gear selector on the right. This one does have the 8-speed automatic transmission and it does have that 4x4 shifter on the floor. You get axolock. You can do rear or you can do front and rear downhill assist control. You can disconnect the sway bar links, which is really what makes the power wagon. The power wagon. Down here you get two USBs, two USB-C's, and an aux jack. And then you get the 12-inch Uconnect 4C radio. You do get 5 years serious traffic and travel link with this radio in a year of Guardian, and a year of Serious XM radio. Really a good-looking radio. You can do so much with it. It's a 4C radio, so you can do Android Auto and Apple CarPlay as well, where you can project your cell phone to the screen via USB. And then we actually did a demo on Android Auto in the upper right-hand part of your screen if you want to check that out. But I'm going to start it up here so you can check out those backup cameras in this vehicle. You can see just how crystal clear those backup cameras are. Those are dynamic grid lines as well. They turn as you turn the steering wheel, which is really cool. And then that center line is lined right up with your receiver hitch.  You can get right on that hitch. Same thing with the cargo cam. It's really a cool system, and you can see exactly what's going on back there. You can even check this out while you're driving in case you've got stuff rolling around back there that you want to check on. So really cool stuff there as well. You can also do your climate controls, AM, FM, and Sirius XM capabilities. And then that projection manager is for your Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. And then, yeah, just everything else that you can do all your different apps on there. So really cool stuff. You also have a factory brake controller, stability control, tow haul, front and rear parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. And you get that same seat design on the passenger seat. It's also stitched on there. Heli century right here. You get the lock unlock. That's for your tailgate. You can power drop that down and then it does have remote start. Nice heavy duty key fob right there. And then we'll check out the back seats. And we'll do one more walk around here. So you get that same tire tread pattern on the back seats as well. Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. The seats fold up for extra storage and they still have the load floor back here, which is really nice.  Or if you've got pets, they've got a nice flat place to lay if you put both sides down, which is always nice. You also get storage underneath here. Got to unsnap it here, which is hard to do with this all-weather format. But that's like that. This one has the Alpine sound system, so it does have a subwoofer on that side. And you get those all-weather floor mats back here too. You also get the in-floor storage if you need any more coolers. Those bins come out for easy cleaning. And you do get the rear defrost on that power sliding rear window. Child safety locks on the back doors. Then I just want to show you how that tailgate works. So you just press the button here. That comes down nice and slow. It's never going to slam on you, which is really nice. 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So I'm Madeleine Law. I'm in the Department of Health Sciences and I'm an associate professor and within that I'm also the director of the Interprofessional Education for Quality Improvement program and so that program is linked to a course that I teach in Health Administration and essentially is a service learning course with the community. So the course that I teach it starts in third year. So my students are coming in on a bi-weekly basis and what we do in this course is we work with health professionals in the community. So I've pre-identified a number of different projects with the community partners and then I identify a number of students to be in the course and then they choose the project that they would like to be involved in and from there I have workshops together with the students and health professionals and they talk about the issues that they have in the community and then the students work with them through a set methodology to identify what the issue is, what are the root causes, and then actually engage in interventions and evaluation of changes. So some examples of what these projects would look like might be things like falls prevention. Another one would be infection control in the emergency department. A few others are in the community. So one is looking at seniors living in independent housing and some with public health as well. Yeah, so the program started in 2012 and so we're in the sixth iteration. So I've changed it kind of over time. I've understood some of the gaps and the challenges and we've modified it, but it's getting into a nice place where with the course it's so it starts in third year, but then it goes into fourth year and we found that over two years it's makes a lot more impact for the students because they really are able to get engaged in the project. So it's in its sixth year and I think we've had about 150 participants based on Brock students as well as health professionals and we've engaged in about 36 projects so far. For sure. So I think taking it a bit of a step back, the way in which I visualized and kind of conceptualized the course to begin with was because there was a need in the community around quality improvement. So the ministry had come to health organizations and said you must do quality improvement and there wasn't a lot of capacity in a number of organizations to do that. And so how I was able to look at what I wanted my students to get out of an experience. So I wanted them to learn about leadership. I wanted them to learn about change management to be able to think innovatively and creatively where all the things that I saw as the objectives for this course and I wanted to do that in a practical way where they would actually get a real experience to see how that applied. So I had always been thinking what could I do to really leverage that and so then seeing the need in the community for quality improvement projects that incorporate all of those pieces. I saw that as a nice kind of natural linkage with the community partners to create the course. So they create a project charter, so it's a project plan together with measures and all of those are linked into theoretical concepts or evidence. For example, if they're looking at incorporating a new intervention to make a change, then those need to be based in evidence. So it needs to be based in what what they're learning and what they're reading academically. And so there'll be an assignment for that as well as a review of literature will be part of that as I feel that's key in in their academic learning. But as well, their participation in the workshops and their participation in workshops and participation in meetings with their community partners is another area that they are assessed on as well as a reflection based on the activities that they do in the community and trying to think of something else. Oh, a summer plan. So their projects through the summer continue and so they create a summer plan that's vetted through myself and the community partner as well.


A very good evening aspirants, welcome to the Hindu newspaper analysis brought to you by Shankar Iyer's academy. Today's date is 20th of September 2023, displayed here are the list of news articles that we are going to discuss today. So without much delay, let us get into the first news article discussion. Take a look at this news article. This article here talks about the artwork in the new parliament building. It says that the new parliament is high on the symbolism of gender justice. For example the bill that is to be tabled in the parliament is the women's reservation bill. Then there is Jan Janani Janmabhoomi is a 80 by 9 feet mural on the entrance hall of the parliament. See this piece of art is assembled by 75 women artisans from across the country. In addition to this certain themes in the Shilpa Dirga which is crafts gallery also celebrate womanhood and their everyday contributions to society. This is about the news article given here. In this context let us see the measures taken by government and the judiciary to ensure gender justice. Firstly let us take the steps taken by the judiciary to ensure gender justice. See the first one here is the handbook on combating gender stereotypes. See the CJI recently launched this handbook. The goal of the handbook is to encourage use of language that reflect a more respectful understanding of gender. It also promotes equal rights for all individuals regardless of their gender. Ultimately it aims to promote a gender sensitive language and tries to eliminate gender stereotype.  The Supreme Court issued guidelines in the Vishaka case to prevent and address sexual harassment of women in the workplace. These guidelines laid the foundation for the sexual harassment of women at workplace prevention prohibition and retrosal act 2013. Then in the Sahira Bono case the Supreme Court declared the practice of triple talak which is instant divorce among Muslim communities as unconstitutional. This decision aimed to protect the rights and dignity of Muslim women. Then in the Shah Bono case the court ruled in favor of Shah Bono. It held that she was entitled to maintenance under section 125 of the CRPC irrespective of her religion. The judgment emphasized the need to ensure that Muslim women like women of other religion have access to financial support after divorce. In Joseph Schein versus Union of India the Supreme Court struck down the offense of adultery under section 497 of the Indian Penal Court. The court said that the law on adultery helps in propagating the patriarchal mindset. So the court decriminalized it. In the state of Jack and Vices, Sailendra Kumar Rai case, the Supreme Court placed a ban on the two-finger test. The court said that the test was did not help in the determination of rape and that it violated the dignity of rape survivors. Finally in the state of Punjab Vices, Gurumith Singh case, the court observed that the testimony of a survivor or victim of sexual violence is credible and should be taken seriously. The court said that the allegations should be dismissed simply because of the assumptions that women often falsely accuse men. These are some of the steps taken by Supreme Court to ensure gender justice. Now let's quickly go through the steps taken by the government to ensure gender justice. Firstly let us look at the constitutional safeguards. The Indian constitution has various provisions to ensure gender equality. These include the right to equality article 14, the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sex article 15 and special provision for women and children article 15 clause 3 and article 42. Then the government also for its part has enacted various legislations to ensure gender justice. Some of the legislations include prevention of women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, the sexual harassment of women at workplace prevention prohibition and redressal act 2013 and Audi prohibition act 1961. Then to ensure women participation in grass root democracy, the government has implemented reservation for women in local government bodies that is panchayats and municipalities through the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments. Government is also planning to introduce the women reservation bill to increase women representation in parliament and state legislature. Then to increase literacy among women, government has launched schemes like server Sikh Shah Abiyan and Betty Bachao, Betty Padau, save the girl child, educate the girl child campaign. To increase women participation in the workforce, the government has taken steps to ensure safe working conditions to make sure women do not drop out of the workforce post-pregnancy. The government enacted the maternity benefits amendment act 2017. Also through initiatives like Stand Up India, the government provides women with access to financial services, credit and bank accounts. This will help inculcate entrepreneurship spirit in women. These are also some of the steps taken by the government to ensure gender justice and gender equality. So these are all some of the points that you have to remember when a question is asked about gender justice and the steps taken by the government of judiciary. So with these learnt points, now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this front page article. This news article talks about the historic decision by the government to introduce the women's reservation bill in parliament. See this particular bill aims to reserve one third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women. This bill also aims to ensure gender equality as a representation of women at the policy making has been lacking since independence. So in this context, let us quickly go through the provisions of the bill in detail. Before that, the syllabus relevant to this news article is highlighted here for your reference. You can go through it. Firstly, let us begin with a brief about the women reservation bill. See the 128th constitutional amendment bill 2023 aims to reserve one third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies. Here a question arises, whether this will be implemented in the general elections happening in 2024 or not? The answer to this is no, it won't be implemented in 2024 elections because it would be implemented only after the delimitation exercise, which is scheduled to happen in 2026 is completed. However, the data used should be from the latest census taken after the passage of the bill. So the reservation in the Lok Sabha would be implemented only in the 2029 Lok Sabha election. So with this basic understanding, now let us proceed to see the provisions of the bill. Firstly, as we saw earlier by amending the article 330th of the constitution, this bill aims to reserve one third of the seats for women in the house of people that is Lok Sabha. Secondly, one third of the total number of seats reserved for scheduled cast or scheduled to tribe should be given to women. This article provides reservation of seats for the women belonging to scheduled cast or scheduled tribe community within the total pie of seats reserved for the respective communities. Thirdly, the bill also reserves one third of the seats in the legislative assembly of the National Capital Territory and City of Delhi. It was inserted by amending the article 239 AA of the constitution. Fourthly, by amending article 332 of the constitution, the bill aims to reserve one third of the seats to women in the state legislative assemblies. It also ensures the reservation of one third of the seats to the members of the scheduled cast or scheduled to tribes communities within the seats reserved for them. It was the same as we saw for the Lok Sabha. Fifthly, the law will be enforced for 15 years for any further extension in the reservation the authority lies with the parliament. Finally, to enable equity, the reserved seats will be rotated after every delimitation so that the benefits will be enjoyed by people living in all constituencies. So, these are all some of the provisions of the bill. Now, let us quickly see about the need for such a bill. Why a separate bill is needed to ensure participation of women in policymaking? See, the answer lies in the shocking fact that India ranks 148 out of 193 countries in the criteria of women's representation in parliament according to the report of Inter-Parliamentary Union IPO. This is despite the fact that the countries present number of women MP at an all-time high of over 14 percentage, but it is below the international average of 22 percentage. This is even more shocking when we see the data from various state assemblies. Several state assemblies have less than 10% women representation including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Thilangana and etc. This shows the lack of women participation in India even though they are almost 50% in the population. It can be due to many factors like patriarchy in the society. Here patriarchy means male dominated thoughts not allowing women to enter public life. See, we can see this patriarchy in the notorious Sarpanj Pathy system in local bodies where the women leaders is only a nominal leader where the real power relies with her husband. Secondly, social norms like men should go for hard works outside and women should be in the traditional roles like maintaining the family. This also hinders their participation. As politics is a 24 by 7 job, the lack of work-life balance is also ensuring their low participation. Thirdly, lack of inter-party democracy and underrepresentation in political parties. See, it is evident that men occupy the top positions like secretary, general secretary, treasurer in most of the parties in India. People in those positions ultimately get tickets to MP, MLA elections leaving women as party workers throughout their life. Fourthly, politics in India is often accused of money and muscle power which was evident in the physical violence during many elections. A recent trend of abusing the women leaders online is also a major cause of their less participation of women. Last but not least, an important factor is the lack of access to education. This is evident in local bodies as with the low literacy women cannot understand the increasing demand of e-governance which is also limiting their participation. Having seen this, now let us see some of the benefits of increasing participation of women in the policymaking. See, increasing women participation in policymaking will bridge the gap between the women voters who are nearly 50% to women legislators which is 14%. So, it ensures democratic principles with social justice. Secondly, it will also ensure women-centric policies and approaches to legislation. For example, in future if a comprehensive law against online abuse of women is coming, women legislatures can effectively contribute to it, covering all aspects of abuses. Thirdly, it will break the gender stereotypes in the society and many women role model legislators will be created for the society to emulate. So, in conclusion, I could remember the words of Victor Hugo that no power in the world cannot stop an idea whose time has come. So, these are all some of the important points that you have to remember about women reservation bill. We will see some of the very important provisions once it transforms into an act. So, these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this editorial article. The article highlights the need for the Cauvery Water Management Authority CWMA to develop a distressed sharing formula for water resources in the Cauvery River basin. The article also discusses the historical context of the issue which dates back to 1991. The recent submission by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as well as the CWMA's testimony before the Supreme Court emphasizes the need to settle this conflict as soon as possible. The article says that this issue must be resolved in a fair and equitable manner in order to reduce distress during water shortage. This is the crux of the news article given here. In this context, we shall look into some of the important points mentioned in the news article. Before that, the syllabus relevant to the article is highlighted here for your reference. You can go through it. Firstly, let us start with the background of this issue. See, Cauvery River basin is divided among four states, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. The sharing of water from this basin has been a dispute for decades. The Cauvery Water dispute has its roots in the 19th century when agreements were made between the princely state of Mysore and the British Madras Presidency. These agreements were updated over the years. Now, let's see the formation of Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal. See section 6A of the Interstate River Water Dispute Act 1956 gives the centre the power to establish any authority for the implementation of the decision or directions of the tribunal. On this line, the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal was formed in 1990 to settle disagreements between four states regarding the sharing of Cauvery River water. The dispute revolves around the allocation of water for education, drinking water and other uses between the two states. And the tribunal deals with the issue of water sharing in different circumstances like normal and deficit water years in the Cauvery River basin. Now, let us quickly see the evolution of this issue. See, after 17 years of its creation, that is in 2007, the Cauvery Water dispute tribunal issued its final award. It is specified the amount of water that each state should receive during different periods of the year, but Karnataka didn't follow this decision of the tribunal. So, Tamil Nadu government had approached the Supreme Court with a special leave petition under article 136. This article 136 makes the Supreme Court the highest appellate court. The Supreme Court delivered its judgment in 2018. As per the judgment, the central government constituted Cauvery Water Management Authority, CWMA and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee, CWRC. These two bodies hold meetings regularly and make decisions for water allocation. First, let us see about Cauvery Water Management Authority, CWMA. See, the authority will comprise a chairman, a secretary and eight members. Out of the eight members, two will be full-time, while two will be part-time members from center's side. Rest four will be part-time members from states. Now, what are the functions of this authority? See, the main function of CWMA is to implement the Supreme Court's order in relation to shortage, apportionment, regulation and control of Cauvery Waters. CWMA will also advise the states to take suitable measures to improve water use efficiency. It will do so by promoting use of micro-education, change in cropping patterns, improved form practices and development of command areas. The CMA will also prepare an annual report covering its activities during the preceding year. The second one is Cauvery Water Regulation Committee, CWRC. See, it was established to implement and monitor the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunals award. It monitors the release of water from Karnataka's reservoir and ensures that the allocated amount of water are delivered to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pudusheri as per the established formula. So, what is the ongoing dispute with sharing of Cauvery Water? See, last month, Cauvery Water Management Authority, CWMA held a meeting. During the meeting, the CWMA asked Karnataka to release 10,000 cubic feet per second two-sex of water for Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu was unhappy because Karnataka didn't agree to release the same quantity of water that was decided in the CWMA meeting. Karnataka argued that low rainfall in the Cauvery catchment area resulted in poor inflowing into its reservoirs. So, what is the impact of this dispute? See, the first impact is agricultural distress. Farmers in the Cauvery basin heavily depend on the Cauvery water for eradicating their crops, particularly during the critical sowing and growing stages. They will face economic losses and crop failure. Secondly, water scarcity. See, water scarcity is a significant outcome of the dispute because it impacts various aspects of daily life and the environment. It leads to drinking water challenges in herbal centers. Water scarcity can even lead to inadequate sanitation and hygiene practices, increasing the risk of water bond diseases. Thirdly, there will be political tensions. The Cauvery water dispute has significant political implications and has often been a source of tension between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The dispute has led to protests, rallies and even violent incidents which disrupt normal life and can lead to law and order problems. Lastly, we must not ignore the ecological impact. Insufficient water flow in the river affects aquatic ecosystem, biodiversity and the overall health of the river. So, what can be the solution for this issue? See, to manage the dispute and ensure water availability during periods of disagreement, the Supreme Court has issued interim orders. These orders have played a crucial role in preventing immediate water crisis and maintaining some level of stability in water sharing. The interim order have aimed to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of water between the states until a final resolution could be reached. Both states must follow their interim orders given by the Supreme Court. So, we have to wait and see what will be the decision of the Karnataka government in releasing Cauvery water. These are all some of the important points mentioned in the news article. So, with these learned points, now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this news article. The news is that Indian government is going to introduce a set of awards to recognize achievements in the field of science. The awards was named as Rajshriya Vigyan Purushkar. So, in this news article discussion, we shall see some of the basic information about these awards in detail. See, Rajshriya Vigyan Purushkar award was created by the central government for honoring the scientific achievements all over the country. This is created on the lines of civilian awards that is the Bhatma awards. Know that Rajshriya Vigyan Purushkar awards will be presented in four categories. First is Vigyan Ratna. It is awarded as Lifetime Achievement in Science. Second is Vigyan Sri. It is presented for distinguished contributions to a scientific field. Third is Vigyan Yuvashanti Swaroop Bharatnagar. It is given to encourage exponential young scientists. Fourth is Vigyan team. This is presented to acknowledge scientific teams of three or more members. See, these awards will be presented in 13 domains covering various scientific disciplines. These awards will be issued from next year that is 2024 onwards. In addition to this, the government aims to ensure adequate representation of women among the awardees. Nomination for the awards will be accepted annually between January 14 and February 28. The winners will be announced on May 11 that is on National Technology Day. The awards ceremony will be held on August 23 which is National Space Day. Know that National Space Day is to commemorate India's Chandrayaan 3 mission. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR will manage the awards for the first two years after which the National Research Foundation will take over. These Rashiya Vigyan Purushkar award aimed to rationalize and add value to scientific recognition in India. This announcement comes days after the government released the finalized list of Shanti Swaroop Bharatnagar awardees which was held back for a year. Note that the highest honor for young scientists is still the Shanti Swaroop Bharatnagar award. This award was created in 1958 and it is given by CSIR annually. It is named after Dr. Shanti Swaroop Bharatnagar who is the founder of CSIR and also the first director of CSIR. The creation of the award Rashiya Vigyan Purushkar is a significant step in acknowledging and encouraging scientific excellence in India. That's all regarding Rashiya Vigyan Purushkar. Just know these basic information so there might be a preliminary question in this regard. So these learnt points. Now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Now take a look at this image. The image is about India's Aditya L1 mission which was launched on September 22, 2023. See the mission is heading towards its destination point that is Lagrangi Point L1. So in this context let us understand few facts about Aditya L1 mission and the Lagrangi point from the problem's perspective. So let's begin with the details about Aditya L1 mission. See Aditya L1 mission is the first Indian space based mission of ISRO to study the sun. It was launched using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV XL. Here the spacecraft is to be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangi Point 1 L1 in the space. Actually L1 orbit is about 1.5 million kilometers away from the earth. Here let us ask a question. What is the advantage of placing in this orbit? See the answer is that the satellite placed in the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously observing the sun without any eclipses. It is therefore giving a great advantage of observing the solar activities in a real-time basis. Apart from this Aditya L1 carries seven payloads to observe the sun's atmosphere using electromagnetic and particle magnetic field detectors that is multi-wave length observation capacity. Here in this context we should be aware of the sun's atmosphere in brief which will be asked in the examination. Firstly, photosphere is the lower most layer or the inner most layer of the sun's atmosphere. It can observed directly and from here only most of the sun's energy is emitted. Secondly, the chromosphere is above the photosphere. See the chromosphere plays a major role in conducting heat from the interior of the sun to its outermost layer the corona. Thirdly, coming to the outermost layer of corona, here the temperature can get as high as 3.5 million degrees Fahrenheit. The corona which is the outer layer from the core is hotter than the photosphere. It reminds a biggest mystery till now. And moreover when the gases become cool they become the solar wind which is emitted into the space. Now talking about the objectives of Aditya Alvan's mission. See firstly, its aim is to study the upper atmosphere of sun and their dynamics. Secondly, to study the chromosphere and coronal heating of sun. Thirdly, to study the initiation of the coronal mass ejection CME. See CME is nothing but a large scale eruptions of charged particles from the solar atmosphere into the space. So studying about is very important as it can potentially damage satellites and disrupt communications. Fourthly, the factors which influences the space weather that is the origin and composition of solar winds. So these are all some of the important points that you have to remember about Aditya Alvan mission. So with these learned points now let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice question discussion. Now take a look at this question. Who among the following bodies will select the recipients of Rashe Vigyan Pureshkar? See the correct answer for the question is option D. Principal Scientific Advisor Committee. So the correct answer here is option D. Now moving on look at this question about Aditya Alvan mission. Three statements are given. Statement one it is the world's first satellite to be launched at the Lagrangian point L1. See this statement is actually incorrect as L1 point already has solar and hypersonic observatory satellite SOHO which is an international collaboration project of NASA and ESA. So Aditya Alvan is not the first satellite to be launched at Lagrangian point L1. Look at the second statement. It has a multi-wave length observatory spectrum to study the atmosphere of the Sun. See this statement is actually correct. Now look at this third statement. It has onboard intelligence to detect the coronal mass ejection which can damage satellites. This statement is also correct. So the correct answer for the question is option V only two pairs. Only two pairs are correct here. So the questions displayed here are the main practice questions for you today. Just go through the question, try to write an answer and post it in the comment session. With this we came to the end of the news article discussion. If you like the video hit like, do comment and don't forget to subscribe to Shankari AS Academy YouTube channel. Now thank you so much for listening.


My name is Izu and I've lived in the Haydashbury community for 30 years and I'd love to introduce you to one of my best friends in the world, a neighbor of mine, lives right around the corner, William Francis Sheehan, also known to the community as Waterfall. Thank you, Izu. Hello, Water. How are you doing today? Good. So, you're going to ask me about my middle name, which is Francis. Francis, by folks somehow knew I wind up out here in the city of St. Francis. A lesson, they were lovers of the golden rule and I give them all that honor. So, we're talking about the, I look upon it, Rebecca, as kind of 65 to 75, and then as 95 to now. Okay, what's the parallels, what's the differences? So, here's my little joke, what was the great oxymoron of the period of what the society calls the Vietnam era, but what I look upon as the golden age of communal experimentation and a transformation of society that was beginning. So, what was the great oxymoron of that period? I don't know, what was it? Military intelligence. There you go. So, you did remember that. Now, in our present dilemma period, 95 to 205, what is the great oxymoron of this period of history? Same thing. No, corporate culture. So, the experiments of the period, I took an easy way for me to express myself, because I like to express my generation, our generation. Many of us chose not to go to war. And we'll just talk America. The world has its own history. But we're like the big gorilla in the room, being the United States, that no one can really ignore for very long the elephant in the china shop as it were. So, the society at large that thinks of it as the Vietnam war era has never honored the people who, for whatever reason, decided not to go to war. So, I would say to my, our contemporaries that I honor you. That I honor anyone who stood for peace, and to find a way, okay, but we still have a very, we still have the same dilemma. You might even ask me what the dilemma is. What is the dilemma? I think it is, Isu, that the love of power is still amongst us. And I do see somewhere as the power of love shall prevail, the probably the greatest dilemma of it all is that the people that want to run other people's lives are the ones least worthy to do so. And the people that honor the golden rule, as yourself and many others, it's not as if the golden rule is a hidden secret. It's love your neighbor as yourself. Treat each person as you would wish them to treat you. It's not exactly like it's been a secret all these years. So, to speak to the young people coming of age right now, I would say at least take heart and hope. You do not have to go to war when we stop, when the young stop going to war. And some of our contemporaries, and I mean contemporaries, the people who are the very same age we are, are busy right now ruining the world. You're supposed to ask me, did you say running the world? Did you say running the world or ruining the world? Well, I think I said ruining the world. And what I mean by that is those are the people through whom the love of power has become their raison d'etre. And to quote the French, you know, how many raisins does anyone person need? And greed is not, you know in the 80s it was greed was good. Corporate culture, when I say it's an oxymoron, I mean it's good for oxes and morons. But it's not good for the human race as a whole. The human race as a whole needs vision and needs peace. And most of us can accept and understand that. We're going through a difficult period where the people who have desired this power their whole lives, but now in their maturity and they seem to own everything, which I truly believe, it was an old saying in the 60s that we were in the belly of the beast. Now we've been swallowed up, regurgitated and pooped out so often that we don't really know where we are anymore in some regards. But it's not a lasting vision. The people of the world I believe need a bit more. So we created many things in the interim. That's why I say 65 to 75 because there was a golden age on the West Coast, the Lugat Lib and Morningstar and Bill Wheeler at Wheeler's Ranch and the great communes of Taos and the Hog Farm and the New Buffalo and throughout the world there in that period there was great experimentation. What was the New Buffalo? New Buffalo was a commune that is featured in Easy Rider and it's along the banks of the Rio Grande. It was one of the great communes of the communal period, I like to call it, rather than the war period. These are all up and down the West Coast. It was Tolstoy Farm. Lugat Lib was a person who would always be dear to me. Lou taught me something that I would like to share with you. We do. And it was that he had never worked a day in his life. And a lot of people said, well, you were the piano player for the limelighters and that's pretty rough touring with a band. He did all the musical arrangement. And he said, okay, what I meant was I never did anything for a game that I wouldn't have done for the love of them. So in his opinion he had never, so he and Rena, his beautiful young wife, bought some choice land up in Sonoma County part apple orchard, part redwoods in the back. And they deeded it to God. They said it was open land. And the word went out to the diggers of the agate group who were baking bread right over here on at Wall Saints Church and bringing it down to the panhandle. And groups like the Grateful Dead would come down and play while people just jumped through the free frame of reference and shared and cared for each other. And I don't think that 60s was the only Renaissance.  And I think we belong to for another one right about now. So that again, that's the plea or the understanding to the young people coming of age now is you don't choose to follow these old dinosaurs into their wars. It's the same war. And there's one thing I cannot say in a happier, humorous way at all. My generation, I saw many of my generation turn up missing or main. And it's happening again. So does this mean in our whole lifetimes that we've learned nothing? Does this mean that maybe it's time for the people who are ruining the world to grow up themselves and step aside? Step aside. I mean, they're selling security, but they're selling a very aggressive and harmful form of it. And we would be much more secure. There was a point where the whole world would have embraced the United States if we'd have chosen a peaceful way of solving conflicts. So I still do look. So the young people hold the key to that. It's happening right now, as a matter of fact. One of the legacies of the 60s was no more forced draft. There are men like myself. That was forced construction. Now at least there's a choice. So any young person, 14 to 24 or whatever, right now that is watching or listening, get a waterfall in, get a waterfall in, make some of your own art, and don't go to war. I'd like to read something right under the waterfall. And it says, when green sword is outlawed, only outlaws will think. And that's what it's all about. This is a quarterly paper that the waterfall puts out in the Haight Ashbury? Quarterly, right? Is it monthly or quarterly? It comes out when it's, when pages are complete. Along with my neighbor, my wonderful artist neighbor, David Wills, who did these beautiful, this was the original Haight Street Fair poster. This is a rendition of the Haight as an island of beauty and visionary hope. This is a new piece from Buster Fleming. Of a river at a waterfall. And we've not been resting. We eco over here and yourself. We've done many rainbow gatherings, shooting years. Again, something out of the mainstream that people don't recognize, but it has a wonderful value in self-liberation and liberating, and in returning our connectedness to each other and to nature. Exactly. So may we all fly like eagles. May we all fly like eagles. Flying so high. Flying so high. Circling the universe. Circling the universe. On wings of pure life. On wings of pure life. Boy, I'll take a recall. I didn't get that part. Oh, if she chiles. Oh, if she chiles. May we all fly like eagles. May we all fly like eagles. Flying so high. Flying so high. Circling the universe. Circling the universe. On wings of pure life. On wings of pure life. Boy, I'll take a recall. Oh, if she chiles. Oh, if she chiles. May we all fly like eagles. May we all fly like eagles. Flying so high. Flying so high. Circling the universe. Circling the universe. On wings of pure life. On wings of pure life. Oh, yeah, I'll take a recall. Oh, yeah, I'll take a recall. Oh, if she chiles. Let me teach you. Here's one. I'd like to teach this song. Edit that part. No, it's okay. It's a terrible voice. It's okay. It's nothing that you worry about. Think of it as a chorus of thousands. Here's one. Here's one you get immediately. Do I have to sing along? Well, it's so easy. And this song, if you listen, you can learn it instantly. Okay. You've got peace like a river. Peace like a river. Peace like a river in your soul. Peace like a river. Peace like a river. Peace like a river in your soul. You've got joy like a fountain. Joy like a fountain. Joy like a fountain in your soul. Joy like a fountain. Joy like a fountain. Joy like a fountain in your soul. You've got love like an ocean. Love like an ocean. Love like the ocean in your soul. Love like the ocean. Love like the ocean. Love like the ocean in your soul. Much better without me joining in. I don't want to go down in history as the worst singer in San Francisco, okay? Look at the history of the one that tried the hardest. That tried the hardest, exactly. This is a little... Oh, June 12th. Come to the Hate Street Fair. Come early and hear calls to the seven directions. You know, there's seven directions. Most people think there's... I thought there was four. You thought there was four? Yes. There was actually seven. There is, of course, the north, south, east, and west. Yes. But then there was also above. Below. Below. And within. And within. So we're in a small space. We're not outdoors. So let me try to call for the within. Okay. These are the 70s and the 80s and the 90s and 2005. In fact, where were you in 1967? In engineering school. Oh, my God. Sorry. And John asked me about 68. What happened in 68? What didn't happen in 1968? And I mean that in all seriousness. Okay. It gives me chills. There's a book out now. My sister is reading this. Kathleen is reading this book called 1968, Rebecca. And what didn't happen? Well, one of the nice things about that period of time is I went from being an engineer right through the rabbit hole just like Dorothy to being on the stratosphere. You know, one of my another of my low tech jokes. You want to hear another of my low tech jokes? I have no cell phone nor do I hear one ringing. But thanks to the bear. I'm a psychedelic. I'm a cellular being. I have a cell phone or I need to hear it ringing. But thanks to the psychedelic 60s, I've been a cellular being. But Lord, I don't even want to remember. There was a period, that period of time, and I know Rebecca felt the same way. It was like many lifetimes in that year alone. Many lifetimes in that year alone. I feel like I've a different person turned inside out so many times. In which way? Well, in very good ways. In ways that have stayed with me. That I can honestly give hope to people and say, there is a better way than the old dinosaurs who are ruining the Earth. Did I say ruining the Earth? Yes, you did. But again, you know, that is a joke. I have no right to judge anyone. Everybody has different factors. I'll give you a quick history lesson since it's time to spare. Is that... Everything that has ever happened falls into what is known as inevitable. You following me? Yes. So, therefore, there is no sense lamenting about how we got here. Our only proper life raft function is to go on. I think we were all together a year ago, and when Rambas said that, we're still here. We're still part of this solution as it were. And so, therefore, the dinosaurs who are ruining the Earth are also my contemporaries. As a matter of fact, Bill Clinton graduated college the same year I did, and I think George Bush got thrown out of college the same year.  And everybody was like... Did you inhale? Did you inhale? Exactly. His brother did. I can tell you that. He did. Roger did, that's for sure. But so did George. And the funny thing, you know, the ironies of it are why you don't judge people. Bush didn't go to Vietnam. Not because he doesn't believe in hurting people or... Right. But at least he didn't go. I don't believe in hurting people or a heart, but at least he didn't go. Al Gore wanted us, well, for whatever reason, Al Gore is the Boy Scout and the common wisdom and there is this going on in the United States, which I don't like because it reminds me of the old Stalinist thing. The common wisdom is that you were better if you went to war and then realized it was a crappy war, at least for my generation. And they're still trying to foster that, however, the young right now have an option and apparently they're starting to exercise it en masse. And one of the movements, as the 60s were so many movements swirling together, the movement for civil rights, the movement to treat women with equality, the movement to treat nature with equality. They all swirl together into that beautiful psychedelic of one being for a while. So we need to restore that. And to the old dinosaurs ruining the earth, I just say, step aside, let your children take care of you, don't be afraid all the time, don't be so judgmental, there are other ways of looking at things. The dogmatism is a form of fear, it's a trap for the mind.  And I don't think the young people, one thing I will say to my own, about myself that I like, is I have never looked down on any generation coming of age. Tom Brokow is fine, my folks went through World War II, but he thinks that they're the greatest generation, but they didn't like it, and they told me so. That's what I mean by inevitable. The conditions for what's going to unfold are happening right now today. If the use of America and the world say no to continuing the war, and we of the mature generations who have said no all along, but we kind of have to keep our voice down, don't we? Because it's never really been acceptable that I refuse to go to Vietnam. It's okay, and we're kept here for entertainment purposes by the corporate state or whatever, but I don't want to serve that, I don't want to serve divisiveness in any way. I have a question, why do you live in the 8 Ashbury? You live in San Francisco, why have you chosen to stay in the 8 Ashbury and live here? Why is it your home? Why do you think it is your family? Why are you comfortable in the 8 Ashbury? Because of people like you, mostly with America. Because of the beauty of the town. I think there was a period I was more comfortable on the road, helping put on rainbow gatherings, being in a different forest all the time, and exploring the world. And there was another time where I had a favorite cave in New Mexico, in the Hamas Mountains. My nearest neighbors were up on a roof, were a family of porcupines. You know what a porcupine is, of course. Yeah, of course, an animal, you're talking about the animal. Well, I was, I mean, ask me, what are porcupines? What are porcupines? They're like raccoons when quills. Okay. They were good neighbors. You know, and I was happy there, but I missed the ocean. I was born in a Harvard town, and I really do believe in perhaps the vision of creating a peace monument on the ruins of the old Alcatraz. And that's where this comes in. Talk about this painting. This is a painting by my friend David, who helps me produce the waterfall in. Wonderful gentleman, like that. Yeah, there's actually an oil of this. So, yes, this is from an oil painting. But he used me as a model for, we want a statue of a male figure to complement the Statue of Liberty, facing to Asia as the Statue of Liberty faces the old world in the new. And a peace university, if you look here, it says university of peace, on the ruins of the old Alcatraz. Rebuild it, leave it as it is, and just use that as a base for a university of peace where people could come from all around the world and stay at the Presidio. And right now the Starfleet is negotiating to rent a space out. Just let us know when they're coming. I noticed that you had some artwork with you. I was very curious. And I can see why now you're a resident of the Haight-Ashbury for a long time. And the Haight is filled with people who are free thinkers, filled with love, community. Rebecca, this is a simple line drawing of Nancy and I ten years ago now. It was done in Hawaii, but it incorporates outsider art, rather primitive, outsider art, with some of my visions, the swirling rainbow coming through the waterfall and just togetherness of it. Yes, so here's some examples of some of my whimsical sketches. Some of them quite contemporary. There's Keezy. Yeah, show that one, that's a nice one. And all these years, I never knew you were an artist. Well, we're all artists, though, you know. I mean, honestly. That's part of what I'm wishing to express to the generation coming along now. Right. I'm not an artist. I'm just who I am. I do what I do. And so, therefore, we're all artists. Yes, we are. I mean, this is very much as Homer Simpson would call it, as one of Wavy from just the recent Earth Day. 2002. Right there. It's wonderful. I can feel Wavy. It's totally the way Wavy... That was her birthday in 2002. The one with Woody Harrelson and that old crew on a precede part. Today's Earth Day! Happy Earth Day, everyone! Happy Earth Day! This was exactly two years ago. Amazing. Amazing. That was done. And then these are just friends. Tony Sarah. Oh, wonderful. Dancing at one of his wonderful parties. Wonderful. Other friends. Lovely friends. That's loosely based on charisma, actually. And there's Diane at Tony Sarah's party. She's now moving to... There's you? There's me taken by a great photographer named Howard Schatz. He's still in the game. Pulsam Fair 95. So you can see I'm not all fun games. Pretty much. Oh, it's great. Pretty much so. There's the girl I've stood up today. She may be wandering in a minute now. Lovely Nina. Who's quite an artist in her own right. Here's me as various incarnations of modern-day Buddhas. Just playing around and such. And here's me opening the H Street Fair June 12th, 11 a.m. And some special guests this year, certainly, I think. Diamond Dave along with us, as always. He'll be at the Masonic Street stage for everybody. No, no. Stanion Street. Stanion Street stage. Sorry. And these are some other artists and friends. I'd love to talk to you a little bit about... I heard you have this wonderful... newspaper that you hand out called The Waterfall Inn. Absolutely. Thank you. And if you back up a little bit... May I give you a copy? Oh, I'd love one. And if you go back by easy, I would love to maybe hear something. Okay, you want to hear this? Should I read it or shall I... Sure, you read something if you feel like it. Okay. Do you have a copy? We can both do it.  Just a week. Thank you. Autographed by Waterfall. Okay. Waiting on Waterfall's proposal for a new way. The Internet. The Internet. Okay. May I? I'm pioneering... I'm pioneering... I'm the Bill Gates of the 22nd century. I'm pioneering the Internet. The Internet. Nothing to subscribe to. Of course, it's a modern unfolding. Young Ian's Collective Unconscious. And I see it as our collective consciousness. What we need now is... for this generation maturing now, we need a nation of bodhisattvas, a nation of enlightened people who have the interests of all at heart. Get beyond our frightened ego to our true self, and therefore the artist will emerge on their own. My, in fact, was trained as an engineer. And there are chimps that can do many of the things I was trained to do. So therefore, anybody can be an artist. Just... It'll happen. But that's a nation of bodhisattvas, a nation of young enlightened leaders to take us out of this wilderness of never ending strife and war. We don't have to live this way. It is not written anywhere else. It's not good. We can be secure. We can have a good standard of living without the whole colonial... Am I right? Absolutely. Well, if you want to read further, pick it up at your local street corner. The Waterfolion. Thank you very, very much, Waterfolion. As a wonderful member of the Haydashburg community, and you as well. Thank you. This was wonderful. We learned a lot about you. And I understand why you live here in the Hayd. And you've totally added to the flowers in the garden of the Haydashburg. Thank you.


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