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Listen carefully in about 14 minutes when Mr. Keating will tell you more about Equitable's fact-finding chart and how it can help you. Tonight, FBI file number 295. It's subject, subversive activities. It's title, Communist Agent. The United States is a nation founded in the blood of revolution. Perhaps for that reason, we as a people have always been uncommonly tolerant of minorities. However, there is a minority group among us today whose motives bear looking into. That group is the American Communist Party and those who, while not belonging, subscribe to its ideals. What would these people, if successful in their attempt to overthrow this government, bring us as a substitute? Thomas Jefferson, a man they hold nothing but contempt for, once wrote, The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. The man who made the Communist International a reality, Nikolai Lenin, also had some words to say about liberty. He wrote, It is true that liberty is precious. So precious, it must be rationed. This evening, the Federal Bureau of Investigation brings you a case from its files concerning a Communist agent. A man who believes in this rationing of liberty. Not of his liberty, mind you, but of yours. Its file opens on the stairway of a modest apartment house located in the downtown section of a west coast city. It is late afternoon as a tall, well-dressed man climbs to the third floor landing. He walks down the hall to the door of apartment number seven. He knocks, receiving no answer. He tries the door, finds it open, and enters. He looks around the small room, finding himself alone. He removes his hat, puts it on a table, then sits down in a couch to wait. Mr. Vernon. Mr. Carter. Yes. Package from Powell's department store, sign here, please. Thanks. Careful, it's heavy. I got it. He places the package on the metal and returns to the couch. Ten minutes, twenty minutes, a half hour passes. Suddenly, the apartment door opens. Are you Bruce Carter? That's right. My name is Jones. What are you doing here? I've come to see you. How did you get into my apartment? The door was open. Look, who are you? What do you want? Do you know what George Graham lives in Canada? Yes. I was just up there, saw him. He said to stop by and give you his regards. How did he know where I live? I wouldn't know. Mr. Carter, you work for a shipping company, don't you? That's right. Why? Well, George said to remind you about your Aunt Mary. She's not feeling very well these days. Oh. Care to talk about her? No, not today. Very well. Will you be at your office tomorrow? Yes. I'll call you there. Yes. This is Jones. Oh. I hope I didn't make a mistake yesterday. About what? You are from Canada. Yes. And you do have an Aunt Mary? That's right. I thought maybe I had the wrong Bruce Carter. Mr. Jones, why did you call? What do you want? I'd like to ask a little favor. What kind? Your company has freighters to the Orient that make unscheduled stops along the coast. I'd like to get a list of the stops your boats will make any day this week. Why? A certain party wants to take a trip. Doesn't want too many people knowing about it. You? No, this is for a friend. Oh. Can you get me that list? I don't know. Why not? Well, you can. Your boats do occasionally carry passengers. And you wouldn't be cheating the company. The passage you would be paid for. Well, I guess it's possible. Fine. How about making up the list and meeting me? Where? You know the drug store on the corner of Maine and Olive? Yes. I'll see you in front of there at nine tonight. Following morning at the local FBI field office, Agent and charge Webster interrupts his conversation to introduce special agents Taylor and Grayson to his visitor. Taylor, Grayson, this is Mr. Carter. I don't know. I love Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter, I'd like you to tell these men exactly what you told me. From the beginning? Please. Well, my name is Bruce Carter. I came to this country a year ago from Canada. One of my friends up there was named George Graham. He was a communist, but that didn't make any difference to me. His politics was his own business. Then he started to make it my business. Oh, Hosser. He knew I read a lot, so he lent me books and pamphlets. Gradually, I became interested in communism. I wanted to join the party, but George said I'd be more valuable if I didn't. When was that? About two years ago. My wife died last December, and I decided to move to the United States. Graham asked if I was interested in helping the party here. And I said yes. He said he'd see to it that I got a chance. And did you join the party when you came to the United States? No. George said not to do anything until I was contacted. And how long did that take? Nobody ever got in touch with me the night before last. I see. In that year, I had a chance to do some thinking. I came to realize that the things the Communist Party says it stands for aren't what it's really interested in. Well, I applied for my American citizenship, and just about forgot George Graham. Then this thing happened. What thing, sir? I got home the other night from work and found a man waiting for me in my apartment. I live alone, so he must have let himself in. He told me my Aunt Mary wasn't feeling well. That's how George Graham said my contact would identify himself. What was this man's name? Jones. He never mentioned any first name. Probably a cover name. Yeah. What did he look like? Oh, he was tall with dark hair. I don't know. There wasn't really anything about him you'd remember. Mr. Carter works for the Green Star shipping company. They run freighters all over the Pacific. He got a call from this man, Jones, at his office yesterday. He wanted a list of the unscheduled stops along the coast that the freighters will make this week. What for? Jones wants to get somebody out of the country. He didn't mention any names, so I can't tell you who it is. And what was your answer, Mr. Carter? I said I'd give him the information last night. We were supposed to meet in front of the drugstore at Maine and Olive. Supposed to, or didn't he show up? I don't know. I never even made up the list. I said I'd do it just to get rid of him. You'll probably call again. That's why I came here this morning. I've advised Mr. Carter to play along with Jones and keep the next appointment. If he does call back, Taylor, you and Grayson follow through. Hello? Bruce Carter? Yes? This is Jones. Why didn't you show up last night? Our date was for tonight. Last night? Oh, I guess I misunderstood. Oh. You got the list? I'm working on it now. What's your number? I'll call you when it's finished. I'll be out. Well, what's your address? I can drop it by on my way home. I'd rather meet you someplace. My apartment? No. There's a cafeteria on the corner of 10th and Olive. Uh-huh.  And don't forget the list. I won't. Goodbye. Bye. Operator, get me the FBI. That night, two men set at a table near the large plate-blast window of the cafeteria at 10th and Olive. Each has a half-empty cup of coffee in front of him. The two men are special agents Taylor and Grayson. Another cup of coffee, Kurt? Fourteens, as far as I can go. It's too bad we can't get a little bit out to Carter. Poor guy must be half-frozen. Yeah. It's been out over there two hours, huh? It's beginning to be one of those cases, Jim. Yeah. You've got a name that's probably an alias and almost no description. Time element's what bothers me, Kurt. As Jones wants to get somebody out of the country, so he takes a long-shot gamble and tries to work through Carter about whom the party really knows very little. That means that somebody must be hot. Mm-hmm. And if they don't get him out through Carter, they'll switch to some other contact. Yeah. Well, I doubt he'll show tonight. Oh, I guess not. Come on, Kurt. Come on, Mr. Carter. Don't you want to wait any more? No, we might as well face it. This time you've got to stand up. I don't understand. Well, he probably got suspicious when you asked about his phone number and address this morning. Say, I thought of something while I was waiting here. I don't know if it'll be of any help. No, what is it, sir? I noticed a package on the table in my apartment that night after you visited me. I thought maybe he left it by mistake. It turned out to be mine. It was an order from Powell's department store. You didn't know it was there? It wasn't when I went to work that morning. How long was this Jones in your apartment before you came home? I don't know. Could have accepted that delivery. Yeah. He must have. When the janitor takes anything, he always holds it till he sees me. I see. Jones was there when the package came. Whoever delivered it might be able to give us a description. Kurt, let's start working on that first thing in the morning. Oh, come in, Taylor. Thank you. Did you get my message about Jones not showing up last night? Yes. That was bad news. We're working on a new lead now. Oh, what's that? A package was delivered to Carter's apartment from Powell's department store the day that Jones let himself in. There's a chance that Jones accepted delivery. How far have you gone with it? Oh, Grayson's at the store now, trying to locate the delivery man and also the receipt. Well, I hope you get a result. You see, I thought this was just another subversive activities case when Carter came to see us, but Washington called on it a few minutes ago. Oh, they have any idea who Jones is? No, but from what they said, the man Jones is trying to smuggle out is probably Arthur Harrison. Who's that, sir? A friend of some individuals who've worked on some of this government's top secret projects. He's under indictment now back east for failure to register as a foreign agent. Washington has information that he came here by train three days ago. That's the day that Jones visited Carter's apartment. Yes. He must know plenty if they're trying to get him out of the country. Well, I'd better get over to the store and give Grayson a hand, sir. Well, go ahead, Taylor. If you need any more men, call me. The director wants every facility of the office used on this case. So as of right now, we've all got one job. Locate Arthur Harrison. We will return in just a minute to tonight's exciting case from the official files of your FBI. Now a short message on social security from our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Last August 28th, the president signed the revised social security law, increasing benefits by 50 to 100%, and bringing 10 million additional persons into social security. On September 1st, the revised law went into effect. What is there in it for me? 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Your equitable representative will work out a sound program. Ask him for the revised fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. No charge, of course. Get in touch with your equitable representative soon. Or write care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. And now back to the FBI file, Communist Agent. Perhaps the most tragic fact about tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is that Don Crawford, which is the real name of Communist Agent Jones, and Arthur Harrison, the man he is trying to help flee the country are both Americans. Each was born in this country and grew up with the advantages that are inherent in that statement. Yet each became a communist and adopted this foreign ideology. Why? In their cases, as in so many others, the answer goes back to their younger days, when the doctrine was first taught them. Each joined a cell of the party before his 21st birthday. A cell made up of other young Americans, similarly indoctrinated. You, as an individual listener to this program, might be asking what you can do to help stem the tide, to prevent the Communist total in this nation from swelling. There is an answer. Teach the youngsters now growing up more than the three hours. Teach them that has Americans. They are part of a people who own the most precious thing in the world, their personal freedom. Tonight's file continues that same morning at a small furnished bungalow on the outskirts of the city. Who's there? Oh, just a moment. Good morning, Jones. Morning. Here's the papers. I brought some groceries. Oh, thank you.  No, no, I'm only going to stay a minute. How are you coming along with the steamship companies? I think I should know something later today. I hope so. I don't particularly enjoy being holed up in this place. Anything I can get you, Mr. Harrison? Yes, some books. I've made out a list here. Would you get them for me? Sure, let's have it. Here you are. Anything else? A nice ocean voyage. We'll get that straightened on. I think I'd better get out of here and return it right now. I'll call you later. Jim? Jim? Oh, hi, Kurt. This is Fred Spencer, the delivery boy who works Carter's neighborhood. Do you work this past Monday? Monday? Sure. Anybody else make deliveries along your route? Nope. Then you deliver the package to somebody named Bruce Carter at the Kenmore Apartments Monday afternoon. You remember that? Kenmore Monday? Third floor? It was a guy. Do you remember anything at all about him? I don't remember his face. He was kind of tall. Did he sign for the package? Oh, sure. I wouldn't give it to him unless... Oh, you got something, Mr. Davis? Yes. Here's that receipt you wanted. Oh, fine. Thanks. Is this the one that Carter is supposed to have signed? Yeah. It's his name, all right. But, Jim, it doesn't look like his signature. No. Well, come on, Kurt. Let's get back to the office. Anything at the store, Taylor? The delivery man said he probably gave the package to Johns. We found the signed receipt, and Kurt's having it photostatted now. You showed to Carter? Yes, sir. It's definitely a forgery. We got pictures of Arthur Harris a few minutes ago. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Mr. Webster, you said we could have as many men as we needed on this case. It still goes. I've got a theory, and with enough manpower, we might be able to locate Johns. Well, let's hear it. The meeting place he named on the first phone call was Maine and Olive. The second was Tenth and Olive. Uh-huh. Jones told Carter you'd just gotten in from Canada. That would make him a transient, and as a transient, he's probably living in a hotel. We haven't got enough men to cover every hotel in town. How about checking the Olive Street area between Tenth and Maine? My guess is he made the dates for there because they're close to home. It's a possibility. If Grayson and I got some help, sir, we could inspect the registers at every hotel in that section and compare the signatures with the photostats.  I'll have the men report to you as soon as you're ready. Kurt, let's have a few pages in the register, huh? Right here. Oh, we're running out of hotels. I know, but... Jim? Huh? Look at this one. Don Crawford. Where? Right here. Put the photostat next to it. Yeah. Ah, look, same big curl on the capital C. In the Rs. and Carter, exactly like the ones in Crawford. Yeah. Clark? Don Crawford. What room's he in? He must have checked out. How about a forwarding at this? I'll see. No, nothing here. Oh, Kurt, we almost had it. Just a minute. We had a large convention here last month and we had to move some of our guests. I'll move them where? To other hotels. Is Crawford one of them? Wait a minute. Yes, Don Crawford. Where did he move to? The Hotel Central. Thanks. Come on, Kurt. Let's get over there. That's right. This is Jones. Where did you leave tonight? From where? Up the coast. What kind of a boat? An oil tanker. I had you signed on as a member of the crew. The crew? That was the only way. I've got you all the necessary papers. Well, I... I'll get my car and come right over. Wait. Did you get my books? Yes. Look, you'll have to pack in kind of a hurry. Your boat sails in two hours. Can I help you, gentlemen? What can I do for you? I want to see a Don Crawford. He just checked out. When? A few minutes ago. Any idea where he went? No, but maybe the doorman can help. Charlie! Yeah. Would you come here, please? What is it? Somebody named Don Crawford just checked out. Do you see him? Fall gang? That's right. Left a couple of minutes ago. Carried his own bag. Take a cab? No, he walked to a car down the block. Drove away. What kind of a car was it? I don't know. Here's how little you missed him by, Mr. Taylor. We haven't even found the duplicate of his bill. Is that it? Here. Thanks. Where are your house phones? Around to the right. Kurt, I want to check something. Yeah, Mr. Harrison. I'll be all packed in a minute. We haven't got much time. Hand me that toilet kit. Here. How far did we travel to reach the boat? Forty miles. Got everything? Yes. I'll take your bag. Thank you. Thanks.  What about my Siemens papers? I've got them. You'll only have to work one day and get sick. There's a good sick bay on the boat. Well, I'll need it. Here we are.  Now, I'll slide in. Just a minute, please. You must be Don Crawford. And he's Arthur Harrison. What's this all about? Special agents, the FBI. You'd both better come along with us. Arthur Harrison was given five years in a federal prison for a violation of the Federal Registration Act. Don Crawford, alias Mr. Jones, was sentenced to six months in a federal penitentiary for harboring. Special agents Taylor and Grayson were able to apprehend these two men because the last charge on Don Crawford's hotel bill had been for a phone call. A call to Arthur Harrison's bungalow. These two arrests did not, of course, end the subversive work of the Communist Party in the United States. They are still active in every state in the Union. They are still active in every state in the Union. But they can be prevented from accomplishing their goals with the aid of an alert, watchful citizen raid. If you suspect anyone of espionage, sabotage, or subversive activities, report the facts to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Please report only facts. Remember that the ideological war between communism and democracy is a battle between the big lie and the big truth. So, of course, and the big truth. So avoid reporting malicious gossip or idle rumor. Get the facts. Then turn to page one of your telephone directory for the number and call the nearest field office of your FBI. 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I think in some ways, that's why the mystics and the saints, you know, went off to live in the caves and the woods, is they started to tap into this deep, deep unconscious sense of rage that was there. It probably had the thought like, oh, this is not going to go over in my family, my society, my job, my whatever, my position. And so, I think that was part of going off, and I think it was very helpful for me. I mean, I actually felt like going off and living in the woods for a while, which I did, which a lot of rage came up there.  But it actually is more helpful in an initial way. It really doesn't help as you go on a little bit deeper, because how it helps initially is there's so much training in the mind, cultural training about swallowing emotions, stuffing down emotions. There's an enormous amount of denial and repression that's part of the self-concept that might say that Jesus says when the belief in separation was taken seriously, it was a horrific feeling. And so, actually that's the reason that the cosmos was made, the whole cosmos, the Big Bang was about trying to dump that horrific feeling and that guilt out somewhere else and to kind of alleviate it and get rid of it. And then when that really didn't completely do the trick, didn't suffice, then the mind got into a lot of denial and forgetting and dissociation, and we call that amnesia. I'm going to have to invent the power to forget. It's too horrific to hold in awareness, so I'll just forget it. Kind of like that movie Sphere, I don't know if anyone remembers that with Sharon Stone and Samuel Jackson and Dustin Hoffman. They go through the whole movie and all these monsters and underwater dramas and everything going on, and then they start to realize it's their own mind, that there really aren't monsters outside, that they're just thoughts. But at the very end of the movie, that's that clip that we show a lot, where they just all hold hands and agree to forget, because they don't know how to deal with that much power. If my mind is that powerful and I could have such horrific thoughts, just vicious thoughts, then is there any way out of it? What if I can't handle that power? Okay, let's just forget it. So there's a lot of denial and repression that seems to be used, and then these kind of expressions of the anger, and they talk about whether it's beating the bataka sticks, or beating pillows, or screaming, primal scream, and there's so many different therapies, and even a lot of breath work, rebirthing and a lot of circular breathing techniques designed to get down into your mind like a roto-router, just go right down into these core emotions. At some point, you start to realize that there is a basic assumption behind a lot of these techniques, and that's that you have to get it out. Except if everything is mind, you can't really get it out, and certainly you can't get it out of the body, because you're not really a body. Even though there's a lot of expressive therapies, it's almost like the underlying assumption that somehow it's in your body somewhere.  If you just breathe enough, or scream enough, or whatever, that somehow it will come out, and it really... you can't get it out because there is no out there to get it out to. And that's what metaphysics and authentic healing does. It starts to take you to say... like Francis was saying, it's thoughts. It's just, these are like thoughts. These are not external causes. You know, that's where the victimization mentality comes in from the belief that it's out there, and it's doing it to me. Or even that it's in there in my body. In fact, Jesus has about nine chapters in the Course in Miracles devoted to special relationships. And at one point he's describing it very graphically as if there's this great gift, this great precious gift that you deserve, and your brother has it. And your brother is keeping it from you. This precious gift that you need to be happy and peaceful. And not only that, but your brother has it and is keeping it from you and has hid it in his body. He's hid it away in his body. And of course, we all know, Jessica was talking about relationships. When you get into the relationship, you know, the words can come out.  You know, can you just give it to me? And it's like there's this underlying deeply buried unconscious belief that somehow your brother has something that you don't have and is withholding it from you. And there can be a lot of rage that comes like that.  Or give it back, like children are playing. One sibling steals something and says, give it back. Mom, make them give it back. And that's like this thing that gets acted out in all these relationships. And in more than relationships, it can be acted out with the environment. Like I just haven't found my peaceful spot in the world yet. I know it's out there somewhere. If I could just find it, you know. So I think you start to realize that really no amount of screaming is going to bring the solution. And yet there's this sense that you certainly don't want to hide and protect anything. You don't want to play hide and seek with yourself, with your own mind. And that's where these opportunities, like these gatherings, or some of you who aren't here, don't know about it, or if you're new, like Jessica's here, or Francis. We have expression sessions on a daily basis at about 12.30 for lunch, where there's an open talking about things. It's not, they're not really like scream sessions most of the time. But it's more of just like not feeling that you have to hold something in that you can talk about, or whether it seems to be good and joyful and miraculous or not, that you can actually bring it up and talk about it, that it's actually encouraged. And so I think those kind of experiences will serve you the best. And some of the old ones, like going down canyon to scream or whatever, probably would have the same kind of feeling like, I think I've been here before and done this of, we could say, metaphysical or spiritual systems that will still try to pin it in the body, like we talk about cellular memories, and there's a lot of that that's in there. And then if you believe that, then again, it's like you can't help but feeling like a victim of these cells.    It's like, oh man, what a mess I've got now. How many millions of these cells are going on in there and they've each got their own memory?  I've been with you all the time. Really weird. Yeah. And it's like, so it's, so you start to get this sense that more and more with the mind training that everything is mind. In fact, Jesus says, mind reaches to itself, it does not go out within itself, within itself is everything. You within it, and it within you. And it's, wow, wow, I never, nobody ever described a mind like that. It's like all-encompassing is the word he uses. And so when you start to look at these thoughts, there has to be a release of really believing that these thoughts are real. You know, that's going to be the linchpin that pops it. You know, it's like as long as they're believed to be real and they seem to be tormenting, then all kinds of beliefs can come to reinforce that, that they're stuck somewhere or, you know, that you have to somehow escape. But it's good to just start to open up to this idea that you can't get them out of your body. Because a lot of effort can be put in that. And if you look at the medical model, you know, when they talk about cancer cells, nobody talks about cancer cells that are like floating in the air over your bed. You know, they just never talk about cancer that way. It's always these like rebel cells eating away in the body. And, you know, that's just another version of it. Another version of it would be voodoo, as if like somebody sticking pins in a doll can harm you, you know, or psychically, you know, psychically being harmed by evil energies or evil entities and so on and so forth. You can see there's a lot of seeming layers to these beliefs that the evil is somehow outside. They even had a counseling call today of someone who's been working with the Course for many years and working with some clients and a group of people.  So it's like this, you can start to describe some of these energies as homicidal, suicidal, you know, really dark kind of things. And yet, of course, the belief is still that this entity or this demon or this energy is outside. And it has an effect psychically, very much like voodoo, you know, that somebody can actually harm somebody. And in many societies this is called like magic, like black magic and things like that. But it's all belief, it's all just belief. And the good news is at any point you could just stop projecting the error as if it's some thing, some energy, some person, some world, something that was done in the past or whatever that seems to be real and causative and you could simply say, I have no use for this at all. This is not serving me at all. This is not empowering me one bit. And then you practice transferring the training but that's a real common belief that I find. It's very pervasive through a lot of spiritualities somehow that it's in the body and that you have to somehow figure a way to get it out or do it enough to get it out. You know, be a lot of repetition. Feel it enough, pray enough, say enough Hail Marys, do something, you know, enough. And it's not really a matter of quantity.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I have received these Nova watercolour markers, all of the design team got these and also a selection of the alcohol markers. So I've already shared that video and I'll link that one up here if that's something you're interested in because they're really nice and I've been using them behind the scenes, I use them on a lot of my commission work now as well so it's nice to have something else to play around with. But I am a huge watercolor fan, it's what I've done since school, is what I just find to be very easy for me because I've done it for so long. So I do like using pens, you have a lot more control with a pen as opposed to just using a pan of watercolor or actually a tube of watercolor paint and a paintbrush. But that's something that I've done like I said through school and I done A level art so that was what I used a lot. So but for anybody that wants to get the effects of watercolor and don't want to go down the paint route then pens are perfect for that. So I've already swatched the brights out and they are really vibrant. For watercolor as well that's not hard to do because there's lots of it out there but generally you get a lot more of a lighter shade with watercolor because that's the purpose of it, it's that much softer medium to use. But if you go into it in its raw form without adding the water you can keep that richness of the color which you'll see there. So on the left is all the just the raw color okay so nothing's been added to that and then slowly here you can see where I've started to introduce the water. So they are really nice they they you know they um they dissolve really well in the water. You you have to I would say don't leave them too long because they will just settle into the watercolor paper and then you will have can you see there I've slightly got like a line that's not a bad thing but if that's something you don't like then I'd say that you don't want to lay this down go away and do something and come back to it again you're not going to get all of the pigment to dissolve as you would if you've done it instantly which is what I'll show you in a moment. But nonetheless it's still really really nice um I love these colors here I think they're beautiful really really rich this one as well the greens you get two nice kind of tones that's more of a limey green but I think for the brights you get a really nice mix there and especially if you're someone that just loves bright colors then this is a perfect pack because generally with watercolor markers you get your browns you get your you know black and things like that so it's quite nice not to have that and just have these really kind of rich colors but you do have the option to get them if you wanted to with the neutrals so yeah I mean I'm not going to sit here in swatch and go through all that I want to get right into creating a card so I've just got my one of my water brushes here you can use a normal paint brush so you get dual tips you get your brush nib which is this one and they are extremely I've already been using these by the way so they are extremely pointy like very very pointy I don't think my other ones I mean I might do a comparison video with all of these because I've got about five or six different watercolor brush pens but this one just stood out to me as being incredibly pointy so it's perfect to get into all those little details and then the other end is just your kind of bullet it's like a felt tip kind of end there you can see so yeah standard kind of a pen in that sense so let's just start using them so what I went ahead and done is had a play around first of all so I stamped out these images here they're beautiful they're the ones that I was really excited to get from the Cumberbottom magazine it must have been creative stamping and it's the Christmas florals by Pinkfresh Studios so I've just pulled out a selection there and then just kind of played around with them on here and I thought I'd try and color that like a Halloween house even though it's got a little wreath there you can I could put a like a I could do like a black bat over that and I think that looks quite cool so I might turn that into a card and maybe do three more and have like a haunted house but I love these markers look at them look at the effects you can get I think it looks really really nice I wanted to create like a so I had the highlight on the top so it almost looks like the flowers are curved and you can see here just where I've kind of used the two greens together and then what I've done there is I've just colored it with just the red and then I went over it with the dry pen so I didn't add any water just to create that darker depth same here just to keep that kind of real darker blue there I just went into it dry didn't add any water and then here just love it really really like them again I hope you can agree just how vibrant those colors are so what I have done I've got the same image again and I have stamped it on this piece of four and three quarters by six and three quarters so it's going to sit on a red five by seven card base so you'll have a nice red border and I've used my gold in Boston powder so I've used the paper maniac gold okay and this is a really fun way to use watercolors if you're someone that is maybe first time using them and you're worried about the control of the water if you stamp your image with an embossing powder the image will obviously have the raised edges from the embossing powder so it will create like a little barrier so whatever you color so say I was to color like yellow here it's not going to bleed into these sections here so it's quite easy to control the water so maybe give it a go if it's your first time try coloring a stamped image that's embossed because like I said because it's raised it will act as a little bit of a barrier so I've already gone ahead and stamped some more of them on here because I'm going to do like a decoupage so I'm going to fussy cut these and then have them you know a bit more 3d on top of this I'm going to put a nice sentiment in the middle and you'll see all that at the end also if you are using watercolour VersaFine is really really good to use just make sure it's completely dry but you don't get any bleed and you get that crisp black you can also use this one which is the Nouveau hybrid however I don't find the black to be as intense so if you want to keep that real crisp black I still love the VersaFine with watercolors okay so I'll pop those two there okay so just coming a bit closer there so I've already like said gone ahead and done this because I just didn't think you needed to watch me stamp that if you do want to see me do embossing check out my embossing video here sorry I forget I'm zoomed in just up there um because there's lots of really good useful tips on there to get great results when you're heat embossing so colors for this I want to do the reds again because it's Christmasy so I'm going to do the reds and the greens um and that's probably it so I'm just going to use these three colors I want to check I have got the red there yeah that's the red um so basically what all I'm going to do is I don't want to leave it sitting for long so I want to be able to make sure that all of the pigment dissolves and becomes a water color so I'm just going to start on this one here it doesn't matter if you go over the gold because it will resist against it it's almost like water off of a duck's back you know it's like an oily kind of effect so I've just done a really deep red there and actually I'm going to do a deeper red on the ends here as well but I'm just going to leave a white section in the middle there and then I'm just going to add the water and just start to pull that color and come up here like so so just get it to join I'm not really touching this you notice I'm just touching the ends here and then if you just come back along here with the bit more of a drier brush so I've just got my old rag that I like to use okay and then again just kind of bleed a little bit more of that color and just let it kind of run into the water and it will do its own thing and that's the nice thing about watercolor you just have to move it a little bit there we go so I want to keep this kind of highlight here because once I do that on everything again it should give the illusion that the flowers are kind of curved so I'm going to carry on with that same way on the rest of these and I'm going to do that one up there as well so I'm just going to speed that piece up okay so that's those colored and doesn't it look like the lights like hitting here it just gives the it's well to me it looks like that one is very 3D it looks like it's just curved over and that one there as well I think it's such a simple technique just joining you know just having dark at both ends and then just leaving a little bit of light and you can keep going in and just like so just dry off your brush and just just pick up the color next I want to use the green so I want to go in with the lighter one first and then I'm going to use the darker one to add again that depth and shadow now I am going to do these red in a minute as well but I thought I'd leave them for a minute and do the green leaves just so you can kind of see that so again you can really see this is this is quite a detailed image but because of the point on this I can go right in here it's brilliant really is so I'm actually going to end up covering all of this with the lighter green first and then I'm going to go in with the darker so I'm just going to cover most of that again I don't want to leave it sitting there too long these are green as well and that one there and I think I know that's not there so we'll leave that so again just make sure I've cleaned that off and then then just start to dilute the color you're just dissolving it and again I want to keep actually no I want to do that same effect so to get that I'm just going to lift a line just kind of lighter through the middle there you kind of see what I've done yeah I'm just lifting it just there it will all kind of work out in a minute these ones I'm not really going to bother they can just stay green all over do that one there and I'm just going to do this one here okay so I'm going to go back to this one again and now I'm going to come in with that darker green I just want to focus on the bottoms of all of these little leaves here and if it's still wet enough it will slowly start to just I can see this is already starting to bleed in so I might not even have to end up doing anything to that I might just let it just move and do its own thing and then again down here a bit darker there and I also want to do darker there and then do a little bit there and that again so you see it's starting to move I don't know how well you're seeing this but all I'm going to do is just dab it and it will just do its own thing I said you do have a lot more control with the pen and you can also go into this wet you don't you know it's up to you how you do it well I've gone on dry but now you can go in wet as well so if I just wanted to keep this still quite dark down here I can keep dipping this into the actual water there and it will just move and do its own thing so you can see that I've got a really nice little blend put a bit more around here just help it along there but you need such a tiny amount of water so it dries very quick there we go around here I'm going to do exactly the same again okay so that's that and then with the berries I just went over the whole thing and I'm just going to go over them all kind of lifting some of the color just create a little bit of a shadow I'm just kind of adding water just to a little bit you should see it just stays darker I'm picking up yeah it is you can see where it's lighter there where I've picked it up or added the water and it's still darker there you don't have to do that at all but that's just me just keeping everything kind of matching if you go over the lines you can pick it up just make sure you've got a clean brush so that one again I'm going to do all this here okay if I just bring that up just so you can see so I've just got darker there and then slightly lighter but it looks so so nice so using that same technique I'm now going to do all the rest of this red these flowers here red I'm going to fussy cut the ones that I've already done on here and then I'm going to go back in with the raw color without adding water just to add a bit more depth to it but I'll do that when I'm back so I decided I was playing around with my sentiment and I decided to use the stamped image that came with the stamp set so I've just used the Merry Christmas there and popped it there but I'm going to put a few sequins kind of here and I'm unsure whether to use these because I don't know I just think they're just going to cover up because I don't really like them just floating like that I'd rather have them like set like I don't know I just I don't think I want to use them so once I put it on the actual card I may well do but I just want to go in and just add a little bit of depth to a few areas bring you nice and close again I'm just going to go into the berries and just kind of just cover half of the berry with the dry pigment and it will again just give the illusion that you know the lights hitting from one side you see that again you don't have to do these things it's just little ways to add a bit more depth so then do a few little flicks as well and that's the nice thing with these you can get some really thin little lines see looks lovely really really like this this is why I was so eager to get this stamp set because this is the kind of card I wanted to create again just going to keep it nice and dark in the corners here and you can always go back in again with the water so if you feel like you've gone then too dark you might have too much of a kind of solid line then you can obviously do so but just let it dry in between and you will be fine like so I really like that one and then these I'm just going to do just to kind of circle in the centre there because there isn't really any other that was where those were to go over maybe if I take the white off don't have a little border and just have it right over there maybe kind of hanging over the side of the card I might try that you'll see that at the end if I decide to so I'm just going to do the same what I've done there over at this side and I'm going to do the same with the green just right at the very ends there and then the very bottoms and the very bottom of all these leaves okay there you have it I think it looks beautiful in fact I'm not going to do anything more there I don't think I'm even going to add these I think I'll keep them for something else because I just think that looks absolutely stunning so I've just got a red five by seven card blank I think I'm going to stick this using some foam because it's slightly warped ever slightly I could just flatten that if I just pop it in a book overnight run it through my dye machine a few times which I might try doing but you do have to be careful with the dye machine because it can kind of flatten the embossing powder and actually just makes it quite dull and you kind of lose a little bit of that shine so I probably won't do that I'm just going to pop it on some foam and just stick it on like so okay so I've just realised I didn't do the inside still so I'm just going to pop just some yellow just down I'm not going to add any water because there's such tiny little dots there you wouldn't you know it's not going to make any difference I'm just going to pop some yellow I think that'd be quite nice like so and then I'm just going to add a few of my I want to get the clear iridescent sequence there get my words out so I'm just going to pop on there I want to keep them quite close to the the flower let's try those for the minute okay and there is the finished card I think it looks good just love the way that the light catches that embossing powder and like I said these here they just look we almost look like they're like satin fabric they just look so shiny so I'm really pleased with how that's turned out so that was on a five by seven card and yeah it's really really straightforward to do just you know focus your darker colours on the inside there and on the outside and then kind of bring them together and you'll get that lovely highlight effect or just keep it dark on the end in the centre there and just pull the colour out so you get it you know just kind of fading towards the ends there's lots of ways to do these but I just thought that was a fun way to show you love all these I think I'll fussy cut them and use them on the card I'll probably do that as a kind of bundle on something and then this one as well but yeah they're really vibrant really easy to use lovely colours so these are I think they're $9.99 on Amazon I'll share the links below so you get the packet 10 the brights or the rainbows and then the neutral so I'll share all those links below but yeah I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial hope again you've managed to get something from it if you've got watercolor pens you've not used them go and give them a go just have some fun with it and yeah thank you for watching so and I will be back again soon with another tutorial see you soon bye


And welcome to my program, Elderhood, Aging Gracefully. My name is Larry Grimm, and I am grateful to be a part of Think Tech Hawaii and this wonderful opportunity to share with you the thinking that I have about Elderhood so that you can make this the most wonderful, the most real experience of your life. I am Larry Grimm Chaplain at Bristol Hospice here on Oahu, and I'm very proud to be a part of Bristol Hospice Hawaii because Bristol Hospice Hawaii lives their tagline embracing a reverence for life and even more so, I believe, lives out our mission which is to provide the highest quality of compassion and care for our terminal ill patients and their families across the island. We serve people in their homes, in their facilities, and we are highly skilled and highly resourced for the best kind of care that you could ask for, and you saw the website address there just a minute ago, bristolhospice-hawaii.com, and if you go there, you'll find all the information that you need as far as how to get more information or guidance on how to become, integrate that into your own life and your own family life. One of the other things that I do, though, is that I do online coaching. I do what I call personal life coaching, personal coaching for life and faith focusing on Elderhood, and what I'm doing in this program from time to time, from week to week, sharing with you the foundational thinking for my coaching experience, and in that foundational thinking, I have identified five spiritual tasks. What I've said is, you know, we have a childhood, we have adolescence, we have adulthood, now we have Elderhood, and when we look at Elderhood as a kind of stage of life, then we can identify, just as in other stages of our life, that there are certain tasks, tasks that are to be completed, that are part of the maturing process. I'm sure you've seen that, I'm sure you've seen that bumper sticker. Aging is mandatory, maturing is optional, and part of what I want to do is, engage my fellow folks in truly making it a maturing process that is real and wonderful for you. In my work with elderly people, elder people, and now I'm one of them, I have noticed that there are five tasks that present themselves to us, and these tasks can't be taken on intentionally, which I claim we do, but they definitely, it seems to me, arise. They rise up in our face, they arise in our lives, and we may be surprised by them sometimes. The first one that I've noted is grieving, and that's one that often can catch people by surprise. We grieve a lot because there's a lot of loss as we go. Somebody said, aging is a series of losses. I don't think it's just a series of losses, but certainly we can account for things that we've lost as we go through the aging process, and that does create grief, grief, and sadness, and sorrow, sometimes fear. It's important to identify what is happening in my life, in terms of inner life, in terms of great grieving, and give it some kind of vent, I think. Second thing is sorting out stories. We sort out our stuff, but we also sort out our stories. Every bit of stuff you have has a story attached to it, and some of them become very important stories in the elderhood. Now, you may pass on the stuff to a loved one, or you may donate it somewhere, but you keep the story, and the story is important to you because it is about an event that helps shape the person that you are today. That story you want to hold on to, you want to keep. And some of the stories are, in fact, what we need to process again and keep going. We bring up the spiritual tasks again, because the third one is forgiving. And I don't mean that this is responding to a religious imperative, but there seems to be this human need for forgiveness, to experience forgiveness, to offer forgiveness. And so we'll look at that today, a little bit later here, forgiving. Fourth one is preparation. There are external preparations that we make, certainly for getting everything in order, getting our household in order, in order for our departure, eventually. But there are also internal preparations that we make. How do you envision that life after life? We'll look at that a little more closely. And each one of those externals as well, we'll bring on to the show. I want to bring some of my co-workers at Bristol who have amazing resources to talk about those externals and how to prepare for places, to prepare for finances, and to give us a handle on what is available and what's necessary as we move through our elderhood. And then finally, letting go. Perhaps the most difficult of all, letting go. And we'll discuss that and we'll practice some of that as well in the showtime that we have. I say that elderhood can be lived in two different ways. One way, I'm reminded of living on the East Coast for a while, and I flew into Asheville, North Carolina. And Asheville is up in the mountains, of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Beautiful place, beautiful setting. But we came in at a time when there was a cloud cover, and the cloud cover was full of storms and storms. So we couldn't just go into land. The pilot came on and said, folks, we're going to circle around here until we find a place, a break in the storm, and then we'll go on down to land at the runway, the airport right below us. And so we went around, traveled around, cruised around for a while, and then he came on and said, we've got an opening, I'm going in. And it really was a fast descent, zoom down. It was kind of a white knuckle time, grabbing the handle, my hands on the seat, and landing safely at the airport. But man, what a descent. A lot of us live life like that in the elder years, our elderhood, so that we wait until there's that last crisis, or that imminent prod, that last prod to make us do something. And we have to respond to it, and I can help people make a response to that. The other idea, and possible thing to consider, so we can land like we come into Honolulu, Hawaii, the approach starts way out over the ocean. And the descent is gradual, and calm, and peaceful, and you're on the ground almost before you realize that you've made that entire descent and transition is quite easy. So I like to think that my coaching is best used for that kind of approach in elderhood, to make it real, to make it wonderful, to make it a gradual and wonderful and inclusive inclusive kind of landing, inclusive in that we get to include all the people that are important to us in the process of elderhood. And we'll have through this program some various looks at some resources that are able to support that descent, that landing, that beautiful, wonderful, long, long stretch. There's no reason to give up and say, oh, I'm going to go in for a landing and give up way back there. You keep it strong, sustained, and lots of good, wonderful things happening in the elderhood. So those are the ways that I look at elderhood, and I hope you'll join with me in thinking about your own in that way. You may have somebody in your life, some parent or grandparent, is going through that time of their life now, and you may be able to identify kind of how, which metaphor is more helpful for understanding what they're going through right now. We have 260,000, I think, 250 or 260,000 people over 65 residents of Hawaii, citizens of Hawaii. So elderhood is very much with us, very much a part of our everyday life, and very much a part of the culture in which we live here. And my coaching is not only for people close at hand, but of course, folks, because it's online, I can do coaching with people throughout the globe, which I'm happy to do. Forgiving is one of those spiritual tasks. And as I said, it's earlier, it's not a religious imperative. In other words, as a person, as a guide, as a coach, or as a chaplain, I'm not going in and saying, well, you got to forgive. It's important to do that. But rather, what we find is that people generate this desire for forgiveness from within. It just happens. It occurs. It comes up. And we've heard a lot about deathbed confessions, which are exemplary of this. I want to read a few of these, just a few stories. You can go online and find deathbed confessions. And there are many of them available.  They're not glamorous. They're not renowned people. But certainly, everyone is somebody's experience and of importance to us. This one talks about a mother-in-law who worked at a nursing home. And so she'd seen many things. And there was one thing that stuck with her. A patient that was near death called her out for someone to listen, anybody, just to listen to her. And the patient decided to tell a story about how her father many, many years ago had been out drinking late and had driven home.  And he and his friend grabbed at the body. She gave very specific details about where and when it happened. The girl was three years old and her father and his friends hit her body under the porch steps and never spoke of it again. And this person, the patient, had lived with the guilt of keeping that a secret, one of those family secrets, and felt horrible that that little girl's family would never know what had happened. And she just had to let somebody know about it. There's a kind of desire for cleansing, or absolution perhaps. Okay. There's another related to me by my mother before her passing. My great uncle, this one says, admitted that he had eliminated his first wife because he found her harming the neighbor kid who was five years old at the time. That's when he lived in Ireland. And a few years later moved to America, met another woman, lived a happy life. Everybody admired him and it was, were terribly shocked to find out that he had done this, but he was one of the kindest people they knew. He's told this story to someone and then three minutes later he died. I'm a medical student, had a female patient who was new to our practice, HIV positive. I needed to ask her how she got the virus and she tells me it was transmitted through intimate contact. And the only reason she got tested was because her partner three years last words to her in hospice was, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you forgive me. Pretty heavy stuff. What motivates people to do this? Well, it's something within that has to be cleansed, cleared out. We're going to have a brief break here of about a minute and then we'll return with some other look, another fresh look at forgiveness. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. My program airs every other Monday at one o'clock on Think Tech Hawaii. Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience. Recently I interviewed Alex Gempel, who I have known for over 30 years, about his voyage across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii. Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about human stories about law and life. Aloha. Hello, I'm Mufi Hanuman. I want to tell you about a great show that appears on Think Tech Hawaii. It's all about tourism. In fact, we call it Tourism 101, where we talk about the issues and challenges that faces our number one industry throughout the state. We'll have some interesting guests, very informative dialogue and allow you an opportunity to maybe learn a little bit more about why this industry is so important for our state. It's been great for us in the past. We need it today and especially going forward. That's Tourism 101 on Think Tech Hawaii. Mahalo. Hello. Welcome back. I'm Larry Grimm. Elderhood aging gracefully and part of our tasks, one of our tasks in elderhood is forgiving. Forgiving others, forgiving ourselves. It's interesting that forgiveness does not mean necessarily reconciliation. What I mean is when people reconcile, it's a relationship that's been broken. It may be two people, it may be quite a few people. It doesn't matter how many, but to be reconciled means that everyone wants to reconnect. They want to reestablish their relationship, their friendship. That takes work which may involve and undoubtedly will involve some forgiving of one another and forgiving of self. However, it's quite possible to forgive yourself and set yourself free by doing a unilateral forgiveness. Forgiveness is something that we can extend to people and to in the process release ourselves from the claim that that event or that guilt or that problem may have on us. Nirvana, it's kind of interesting. Nirvana, we have to think of as a place, but it's really not a place. Nirvana means, it means letting go. It means the release and forgiveness can be that kind of release as well. In fact, its original word has more to do with release and letting go than it does paying some kind of penalty or getting free of some kind of penalty. We in our Western way of thinking and Western Christianity have built a lot of our Christianity around judicial terms and forgiveness is used as a judicial term, which means that oftentimes that we're forgiven for something that we've committed, some offense that we've done. But the emotional experience is the experience of release of Nirvana of letting go. And some religions, the Roman Catholic Church, for instance, has a sacrament by which in a kind of rudimentary way, rudimentary, not rudimentary, but a ritualistic way, a person can feel this sort of release through the sacramental rite. The priest administers the sacrament, leads the person through a process of confession and a process of absolution or cleansing, cleansing the spirit. They've had that, the Catholic, Orthodox and Catholic churches have had that sacrament for many, many years, of course centuries, or 2000 years. Protestants don't do it so much in a sacramental way. Protestants do do it through listening. But mostly like I've said, this compulsion to seek forgiveness is something that is really rising up within. We've looked at a couple of stories of people who have made death bed confessions. And I want to share one more with you. When I was in hospice work in Denver, Colorado area, one of my patients was an AIDS patient. And this young man was really very depleted. He had lost the lower limb of his right leg. And he was nearing death very soon, we knew. I was in it with him one time and he said, Pastor, I need to repent. I said, okay. Is this a general repentance or something, a specific event? And he said, it was specific. I said, okay, did it involve a woman? He said, yep. I said, okay, okay. I set it up for him and his imagination. I said, now imagine she's here with you at the foot of the bed. You're looking at her. Do you see her? Yeah. Now imagine that you're telling her what you wanted to tell her. And you can say it out loud or keep it quiet, whichever you want. And I'll just stand here and wait for you to finish. So he told her, whenever it was, I'm not sure the details, but he then said, I want you to forgive me. Will you forgive me? Next I invited him and his imagination to become her. Stand at the foot of the bed and look at himself. And then say, what does she say to you? I said, he said, I forgive you. Then I invited him to come back into the bed, into himself. And I said, what did you hear? He said, I'm forgiven. And I asked, how do you feel now? And he said, put his hands like this.  All he did was an internal, inner psychic experience of forgiveness. But it was real for him. And it was so real that he, too, within a few days released and let go and died. So it was something he just had to do before the end. And what I say is, we can wait until the last minute and do it out of the deathbed confession if you like. That's fine. But what about the value? Is there a value in starting way out here as we come into the landings, to the airport, as we prepare for the final approach and cleanse the plate, cleanse the pallet, cleanse everything in the process of aging gracefully. And that's what I would be happy to help you do. In fact, I would like to offer this. Now, this is unusual. I don't know if ThinkTech does this very often. But I would like to offer you a meditation on forgiveness. So kind of get situated somewhere, get your feet on a flat on the floor, and get into a position where you can hear well and you can close your eyes if you want. And I'm going to give you a guided meditation to take you through this kind of forgiveness experience, similar to what my friend did there at the hospice in Colorado. So take a breath, breathe in and then hold it a little bit, and then let it out. Breathe in, hold it, let it out. You want to forgive somebody for something that they did to you, or perhaps you want to ask forgiveness from somebody or something you did to them, or maybe it's even just for yourself that you want to ask forgiveness from yourself or something that you never did, that you intended to do, or that you did do that hurt others. So are you ready then to do that, to seek that forgiveness? I want you first to begin by imagining that person involved is in the room with you in another chair, standing with you, and you look at the person and you tell them in the very specific detail what this is about. Are you doing that? Give them some details, time and place, what transpired, how you felt about it at the time. Because you still have those feelings, but it's not hard to remember. It could be a brother, it could be a sister, it could be a mother or father, it could be a leader in a group or in a church or in some kind of team that you were in, and it's just something that's there constantly for you, and you want to, you want to get rid of it, you want to unburden yourself of this feeling. I am asking you to open your wounds to that person or the feeling of wounding them even, your guilt. Can you feel your stomach tighten a little bit perhaps?  Where are you feeling the emotions in your body? Kind of locate that. So you're aware of it. When we forgive or when we receive forgiveness, we do it from a place of strength. It's not a place of weakness or surrender. It really is from a place of strength. So wherever you feel that in your body, I want you to, I encourage you to feel strength around that place as well. Don't crunch up and make an effort, but can you feel yourself letting go of it? Releasing and asking for forgiveness or extending to them forgiveness and letting the strength remain within you, centered within you in that place of calm. I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you. There may be tears associated with this that will come up and surface. That's okay. That's okay. That's what life's about. So let the tears flow. Let them roll down like water if you need to. And respond to what is said then. You can put yourself in the other person's place and speak back to yourself and have a dialogue that can be rich and wonderful and certainly very surprising to you. Forgiveness is a great healer and you deserve, I want you to have every opportunity that you can to heal the things that are important to you. If you would like to do this in a coaching session or with coaching help online, please feel free to contact me at LarryG at live-connections.com. LarryG at live-connections.com and we'll proceed. I'll respond to your call or your email. Forgiveness is one of those five spiritual tasks. Perhaps today you've experienced both receiving forgiveness, offering forgiveness, nirvana, releasing and letting go. Again, I'd be happy to respond to your call. LarryG at live-connections.com. In a little bit of a housekeeping thing, Think Tech and I are making a shift in this program from Friday at two to Tuesday at two starting this next Tuesday. Tuesday at two Hawaii time, we'll be back and I'll be having more people to bring resources to the table to share with you on the seven or excuse me the five spiritual tasks of elderhood. Making it real and really very much, very much, I believe, making it wonderful. Thank you very much for joining me today and being a part of this and I look forward to seeing you again, my good neighbor. Tuesday at two Hawaii time. Aloha.


A very good evening aspirants, welcome to the Hindu newspaper analysis brought you by Shankar Iyer's academy for the day 22nd of June 2022. Displayed here are the list of news articles that I have chosen for today's discussion. See as I told you in every discussion it will be made a point to discuss a topic in both preliminary and mains perspective okay. So all these four topics are covered on the basis of both your preliminary preparation as well as your mains preparation. Now without wasting much time let's get into the first news article discussion. Now look at this op-ed article basically this article talks about artificial intelligence that is AI. It focuses on issues in artificial intelligence technology then it talks about NSCOS recommendation for the AI and finally it talks about the significance of the NSCOS recommendations okay. So this is the structure of this article in this discussion we will look at the points mentioned in the article in detail okay. I have displayed the syllabus regarding this discussion here you can just go through it. Now let us start our discussion. Firstly what is artificial intelligence? See AI or artificial intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence in missions. To put it in simple words artificial intelligence involves making missions think and act like humans. We are encountering artificial intelligence everywhere in our daily lives am I right. See from robots in online games to complex algorithms that help us monitor and predict weather patterns we could see the artificial intelligence. It won't be wrong if we say AI is omnipresent. The AI or artificial intelligence has so many applications it is only through AI precision agriculture function by analyzing the medical records AI will help us predict outbreaks of epidemics. I already mentioned the role of AI in weather pattern prediction also right. In modern policing by employing AI technology and facial recognition countries like China are developing predictive policing. Here predictive policing is nothing but nabbing a criminal before he commits a crime. Then artificial intelligence is used in traffic management, supply chain optimization, targeted AD campaigns and finally AI can also be trained to write programs. All in all the application and potential for AI is huge. In 2021 the AI market in India alone accounted for 7.8 billion US dollar so it is very important for our country also. Having seen the applications of AI technology now let us discuss some issues associated with AI technology. First issue is unequal representation in data. See the AI programs make decision by analyzing various data. Like Google Lens for example. For people who are not aware Google Lens is an image recognition technology. If you open Google Lens and focus on say a shoe, Google will identify it and help us with additional information about the shoe. But how does Google Lens recognize that you are pointing your camera at a shoe? How it works is the Google Lens program is fed beforehand with lots and lots of images of shoes. Through this process the Google Lens program learns what a shoe looks like. Through it it helps to identify it. Here the accuracy of the Google Lens in identifying an object depends on the data that it is fed beforehand. So if the data feed to the AI programs are not representative of the society then the AI might become biased and discriminatory. We know India and China account for one third of the global population. But in ImageNet only three percentage of images were of Indian and Chinese. See here ImageNet is a popular data set used to train AI software.  So if such a data set is used to develop facial recognition algorithms then the results will be discriminatory. Am I right? This is particularly scary with the use of predictive policing. Biases in facial recognition technologies might lead to wrongful arrest. So this is the first issue. Now the next issue with the AI technology is in terms of lack of representation in people who develop these AI technologies. This is an issue because people who write the programs might include their biases in their quotes. This might make the AI programs biased. These are the two major issues associated with AI technology. To address these issues know a global strategy has been evolved by UNESCO. This is nothing but UNESCO's recommendations on the ethics of artificial intelligence. Now let us see some important points from this UNESCO's recommendations. The three main stakeholders in AI technology are people, government and the business developing in this technology. Here if the businesses involved in AI do not put people's interests first the inequality due to AI will increase. So the main aim of this UNESCO's recommendation is to shift the balance of power between people and the businesses and governments developing AI. The next is regarding representation. We saw lack of representation is one of the issues right? To address this it recommends steps that have to be taken to make sure that women and minority groups are fairly represented on the AI design teams. So now the next recommendation is regarding privacy. Data privacy must be ensured. See control over the data must be in the hands of the user and not the corporations. Users must be allowed to access and delete information as needed. UNESCO also recommends that AI must not be used to develop mass surveillance programs. Next the recommendation says that the psychological and cognitive impact that these systems can have on children and young people must be kept in mind while developing AI technology. Finally UNESCO says that member states should invest in and promote not only digital media and information literacy skills but also socio-emotional and AI ethics skill has to be promoted. This is to strengthen critical thinking and competencies in the digital era. So these are some important points from UNESCO's recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence. This is a global guideline that individual countries can refer to and adopt in their national policies. Already Finland in the year 2017 adopted these recommendations in the AI strategy. Experiences from Finland shows that governments can effectively promote ethical AI use without compromising the desire to be on the cutting edge of new technologies. With this we will also see some efforts taken by India regarding the AI technology or artificial intelligence technology. Firstly in the year 2018 NETIOG released the National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence. This strategy highlights the massive potential of AI in solving complex social challenges that are faced by the Indian citizens across areas such as agriculture, health and education. Then it also highlighted the economic potential of AI. The next one is NETIOG's AI for all campaign. It focused on developing ethical AI governance. It helped in the development of AI tools and technology which has humanistic values at its core. So that is all regarding this discussion. In this discussion we saw about what is AI, then we saw about the applications of AI technology, then we saw the issues associated with AI technology. After that we saw some points from the UNESCO's recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence and finally we entered our discussion with the steps taken by India in terms of AI technology. See this topic is very much relevant for your UPSC Main's examination. Also in a way I made you cover this topic in Prillim's perspective also. So with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this news article. This news article mentions that in the 12th meeting of joint working group India and Nepal discussed about curbing trans-border criminal activities. Also they discussed about the curbing of terror activities and strengthening the border infrastructure. So let us now know few facts about the India-Napal border. Nepal is a close neighbour of India and it shares a border of over 1850 km. Some sources say it is just 1751 km. And when you asked me what are all the states that are sharing borders with Nepal it includes Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. See such a close border resulted in unique ties of friendship and cooperation and deep rooted people to people contacts of kingship and culture. The diplomatic relations now started with the signing of the India-Napal Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1950. Under the treaty Nepalese citizens availed facilities and opportunities on par with Indian citizens. Actually nearly 8 million Nepali citizens live and work in India. This was made possible by a long tradition of free movement of people across the borders. And this was strengthened by the treaty also. See the treaty agreed to grant certain privileges to the nationals of one country in the territory of the other. This is somewhat like a reciprocal basis. So now what are these privileges? Firstly it is to provide the same privileges on matters of residence, ownership of property, participation in trade and commerce, movement and other privileges of a similar nature. So it provides free movement of people and goods. Which is nothing but another way of saying an open border. Open border means that nationals of either country do not require a passport or visa to cross over into each other's territory, okay. So overall India and Nepal have the open border system. And the citizens of both the countries cross over the India-Napal border for livelihood opportunities, marriages, familial ties etc etc. Now when countries share border, security related issues are one of the prime concerns. But in case of India-Napal no, they are open border. Plus it is also porous. See what do you mean by porous border? We call a border porous when the security along the border is not tight or when it is liberal due to the bilateral relation and it becomes almost impossible to prevent the movement of people. When people of two countries share high cultural and economic ties, the porosity is present even when there are tight security measures restricting the movement of people. So you can understand the scenario when there is an open border. Because it facilitates border porosity.  So open and porous border provides a safe heaven for smugglers criminals and terrorists to carry out their activities in an uninterrupted manner. For example, if we take the cross-border human trafficking, border areas of Bihar, UP and West Bengal are most vulnerable to trafficking from Nepal. Some important routes used by human traffickers include the Saunali border in the Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh and Birganya, Raksul and Nakathya Ganj borders in Bihar. See, these borders know it is difficult to curtail this crime because every day thousands move across the border and it becomes difficult to identify or distinguish between a legal migrant and a victim of trafficking. So mechanisms have been instituted to manage such security issues. For example, we use certain measures like home secretary level meetings, joint working groups on border management and border district coordination committees for managing such security issues. So that's all about this news article. See, this topic is very much relevant to for your GS2 paper in Main's examination and note that regarding the India-Napal border, I discussed the states, right? That is very much important for your preliminary examination. So this topic is covered in a holistic manner combining both your prelims perspective and Main's perspective, okay? So with these key points in mind, now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now have a look at this news article. The news article talks about the international yoga day celebrations throughout the country. Mass demonstration events were held at 75 iconic locations. So in this context, let us see about yoga and the significance of international yoga day. See, yoga is a discipline originated in India that dates back to thousands of years. It is a spiritual discipline and a combination of practices that aims to bring harmony between the body and the mind. The practice of yoga helps to attain self-realization. How? It is by improving the inherent power of an individual in a balanced way. So yoga is regarded as one of the best practices known to calm the inner self. Yoga was founded by saints and sages. Know that Maharishi Patanjali is called as the father of yoga. Maharishi Patanjali has defined yoga as the suppression of the modifications of the mind. Because yoga works on the mind, energy and emotional levels of an individual, thus promoting physical and mental well-being. Overall, it has many benefits like increased muscle strength and tone, then increased flexibility, increased respiration, energy and vitality, then maintaining a balanced metabolism, then it helps in weight reduction, also it helps in cardio and circulatory health, then improved athletic performance, etc. etc. The very first dimension of yoga was in the Rig Veda and these are the different types of yoga. Just go through it. So because of the benefits associated with yoga, today it is practiced in various forms around the world. As a result of yoga's global reach, India proposed a draft resolution for establishing the International Day of Yoga at the United Nations, that is UN. Finally, in 2014, UN proclaimed 21st June as the International Day of Yoga. This date is special for another reason also. It is the summer solstice and the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Am I right? And the International Day shows the worldwide acceptance of yoga, which is a matter of pride for our country. The aim of this day is to raise awareness worldwide about the benefits of practicing yoga. This will help in promoting a sustainable lifestyle in harmony with planet earth. Know that this year's theme was yoga for humanity. See, by celebrating yoga day and practicing it every day, yoga came in handy in the COVID-19 pandemic. It helped in the lockdowns by elevating the suffering, then by bringing people together through compassion, kindness, foster a sense of unity and build resilience among people world of world. Due to this only, our Prime Minister has noted that yoga is becoming a basis for global cooperation. Okay, so that's all about this news article. See, this topic is very much useful for your preliminary perspective. Also, you can utilize these key points in your main's answer and make your answers unique. Because in global cooperation, you can mention yoga as a way of approaching global cooperation. Okay, so with these key points in mind, now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now, look at this news article. This news article says that a free trade agreement that is FDA between India and the United Kingdom will be concluded by Deepavali. The Minister for Commerce and Industry and Textiles said that the government was moving ahead on FTAs with Canada, European Union and the UK. The Minister also mentioned that Australia, Israel, Brazil and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries had expressed an interest to forge FTAs with India. This is about the news article given here. In this context, let us see what is this FTA or free trade agreement. And lastly, let us see about the advantages that India stands to gain by signing the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom or UK. Okay. First of all, what is an FTA? See, FTA or free trade agreements are arrangements between two or more countries or trading blocs. This arrangement primarily aims to reduce or eliminate customs tariff and non-tariff barriers on trade between them. The tariff barriers are the tags or duty imposed on the goods which are traded to or from abroad. On the contrary, a non-tariff barrier is a way to restrict trade using forms other than a tariff. Non-tariff barriers include quotas, embargoes, sanctions and libees. Here, the European Union restricting Alfonso Mango imports from India citing phytosanitary issues is an example of non-tariff barriers. Okay. Now, coming back. FTAs normally cover trade in goods such as agricultural or industrial products or trade in services such as banking, construction, trading etc. FTAs can also cover other areas such as intellectual property rights, investment, government procurement and competition policy etc. See, free trade agreements don't just reduce and eliminate tariffs. They also help to address various issues behind the border such as intellectual property, e-commerce and government procurement. So, this is about the free trade agreement or FTA. Now, let us see the advantages of signing on FTA with the United Kingdom. See, this is how you have to take a topic and cover it in preliminary perspective and then take it exclusively to means. In this way, you can cover both your preliminary preparation and means preparation on a topic. Okay. Now, coming back to a discussion. Right now, the total trade between India and the United Kingdom stood at 16 billion US dollar in the first 11 months of the financial year 2022. When the free trade agreement is signed, this is bound to increase. This is bound to be beneficial to both India and the United Kingdom. Now, moving on. See, we know India is aiming to integrate into the global supply chain. The United Kingdom is aiming to diversify its supply chain. The United Kingdom is planning to reduce its dependence on China. So, by signing the free trade agreement, India can smoothly integrate itself into the UK's supply chain. The UK also can reduce its dependency on China. Am I right? Next, after signing the free trade agreement, the FTA that is the foreign direct investment from the UK will increase. See, this will create new economic opportunities in India. The next advantage will be for the customers in the United Kingdom and India. The products will become cheaper as the taxes are rationalized. Finally, with the signing of the free trade agreement, both India and the UK will become more economically integrated. See, with reliable economic integration comes strong political cooperation. This will be beneficial for both the countries in the long run. So, these are some of the advantages of India signing an FTA with the United Kingdom. So, with this, let us conclude this discussion. In this discussion, we saw what is the free trade agreement or FTA and then we took the discussion further by looking at the advantages of India while signing the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom. So, with these key points in mind, now let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice question discussion. Today, I have three prelims questions for you. Now, let us start with the first question. It is regarding our discussion on the International Yoga Day. Your two statements are given. So, whenever two statement question comes, you have to go through both the statements before arriving at the answer. And note that the question is asking for incorrect statement. Okay? Now, look at the statement one. See, this was said in the discussion itself, right? Yes, International Day of Yoga is celebrated on 21st of June, which is the same day as the summer solstice. So, this statement is correct. Now, look at the statement two. T. Krishnamacharya and V.K.S. Ayyongar are renowned yoga gurus. See, regarding this, we will have a quick discussion. This statement is also correct. Thirumali Krishnamacharya that is T. Krishnamacharya is one of India's most respected authorities on the Vedic tradition and yoga teachings and practice. Okay? And Krishnamacharya was probably the first yoga master to introduce a concept of Vinyasa, means movement through a series of poses coordinated with breathing. He is even referred as the father of modern yoga. Okay? Now, coming to B.K.S. Ayyongar was a student of Thirumali Krishnamacharya. He also was a world renowned yoga teacher, famous for his style of yoga called Ayyongar yoga. These are other yoga gurus recognized by the Indian government. Just go through their names. Try to remember their names. Okay? So, now coming back to the question. The question is demanding for incorrect statement. So, your answer here will be neither one nor two that is option D is the correct answer. Okay? Now, look at the second question. It is regarding the free trade agreements. The question says with which of the following countries India has signed the free trade agreements or FTAs? Five countries are given Nepal, Bhutan, USA, Thailand and Singapore. See, the answer for this question is option C, one, two, four and five only. So far, India has signed 13 free trade agreements. It is signed with its trading partners including the three agreements namely India Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Corporation and Partnership Agreement, then India UAE Comprehensive Partnership Agreement and India Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement. These are signed during the last five years. See, I have displayed the list of free trade agreements signed by India. You can just go through it. In this, India Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement and the India UAE CEPA has been signed but not yet implemented. Okay? All other agreements are both signed and under implementation. See, this is very much important for your problems. Okay? So, except for USA, India is having the free trade agreement with Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand and Singapore. So, your answer for this question will be option C, one, two, four and five only. Okay? Now, look at this last question. It is a three-statement question. So, whenever you have three-statement type question or multiple-statement question, you can try applying elimination technique if possible. Okay? Now, let me start with statement three. It says India-Napal border is the longest among the international land borders India shares with its neighbours. See, this statement is absolutely incorrect. The longest international land border is between India and Bangladesh. It is about 4,096 km. Whereas, if you take Indian-Napal border, its length is in the fourth place. Okay? So, if you had found that statement three is incorrect, you can eliminate two options here. One is option C, another one is option D. So, the leftover options will be option A and B and from this, you can understand the statement two is definitely correct. So, just read the first statement and confirm whether it is correct or incorrect. Okay? The first statement says India does not share open border with any country. See, in today's discussion itself, we saw that India and Nepal are sharing open border. Am I right? So, this statement is absolutely incorrect. So, you can eliminate option A and arrive at your answer which is option B, two only. Yes, Nepal shares border with five Indian states. Who are they? They are Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Okay? So, that's all for the preliminary practice question. Now, displayed here is a means question for you. Go through the question and post your answers in the comment section. If you like this video, do like, share and comment and don't forget to subscribe to the Shankar A.S. Academy's YouTube channel. Thank you for listening.


I call it teaching in three dimensions. I did have a short stint teaching high school history right out of college and didn't feel that I knew what to do teaching from a book, teaching history from a book. I had some fun with literature, but teaching history from a book did not come easily to me. I think there are some teachers who know how to do that and some of us don't. I had to have props, I had to have things. And so my whole museum career related to education, working with children and working with teachers, has always, always been focused on how do we use objects of everyday life, works of art, architecture, monuments, anything that has been made or used by a human being is a fair game in my book. So I usually begin any class on what is history with an object. And I try to find a mystery object, something that my students no matter what their age might not have ever seen. And I do this on purpose because I want to demonstrate first and foremost how difficult it is to understand history when you take a nugget of information out of context. It's very hard to understand something that you've had no experience with. So if a teacher would walk into a classroom one day, say she's going to teach pioneer life and she immediately says to her students, imagine being a pioneer. The students have nothing with which to spark their imagination. But if that same teacher walked into her classroom and she had a straw hat and she had a cowhorn cup and she had a wooden bowl, a candlestick, et cetera, et cetera, and then she tried to get her students to imagine being a pioneer because these are the things that a pioneer would wear, use, or make, et cetera, then we're getting somewhere, I think, because we're building on experience.


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Thank you. Good morning. Bonjour. Ladies and gentlemen, as I speak there are civilians traveling on flights around the world. It is difficult to say with any accuracy whether they are all truly as safe as they could be. They are flying perhaps next to someone holding a stolen or lost travel document on the very same flight. That person could have criminal intentions unknown to anyone on that flight or to any government or law enforcement official around the world. In fact, nearly 20-plus years since Ramsey Yusef entered the U.S. soil right here in New York City on the stolen Iraqi passport to execute the first World Trade Center bombing, stolen lost travel documents are still in the hands of far too many international terrorists. When two passengers were found at boarded flight MH370 using stolen Italian and Austrian passports, the world was reminded of just how real the security gap is. And thus the central theme of today's discussion will be an issue which Interpol sees as fundamental to avoiding the collapse of global security over the next decade. An issue which the United Nations also sees as being critical under its global counter-terrorism strategy. That is, the role travel documents security could play in preserving the lives of citizens around the world. Meeting skepticism at first when it was conceived, Interpol's stolen lost travel document database now holds records on more than 40 million travel documents. In 2013, the total volume of searches reached beyond 800 million screenings worldwide, resulting in nearly 60-80 thousand hits. But most governments unfortunately have not yet taken their responsibilities seriously. Our most optimistic estimates suggest that in 2013, out of the 1.2 billion passengers that flew internationally, a minimum of 400 million individuals traveled on documents unchecked against Interpol's stolen lost travel document database. This figure does not include the civilian traffic on domestic flights, unscheduled arrivals, or those through international land border crossings. Even after having aviation at the center of the deadliest terrorist attack ever witnessed by humankind, that single passport swipe querying Interpol's databases is still not systematically conducted within most airports. Interpol believes that the UN, the Counterterrorism Committee, and its executive directorate can play a major role in changing this scenario in addition to what they're already doing. How? An unequivocal call by the UN CTC upon UN member states to systematically use Interpol platforms to screen passengers' travel documents would send an incredibly powerful message worldwide. Similarly, we hope that Interpol tools could become as a key component of CTC, CTED, monitoring of the implementation of counterterrorism resolutions. The UN leadership in counterterrorism efforts worldwide has and could continue to make a huge difference. What is clear is that the failure by countries to systematically screen identity documents has left the general public and the private sector alone to face this threat. Interpol realized this and decided that it was in time to explore new avenues that could reduce, if not eliminate, the gap. There was an absolute need to allow the private sector to determine whether the travel documents presented by potential customers were or were not listed in Interpol's stolen lost travel document database. That's what led to the creation of iCheckit, an innovation that holds the potential to revolutionize international passenger screening. Under this new model currently in its pilot phase, information shared internationally by police through Interpol, while not directly accessible by private users, will act as an additional line of defense for airlines and airport security firms. This is a win-win outcome and an absolute imperative if we are to ensure a global, sustainable and effective security system. Bringing member states to systematically face their responsibilities with all means at their disposal and involving the industry in a quest of safer borders and a safer world to represent the future of our battle against terrorism. Thank you very much.