Ahoy, ahoy, and welcome to the video. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today I am going to show you a video of, I guess a near-death experience would be fair. I don't really know if I would talk that now, but a tree fell on my house and nearly fell on me and demolished my entire room. And I took some video of it because I thought you guys might want to see what had happened and why things might be changing on the channel slightly going forward, at least temporarily. I'm not in a very good recording environment for a variety of reasons, because it's not a private room. But hopefully I can still create content that will attract viewers, do my best for that. This video will be mostly unedited, just showing you the damage. At the end I'll talk a little bit more about a GoFundMe I've set up, the link will be in the description, but yeah, I'll get to the video now. Hello. This is where I put my stuff right now. This is my laptop. You can see this is all got dust left on it from where the roof fell in on it. I got my various electronics I managed to save in pieces over here, just kind of piled up. So hold on. This is the door. I need to go in here and get a couple of things anyway, so this is going to work out. Yesterday there weren't leaves in here, but somebody came by, tarped the roof. You can also see it's pretty soaked on the floor here. Somebody came in and tarped the roof, and before they did, oh, I think I can still see daylight over there. I'm looking over, oh yeah, that's funny, that's funny for some people I guess. Right, I came in here for something very specific. So this is normally where I record these are the little lights when the roof fell on me here. Fortunately, it wasn't the rafters, the rafters fell over here. You can kind of see that a little bit. But yeah, now when the roof fell on me and I was getting stuff out, you can hear my dad in there trying to figure out some stuff. I couldn't get these cords unhooked, so I literally just took a knife and cut them so I could carry my electronics out. Let me grab the one thing I need real quick, because these got to dry off one way or the other before I even use them. I've lost everything basically. The weird part is that, for example, that stuff over there still plugged in and worked. I had never considered the idea that the power could be when something this catastrophically bad happens, but here we are anyway. Anyway, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do the camera shot from where we would normally. Let's see if I can, you can see that there's my you're wrong about poster. There's the other one behind there. This is normally about where we are. There's that, that's just too perfect that that's half torn down. Also, you can't see it from here, I don't think. But right over there where the everything fell in, that's where I sleep normally. So it worked out well. I'm going to go outside and take some camera there too. Yeah, I've seen house trucks, I love the place. Yeah, and my legs only get back to normal, I'm probably doing a lot of things myself. The main thing is, Alvin prior told me that it had pulled out of the wrench and it had diligently working. He hurt himself a couple of days ago, technically hurt himself a couple of years ago. I'm going to set this down and get some stuff done, but I'm still going to talk. Hopefully you can hear me. I don't actually know if the microphone in this works or not. It's covered in roof dust too. Actually, I won't be able to show you exactly what happened though, because I think the place that he fell the second time is now covered in tree. But in the meantime, let's go over. Everything looks fine from here, you know. It's good, good. But it ain't good. We're going to go over here and find out how not good it is. Make sure we're around the tree branches that are all over, just all. Alright, so Dad was carrying a fish tank, I think about three years ago, down this hill right here and he slipped and he knocked the fish tank into his kneecap and basically rendered that entire knee completely useless and then didn't go to the doctor for it. And then recently, when this was less treacherous, oh man, I guess I haven't gotten this close to it before. When this was less treacherous, you could see that there's some roots in the ground, maybe right here. He tripped and he hit his knee on them again a few days ago and knocked them out. That's my room right there. This is the tree.  Oh, what is that tree? Oh, it's both of them. That's what happened. That tree, hold on, that tree fell into that tree and probably knocked a chunk off of it. That's what happened over here. I now have a better sense of what happened. Anyway, gosh. So yeah, this is the stuff that fell on my room. I'm going to go around the other way so you maybe get a better kind of general sense of what's going on up here. But yeah, just on that corner right there. But there was some tree on the rest of the house.  But some of it's just impossible for them to get off completely. I should say without expert tools. Some guys with some chainsaws and some tarps came by, I think, from my mother's church and did a little bit of cleaning. Thank God it's putting the tarps in. Yeah, let's go around the other side and get some good images. I'd show you me, but I ain't doing so well right now. Well, I mean, that makes it sound like I'm super injured or something. I'm just not feeling great. I'm fine. I'm just unhealthy as sin. What you could probably hear in my voice is I just barely take a little walk around. God bless it. Got a mosquito on my hand. And he got me some. So yeah, that happened. Let's keep going over here. Mosquitoes don't normally go for me. I guess it's because I'm the only thing out here. You know, from this side, it don't look half bad. But it is half bad. I can't tell what's happened with that tarp. Did it fall? What's going on with that? Anyway. Yeah, so this is my life right now. That room where I, you know, live. Actually past tense because there ain't no way I'm living in there now. So that tree fell down and hit one of our trees. Yeah, all right. I mean, that's what it looks like. It looks like that tree fell, cracked off, fell into the other tree, and they both fell into our yard. The tree over there didn't actually do any damage, but it knocked into a tree that then knocked into the house that then did the damage. All right. Anyway, you know what? Let's turn this around. I'm not wearing a... I don't know if you can... Sorry there, buddies. It's a little foggy, unfortunately. But yeah, that's me. That's what's happening. I'll see you guys in the next video. Yeah, I apologize for the ending being fuzzy, or I guess foggy a little bit. I didn't realize that the humidity would cause the lens to fog up as much as it had, and I wasn't looking at the viewfinder closely enough, I guess. Yeah, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, I would be surprised, but hit the subscribe button, and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. I have started a GoFundMe for trying to replace both the stuff that I lost and also fixed the house, which is probably going to be 99% of the cost associated with this particular incident. And I've already got some estimates on the damages, and it's pretty big deal. But yeah, I've got to GoFundMe set up. The link will be at the very, very top of the description. If you can, please donate, but I just want to be clear that if it's... don't hurt yourself to help me. If you can't donate, just take care of yourself. That's more important. And head on over to patreon.com. slash decimary, and pledge at any level, like everybody here on the screen already has, including Sinjeriki, who has pledged $100. And I really hope that I'm not alone out here. I will see you all again hopefully next Wednesday. Oh, and sorry for not doing dank memes today. Something came up. I'll probably do it either next week or the week after that. Again, apologies.


Hello buddies, I have been sorting this jewelry and I give up. So I am going to be optioning this off tonight during my animal show on what not. All of the information is in the description of this video and in the comments section. So go ahead and check that out and if you want this tangle, I will see you at the show. Thanks for watching.


Today we will learn about similes, how we use them and what they mean, our sentences which describe one thing by comparing it to something else. To make a simile we use two main keywords like and ask, for example in dictionary which means my pillow is a song which means the boy could jump and use the words like and ask one metaphor do.


Industrial engineering is a great discipline of engineering because it allows a lot of flexibility. So where engineers make things, industrial engineers make things better. A lot of research that's been done with solar energy is typically located in Florida or the Southwest. So where this research is really important is in the Midwest where we have different climatic factors. We are creating more or less a solar energy blue book that would estimate the price of solar panels. Going to school at UWM prepared me for my teaching experience. First of all I was able to work as a teaching assistant and so with that I got the experience in the classroom both lab and a regular classroom to work with students from different backgrounds, multiple engineering background. I'm Lisa Bozeman and I'm a Milwaukee engineer.


For me, I think the Enneagram is a tool to help us develop our capacity for presence. And basically, the Enneagram teaches us about who we are not, not who we are. It's important for us to get out of the box of the Enneagram or our type. And by doing that, we're going to be able to then discover our soul's purpose. And basically, the Enneagram is about discovering your gift and how you can manifest it into being.


Today I want to talk about the myth of price gouging. Price gouging is generally defined as charging a very high price or an inordinately high price for an item that previously was being sold for some price that people considered normal. But really price gouging is no different in its operation than pricing on any other market. Price gouging occurs during an emergency. It's usually defined as raising the price above a certain percentage, let's say 10% during the emergency or within 30 days of the emergency. But sellers are able to do this precisely because market conditions have changed. There's been a fall in the supply of the item during the emergency and at the same time an increase by consumers in demand. You have to ask yourselves the following question. If sellers suddenly have become greedy, why is it that they have become greedy overnight? Why didn't they try to charge the higher price the day before? Well, they would have all liked to have charged the higher price the day before, but the market conditions were such that they were unable to. So what they did simply was when the emergency hit and market conditions changed, they priced according to those market conditions. And it's also important to consider that in fact it's not the seller himself ultimately that is increasing the price, but other consumers. So if you have to pay a higher price for a flashlight or a generator during some emergency, the reason is that other people have increased their needs for that good and have sought to purchase that good at higher prices. And we're willing to pay those higher prices. That's precisely why the price itself rose, why the seller was able to raise the price. Let's take the example of Indiana in the wake of these winter storms. During the last half a year or so, the price of pope propane gas, which is used by about 10% of the households in Indiana, rose doubled from 250 per gallon to $5 per gallon. And everyone admits that it would market forces. In fact, the Attorney General of Indiana pointed out that it was market forces that caused this doubling of the price. On the one hand, you had an increase in exports to foreign countries, which diminished the supply and the inventory. And on the other hand, there was an increase in demand by Midwestern farmers who had a particularly wet harvest for their corn and therefore needed more propane to dry the corn. In any case, the Attorney General went on to say after admitting that it was market forces that drove this increase in price, that now that he had emergency powers, he would indeed look into violations of price gouging laws. So here's one example in which the politicians understand the driving force, but yet are still going to prosecute. In New Jersey, something similar happened. It was widely admitted that there were very long lines during Hurricane Sandy. Some lines stretched for over one mile to get gasoline. Some gasoline stations had a close because of lack of power, so it left very few left to service consumers. And these stations naturally raised their price, as they saw the lines lengthening, from around the national average of $3.60 per gallon to around $4 per gallon. Now, the AAA spokeswoman who commented on this situation, said, well, it's okay if they raise it to $3.67 or $3.70, that's understandable in this situation and is justified by market forces. But $4 is outrageous, that's price gouging. No, that's not price gouging. In fact, that is what is justified by the market conditions. That is what causes people to conserve on the amount of gas they buy. That is, they don't top off their gas tanks. They buy less because of the high price and they leave more for others. Or they drive out of the area of emergency, into other areas where the price is lower. Beyond that, of course, there's a supply side effect. In Indiana, they did implement the correct policy. They made it easier for people to transport propane to the propane customers in Indiana. They did that by loosening restrictions on the number of hours transport drivers were willing to drive, were able to drive rather. But on the other hand, at the same time, they, as I said, started to make noises about looking into price gouging. But the point is, the reason why you loosen the restrictions is to encourage supply. To encourage supply from other areas of the country where you don't have emergency conditions, where you don't have a greater scarcity of propane gas, where propane gas has a lower price. So the incentive is to move the gas from the areas where the price is lower to Indiana where the prices are much higher. So to sum up, price gouging makes the very people who it's designed to help worse off. Those are the consumers in the affected areas, in the areas of emergency. They're the ones who now find that others have purchased more than they would have if the price had been permitted to rise on the one hand. And on the other hand, that supply is being suppressed by the fact that prices are kept low in that area. If prices were allowed to rise, there would have been a greater supply to the area and there would have been a natural decline in prices. The way to decrease prices during an emergency is to allow prices to rise, drawing in supplies from areas of plenty to areas where there's a greater scarcity.


already designed in scientific research, namely processes that are conceived to serve people but do not include diverse perspectives in their planning and incubation and that perpetuate systemic racism. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of two books, People's Science, Bodies and Rights on the STEM Self-Frontier, and Race After Technology. She's also the editor of Captivating Technology, Race, Technoscience and the Carceral Imagination. Her most recent project, Provincializing Science, Mapping and Marketing Difference After the Genome, explores genomics in South Africa, India and the United States with a focus on how and why racial ethnic and case category are incorporated in research on health disparity. Please join me in welcoming Professor Ruat Benjamin. Good morning, everyone, faculty, students, staff and community members. What an honor to be here with you today. Thank you to all the organizers and individuals working behind the scenes for two years to make this conference possible. What an incredible undertaking. So let's begin by reflecting on what's at stake here. In my view, the reason that questions we're going to wrestle with over the next two days are so pressing is because how we understand both reproduction and technology really gets to the heart of who and what are valued in our society. In conventional thinking, it's easy to become enamored by all that's shiny and shocking with respect to novel technologies, leading us to overlook older and unresolved issues having to do with which lives are deemed worth living in the first place. How we think about reproduction, I want to suggest, has implications for all other arenas of social life and public policy, whether we're talking about housing, food, education, or employment. Because essentially, in thinking about reproduction, we're setting the terms for who we're willing to invest in and who is deemed disposable. This is a conversation, then, that implicates every single one of us. And frankly, it's too important to leave to the experts a point I unpack in my book People's Science. In addition to broadening who, we also have to expand what we talk about, widening our lens beyond the lab to reflect on how novel technologies relate to the many different kinds of tools and techniques that shape our potential to live and thrive as human beings. Another way to think about it is this. Water, food, education, basic health care, these are all, in some ways, tools of reproduction. After all, they impact our life chances in profound and profoundly unequal ways. Which is why I don't think we can afford to limit our discussion only to those high tech procedures that make all the headlines when our life chances are impacted by a much wider set of variables. So if you'll join me, what I'd like to do is experiment, starting beyond the lab and expansive starting point by first challenging some fundamental binaries that can easily dampen our analysis. Low versus high tech, mundane versus novel, social versus individual prerogatives, political versus ethical interventions, it's really tempting in conversations such as this to stick to the right side of the screen without fully wrestling with those questions and concerns that would seem to fall on the left. Instead of binaries, I'd like us to think about the relationship between these units of analysis as more of a continuum. This shift in orientation prompts us to think about how something like engineering human genomes is related to the engineering of municipal water systems, which is connected to the engineering of tax codes, which is linked to the engineering of racially segregated neighborhoods. Engineering at its essence means to work artfully to bring something about. And the fact is there is nothing intrinsically good about the outcome of one's artful designs. Consider the following. The reason our nation is more racially segregated today than at the end of the Civil War is the outcome of very deliberate, strategic, even artful engineering on the part of the government and private citizens in the form of things like redlining, blockbusting, and racially restrictive covenants, all of which served to subsidize a white middle class while divesting from other groups. All these different forms of engineering, from public health to financial wealth, form the backdrop, the white noise, if you will, of reproductive technologies. We, as a species, are very adept at engineering inequity. And the default setting of biotechnology, then, is to reproduce the status quo. But it doesn't have to be the case. The question we have to ask ourselves is this. Can we channel our tool making prowess as a species to artfully work towards a more just, more equitable future where the life of that girl child, that poor infant, that disabled kid, that black baby are truly valued and nurtured? I'm not talking here about celebrating diversity as kind of feel good rhetoric and lip service, but truly valued in the hidden corners of our social life and the fine print of our public policies. It's the difference between diverse as a kind of photo op for university websites and then what's actually included in our core curriculums, whose histories, cultures and insights take up intellectual space, which connects to the question of who ultimately gets a say in what ends up being researched and funded. Too often, these decision-making structures mirror the social structures that reproduce outmoded hierarchies. But again, this doesn't have to be the case. Before I share a few ideas about how we can begin to develop a justice-oriented approach to reproductive technologies, I hope you won't mind if I take a couple narrative detours to share some experiences with you, mostly from my youth that pushed me down this path of thinking about the social dimensions of science and technology. The reason is I know there are a lot of brilliant young people in the house, and I want to encourage you to develop the tools to read your reality, because there are many things that you're already experiencing in your schools, your neighborhoods, and your online networks that can actually inform your future work and fuel your passions. Real life, in other words, is not something that you're preparing for at some later date. It's happening now all around you. So for detour number one, we're going to go to the South Pacific. When I was 15 years old, my family moved from Conway, South Carolina to Maduro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, so my parents could begin working with the Department of Education there. That's me in the white shirt on the far left throwing up a peace sign with some of my new friends from the neighborhood. For those of you who know a little something about this region, you know that it's not all peace signs and sand mandalas. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Marshall Islands was the site of U.S. nuclear testing from 1946 to 1958, 67 tests in all. By one calculation, if their combined explosive power was split evenly over that 12-year period, it would equal 1.6 Hiroshima-sized explosions per day. Just to say, the history there of militarism and imperialism continues to wreak havoc on the health of Marshallese. Burns that reach to the bone, cancers in the short and long term, and congenital disabilities that cause babies to die hours after birth. One report sums it up, quote, the Marshallese are convinced that there is sufficient evidence of intergenerational harm caused by radiation fallout. Now add to this the widespread displacement people have experienced first for the purposes of nuclear testing, and now as a function of ongoing U.S. military presence. When I had the chance to travel from Maduro to neighboring islands, I was struck by how crudely inequity was engineered, all in the name of progress. The two islands that made the biggest impression on me were Quajolin, a U.S. Army installation, and manufactured suburbia, which was occupied almost entirely by military personnel and their families who enjoyed golf courses, basking robins, and a yacht club, among other amenities. In the neighboring island, which you could actually see from Quajolin, called Ebi, were islanders who were forced off Quajolin to make room for the base, now reside in a crowded shanty town that's commonly known as the slum of the Pacific. Ebi residents require a special pass to travel to Quajolin for work, while others barely subsist off the small checks the U.S. government dispenses. Needless to say, people are suffering not only from the direct fallout of nuclear testing, but also because of the existing conditions of their present lives, evidenced most readily in the high rate of chronic and infectious diseases, including a TB rate that's 23 times that of the United States, and occasional outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever. Military technologies are, in this way, reproductive technologies, because they diminish the capacity of those who are its victims to thrive and propagate. Instead of throwing up peace signs on the beach, we see children here bearing themselves in a make-believe cemetery, a reminder of how their lives have been biologically engineered, not in a lab, but in contaminated environments where innovating bombs took precedence. In many ways, the Marshall Islands is a metaphor for modernity in which the health and well-being of some are predicated on the immiseration, even slow extermination of others. So for the second detour, we're going to go to Atlanta, Georgia, where I completed undergrad at Spelman College. For my honors thesis, I was trying to understand how large-scale processes like racism, sexism, and materialism get under people's skin and impact women's childbearing experiences. About midway through that project, I found myself interviewing a classmate who told me about how when she was 17 years old, she delivered her baby via C-section. And as she explained it to me, sometime during the process, the doctor turned to her mom and asked, matter of factly, while I have her open, should I just go ahead and tie her up? In other words, the doctor was proposing to sterilize my classmate without her consent because she was underage, and which she vehemently objected to. Keep in mind now, this was the late 1990s, not ancient history, a full 40 years after famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer told her own story about checking into Sunflower City Hospital to have a tumor removed and walking out with what she later called a Mississippi appendectomy. In her words, this is an unwanted, unrequested, and unwarranted hysterectomy routinely given to poor and unsuspecting black women, usually taking place postpartum like the young woman I interviewed for my thesis. It was during this undergrad research process that I started to understand that depending on your social status, one's reproductive capacity is either celebrated and encouraged or disparaged and repressed. And keep in mind, this is not the stuff of dusty archives that we solved with a passage of a few laws. Eugenic sensibilities and practices are still alive and well. In the last few years, in fact, the coercive sterilization of prisoners has come to light. As late as 2010, an investigative report of California prisons revealed this trend. And just a few months ago in Tennessee, a judge granted shorter sentences for prisoners who agreed to be sterilized. None of this is happening in a vacuum. Positive eugenic practices that repress the reproduction of some are directly connected with seemingly more liberal, market-based, positive eugenic practices that encourage people to select the traits of their offspring, two sides of the same reproductive coin. Even together, these experiences and examples can help us understand the sociological principle of relationality, that nothing we analyze exists in a conceptual bubble, but is formed in relation to other processes. The tools that we design for reproduction are formed in connection to the techniques we employ for repression. Both are shaped by values and assumptions and often designed with particular beneficiaries or targets in mind. So let me just pause a moment on this idea of design. Because too often when we're thinking about the social dimensions of science and technology, we limit our conversation to who has access to this or that product or procedure. Instead, let's take a step back and examine where all these products and procedures come from in the first place. Often only a handful of people are really defining and designing the products and services that are then offered up for consumption. Being included in this sense is no straightforward good, especially when what we're being included in is shaped by bright and shiny eugenic imaginations. For that reason, I want to shift our attention to questions of design so that we can reflect on whose interests and values routinely get integrated in the artful engineering of techno science. A quick story to make this point, concrete. Now that I live in the northeast, I'm a Southern California kid, South Carolina kid. I'm now Boston, New Jersey. I jump at every opportunity to soak in sunshine when I'm traveling. So during a recent visit back to California, I ended up on this bench in Berkeley where I went to grad school, and it's next to one of my favorite outdoor markets. And I was hoping just to catch a few rays of sunshine, little vitamin D between meetings. But I quickly realized that I couldn't lie down on the bench because whoever designed it put arm rest dividers at regular intervals, and while there are a number of possible reasons why that might be, my first guess was this was an attempt to deter homeless people from using the bench to sleep. There's some cute little boutiques and antique stores right in front of it, so keep in mind this is the Bay Area where the booming tech industry has fueled a dreadful housing crisis, and whereby some counts more than one-third of school children in Silicon Valley are defined as homeless. And as it turns out with a little digging, I found that benches are only one part of a global phenomenon of discriminatory design. I came across single occupancy benches in Helsinki, no lying down there, caged benches in France. In this case, the people in the town were so angry that the city government had introduced these benches in 24 hours they banned together and had them removed, which can tell us something about how we can respond to discriminatory design. The best example I've come across though is this metered bench where the user actually has to pay to sit down. Don't get lost in your favorite book because you will be hurting. And while this particular design was originally created by a German artist to get us thinking about precisely these issues of the privatization of public life, different cities around the world have actually adopted it as a good way to deter what they consider loitering in public areas. As one government representative said with respect to so-called loiterers at bus stations, you're not a customer and our customers come first. A statement that would seem to sum up the ethos of many decisions and policies that govern public life. At the heart of discriminatory design is an attempt to create a technological fix for a social crisis, whether that crisis has to do with homelessness or health care, education or the environment, rather than address the underlying conditions that produce a problem. We design solutions that too often locate the problem inside kinds of people, like the so-called loiterer. From park bench to lab bench, the way that we frame questions, the places that we go looking for the answers, to the people we consult in the process are vital for us to reflect on. Who do we imagine will benefit from or get in the way of our designs? Because without thoughtful consideration, current forms of inequity based on class, race, ethnicity, gender, nationality and disability will be unwittingly or unwittingly built into the design of new tools and practices. This is why just focusing on access to reproductive technologies isn't enough. Instead, we have to think seriously about the design of research and development. Who does it? And with what guiding questions, assumptions and incentives? Let's take gene editing as an example and the pervasive assumptions about what needs editing and who benefits. In the words of Nobel Prize winning geneticist James Watson, from this perspective, seeing the bright side of being handicapped is like praising the virtues of extreme poverty. To be sure, there are many individuals who rise out of its inherently degrading states. But we perhaps most realistically should see it as the major origin of asocial behavior. I want to pause a moment and take issue with this phrase, inherently degrading states. Because much of the degradation that people with disabilities experience is not inherent, but as a result of how society actively degrades them. A more accurate reading of reality would recognize that far from being the origin of asocial behavior, as Watson mistakenly asserts, the disabled are forced to innovate new forms of sociality precisely because of the rampant ableism which he gives expression to here. In the time remaining then, I'd like to highlight a few ways we can begin to expand the conversation and deepen our thinking around science and technology to include questions and concerns of social justice. To that end, I'll briefly highlight five conceptual devices to put in the science and social justice toolkit. You can remember them with the sacronym, S-H-A-L-T, shouts, as in, thou shouts use these tools. The first device we need to sharpen is our social literacy, which is an ability to read reality beyond slogans, promises, and even policy changes, paying attention to the more mundane practices and norms that comprise everyday life. Social literacy reminds us that reforming policies and laws is not sufficient to shaping the context of science for the greater good, necessary but not sufficient. For example, the passage of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act or GINA doesn't prevent employers and insurance companies from discriminating against you based on genetic predisposition to illness in the same way that other laws, when it comes to say employment and housing, haven't occurred discrimination in these arenas. To read reality accurately, we need to draw on the social sciences and humanities and not simply our own opinions and experiences of how things work. The second device in our science and social justice toolkit is historical literacy, which is an attempt to think carefully about the precedents and processes that shape reproductive technologies. Historical literacy ensures that we don't simply mimic the hyperbolic rhetoric of headlines, breakthrough, cutting edge, miraculous, which often lead us to overlook continuities as we train our attention on all that appears novel. The best science and technology is not simply forward-looking, but takes stock of what's come before, the good, the great, the bad, the ugly. For example, when I was working with a team of population genome researchers in South Africa, they didn't race ahead in the construction of the new national biobank. Instead, they started by consulting with indigenous communities who they hoped would participate. They learned about previous abuses where scientists from other countries came and took genetic samples and produced studies that the communities found harmful because their own aim was not to repeat the past. With scientists working to design research differently, with justice and equity in mind, we also have to appreciate the knowledge different communities have to offer. Historical literacy isn't just about understanding past harms, but also about engaging a wider array of insights that people have to offer about the body, health, and healing. The third tool we need to hone is analytic agility, which helps us to notice how and when things change. It challenges our tendency to assume that the way in which scientific harms got enacted in the past will take shape the same way today. Rather than look for state-sponsored eugenics as evidence of harmful practices, we would also pay attention to how market-logics put the responsibility of racial fitness in the hands of consumers, encouraging parents to design fitter, smarter, and more beautiful children. Whereas historical literacy helps us understand the continuities with the past, analytic agility trains our attention on discontinuities, the things that change, altering, and becoming mercurial. And often this is the liberal context by which individual choices reinforce oppressive hierarchies. The fourth device in our science and social justice toolkit is linguistic reflexivity, which focuses our attention on how language is itself value-laden. We begin to understand how the words we use and the framings we employ to discuss reproductive technologies are not neutral, but seated with particular perspectives. The word editing, for example, sounds benign and even beneficial. Whereas for those who've been the target of eugenic policies in the past and whose worth continues to be called into question today, so-called editing may be more akin to getting pushed through a shredding machine. Remember the idea of relationality, that reproduction and repression so often go hand in hand. The fifth and final tool I'll mention is technological humility, which allows us to perceive and challenge the widespread hubris and paternalism that can characterize the world of techno science. Hubris not only in terms of individual personalities, but also in the way that particular norms and assumptions can go unquestioned. For example, in debates around reproductive and genetic technologies, a bright line is often drawn between good forms of therapy, like curing sickle cell disease, and bad forms of enhancement, like selecting skin or eye color of a future child. As if this distinction between good and bad was clear cut and indisputable. Not only is the line porous, there's vigorous resistance on the part of many disability justice advocates who aren't interested in the cures that are promoted in their name. It's also the case that conditions like sickle cell disease that are often on the good therapy side of the line contain a recessive trait that actually confers some resistance to the much more widespread threat of malaria. It's possible that if people select against sickle cell traits, this would erode the protective function for which it evolved. Social humility alerts us not only to uncertainties and unintended consequences, but it also prompts us to imagine how, despite our best intentions, we can't predict or know everything. In moving forward then, I've outlined five conceptual devices that contribute to a science and social justice toolkit, which I hope you find useful. Remember, thou shalt use these tools in order to expand what and who you think of when it comes to reproductive technologies. Thinking from the social margins, I suggest, can often offer a powerful set of insights that those in the center are not often privy to. Imagining reproductive technologies as a deeply social enterprise, as we've done this morning, is the starting point for imagining what's possible at the nexus of biotechnology and democracy more broadly. In the process, one of the things we have to resist is the impulse to shrink our imaginations down to size. That's not realistic. That's too much to tackle. Are all forms of shrinkage that maintain the status quo. So if you don't remember anything else I've said, remember this. We have to fight for the ability to imagine the world that we want. In fact, I think of our collective imagination as a kind of battlefield. There are warring ideas defending and resisting outmoded forms of social organization and injustice. And if we're genuinely fed up with business as usual, the next step is to imagine and experiment with alternatives in and beyond the lab. Thank you for your attention this morning. Thank you very much, Dr. Benjamin. 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If you don't know about me I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national futsal team, a youtube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. I've been doing a lot of shooting videos this week and I think this is the most important video. Today I want to talk about what do you do when you miss a shot because all these things we're talking about shooting with power, accuracy, scoring goals, it doesn't matter if you don't get value out of your missed shots and what do I mean by that? I mean when I shoot the ball and I miss you can either do what most people do and that is get frustrated, get upset, never want to take a shot again or you can actually analyze what happened and by doing that you can actually improve your shooting much quicker. So if you want to be a great shooter you need to analyze every single shot. So for example as a decent shot but if I hit the ball and I miss the net I have to ask myself why. Don't just get upset, ask why. Okay so if I curled it and I keep scoring goals I can't miss. For example if I curled it and I miss the shot okay instead of just getting pissed and frustrated with yourself ask yourself why. Why did I miss this shot? Okay so first of all I can see right now I miss the shot because when I hit it my body opened up this way too much I need to stay more like this I need to fall through more towards the net and not like that and if you can learn to analyze every single shot especially the ones you miss you're going to become a lot better at shooting. Another example if I'm going to get a shot and I hit it over the net okay I have to ask why did it go over the net okay I tried to hit it too hard or I hit too low on the ball okay you need to analyze all these things and if you can do that rather than doing what most people do just get upset with themselves then you can learn to become a better shooter so much faster because actually every bad shot is a good thing okay like I said I can't miss because I've taken the time to think about every shot and there you go what one thing I do want to say and this is huge this is something that I always try to do especially when I'm practicing if I miss a certain type of shot so for example if I come out here and I pull that one wide if you like this content check out the soccer success planner you can download it for free there's a link in the description below and for advanced training check out the online soccer again I make a mental note I never I never want to do that again for the rest of the session or if I know that's like one of my usual tendencies I always shoot and it pulls that way I make a mental note I'm never going to do that again I would much rather in that same situation I would much rather put it right down the middle and get it on net then pull it to that side where I always keep making the same mistake so what I'm trying to get out there is you don't want to make the same mistakes again and again you have to learn from your mistakes and if you can get in that habit of learning correcting getting outside of yourself and actually looking at what you're doing rather than just like I said being upset getting frustrated you're going to improve so much faster the other thing I want to talk about is your mentality after you miss a shot or miss a chance so let's say for example how many times has it happened that easy ball comes across the net and it's a wide open net and somehow you manage to miss it okay what happens to most players in that situation they're done they're not going to get another shot for the rest of the game what you need to do is go searching for that next opportunity right away you must believe that the next chance you can score and you must want that next chance most players as soon as that happens let's say for example they miss that easy tap in or they took a shot and they miss and everyone yelled at them they will hide every time they get an opportunity again they will pass the ball away or they'll be wide open in front of the net and they won't even ask for the ball they won't even want the ball because they're afraid of missing okay if you missed a chance have the mentality the next chance I'm going to get it even if you miss five in a row the sixth one you're going to get it you have to have that mentality that even though I've missed all my chances today I can score the next one okay so that's what I want to talk about today guys missing opportunities how do you react everyone misses chances everyone misses shots what's important is how do you react and how do you get value from that experience thank you so much for watching this video I hope you found it valuable like I said this is probably the most important shooting tutorial that I've done so we take this information and please please actually use it please give me a thumbs up please comment below if you have any questions and please share this video with your friends and teammates if you appreciate my videos please support me on patreon I'll talk to you soon if you like this content check out the soccer success planner you can download it for free there's a link in the description below and for advanced training check out the online soccer academy


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Alrighty it felt so good to get the drone up again it's been so long and it actually took me an hour and a half to reprogram my drone today. Literally I went to go fly first thing in the morning and I was like it had two updates to install. I haven't flown it in so long and then I had to reformat the SD card it was just a whole hot mess. Anyways I finally got it up and it was absolutely phenomenal. The cloud coverage, the partial cloud coverage provided the best lighting for filming. I was so impressed with how this footage turned out. It looks like I'm right up close and I promise you I am not. Again the drone that I use is a DJI Mavic Pro and it has a digital zoom so it looks like I'm a lot closer than I actually am. So again when flying drones especially near a theme park or property definitely ensure you are abiding by all the local laws. So I am flying over a field next to the park. I am not flying over the park at any point so your drone should never pass over a person vehicle or building which my drone does not do at any point. So put that aside we've got an awesome construction updates. As you can see they loaded on the first piece of the lift hill to the truck that will then bring it into the park. As you can also see there's a bunch of yellow what looks like support beams sitting in the parking lot and you may ask yourself what is that? Well it is a crane. It is a very massive crane and they are constructing it inside the park which you'll see in just a bit. But as you can see not much has actually changed in terms of track in this storage area. So if you actually look it almost looks identical to what it did earlier on this week. So it looks like no new track has arrived other than you can see parts of the Imelman loop sitting just off to the left side of the storage lot. But yeah not too much new in terms of that. Just the crane. The crane was all delivered today by the looks of it. As you can see there's a truck leaving in this shot. But it is really sad that the park is closed. So a part of me was literally like oh I wish I was inside the park right now. I wish I was like you know filming. I miss it so much. But the drone looks like it actually do its job. I completely again like I got so used to filming inside the park. I forgot how the channel started off of drone footage and I also forgot how good the drone I use actually is. This is phenomenal and especially when we get up there it provides great context to the coaster size and how it's going to play out. So in terms of filming this documentary that I'm going to be working on. This is going to be excellent for shots and footage that typically we don't always see for coaster construction projects. So I'm super excited about that. So I'm going to put that aside. As you can tell the first support structure has been installed. It is sitting there. And as you can also see in the yellow parts of the shot just up in the northern part of the construction site. You can see the crane being built. The crane came in completely different parts. The wheels came separately. The crane has come separately. They are literally building this crane as if it's like a building or a coaster per se. But yeah super excited. I want to point out how steep this lift hill looks. This could be depth perception or just the angle and you know how it's being seen. But it really looks really steep. I was talking to my team and I was like do you think that we could be looking at a steeper angle of ascent than 47 degrees. Maybe they had to really get this one in a tight fit. But there's one of the wheels by the way. I know it's not a wheel. It's it's more like tractor treads or something like that. I have no idea. So correct me down below what the actual name for those wheels are. And make fun of me if you want. But yeah not much in terms of other activity going on. An excavator showed up next to mine buster start playing the violin. I'm kidding. It's not going anywhere yet. Nor do I think the park is going to remove mine buster. I know I made a lot of videos on what's going to happen to my buster and those videos still stand because there's definitely a lot of weird activity. But construction is definitely starting soon on the northern part of the the coaster the second half per se. So that'll probably start shortly. I mean there's already miles ahead of where it should be at this this time frame. They're about to get the lift installed. I mean we're even looking at possibly the lift hill being completed by the end of the week depending of those lift track pieces show up this week. If not then I'm looking at probably the end of next week. Nonetheless super exciting lots going on. I mean the lift structure is already taking shape. There's only two more columns that need to go in. So there's the second a frame support and then the column seven the most important in terms of our reporting on the coaster column seven will then go on column seven is actually located in this shot up near that yellow crane installing the big yellow crane. So column seven is just up near there. So yeah super exciting. I definitely missed doing drone updates so there will be lots of drone updates in fact weekdays will be drone updates moving forward and enjoy the shots. I'm not going to talk through the whole clip. I'm going to let you watch the remainder but there's lots of activity going on around line buster even in these shots. So if you pay attention you'll actually be able to make out some different activity like over there behind the kids splash area. There's a smaller crane there as well. So definitely lots of weird activity going on in and around the park. Look at my buster. Look at the little kids splash area. Look at the cranes on the construction site and the actual coaster itself. Hope you guys really enjoy these drone updates moving forward because that is what my channel is moving back into. It's almost like going back to our original roots. So that's why I put in the old intro because I wanted to like pay homage to what the channel started on. I know a lot of people really enjoyed those updates and it's what has become of the channel and I'm super excited and super thankful for how you guys helped grow this channel into a much bigger community than I could have even imagined when I started with like 50 subscribers way back in the day. Anyways thanks so much for watching guys. Thanks for being a part of this. Hope you really enjoy this footage. Smash that like button if you missed this drone footage. Hit subscribe if you haven't already and you're new to the channel and share the studio for others to see and watch. Anyways thanks so much guys for watching as usual and have a good one. 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