Hey everybody, my name is Jared James Nichols and I have the pleasure of showing you these brand new amps Which I've been a black star user for Over five years and I've played every model and I've always needed something That was heavy enough that I could do a lot of the you know the rock metal style But also it had enough warmth and class where I was able to get the blues break up in tones That I needed when I wasn't completely rocking out so I've been able to put the 15 and the 30 through their paces and The first thing I want to say is that these amps are totally killer Don't judge the package of how small they are with the way that they're gonna sound because if you're anything like me Looks are looks are everything, but at the same time you just need it to work Anytime so we're gonna start with the 15 I'm just gonna take you through the basics of the tones and both amps are two-channel amps with six L sixes and We're gonna start with the clean channel on the 15 So it's a real real good because usually a different kind of clean You know you're kind of stuck but with this one you can go anywhere from the soft You get a very nice breakup easy breakup at at a volume that's workable So, you know if I'm playing in a bar or a small club This is a perfect sound in a perfect style just to break through without you know getting yelled at by the sound guy So once again very simple setup. I'm just gonna turn some knobs on it. It's such an easy channel too it's literally a volume and a tone and you can get away with so much with just that and Once again, don't let don't let it fool you as basic as that channel is There's so many different tones for a studio setting that that are that would just be incredible we're gonna move on to channel two which is more of like a Standard, you know, you have your bass middle treble just a standard guitar channel and But it also cascades into into a higher gain setting So here's channel two and the cool thing about this channel that I love is that It's so expressive in dynamics where you can literally you can just pick out notes And it's it's musical and it's in it. There's no tin to the sound And once again, I'm plugged straight into the amp that's no pedals that's just straight up and A cool thing also the reverb that's built in check this out So there's a lot of reverb a lot of stuff to work with that's just simple features on the amp that actually work And they actually do something and now what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go through the amp a little bit I'm gonna play one of my original tunes called gone And I'm just gonna show you some of the features going channel by channel getting the most out of each one So here we go. This is channel one. It cleans up very nicely, which you can hear But it still has the flexibility that you can play some lead With the break up and a little reverb to this channel We're gonna channel to which is more of the overdrive channel But I love about this amp those that even though you're on the overdrive channel It's all in your tone in your volume knobs in order to really make it sing Start nice and easy from a whisper to a scream, which is great Hear me kick it in with the simple roll of the volume. It's so touch-responsive with pedals For a 15 watt amp it's pretty cool, but now I really want to move on to The 30 watt which which for me is really the deal-sealer because we just got off tour We were out with Glen Hughes and Doug Aldrich all over Europe, and I was using a 50 watt black star and in some of the clubs You know I was really able to crank that thing up and and you know get the tone But I feel like the 30 is really the ultimate package Because it retains the clarity, but it also you know you can turn that thing up and you can get somewhere So I'm gonna plug into that. Let's do this So we're gonna start Just like we did with the other one we're gonna start with the clean channel and you can hear where we're at See it retains all that quality too that I love which is clean, but it's got a little edge on it and What I want to show you now is the same difference with the punch now this amp. We're running at about we're running at about 12 o'clock all the knobs Everything is just straight center. So, you know, there's no this is just straight in This is nice just for a little color What's cool about this first channel too is that? You're skipping the preamp in in general. You're just going straight to the power tube. So it's 6L6 straight Straight to the sights, which I love which you can just turn up and get that natural tone out of it. So With a vinyl So what we're gonna do now, we're gonna move to channel 2 show you a little bit So it still has all that bluesy flavor that you love, but you can even go into more overdrive Which is which is great One one side note about these amps if anyone's like me and they're always carrying around combos and they're so heavy Right these these weigh in at about They're under 50 pounds for sure. So if you feel this thing, you're like whoa, so it's it's gig ready There's nothing about this that's that's weighing you down in any way So right now what I want to talk about is the effects loop that's built in I've never really used an effects loop in general because I never thought they sounded that good and It's really important when when Lauren told me you got to try the effects loop, you know, it worked. It was amazing and So right now all that I have in the loop is a distortion plus and just a boost in an overdrive But I just want to show you the different tones that you know That the the transparentness of that loop and what you really get so we'll start out here's just channel two straight in And no shortage of tone That I know of so now I'm gonna play a little bit more like guitar stuff like you'd hear at NAM and then And we're just gonna you know show that off a little bit Then we're gonna start up with channel one and we're gonna go through a little bit of reverb to the cry Now we're gonna start. This is just a distortion plus channel one We're gonna move on to channel to get into the overdrive territory. We're gonna cook on that boost one see what that does solo just full on Does anyone have any questions they want to hear something Anyone anyone? Oh, yeah, use a capo. Okay, so the main thing I want to get across about these amps is if you're like me and you're looking for something that's Amazingly old-school, but that's so modern and refreshed that you can just plug in and play That's where this is at. This isn't you know, this isn't really trying to be another amp. This isn't this is its own Own tone that you know, you're not gonna get by just getting any tube amp 6L6 It's a really special design that you know, and I'm proud to be to be showing it off And yeah, that's it. I'll play a few more legs closing legs. How much are they Lauren? They're both under this is is this 11 1099 for the 30 watt and this is 7 799 so they're not gonna break the bank. This is a It's tube tone at a real price for a real musician, you know for someone that actually plays and Yeah, this one. Yep, they both got the game and this one's perfect Like I was saying before for like the smaller clubs and in the studio setting. Let me plug into this I'll show you something cool. You can actually crank it up a little bit. This is halfway up on this amp You know, there's it's not that loud but it has that tone that I always have to crank my other amps up to get That's just straight channel one There's a volume and a tone and really you play with those Any questions, yeah, of course, yeah Mm-hmm. I really do because at the end of the day Yeah, at the end of the day, it's it's not necessarily relying on the equipment But the fact is I plugged in like multiple guitars with this a telly Strat and not not high-end stuff and in the amount of shine it What I love about it is it's transparent in between it like retains a quality of the guitars that you use Whereas a lot of amps you get the same same tone all the time no matter what it is that's that's different with this every every guitar sounds as it should a strat is a strat and You know, I wouldn't say that I'm relying on the amp for that But the fact is you can't be good time and all I'm using is one pickup here. So it's It's yeah, thank the amp is But but I'm a big sucker for the volume knob. So literally getting all the tones that you need straight up


a very good evening aspirants i welcome you all to the hindu daily news analysis brought to you by shankarai's academy today i'm going to cover eight different news articles from the indonesia paper dated 10th of january 2023 and displayed here are the list of news articles that we will be discussing today you can go through it and those who haven't yet subscribed our youtube channel please subscribe and do hit the bell icon button to get regular notifications regarding our current update videos now with this note let's get into first news article discussion now for our first discussion we are going to take this news article it says that a rogue wild elephant was captured in ynard district by the forest and wildlife department the elephant was codenamed as pandalur makna elephant or pm2 as per the article it was captured from the kuppadi forest in the ynard wildlife sanctuary and shifted to muthanga and this is the crux of the news article given here in this context let us understand about ynard wildlife sanctuary from exam perspective first of all know that ynard wildlife sanctuary is made up of two pockets they include muthanga in the south and tolpeti in the north see the muthanga lies adjacent to three protector areas they are firstly bandipur tiger reserve in karnataka secondly mudumalai wildlife sanctuary in tamilnadu and thirdly sultan batheri and kuruchyat ranges within kerala now what about tolpeti tolpeti lies adjacent to nagerhole range of karnataka apart from this know that ynard wildlife sanctuary is part of ilgiri biosphere so this is about the geographical location of ynard wildlife sanctuary now coming to topography and climate undulating hills and thick greenery are characteristics of ynard wildlife sanctuary here undulating means having a continuous smooth rising and falling form that is just like waves on the sea now look at this image this is only undulating hills know that the highest peak in ynard wildlife sanctuary is karotimala which is situated above 3800 feet above mean sea level see the elevated landscape of the wildlife sanctuary ensures a cool climate the temperature will fall up to 13 degrees celsius during winter and rise up to 32 degrees celsius during summer a good rainfall of about 2200 millimeter is experienced by the area and usually heavy rainfalls occur from june to august this is about the topography and climate of the wildlife sanctuary now moving on to see forest types flora and fauna see tropical moist and dry dacides forest types cover most of the area of the sanctuary few patches of semi evergreen forests are also there bamboo groups intervened with moist dacides forest is also another characteristics of the sanctuary also know that one third of the sanctuaries covered by plantations of teak rosewood eucalyptus and silver oak pillu rosewood kaduka velachadachi axelwood and padiri are the dominant tree species know that the sanctuary is home for variety of animals the sanctuary has the presence of big cats like tiger panther etc and langurs bonnet macaques bison monkeys sambar deer malabar beer and even slender lorries can be seen in the area the other fauna of the region include crocodiles a type of gecko called tiramid hill gecko chameleon flying lizard manta lizard skings and flap shell turtles are seen in the wildlife sanctuary know that about 216 species of birds like peacock owl babbler woodpeckers cuckoo and jungle fowl are found in the area note that a rare blue bearded bee eater has also been cited in why not and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about why not wildlife sanctuary then we saw about the geographical location of why not wildlife sanctuary then we saw about topography and climate of the sanctuary and finally we saw about forest types flora and fauna of the wildlife sanctuary see this topic is very important from the prelims perspective you may put a question regarding why not wildlife sanctuary so make note of each and every points that we discussed now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now have a look at this text and context page article it talks about the increasing human animal conflict in the state of carola this article gives multiple examples of recent animal transgressions the district of why not in carola this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context let us learn about human animal conflict then about the causes and impacts of human animal conflict and finally we will see some solutions to solve this problem now before getting into discussion the syllabus relevant to this topic is given here you can go through it now first let's start with the term human animal conflict see human wildlife interaction can be negatively termed as human animal conflict see if the human wildlife interaction results in threatening people's safety and livelihoods then it is termed as human animal conflict here iocn that is international union for conservation of nature adds another dimension to the term human animal conflict see the term human wildlife conflict has traditionally been applied only to the negative interactions between people and wildlife iocn says that the term ignores the conflicts between groups of people themselves about what should be done to resolve the situation so according to iocn human animal conflict also includes the conflicts arising between humans to the question what should be done to solve the negative impacts of human animal interaction for example let's say there is an elephant transgression into human area in a particular village here the local community proposes a particular method to stop the elephants from getting into human settlements which is different to the strategy of wildlife conservation experts so there is a conflict between the two groups of people on how to deal with the elephants so according to iocn this can also be termed as conflicts arising out of human animal interaction and this is all about human animal conflict now let's see the causes of human animal conflict firstly there is a huge incursion by humans into the wildlife habitats which brings the wildlife into direct contact with human settlements so this is the first cause of human animal conflict secondly there is a growth in human population along the peripheries of wildlife centuries and national parks so the growing population near the wildlife habitats has been another cause of human animal conflict and thirdly agricultural fields along the boundaries of proctor areas have brought the wildlife to forage for food in the fields when farmers try to product the fields this results in direct confrontation with the wildlife see these are all some of the causes for human animal conflict now coming to the effects of human animal conflict see human animal conflict affects both the animal and the humans firstly there is a danger to life and livelihoods of people in india every year hundreds of people and animals die due to human animal conflict according to the ministry of environment forest and climate change 125 humans died in conflict with tigers between 2018 to 2020 and 1,503 humans died in the human elephant conflict between 2018 19 and 2021 so the danger to life and livelihoods of people is the first and foremost effect of human animal conflict secondly there is a danger to the life of animal self as normally people will try to escape the situation by harming the animal this is the second reason so the effects of human animal conflict can result in both the wildlife and the humans getting affected now finally let's see some solutions to solve human animal conflict firstly erection of fences along the borders of the proctor areas to stop the wildlife from coming into contact with the human settlement some of the fences used here include beehive fences solar electric fences etc see the erection of fences will help us to avoid human animal conflict secondly conservation measures like destroying invasive species inside the reserves then replenishing water bodies then planting necessary photocop within the forest see these steps are done to provide with the necessary life sustaining elements for the wildlife inside their habitat itself and this reduces the need for wildlife to venture out of their habitats so this will also avoid human animal conflict and thirdly infrastructure development like watch towers then installation of cameras and tracking devices are provided to forest officials to have a continuous check on the movement of wildlife this will also reduces human animal conflict and finally animal corridors should be built and maintained and these pathways place an important role in safe movement of the wildlife thus avoiding man-made disturbances see these are all some of the ways in which human wildlife conflict can be tackled and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about what is mean by human animal conflict then about the causes and effects of human animal conflict and finally we saw some solutions to tackle human wildlife conflict see this topic is very important from the mains perspective because human wildlife conflict is coming in use frequently so UPC may put a mains question regarding causes and effects of human wildlife conflict in a mains question so make note of each and every points that we discussed now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now look at this news article here it talks about the poor state of ravine collection by the municipal corporations in india last year a study titled report on municipal finances was published by the reserve bank of india the study reveals how municipal bodies are increasingly dependent on fund transfers from the state and the center the study also says that the revenue earning capacity of these municipal corporations is limited so in this context we will discuss the content of this article from our exam perspective before that the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here kindly go through it now let's begin by understanding the basics of municipal corporations see in india the municipal corporations are the urban local government that is responsible for the development of any metropolitan city having a population of more than 1 million people we all know that the 74th constitutional amendment act established the urban local governments here you should have an idea on what other bodies come under municipality see the 74th constitutional amendment act provides for three types of municipalities firstly nagar panjait this is for transitional area that is an area which is being transformed from a rural to an urban area then secondly municipal council this is for smaller urban area and finally municipal corporation this is for larger urban area see this news article talks about this particular municipal corporation only know that the three bodies take care of matters studied the 12th schedule of the indian constitution but for this they need funds right however they are lacking it because their source of revenue is limited the taxes earned by municipal corporations in india are grossly inadequate to meet their expenditure needs the author of the article explains this through some graphs now we will see them one by one and we will try to analyze it okay see the own tax revenue of municipal corporations comprises property tax water tax toll tax and other local taxes these taxes formed 31 to 34 percentage of the total revenue in the financial year 18 to financial year 20 period sadly this share is low compared to many other countries and it has also declined over time now look at this graph the share of owned revenue the total revenue of urban local bodies in india has declined here by the term the total revenue i mean all the modes through which they make money including government transfers here if you closely observe you can note that the share of government transfers has increased over the years when you grow up you are supposed to make money for your own nearest right you can't keep depending on your parents for long this is what happening here too see the municipal corporations are becoming increasingly dependent on the government and their source of revenues very limited now if we speak in terms of GDP in 2017 to 18 the revenue receipts of these bodies was estimated to be 0.61 percentage of the GDP and according to budget estimates of 2019 to 20 it increased slightly to 0.72 percentage of the GDP again this is much smaller than brasil's 7 percentage and south africa's 6 percentage now there are statewide variations as well now look at this graph for states like delhi gujarat chandigar the share of municipal corporations revenue as a share of state gdp is more than 1 percentage on the other hand it is 0.1 percentage or less in karnataka goa azam and sikkim and moreover if you see the municipal corporations are highly dependent on the property taxes in 2017 to 18 the property taxes formed over 40 percentage of municipal corporations own tax revenue despite such dominance property tax collection in india is much lower compared to the organization for economic cooperation and development countries due to undervaluation and poor administration if you have been reading the chennai edition of indian newspaper legally you'd have come across a report published on this monday regarding this it highlighted the problems associated with the property tax collection the article said that of the 13.27 lakh assesses in chennai only 6.94 lakh paid the property tax while 6.33 lakh were yet to pay this is because of the shortage of tax collectors there are many modern modes of payment but still more than 55 percentage of the property tax collection is done by tax collectors around 200 wars have over 7000 assesses and just one tax collector now if you see this graph you will be able to observe that most cities have tried to increase their property taxes over the period however the increasing population density and arbitration rate might have played a role in this apart from their force made by the corporation themselves all this shows that the revenue sources of municipal corporations are limited now we will see how the expenditure part turns out to be now look at this graph it shows that the percentage of total expenditure of municipal corporations in 2017 to 18 see over 70 percentage was spent on revenue expenditures such as salaries wages bonus that constitute 25 percentage then operational and maintenance charges that constitute 16.2 percentage then pensions that contributes 7.4 percentage etc now we have less than 30 percentage left out for capital expenditure so the author concludes by saying that the corporations are mostly dependent on fund transfers from the state and the center and their revenue raising potential is very limited apart from this the property taxes are not efficiently collected the author also says that the generator funds are mostly spent on revenue expenditure leaving a much smaller pie for capacity building and that's all regarding this news article in this news article you saw about municipal corporations and the state of revenue of municipal corporations with the help of graphs see this topic is very important from the mains perspective you can use these points while writing your mains answer this will definitely enrich your mains answer now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now look at this news article here this article again is about an evergreen topic in UPSC it is about the tussle between the state government and governor see the trouble began after the Tamil Nadu governor Mr Ravi in his special address to the Tamil Nadu state legislative assembly he skipped a paragraph containing references to regional stalwarts and the term the revedian model of governance and this address was disapproved by the Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin so the governor walked out of the assembly and this created trouble in the state and this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context today we'll see some important articles in Indian constitution related to governor now first of all let's see about article 174 this article is about the sessions of the state legislature its prorogation and dissolution according to the article 174 the governor has the power to summon the state legislative assembly and the state legislative council whenever he thinks fit but the time interval between one session and the other should not be more than six months the governor also has the power to prorog both state legislative assembly and state legislative council and he also has the power to dissolve the state legislative assembly of the state this is about article 174 the next article that we are going to say is article 175 it is about the right of governor to address and send messages to the house or houses according to this article 175 the governor has the right to address the state legislative assembly and state legislative council separately or together and for this governor's address the attendance of the members is required additionally article 175 says that governor has the right to send messages to the houses of state legislature regarding a pending bill in that house and the house should take into consideration the matter mentioned in that message this is about article 175 now finally let's see about article 176 it is about special address by the governor it is said under this article that governor will address the legislative assembly at the commencement of the first session after each general election to the legislative assembly and the commencement of first session of each year if a state contains legislative council then both houses will be assembled together in this special address the governor will inform the causes of summons to the legislature the address of the governor contains a review of the activities and achievements of the particular state government during the previous year then the address also include policies with regard to important internal problems as well as a brief account of the program of government business for the session know that after the governor's address time should be allotted for discussing the matters referred in the address made by the governor and here only problem rose in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly see yesterday in his address the Tamil Nadu government skipped certain paragraphs as it was presented to him by the state government and this address was disapproved by the Tamil Nadu CM while discussing about the address so this is the ongoing tussle between governor and the state government in Tamil Nadu that's all regarding this discussion this discussion we saw about three important articles in the constitution which is related to governor see there is a possibility that we will get questions regarding special address by the governor so make note of each and every points that we discussed now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now have a look at this editorial page article this article talks about corruption now corruption is suddenly news because in last December the supreme court made a judgment in the case of niraj dutta vs government of nct of delhi in this judgment the constitution bench of the supreme court took a harsh stance against corruption among public employees in the nation it even lowered the bar for the amount of evidence needed to convict those accused of corruption even though this is not the first time the supreme court is addressing the issue still the level of corruption in public life has not decreased this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context let us quickly go through what is corruption and some of the reasons for corruptions in public service now before getting into discussion the syllabus relevant to this topic is given here you can go through it first of all what is corruption see the word corrupt is derived from the latin word corruptus meaning to break or destroy according to the world bank the abuse of public power for private benefits is defined as corruption this does not mean that the corruption does not exist within private sector see especially in large private enterprises this phenomenon clearly exists in procurement or even in hiring process now some of the examples of corrupt behavior would include bribery extortion fraud embezzlement nepotism cronyism appropriation of public assets and property for private use and influence peddling this is about corruption now moving on to the causes of corruption see there are numerous reasons for corruption in public services now we will see them one by one now first let's start with the historical reason that is the legal issues see at the time of independence there was widespread poverty and the government's coffers were empty this resulted in consistent low salaries for officials then the pre-liberalization license raj fed by monopolies and restrictive trade practices and this also aided the corruption apart from this the lack of economic freedom then necessities of development overshadowed vigilance procedures that is when developmental needs take priority over vigilance measures then the corruption could occur this is the first reason then the second major reason is political system see use of black money in elections to win at any cost creates the need for recovery of that cost through mall practices here i am not telling that all the money used to fund election is black money since election funding is also not transparent elections are made prone to the usage of black money and fundings based on quid pro q and that is why black money brought in here quid pro q means something for something it describes a situation when two parties engage in emotional agreement to exchange goods or services reciprocally the issue does not stop there they ultimately result in chronic capitalism chronic capitalism is an unholy alliance between politicians and corporates apart from all this criminalization of politics actually lead to corruption just imagine when the rule breakers become rule makers then the casualties the rule of law right this is a second major reason then the third major reason is economic structure see only 10 percentage of the economy is formalized and this encourages the growth of black money then stringent compliance rules for entry and exit for businesses also result in bribery most importantly the unequal distribution of wealth may also lead to corruption have you ever been in a situation where someone else could enjoy privileges while you were bad from them just because they have more money this is what i mean by unequal distribution of wealth this is the third then the fourth major reason for corruption is legal lacunae here lacunae mean an unfilled space or a gap see the indian penal code was drafted by the first law commission which was chaired by thomas babbington mccally it was drafted in 1834 and submitted to the council of governor general of india in the year 1835 such rk class do not capture the complexities of administration and lead to escape of wrongdoers then lacunae and the local act then delays in the appointments of important office both at the center and the state levels then dilution of rt act and political misuse of cbi and other agencies also causes corruption in the country this is the fourth major reason the fifth major reason is administrative lacunae see discretionary powers granted to officials by loopholes make work prone to corruption then lack of resources funding infrastructure and manpower in the vigilance institutions can also cause corruption then lack of incorporation of standard practices by organizations like banks sports organizations so this also result in multi-billion rupee scams you can remember the examples here the recent punjab national bank scam and the commonwealth scam in 2010 commonwealth games see these are all examples of corruption in india then the sixth major reason is judicial delays see lack of production to good samarthians then targeting of upright and non-corrupt officials and rewards to corrupt officials then near non-existent whistleblowers production are also the reasons for corruptions in india then the sixth major problem is social problems see it is the mindset of the citizenry that doesn't look at the problem seriously and even accepts it as a necessary part of the system then increasing consumerism is the new middle class that is ready to bribe to get things done most importantly failure of social morality then education system to inculcate the values are also some of the reasons for corruption in india see these are all the reasons for corruptions in india and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about what is corruption and we also saw about some of the major reasons for corruptions in india now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now let us move on to this news article this article is about the supreme court judgment regarding the upholding of one rank one pension scheme and this is for the armed forces and the supreme court gave time to the government till march 15 to comply with 2022 judgment of supreme court regarding one rank one pension scheme and this is about the news article given here now in this context let us understand about the one rank one pension scheme from plume's perspective see in the year 2015 the one rank one pension scheme was introduced by the central government one rank one pension scheme implies a uniform pension for defense personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service and regardless of their date of retirement now what is the need for this one rank one pension see military personnel across the three services that is air force army and navy fall under two categories the first category is officers and the other category includes other ranks than the officers due to the need of the different forces to maintain physical fitness efficiency and effectiveness military personnel retire at an early age compared to other agencies of the government see a sipo in the army and equivalent rank personnel in navy and air force retire after 17 to 19 years of service and military officers retire before attaining the age of 60 years before the implementation of one rank one pension the calculation of pension was linked to the pay drawn by the personnel in a particular pay scale at the time of his or her retirement we know that pay scales are revised to the higher side generally on the recommendation of pay commissions so the personnel retiring after the revision of the pay scales got more pension than those who had already retired hence the gap remained in the pension of the past and present retirees so to bridge this gap only one rank one pension scheme was introduced retrospectively from July 1st 2014 with 2013 as the base year this is all about one rank one pension scheme now let us see the problem with this see a petition was filed regarding the one rank one pension the petition said that the government had altered the initial definition of one rank one pension the petition said the principle of one rank one pension has been replaced by one rank multiple pensions for the persons with same length of service according to the petitioners this was arbitrary and unconstitutional under article 14 and 21 but the supreme court did not agree with the argument that the government's 2015 policy communication contradicted the original decision to implement one rank one pension and finally the supreme court upheld the one rank one pension scheme and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about one rank one pension scheme then about the need for one rank one pension and finally we saw about the issue which is the one rank one pension now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now have a look at this news article it talks about the supreme court's observation regarding a case relating to uniform civil code the case challenged the validity of a committee formed by Uttarakhand government to look into the implementation of uniform civil code the petitioner argued that the state governments do not have the necessary authority to constitute a committee with respect to implementation of uniform civil code the petitioner also argued that only union government could set up a committee for the implementation of uniform civil code so supreme court in its observation has said that state governments power to constitute a committee to examine the implementation of uniform civil code cannot per se be challenged this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context let us learn about the significance of uniform civil code now before that we will see briefly about what is mean by uniform civil code see uniform civil code is nothing but a code which encompasses a single personal law for all citizens irrespective of religion sex gender and sexual orientation the uniform civil code calls for the formulation of one law for all indians regarding civil cases that is the uniform civil code envisions a single law that is applicable to all religious communities in matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and adoption and note that this uniform civil code comes under article 44 of the indian constitution so what does this article 44 say the article 44 lays down that the state shall endeavor to secure a uniform civil code for the citizens throughout the territory of india here note that article 44 comes under dpsp since uniform civil code comes under dpsp it is not enforceable by court of law but it can be enforceable by procedure established by law it means that anything under part four that is dpsp of the indian constitution can only be enforced by parliament through a particular law this is what given in the article 37 of the indian constitution and this is all about uniform civil code and its implementation here note that the india has uniform criminal law for everyone but there is no uniform civil law now coming to the significance of uniform civil code as you all know india is a secular country without any state religion so to allow various religious communities to have a civil law of their own which is different from the other communities goes against the ideal of secularism so implementation of uniform civil code will make india a truly secular country with uniform civil laws for everyone in the country normally personal laws of religion are discriminatory towards the woman so india by allowing separate civil personal laws to exist allows the operation of discriminatory provisions which are against women so by implementing uniform civil code we can put an end to this discriminatory practices against women see these are all the two main advantages associated with implementation of uniform civil code and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about what is uniform civil code then we saw about the constitutional provisions relating to uniform civil code and finally we saw some significance of uniform civil code in india now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next news article discussion now look at this front page article the news is that yesterday our prime minister inaugurated the 17th pravasi bhate divas convention the 17th pravasi bhate divas convention is being observed from 8th to 10th january 2023 in indoor matya pradesh the theme of the 17th pravasi bhate divas is diaspora reliable partners for india's progress in amritkal and this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context let us learn about pravasi bhate divas then pravasi bhate summon awards and finally we will see some facts about oasis indians now let's start with pravasi bhate we shortly call this as pbd see as a part of pbd convention the pravasi bhate divas are the day for non-resident indians is observed on jan 9th to mark the contribution of oasis indian community towards the development of india note that january 9 was selected as it was the date when mahatma gandhi returned to india from south africa in 1915 see the tradition of celebrating pravasi bhate divas started in 2003 the first pbd convention was organized on 9th january 2003 and since 2015 under a revised format pbd convention has been organized once every two years note that the pravasi bhate divas convention is organized by the ministry of external affairs and the confederation of indian industries it is held in a different city each time with the aim of showcasing the diversity and progress of different regions of india and this year it is happening in indoor now another important aspect of pbd is the pravasi bhate summon awards the pravasi bhate summon awards are a prestigious honor bestowed upon non-resident indians and people of indian origin who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and also have promoted indias interests abroad now the pravasi bhate summon awards are classified into three categories that is pravasi bhate summon, pravasi bhate summon gold and pravasi bhate summon lifetime achievement now first let's take pravasi bhate summon see it is given to nrs and persons of indian origin who have made significant contributions to their respective fields then pravasi bhate summon gold this is given to those who have made exceptional contributions in their respective fields and finally pravasi bhate summon lifetime achievement see this is given to nrs and persons of indian origin who have made outstanding contributions to their respective fields over a long period of time so this is all about pravasi bhate divas and pravasi bhate summon awards now we will understand about oasis indians see oasis indians are those people who have left india and are living in other countries according to the ministry of external affairs the oasis indian is divided into three parts firstly non resident indian see they are the indians who go to other countries for employment or education and later to settle there secondly person of indian origin these include those people who were either born in india or have family ties in india and finally oasis citizen of india see they are the people who are citizens of india on or after 26 january 1950 and who are now settled abroad or put in this oasis citizen of india category now why is this oasis citizens are significant for india see oasis indians have an important role in benefiting the country these indians who have settled abroad not only bring laurels to the country but also they never hold back from helping the country we all know that the migrants are also the biggest source of foreign exchange in india indians are the top in terms of sending foreign exchange to the country followed by mexico and then the people of china last year indian expatriates sent hundred billion u.s dollars to the country then some people have become the ceo of big companies and even some occupy big positions in other countries we may take google ceo sundar pichai then adobe ceo shantanu narayan then microsoft's satya nadella then ibm sarvind krishna and master cut ceo ajay pal singh they are all persons of indian origin then we can also take example of kamala harris who is the vice president of america and rishi sunak who recently become the p.m of britain see they are also persons of indian origin therefore the oasis indians play an important role in deciding their economic and political status abroad see you can use these points in your main censor writing so kindly add these points to your notes and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about pravasi bharti divas then pravasi bharti summon awards and finally we saw about oasis citizens of india now with these key points in mind let's move on to the next part of the news article discussion that is to discuss preliminary practice questions now look at this first question this question is regarding nilgiri biosperoso here four options are given we have to find which of the following protector areas are falling under nilgiri biosperoso know that nilgiri biosperoso was the first biosperoso in india established in the year 1986 it is located in the western and it's spread across three states that is Tamil Nadu kerala and karnataka and the protector areas within the nilgiri biosperoso include mudumalli wildlife sanctuary vayanada wildlife sanctuary bandipur national park naharol national park mukkuduti national park and silent valley national park now look at these four options here option a is the correct answer as we saw these product areas falls under nilgiri biosperoso so the correct answer is option a moving on let's take up the second question this question is the previous question which was asked in 2018 problems the question is regarding governor now look at this first statement no criminal proceedings shall be instituted against the governor of a state in any court during his term of office actually this statement is correct like the president of india the governor of the state is also entitled to a number of privileges and immunities so during his term of office governor is immune from any criminal proceedings even in respect of his personal acts so statement one is correct now coming to the second statement the emoluments and allowances of the governor of a state shall not be diminished during his term of office this statement is also correct yes the governor is entitled to such emoluments allowances and privileges as may be determined by the parliament and his emoluments and allowances cannot be diminished during his term of office so statement two is correct here the question is asking for correct statement so the correct answer of the question is option c both one and two moving on let's take up the third question i will read out the question the vajra scheme is related to which of the following here four options are given we have to find vajra scheme is related to which of these four statements know that the vajra that is visiting advanced joint research scheme is a dedicated program for foreign scientists and academicians it gives emphasis on non-resident indians then persons of indian origin and overseas citizens of india to work as adjunct faculty in the government funded academic and research institutions in india so the correct answer for the question is option c that is program for overseas indian faculties to teach in indian institutions and this is the quiz question for you today i will pose this quiz question in your community section try to answer it and displayed here are the main questions for your practice go through the questions write your answers and post it in the comment section with this we 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In this video I will mention 30 video ideas super fast. 1. Answer gaming questions like what I do with my channel. Type your topic in youtube search and you should have thousands of ideas. I also use TubeBuddy to rank in search. 2. Do a trolling video. These videos tend to get a lot of watch time because they're so entertaining, especially if you're trolling a popular streamer. 3. Post a montage of clips on some gameplay. Make it fast and add something to it like memes or sound effects. 4. Do a tutorial on whatever game you play. Anything from beginners guide to an intermediate guide could drive a lot of views. 5. Do a less played series. This can make you not have to come up with a video idea for a long time. 6. Post updates or news on your favorite game. You have to get the timing right and that's how you can go viral. 7. Make a streamer compilation of funny moments or clips. 8. Do a guide on bugs and how to fix them. 9. Do a tips and tricks video showing how to get better at a game. 10. Make a reaction video. For example, of a new battle pass or a new skin. 11. Do a live stream for a big update or event in a game. 12. Share the leaks of a new update coming up. But don't click bait because people will eventually know and won't click. You also have to get the timing down for this. 13. Do a list of your favorite games this year. Of all time, best game in a specific genre, etc. 14. Do a rant on a game you love or hate. Explain to the viewers why it's so good or so bad. You will get a lot of feedback in the comment section which is always a good thing. 15. Make a video on your settings and what the best settings are. For example, why do you use that specific sensitivity? Or what's the best sensitivity for that game? 16. Make a challenge video. For example, using one weapon only or switching from keyboard and mouse to a controller. 17. Make a video on a youtuber you love or hate. 18. Make a gaming channel trailer. Gaming is such a big portion of youtube with a lot of different categories. And you want to let your viewers know more about your channel. 19. Compare two games to see which one is better. Some people are deciding on which game to buy or play and this could be useful. Make a review on a really hyped game. Timing is big on this one. 20. Make a video on how to get more FPS in a game or how to fix crashes. 21. Make a mythbuster video, confirming if things are true or not in a game.  22. Just do a generic gameplay video if you truly ran out of ideas. Add some new editing techniques to make it stand out. 23. Make a long in-depth video on a game. Kind of like a whole review that you cover almost everything in. 24. Make a setup tour of your PC or console. Even something as simple as showing your game library and explaining why you bought those games. It's a fun idea. 25. Make a review on a new DLC or battle pass. 26. If you're really good at the game, show some gameplay and make a video on what you did to improve. 27. Make a tutors on which games you like or rank the skins in the game. 28. Make an updated video on a game's current state. For example, what's the meta like? What's the community like? 29. This is the best game deals right now or the best bundle games. 30. Use a voice changer and get people's reaction in game.


Summer is in full swing and so is Yacowska's MWR summer concert series as Navy Entertainment presents the rock band Taking Back Sunday. The band rocked Yacowska with hits and crowd favorites from a music career that spans more than a decade but the music wasn't the only thing the band wanted to bring. For us one of the things we hope that we could bring the sailors is is just a little taste to taste at home you know with us you know we we travel and we and we go on tour but it's nothing compared to what they do and what they sacrifice. This free concert drew a crowd filled with music lovers as well as die-hard fans. This is Taking Back Sunday's third tour with Navy Entertainment and they say they are always happy to get the chance to perform for the men and women of the armed forces. Petty Officer Brian M. Brooks, Yacowska Naval Base, Japan.


We will dive into 3D printing in relation to the arts soon, but I would like to start out at a higher level. I'll address this question to Adam. Adam, how would you say the arts community adjusted to the digital age as opposed to, in comparison to some other industries? Yeah, well, you know, first it's difficult to generalize. But, I'll generalize, you know, so I think you have to make a distinction right between sort of individual independent artists and arts institutions. And arts institutions and also sort of corporate media, really, because you might want to put that into the same umbrella, sort of big bureaucratic entities that are in the arts and media world versus independent actors. And I think we've seen a real separation there, actually, and part of it has to do with technology.  And there's a million examples like that. People are financing their work on Kickstarter and, you know, they're getting rid of the intermediaries of the gatekeepers of the 20th century, which is really allowing, you know, millions of independent voices to have a platform that wouldn't have been possible without all this tech. At the same time, you know, I think the sort of big arts, right? So symphony orchestras and ballet companies and museums to some extent, you know, you might also put, you know, Hollywood and the music industry under this umbrella. I think they had a really hard time with it.  You've got people, you know, kicking people out of theaters because they're tweeting about the show, even if they're saying positive things. They're going to sell more tickets. So there's been a really, there have been a lot of challenges kind of wrapping their mind around the fact that technology is, whether you like it or not, changing the way that art is made, the way it's distributed, the way it's financed, the way it's consumed. And you can either work with it or you can get left behind. Unfortunately, I think we're starting to turn the corner on that. In general, those folks, as opposed to the independent artists, have not done a great job of giving up. We heard in the most recent panel that there is a workforce skills gap that is plaguing thousands of workers in the nation and really affecting the manufacturing industry. So off of that question that I just asked Adam, any of you can feel free to answer this. You know, is there a skills gap when it comes to technology among artists in the arts community, specific to 3D printing or not? Well, as we know, there's a wealth of information on the internet. You can how to anything. But in these applications, we're finding artists come to maker spaces so that they can pull for the knowledge as they need it. If you have a project in mind or if you want to explore a medium, artists are coming to maker spaces where they can have access to technology. It's not just about the machine, of course. It all starts with design, learning design programming. I mean, start with a sketch and then you have to translate it. And so this idea of having access to testing out your ideas, it may not be the final, but the active experimentation is highly valuable. I would say though there is a gap for, I mean, for a studio like ours where when we're trying to hire people, there's a lot of people who might be willing to sketch an idea and then go through all the engineering work or contract engineers to execute something. What we don't find is people who think through the technology in a creative way. I don't see people or as many as I would like that embrace it as a medium. They're discriminating directly in that medium. There's been more and more of that recently, but it's still not, it's not something you're tripping over. Finding people like that are still very, very hard to find. So what would you say separates the people who are like that from those who are not, from artists who are not embracing that technology? Is it a generational difference or is it an issue of perception within the community? I don't know what it is exactly. I find the people that end up fitting that profile have very diverse backgrounds. They're people that maybe just love too many things in their life and they have this really amazing skill set, which is probably what an artist should be anyway. But I find there's a lot on that you get siloed into these very specific disciplines like I'm going to be a painter or I'm going to be this or even architects and designers, we find that there are certain schools or certain institutions that resist technology more than others. And it comes from what I've seen in the academic world and the arts and the design. It comes from the philosophical, philosophically rooted methodology that they teach. Rather than necessarily looking all the time at what's happening in the market and what people are needing. And I'm not saying that art has to do this, but I think design does. And that would be my final point of understanding the skills in hiring. Thank you. Kate, I think you had thoughts on this. Yeah, a couple of things. I think as a studio artist, what the skills gap for me, which there is, has allowed for collaboration with 3D modelers and trying to get my ideas which in itself has been really exciting as an artist as it brings two people into thinking about and solving problems in a way. I think in my own case, it's generational. But with my students at RISD, they come with the knowledge of how to use 3D modeling software. They might not know the material that we're working with, but then again, it's also a collaboration because they're very comfortable designing things, but they need to know a little bit about what the material is. What we don't know, and I guess this is a bigger issue, is most artists, or even is the programming. There's only certain things that you can do with the modeling software, but I guess eventually if artists were more involved with actually programming, that would help. If, and I'll address this to the group as well, if you had to name one obstacle that artists face in incorporating technology like 3D printing into their work, whether that's an internal or external obstacle, what do we think that is? I think it's an internal obstacle, and I think it's one that not everyone faces, but a lot of artists I think still have this sort of mentality that is often instilled in an educational context where there's this belief that, okay, there's sort of artists as romantic other, and all I have to do is be in my studio and do my art, and if I think about commerce or technology or anything other than the craft and the aesthetics, that that's somehow un-pure. And I think that's just a poisonous, terrible way to approach your work. Certainly the people who we see succeed are the ones who don't have that kind of mentality who are looking at their work holistically in a social and an economic context, and a big part of that is technology. So they're willing to get their hands dirty. They don't see it as somehow beneath them or something that their agent should do for them or whatever, right? It's part of the work. Anyone else want to pull something up? I feel like Phyllis does. I can sense it. Well, we exist outside the realm. I mean, there's a lot of fab labs in community colleges and universities, but for the most part, it's not part of a traditional structure. It's a place of invention. So you come. It's individual-driven. And so I shudder to try to generalize about artists. I just think that having this as an external condition, it's about having access. And if you provide, whether it be a hobbyist, a technologist, a musician, a fine artist, just having access to experiment with it, the current limitations are that at the consumer level, 3D printing is limited in size, although it's been hacked by jurists with Ultimaker, where he's created rails and turned it upside down and flipped ahead and he creates huge things. He is the ultimate artist hacker who is defying the limitations as we know it. He's one example. But I think that, you know, right now 3D printing is limited in size, it's limited in materials, but there's many people working to get around that. We have some people in the audience who have created new 3D printers that people can build in a day. There's people working on alternate materials.  If you get to work in ceramic or glass, as they do at MIT, you know, you can think bigger about it. So part of it's the limitation of what's available, and then part of it's up to the artists if they have the resources or the community to start to adapt the machines and the technology for what they want to do. And so if you think of it self-driven, if you've conceived of something and you want to test it out, you're going to learn whatever you need to learn in order to make it happen and maker spaces enable that. I wonder if any one of my panelists can give an example of a work or some sort of creative process that an artist was empowered by 3D printing to something that could not have existed without 3D printing, perhaps to my mind. If that came, maybe you might have some examples with your students. Well, again, it's... we're working within this ceramic design and there are certain things that can be printed that can't be made in another way. I think one of the issues as far as accessibility to artists is still an external thing. It's still a pretty expensive process. It's not that available, but that's all going to change and I think more people will have access to it. But I think that comes to the point of approaching it for the things that it can do and somebody said this in a panel before. It's a tool in the toolbox and right now there's a novelty to it and people want to do it and use it for everything. But I think where it's going to really move forward, people will see what it can do specifically and uniquely that's going to move it forward. So is there a perception within the arts community that an artist who incorporates 3D printing is what, XYZ? Does that gain more respect or is it perceived as a bit of a cop-out because it's not that traditional art form? I think that depends again on the person you're talking to. Some people feel that absolutely. You come from a tradition where you have to make everything by hand and you have to be sort of a romantic notion because even artists that are painters could have 15 people working for them and painting for them. I think that's the difference if they have to award people to work for them or a printer. But this was, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, that notion of the artist working for them in the studio wasn't even, it wasn't even true in the Renaissance, right? I mean, they've had these sort of studio models for people in the Renaissance. It worked forever. I mean, we do sell some artworks. It's about 20% of our revenue. I gotta be honest with you, we look at it as a product, right? If it's helping us make it better, if it's helping us make things that are novel and have been done before, it helps to open up new ideas. I don't really necessarily see problems with it. I mean, the people who sell our work and provide them with the same, and I find often that the fact that it's some sort of newer novel technology usually helps provide cultural significance in context for those pieces. Because, you know, we're experimenting with new techniques in a lot of these cases, and the value for the object. So yeah, it's not, I haven't seen it to be hundreds at all. You know, we have a fab lab now at Haystack, which is the mountain school of craft, which has traditionally been things crafted by hand. It's difficult to get the internet up there unless you drive to the town library. And when the group there first heard that about the possibility of having a fab lab, it was met with a lot of resistance.  I happened to go up and work in the lab with traditional artists when it was in its second year. And it was amazing the way it was embraced and the degree of experimentation in the way that they were very seamlessly and avidly incorporating it, even if it was just a prototype in an experiment. So I think anything that if you look at it in that context at one point the anvil was new technology, you know. So I think that it's wonderful that it's an option and artists are in the business of defining expectations. Why do we care if somebody thinks XYZ of it, unless you're in business and you're producing a product and you have a market, but I think I know, but what I'm saying is in the process of exploring ideas it's you know, I think it's a wonderful avenue and I think a lot of artists are curious in embracing it. Do you want to respond? No, I was just funny, I mean I think it's always kind of a sort of subject, the idea that artists don't have a market or don't have to respond to those things and I find that's actually if we do run into any problem with using technologies or using the subject of ubiquity is a problem. We're dealing with digital files, we're dealing with things that are potentially infinitely reputable at a low cost and at some point maybe even more so than they are right now and honestly looking at it objectively I feel very often when we produce those kinds of pieces we're making a commodity in many ways. So the idea of that commodity being digital is a bit of a question and it always has been for me. And we do work a lot with luxury brands and we've done things where we would have stuff generate in themselves once on the website and go away forever and make sure certain parameters never exist again in a kind of effort to produce exclusivity or scarcity. Because I think that's a factor that we really can't ignore when we're talking about it. I mean people have bought photographic prints without owning the negative as fine art for a long time. That's very established conventions around that kind of thing and usually it's a limited edition so it's not just it's not going to the shelves at Target or Bed Bath & Beyond they're going to be 15 of them made. One of the interesting things that and I don't know a ton about this but that I have been watching a little bit is obviously 3D printing raises all sorts of intellectual property challenges and questions and issues that we're going to have to resolve but there are companies for example that are using there's a company I know based in New York and I'm liking their name but they're using the blockchain which is the sort of underlying technology under Bitcoin to essentially track the ownership of a digital work and you can sell it and it can't be duplicated beyond what's been authorized by the original owner. So there are ways of solving those problems and people are doing some interesting stuff in that front. Now we have many members of the 3D printing community in this audience so I'm really interested to learn your thoughts on what the 3D printing community ought to do to remain relevant and to become more relevant to artists in the arts community. Anyone? I stomp that. Keep making more tools. I think earlier we were talking about cost and accessibility of 3D printing. I think one of the biggest things that have changed my practice the first print that we ever made was it was a $30,000 print. If I go back now and I try to recreate that same piece we would get all the machines we needed to do that for that price and all the material and I would have had a whole flat lab for that thing. I think what we are able to do now and the diversity of tools that we have in the studio now and even though we don't use all of those as final production pieces and we still might send pieces out, it's enabled the level of experimentation that we couldn't have before because a lot of these machines especially the ones that are more open and actually the desktop machines in particular they become like R&D platforms for us or like development kits so we can try out things without really risking very much and if something works then we can go to someone and say hey we tried this on this machine it's not that much different can we do it here so it's really pushed innovation for us a lot so for us the more open or even if you want to produce a machine that is a completely closed ecosystem I have a version of that that's like a development platform it's like having a software environment that's safe that you can develop applications in because ultimately I mean it's designers and people like us they're going to be finding applications for these tools and we need a way that's you know you might have done a really good market research and figure it out exactly like what the automotive industry needs in a printer but like what if we're working on a project that really isn't in the market yet but it is a long-term desire that comes there's things that people are going to come up against that are in the industry that you can't anticipate and I think having development platforms would really help secure a strong future for 3D printing I mean technologies like 3D printing they're already developing at a kind of Moore's law style accelerating written terms so there's exponential growth that's happening in terms of price and performance and all the rest it's going to take care of itself honestly I mean artists are resourceful so again they're generalized artists tend to be resourceful they don't have a lot of money so they tend to be cost sensitive so great I mean as the price naturally falls and is falling already pretty quickly as we start being able to work with more in different kinds of materials there's going to be a real flourishing of creativity I'm confident and I would think Phyllis having makerspaces available to artists is a real key we're actually trying to develop a fellowship program where we can invite creatives visual artists people from really musicians playwrights poets to invite them to come and be able to really spend an adequate amount of time for them to develop studio practice in the lab potentially produce a body of work be able to show it we have an awesome loft space for exhibitions and if they so choose if they're interested in collaborating with the group of fellows if they want to share with the community there's the opportunity to do that and so providing a collaborative experience and also access to the machines not just as sort of a drive by but really more like studio practice is what we're trying to launch so we're talking with some local artists now and if anybody in this room is interested feel free to be in touch well when I first found this company in Boston I approached them about sponsoring an exhibition where they would do all the printing for the six different artists that were coming together so it was a perfect collaboration they were a little hesitant at first in working with artists but I think through the process they got very excited about what was being printed on their machines that they didn't even have the sense could be done and that's also driven them to try to work on different software to improve the machines to do more of the things we were trying to do so I'd say getting working having the people making the machines working with closely with artists and designers is one way to move things forward I'd like to open things up to the audience for questions Lauren Hi Lauren with that shapeway vegetation I have a question for you guys that reflects on the IP issue that was raised briefly before but the reason that materials and developments in 3D printing industrial 3D printing specifically are not moving at a pace that we like is largely because of patents and exclusivity around technology and we're going to see an acceleration because those patents are expiring and I know that patents and copyright and trademark are all very different things and you have friends in the room or in the building that can go very deep but I suppose my question is really around digging deeper into that question of copyright and artistic individuality and the allure of an individual piece I'm one of the oldest digital natives I think I got an email account when I was 12 years old that kind of thing so to me it doesn't seem that strange to be able to share a file and you mentioned photography being a fine art practice where you can sell limited editions but they had to fight for that photographers in the early 20th century had to fight for that legitimacy in the fine art world and make it a real thing by making that falsely making that exclusivity and now that that's no longer really possible what do we do? what do we do? my argument though is like is it really not possible? because I'm assuming you're alluding that what if someone scans the sculpture or like we saw a computer reproduce Rembrandt I mean this assumes that there is some sort of tool to enable someone to replicate that infinitely and I think I was talking about this a lot just because you might have a scan of something that's injection molded that doesn't mean it's going to be a good 3D printed part or have the same qualities or anything like that but a future wherein we have a lot of 3D printed content then yes because then we're going to have valuable data that can be replicated in that way so there was a case that came up in the lab recently where some people came in and printed a 3D scan of Nefertiti's bus I think the one in the loop and the print is I did it it was I'm not bragging it was really really good it was like .06 layer height but I was thinking like where did this scan come from and who owns the scan because somebody owns the statue I successfully sold it to a different museum to prove that it could be done what I found when I was reading was this really good ALI paper written for librarians that talked about separability to where if you can distinguish copyright or intellectual property if you can sever the artistic value of something away from its functional value but then also on top of that the ownership of the digital file is different than the ownership of the actual object the owner of the statue can claim ownership of the statue but couldn't claim ownership of the actual scan of the digital file this largely depends on what the value is I mean if it's a trademark or something like if it's the image of the thing like Mickey Mouse that's something else but people have been selling successfully selling counterfeit art for hundreds of years this is not new or digital technology even right so I guess I tend to be pretty blase about this actually if you look at the early days of file sharing and music if you set up if you are convinced that your customers are stealing things from you and you set up an antagonistic relationship and you sue them and all this kind of stuff like that doesn't work you're gonna lose but what we saw was that if you make it relatively easy and a fair price to buy the content that you want people will pay for it most people are honest most people are not trying to scan you they just don't like being treated like criminals when people are not so I think there are sort of behavioral economic answers to a lot of the stuff if you're getting knocked off like that I long for the day that I walk down Canal Street and see a knockoff handbag because that means there's a desire for this thing it's just a reminder that people buying those knockoff bags are not the people buying that other piece so it's a different kind of customer and I think if anything it's an indicator of success that the PD scan was to return to the country of origin a copy of the object not to steal the object for personal purposes so the artist that's the reason why they sent me did that they also lied that they stole the lead in the file they didn't create it themselves that's another issue but their issue was to decolonize and the busk itself might actually be fake so but an old thing so their idea was to decolonize and decolonize something that had been taken from the country of origin okay, thanks for clarifying that Bernard, let's go to you right here so I just want to go back to the education component one of the things I've been kind of really special about is with a craft you have an objective if you get to be objective and your steps take the objective and then with making you actually have a goal you have to reach and the way you reach that goal can be any number of ways and so how do you measure success in terms of getting to an objective with a craft versus with making because a lot of times I'm hearing with these 3D printers the reason why there's a 3D printer called a WASP that can actually print with ceramic it can actually make that will be kind of deterred because there's no way to measure success there's no technique that can be measured there's no process no, I don't think that's true at all we've done some ceramic printing and I would think there, I mean you still have to set up your settings you have the program printer in a lot of cases a lot of things we do we don't even make software to do what we're trying to do or I think there's very if you want to achieve any effects that are going to be desirable I find it is very much a craft this is what Kate does right? let's hear it from Kate well I do think that the material that some understanding what the inherent qualities and the material are important but again with my RISD students and this with the project I worked in it's a ceramic production class they're learning all aspects of the material but I did this 3D printing project with them at the very beginning before they really knew about the material but they do have to design things and there's always a back and forth when you don't know the material and don't understand what it does so I think again with everything you do need some knowledge of what the material is that you're working with but and then again for it to be successful is use it, use the tool it's you know just like you'd use the wheel you can make things pottery and the wheel to make a certain type of thing if you want symmetry so that's you go to that tool or slip casting or but the 3D printing can do things you can't do any other way but you still have to know that it's going to be subject to 2013 and it's been a you know wall thicknesses have to be a certain thing in it and there's material properties that are different than plastic that are different than metal just to follow up on that I guess I'm curious to hear from you and Phyllis and Francis and obviously you do Adam if you have any other side to this whether 3D processes are fundamentally changing the artistic process I don't mean by just adding new materials and new tools or even new ways of doing things but I'm kind of thinking you know analogous to the way the internet has really transformed communication and arguably you know the way young artists in particular contemporary artists music artists think about approaching their craft and their work before reproduction the only way you could make money as a musician or a performer was live then you had albums and all of that it's almost as though we've come full circle because independent artists especially are giving away their music for free and making their audience and again I don't really just want to limit it to the economic but to the real artistic process and then you'll change there it's a loaded question for me it's the only process I've ever known so I don't know if I can say there's a changer or not just always worked that way I was an art major originally in college I was terrible I can't draw, I can't really I can't sculpt but I could code so that was just the way I kind of found I could best express myself but so I don't know I'm sure they probably have more to say coming from a traditional studio background Yes I would say yes I think it's expanding our visual language there are things that you see that that you wouldn't have seen 10 years ago that are being made so that in that way it is it's expanding the way that we actually create it's a new way it's when you're working with a computer as opposed to when you're working by hand I don't I try not to say which one is better I just think that we're seeing different things and that's because of the process let's go back I want to go back to a topic that we touched on earlier about the artist's relationship to technology and I would kind of disagree with what seemed to be the characterization of artists not really embracing the technology so much themselves I think artists have throughout all of history whether that's metal casting or early access to video cameras video art was the whole thing and there were early involvements in those things I feel like there was sort of a law maybe in the 80s and 90s and in the early 2000s where there wasn't as much direct involvement and I think that in some ways artists sort of ceded innovation to technologists in some ways and they weren't really intimately connected and I think that does relate a lot to the academy at that point but I think that there's been a huge catch up lately I can at least say for the institution where I am and there's been a major capital investment in getting this technology at the hands of these students and they you put those tools in their hands and they take it very quickly and very eagerly to me where I see that we don't have the same level of capital investment is more on the market side there isn't that every other sector there's massive investment in technology if anybody is new with innovative technology there's just money funneled into that like here like in the arts there's money funneled into painting over like painting and painting it's like in the order of painting the whole money so I guess from somebody who's involved in funding with arts and somebody who is like making a practice in sort of hybrid space and again I think our institutions are really embracing this hybridity as well I'd just like to hear you guys thoughts on how we can make our culture more sort of receptive and supportive so artists can have this meaningful role in developing these technologies I'd like to hear people's thoughts on how what we can do culturally and maybe politically or economically to keep artists engaged in the development of these technologies how can we provide that support artists find a way and when that's part of the adventure of it I mean not all artists think alike there are artists I know who can visualize in their head 3D and turn it and then just build it in an analog studio and it's amazing my process is different I have to fumble and stumble with the physical stuff it feels just right these processes I don't think it depends on what your process is clearly if you look at Jonathan Moynihan's work he's working with digital modeling and one could consider that the definition of art is making real an idea a perception or a feeling whether the medium be music or something physical art design and so these processes if you can't turn it in your head and make it you can now learn modeling and do that on the screen that doesn't always translate to how it comes out on a 3D printer but you're getting closer to taking an experience and materializing it anybody who's worked with 3D printing knows that it's not yet the Star Trek Replicator the machines have challenges the software has challenges it's not direct and perfect but it's fun to play with at least from my perspective and I like to see how artists are taking it further and further their own use and exploration I think to your point Ryan Micah is an outstanding example of making these resources available I think more and more schools whether they be this is part of the realm that we work in whether they be public schools independent schools, community college and university with the efforts of the administration efforts with organizations like Fractured Atlas with all that our policy makers are doing it's the thing now everybody wants to figure out how to get this in people's hands and see what they'll do with it in the name of innovation I think from the education perspective the worst thing about what my education was when you're an artist or you take that as your course of study you don't really get a lot of exposure to the sciences you don't get a lot of exposure to the materials that are chemicals you're working with you don't really get the same depth of information that an engineering student might get just like they don't get the same depth of humanity and education that an artist might get I've always found it very problematic the way we break people down into these categories because then when you grow up in life and then they might end up as a kind of ours or something and then they think well I don't have to be good at this I don't have to know that, I don't have to know business I don't have to because I'm an artist and I don't be good at other things or I'm an understanding of appreciation of other things We'll do one final question right here Yeah just kind of continuing on this topic of connecting artists to technologists particularly within a school and university context there's an organization that some of you who are interested in this topic of that intersection might be interested in it's got a terrible name it's called the Alliance for Arts Universities or A2RU but the whole focus of it is really about kind of communicating at the dean level at these different universities around the country to sort of encourage more collaboration and integration between different departments at the university with the arts at the center of that and so I'm not exactly sure kind of like what I only limited familiarity with the organization I don't know what the opportunities are to plug in but it's for people who are interested in this space it's one to be aware of Well certainly this is a topic that we could talk about for hours however we only have this room reserved for a number of minutes so we're going to have to wrap it up but I'd like to thank my panelists today very much if you will indulge me it's really important that we show our gratitude to our sponsors the congressional maker caucus and the rest of it


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I'm sorry that I can't be with you in person today, however I wanted to record a message of support and thanks to all of you for contributing to this important programme. Improving the emotional and mental health of children and young people is a key priority for the Welsh Government. We recognise that this may bring more serious mental ill health in later life and that addressing problems early can have a positive effect on the social and educational attainment of the young person. I'm aware that the focus of action under Together for Children and Young People is on those areas highlighted as priorities by stakeholders at last year's conference. I'm particularly grateful to both the expert reference group chaired by Professor Dame Sue Bailey and the children and young people themselves who have provided input to this work with such enthusiasm. I met Myer Elliot last year to discuss young people's mental health issues and I'm pleased to see that she is due to speak later this morning. I know that the making sensible as well as the children's commissioners Beth Nessar report are ensuring that we put children and young people's needs at the heart of this work. Whilst finally is not always the answer to the problems facing our public services, the additional recurring £7.65 million into CAMHS announced last year will go a long way to support delivery. The Together for Children and Young People programme has made significant progress in the last year including undertaking a baseline variations audit that gives a detailed picture of services across Wales and of areas for improvement, commissioned specialist training on risk assessment and it's published a needs assessment and finally is developed a framework for improvement for specialist CAMHS by setting up clear care pathways. Waiting lists while still too long have stabilised and in most areas are now reducing. The additional investment has allowed new community teams to be developed to assess children and young people with ADHD and autism, more staff for local health mental support services and psychological therapies, early intervention in psychosis posts, crisis posts by support from Ministry departments and outreach teams and a strengthening of the North and South Wales forensic advice teams. That's 128 new posts in total. The additional £1.5 million invested in perinatal mental health services will help mothers with mental health problems and assure secure attachment for their babies and crucially better outcomes for children and families. I know you'll agree there's still a lot more to be achieved. We need to ask us what else we can do with the NHS, local authorities and our other partners to deliver because there must be collaboration between agencies across education, services, health and the third sector which should be engaged wherever possible. So in March we had an additional £375,000 to support early intervention and we anticipate third sector partners may well be the providers. Early intervention at the right level is important for those young people who may need to access adult services and the transitions must be well managed. As the Making Sense report suggests helping children and their families to become more resilient is the way forward. However, when specialist chem self is required, it must be accessed in a timely manner to respond to individual need and ensure delivery by a multi professional and highly competent workforce. I really do believe that the additional funding and the together for children and young people work streams will help to address the majority of the concerns. But I've no doubt the Cams in Wales will look very different in the future. So I encourage all of you professionals stakeholders and individuals here today to continue to offer advice and contribute to this important work. I really do appreciate both your support and the time you've invested to make this service a better one in the future. Wish you every success for today and the months and years ahead.