Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Youtube daily report Dec 28 2016

<"she always went above and

beyond to help those in need"

NEW AT 6 --- A GRANDMOTHER

DIES IN AN EARLY MORNING HOUSE

FIRE IN ENSLEY.

GOOD EVENING, I'M JIM

DUNAWAY...

IT HAPPENED IN THE 500 BLOCK

OF AVENUE G.

FERNANDEZ IS LIVE IN THE

NEWSROOM - MATT, YOU SPOKE TO

THE VICTIM'S FAMILY ABOUT

THIS THEIR LOSS?

I DID I SPOKE TO HER SISTER,

AND THE FAMILY SAYS THAT 72

YEAR OLD BERTHA FILES BANKS

WILL BE GREATLY MISSED.

<FIRE INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT

THE 72 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER

WAS IN THE HOME THIS MORNING

AND WAS UNABLE TO GET OUT IN

TIME..FAMILY MEMBERS SAY THAT

BERTHA FILES BANKS

GRANDCHILDREN TRIED HELPING

HER GET OUT. FILES BANKS WAS

FROM PRATT CITY.

THERESA FILES/SISTER

"she means the world my sister

is great, very sweet lady, she

tried to help everyone she

could for anyone."

FILES BANKS WAS A MEMBER OF

THE PEACE MISSIONARY BAPTIST

CHURCH...

ERIC HALL/FAMILY MEMBER

"she went beyond to help those

in need there were times were

she would cook and feed the

neighbors come out and sit on

porch and offer words of

advice and words of

encourgement."

FIRE INVESTIGATORS SAY THE

FIRE STARTED IN THE REAR OF

HOME...THE FIRE HAS BEEN RULED

AS ACCIDENTAL, AND POSSIBLY

MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A

SPACE HEATER.

HER CHURCH IS ACCEPTING

DONATIONS TO HELP WITH FUNERAL

ARRANGMENTS AND HER FAMILY.

THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS STILL

UNDER INVESTIGATION...FOR MORE

INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN

HELP THE FAMILY YOU CAN LOG ON

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El mejor amigo de la yegua más pequeña de El Salvador es un gigante de cuatro patas - Duration: 2:27.

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Pirates were not welcome in Marigot - Saint Martin / Sint Maarten - Duration: 5:45.

We are in Marigot

We have a beautiful view from here

And we still have to go up there

And so it is, from here up is where the French defended this fort

A new day in Saint Martin, today we are leaving for Marigot

Marigot is written but pronounced here: Marigo

Let's meet the fort there

Fort Louis is one of the main attractions of Saint Martin on the French side

Is accessed by Marigot on foot or by vehicle until you reach the parking lot

From where you continue along the stairs

Is a beautiful place with magnificent views and your visit is totally free

Well, we're in Marigot we will get to know the Fort Louis

It is a fort that was built in the eighteenth century

To counter possible attacks by the British and the Buccaneers

Marigot belongs to the French side and comes to be the capital of Saint Martin

We have a beautiful view from here.

Here the car is left and now it is necessary to do some exercises because you have to go up the stairs

We are half way

Mirko weighs

We still have to go up there

here we go

and here we go, in full rise, with Mirko

In 1765 the knight Descoudrelles,

Organized the defense of the small town of Marigot

mediante la instalación de tres baterías de artillería en tres lugares clave.

Una batería de cañones en el acantilado de la punta Bluff,

Another in Morne Rond and the third in Morne de Marigot.

En 1789, fue bajo el liderazgo del caballero de Durat,

Governor of St. Martin and St. Bartholomew, Fort Louis was built.

The building was established to defend the warehouses of the port of Marigot,

Where they stored the products harvested by the locals (coffee, salt, rum, cane sugar).

In 1993, the restoration was carried out thanks to a local association

In close cooperation with the adapted military service units (AMS) of Guadeloupe.

And so it is, from here up is where the French defended this fort

And all Marigot of the attacks of the British Pirates

If you see down here in the bay is where the guns are pointing

From there comes a storm, so we're going to have to go down from the fort

And prepare our things to go to lunch

Help us by sharing this video

Give us a like and do not forget to leave your comment

Bye, Mirko, go, bye.

For more infomation >> Pirates were not welcome in Marigot - Saint Martin / Sint Maarten - Duration: 5:45.

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Rotator Cuff Injection | Auburn Medical Group - Duration: 2:31.

with the first shot you feel excellent

ok so you're not up to the king

this is my friend John and he been my

patient for 23 days

yeah we'll go with that we're going to

go ahead and do the injection hear of

his shoulder for his rotator cuff

syndrome

this is the part where we antiseptic on

the skin in the area we're going to

mary's the spray that makes the skin

cold before on you

yeah we did that last time okay here

comes

alright so you shouldn't be feeling much

with this so if I scream much system all

you feel the medicine going in

so first we put in the anesthetic couple

cc's of lidocaine and then we follow

that up with pain pain with the

cortisone shot you collect with no okay

so you're not up in decatur King brand

name of that is marquis and then I

finished up to get all that stuff out of

the track not terribly important you

know there's risk of having some

cortisone this in which can discolor it

not a big deal

unlikely that it would cause a sinus

tract always help

that's very likely take off the mask

majors in

just kidding

probably

so just looking at the Chipmunks

occupate-o soft instrumental it's it's

it's the pediatric sir thanks for

joining my myself and John yeah he he

behave this time really honest but he

did behave this until next time John dr.

Martin telling you to stay good help

For more infomation >> Rotator Cuff Injection | Auburn Medical Group - Duration: 2:31.

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Asimetría del Seno Dr. Curvas, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio - Duration: 7:25.

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Casi 30,000 personas celebraron junto a Rubí Ibarra su cumpleaños número 15 en San Luis Potosí - Duration: 2:16.

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Triunfo del Amor | Guillermo intentó asesinar a Osvaldo - Duration: 1:25.

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A Que No Me Dejas | Alan le confiesa a Valentina que es su tío - Duration: 2:11.

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Humaniści z III LO (2013/2016) – krótka historia - Duration: 5:30.

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Artist Zayn Malik Live

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Compare Loom & Leaf

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Bé Chơi Búp Bê Tập Làm Người Lớn || Baby Doll Play Sets As Adults Funny In Real Life - Duration: 5:53.

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Compare Loom & Leaf

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Sleight Trailer

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[LT subs]Season's Greetings from HISTORY : "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - Duration: 4:36.

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Citroën C1 1.0I 5-DRS EXCLUSIVE SPORT, 32.000 KM - Duration: 1:18.

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Daewoo Matiz 0.8I SE Airco stuurbekrachtiging - Duration: 1:07.

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Hyundai Tucson 2.0I STYLE 1e EIGENAAR_ECC_CRUIS_LMV. - Duration: 1:14.

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Opel Corsa 3drs 1.2i 16v 80pk ENJOY // VERKOCHT . - Duration: 1:39.

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Citroën C3 1.4I LIGNE PRESTIGE 5DR | ELEKTRISCHE RAAMBEDIENIN - Duration: 1:46.

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Safety versus development? Korea's nuclear energy development today - Duration: 3:16.

Tuesday was Nuclear Energy Day in Korea... a day to be reminded of the benefits and convenience

of nuclear power... when used with caution.

Recently though, safety concerns are overshadowing the positive aspects the cost efficient energy

source.

Kwon Soa weighs the option: should Korea continue to rely on nuclear plants.

The recent box-office hit "Pandora" has opened the eyes of many… to the possible consequences

of a nuclear accident.

The timing of the movie's debut a few weeks ago may have been a coincidence, but it came

just a few months after South Korea was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded

in the country.

"Because the reactors are far away from Seoul, I'm not seriously concerned,... but since

the earthquake in Gyeongju, I've become quite anxious at the idea of building more."

"I think the situation is very serious, especially because people live very close to the reactors.

I'm worried that if an earthquake struck the residents would be badly affected."

South Korea is home to 25 nuclear reactors, with five now under construction, and four

more to come.

In fact, Korea has the most of any country in proportion to its land area.

"If an accident like the one in Fukushima occured near Korea's Gori reactors, the damage

would be much greater because there are around 22 times more people living near them."

The expert claims nuclear power is a dying business,... and that many developed countries

are getting out of it all together.

"It's not appropriate to compare South Korea to countries like Germany and Italy.

They're exceptions in terms of energy policy.

South Korea's major export items used to be semiconductors, ships and cars.

But the latter two have been on a downward trend.

I believe nuclear will be a future growth engine and will bring many jobs for young

people."

With experts divided, it's hard for the layman to get a clear picture.

"After watching Pandora, I felt like such an accident could actually happen in our country.

I've gotten a little bit interested in the issue now, but I wish people could get more

details from the experts."

The Korea Nuclear Energy Agency, for one, hopes to give the public the information they

need.

"There is, for instance, the term 'ground acceleration,' which has been used a lot since

the recent quake.

A nuclear plant is safe at 0-point-3 g.

The 'g' stands for gravity.

For the average person it's hard to understand.

That's why we're trying to visualize this information through infographics, internet

banners and videos."

South Korea lacks natural resources and it has put a lot of effort into developing nuclear

power.

But, it could be a good time to review the issue,... with the unpredictabilty of natural

disasters and the general public more concerned about safety.

Kwon Soa, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> Safety versus development? Korea's nuclear energy development today - Duration: 3:16.

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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - Alfred's Basic Sacred Book 2 - Duration: 3:16.

What a fellowship, what a joy divine

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

What a blessedness, what a peace is mine

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Leaning, leaning

Safe and secure from all alarms

Leaning, leaning

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Oh, how sweet to walk in the pilgrim way

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Leaning, leaning

Safe and secure from all alarms

Leaning, leaning

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

What have I to dread, what have I to fear

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms?

I have blessed peace with my Lord so near

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Leaning, leaning

Safe and secure from all alarms

Leaning, leaning

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

For more infomation >> Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - Alfred's Basic Sacred Book 2 - Duration: 3:16.

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top 5 - Duration: 1:50.

TO FIVE ON 2. IT'S TIME TO

RECAP OUR TOP FIVE STORIES.

FIRST, A MIAMI TOWNSHIP POLICE

OFFICER IS HURT WHILE

RESPONDING TO A HOME MONDAY

NIGHT. OFFIICER TYLER

SIMPSON HURT HIS WRIST DURING

THE ALTERCATION ON WOODS-EDGE

COURT. POLICE WERE CALLED TO

ASSIST WITH AN UNRULY MENTAL

HEALTH PATIENT, JOSEPH HARRIS.

POLICE SAY HARRIS FOUGHT

WITH THE OFFICERS. HE WAS

EVENTUALLY TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

AND FACES RESISTING ARREST

CHARGES. SIMPSON HAS BEEN

RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL.

TOP STORY NUMBER TWO.

ACTRESS AND AUTHOR CARRIE

FISHER HAS DIED. FISHER IS

BEST KNOWN AS "PRINCESS LEIA"

TO MILLIONS OF "STAR WARS"

FANS WORLDWIDE. SHE DIED

THIS MORNING, ACCORDING TO HER

DAUGHTER, DAYS AFTER SUFFERING

A HEART ATTACK ON AN AIRPLANE.

FISHER JUST WRAPPED "STAR

WARS: EPISODE EIGHT," THE

SECOND OF THREE NEW "STAR

WARS" FILMS.

TOP STORY NUMBER THREE.

DAYTON POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR

THE PERSON WHO STABBED A MAN

OVERNIGHT. THE VICTIM TOLD

POLICE WHEN HE WENT TO SIT ON

THE COUCH TO WATCH T-V...

SOMEONE CAME OUT OF THE

BEDROOM ARMED WITH A BUTCHER

KNIFE AND STABBED HIM IN THE

ARM. THE SUSPECT RAN FROM

THE APARTMENT. A FRIEND

DROVE THE VICTIM TO GRANDVIEW

HOSPITAL.

TOP STORY NUMBER FOUR.

THE OHIO SUPREME COURT RULES

FIVE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

OFFICERS SUED BY A WOMAN

INJURED DURING A HIGH-SPEED

CHASE ARE IMMUNE FROM LEGAL

LIABILITY. THE RULING CAME

FROM A 20-11 LAWSUIT BY A

WOMAN HURT WHEN A BURGLARY

SUSPECT'S VEHICLE HIT HERS

HEAD-ON, AS HE FLED FROM MIAMI

TOWNSHIP AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY

OFFICERS.

TOP STORY NUMBER FIVE.

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND JAPANESE

PRIME MINISTER SHINZOH AH-BAY

ARE VISITING JOINT BASE PEARL

HARBOR TODAY. THIS IS A LIVE

LOOK AT THE PRESIDENT'S

REMARKS. IT'S THE FIRST TIME

A JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER HAS

VISITED THE MEMORIAL OF THE

19-41 ATTACK. AND THAT'S

A LOOK AT OUR TOP FIVE STORIES

TODAY...

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C E R N - SÜGAVIKU AVAMINE (LÕPP ON LÄHEDAL) - Duration: 2:49.

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Logo Design with Mark Winn - Duration: 4:53.

- A logo usually communicates all the essence

of something in a very short amount of time.

But I believe the more abstract and unique it is,

the better chance it has of communicating.

(funky music)

Hi, I'm Mark Winn.

I'm a designer and a painter.

Today we're going to draw a logo, and make a logo,

design a logo, conceive a logo.

We're going to create a logo.

(click) (whoosh)

To start off with a uniqueness about it is a goal.

Everybody wants to be in their own little world

set apart from rest of the products,

and the people, and everything around them.

I wanna find what it is about me

that I wanna say or put out there

that's recognizable, has a logo.

(whooshing)

I already have a logo for myself,

but I'm going to redesign a logo for myself.

(click) (whoosh)

Personal logo is going to evolve, there's no way around it.

Now that I live in the woods, (sirens)

not about the city anymore, (birds chirping)

I'm not about that street scene,

I'm more about living in the redwoods.

(fun funky music)

(birds chirping)

Look at all the words associated,

and I look at all the things that could be usable

in a concept way, and I write those down.

The old logo is just, you know, pretty standard.

Now I'll modernize it into, like, all these things here.

There's an owl that, as I work at night,

is constantly going hoo, hoo, hoo!

I want to work that into my logo as it exists now.

(click) (whoosh)

In the sketch phase, this would go over the course of,

like, weeks, you may have page after page after page

of different iterations on what you want to do.

Something kind of moves you within it.

You're like, okay, those four,

from the 20 that you draw in pencil,

those four I can take to the computer.

There's a couple ways you can do that

if they're complex, and there's really some subtleties,

and you nailed it with the pencil drawing.

You can take a photo with your phone,

and just put it on Adobe Illustrator, and then trace it.

Or, what I do often is I just redraw in Illustrator.

(funky electronic music)

K, we're gettin' somethin'.

Doesn't look too much like Batman.

Oh, very important to hit save.

Illustrator is so powerful, and you can go through

alotta studies on one style of one concept.

And so I usually blow that out in a straight line.

I draw it from left to right, and I start

with the first concept logo I did.

And then I'm like oh, if I made the eyes more glowly.

So I go to the next one and I fix just that aspect.

I'm like oh, the shape is kinda clunky.

So then I go to the next one, I fix that.

And so there's kind of that Darwin evolutionary process

of where I was as I go, and you can always go back.

And that's the beautiful thing

about the digital age, you know.

You can go back and like, oh, this part I like still.

So you just take and steal that part

and put it with this part, and then you can start

Frankensteining the pieces of it

(funky jazzy music)

'til you get to the end, to where you kinda like it.

And somewhere in there I kinda add colors sometimes.

And then I take it out and I just do

black and white or I do grey scale.

I work that out all the way through

to where I'm exhausted on that logo.

I just don't want to look anymore.

It's horrible.

Then I go to the next concept and I work that one through.

It's easier to start with a typeface,

and then outline that typeface with the computer,

and then adapt and make it something your own.

Illustrator has a ton a tools that will help you.

You can take a straight drawing of this and turn it into,

you know, that.

It's gonna be symmetrical, so just draw

one side and then flip it.

(clicking)

Now fix the wings, refine the things.

You can spend days.

Sometimes I just sit on it.

I look at it for a while, then I come back to it.

So, the one last thing I'd say

is that looks great on its own,

but let's think about what

we would do to put it in a shape.

So we could put it in a circle,

you know, is that something that is going

to make your logo work better.

So you could always have white inside,

or whatever, to make it pop.

But I'm thinkin' more like you try

to make the shape more your own.

There is no right or wrong.

Everything is right.

There's only,

in the end, are you happy with it.

If you're doing it for yourself,

that's the only thing that matters.

Now go out there and create a logo about yourself

and share it with KQED Art School.

I'm sorry, I can't say KQED. (laughing)

- [Man] (laughing)It's cool. It's fine.

- KQED Art School.

There. (laughing)

For more infomation >> Logo Design with Mark Winn - Duration: 4:53.

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Kim Jong-un plans to complete nuclear weapons development by 2017: Fmr. N. Korean diplomat - Duration: 2:22.

Thae Young-ho one of the highest ranking North Korean diplomats to defect to the South, provided

some disturbing insights to the regime's nuclear ambition, including its leader's unshakable

devotion to the program.

Connie Kim shares with us his remarks from his very first press conference in Seoul.

Appearing in front of South Korean reporters on Tuesday, the former North Korean first

minister to London said Kim Jong-un will never give up its nuclear ambitions not even if

he were given ten trillion U.S. dollars adding its leader Kim Jong-un has plans to complete

his nuclear weapons development by 2017.

"North Korea views the period between 2016 and the end of 2017 to be the optimal period

to complete its nuclear weapons development.

This is when South Korea's presidential election will be taking place and the new U.S. administration

will be going through a power transition.

There is underlying premise that both Seoul and Washington cannot enforce any physical

or military measure to halt its nuclear weapons development."

By obtaining a nuclear state status, Thae said Pyongyang is likely to seek dialogue

with Seoul and Washington and seek to lift sanctions against the regime and halt the

annual South Korea-U.S. military drills.

But, the former North Korean official was skeptical a North Korea-U.S. summit would

happen.

With the incoming U.S. administration being a Republican one, chances of a meeting are

slim as the conservative party has always had a hardline stance against the regime.

"Whether there is any possibility for the summit for the U.S. and North Korea, I don't

think I'm in a position to give you any comment on it.

It should be decided by the next U.S. President and Kim Jong-un.

But I do not think it is likely to happen."

Having entered South Korea in August, Thae said his disillusionment with Kim's reign

of terror had prompted his defection and pledged to devote his life to the reunification of

the Korean peninsula.

To fullfill this aim in South Korea, most North Korean experts believe Thae will actively

carry out public activities.

Connie Kim, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> Kim Jong-un plans to complete nuclear weapons development by 2017: Fmr. N. Korean diplomat - Duration: 2:22.

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Around the World in 80 Books | WRAP UP [CC] - Duration: 8:01.

Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back my

channel and welcome to my wrap-up for my

Around the World in 80 Books Project!

First things first, let me tell you that

80 is a lot of books. Like, a lot. It's a

lot. It's so many books, you guys. And I

honestly thought in about October that

I wasn't going to finish this project

because I had so many books left to read.

And yet somehow I managed with like a

week to spare. So when I was deciding

whether or not a book was set in a

particular country, my kind of ballpark

figure was that at least a third of the

book needed to be set there. Because a

lot of these books are actually set kind

of all over the world and so there'll be,

like, a chunk of the book that's set in

the US and a chunk of it might be set in

Germany and a chunk might be set in France.

It's kind of a mixed bag. So my ballpark

figure was that at least thirty three

percent of the book - preferably more - had

to be set in the country for it to count.

But that was a fairly small number. The

bulk of them had fifty percent or more -

or, indeed, the entire book - set in the

country that I used it for for this

challenge. So first up, some basic

statistics. I read three middle grade

books, 21 young adult books, and 56 adult

books. As far as genres go, four were

action and adventure books, there were

eight classics and nine contemporary

books, nine crime books, three fantasy

books, one graphic novel, three historical

fiction books, 10 literary fiction books,

one magical realism book, nine non-fiction

books, three paranormal books, one retelling, one

romance book, one speculative fiction

book, three steampunk books and 14 books that

I put in kind of a catch-all genre that

I called "war". Because a lot of these

books were, like, set in war-torn

countries, dealing with the ramifications

of war. And yet in terms of genre, they

were kind of split up between historical

fiction, literary fiction, and

contemporary. So I kind of made this catch-all

thing called "war" to put them all in

there. Because really, they're dealing

with the same issues regardless of what

time period they're set in. As far as the

setting goes, I read 14 books set in Africa,

15 books set in Asia, 3 set in the

Caribbean, 4 set in Central America, 22

set in Europe, 5 set in the Middle

East, 3 set in North America, 9 set

in Oceania and 5 set in South America.

There are obviously reviews of all of

these

books spread throughout my weekly wrap

ups so, you know, it's probably just easier to

check my Goodreads page for this because

I have a shelf called Around the World

in 80 Books and, you know, all of my reviews

are on there. So, the rest of this video I'm

just going to tell you what the books

were that I read for this project and

what countries they are set in. Starting

with Africa. Botswana: I read The No

1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander

McCall Smith. Egypt: I read The Ape That Guards

The Balance by Elizabeth Peters. Ghana: I

read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Liberia: I read

Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma. Libya: In

the Country of Men by Hisham Matar. Mali: I

read The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by

Joshua Hammer. Morocco: Days of Blood and

Starlight by Laini Taylor. Mozambique: I

read Secrets in the Fire by Henning

Mankell. Nigeria: Americanah by Chimamanda

Ngozi Adichie. Rwanda: Over a Thousand Hills I

Walk with You by Hanna Jansen. Sierra

Leone: The Memory of Love by Aminatta

Forna. South Africa: Cry the Beloved

Country by Alan Paton. Sudan: The Red

Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Tanzania:

Into Africa by Martin Dugard. Moving

across to Asia. Afghanistan: A Thousand

Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseni. Burma:

Struggle for Freedom - Aung San Suu Kyi A

Biography by Jesper Bengtsson. Cambodia: In the

Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner.

China: The Four Books by Yan Lianke.

Georgia - the country, not the US State:

Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews. India:

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by

Katherine Boo. Indonesia: Fearless by

Fiona Higgins. Japan: The Suffering by

Rin Chupeco. Kazakhstan: The Amazons:

lives and legends of warrior women

across the ancient world by Adrienne Mayor.

Mongolia: The Secret History of the

Mongol Queens: how the daughters of

Genghis Khan rescued his empire by Jack

Weatherford. North Korea: I read In Order

To Live by Yeonmi Park. The Philippines:

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's

terrifying circumnavigation of the globe

by Laurence Bergreen. Sri Lanka: Wave by Sonali

Deraniyagala. Turkey: Behemoth by

Scott Westerfeld. And Vietnam: The Uncle's

Story by Witi Ihimaera. Moving to the

Caribbean. Cuba: Our Man in Havana by Graham

Greene. Jamaica: For this one, I read Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton. Trinidad and

Tobago: Miguel Street by V.S.

Naipaul. Onto Central America. Starting with

Costa Rica: I read Jurassic Park by

Michael Crichton. Honduras: The Codex by

Douglas Preston. Mexico: I read Signal to

Noise by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Nicaragua:

Without Borders by Amanda Heger. Onto

Europe. Starting with Austria: I read

Leviathan by Scott Westfeld. For Belgium:

I read The Professor by Charlotte Brontë.

Bosnia: I read The Cellist of Sarajevo by

Steven Galloway. And yes, I still want to

say Gallifrey. Croatia: Girl at War by

Sara Novic. The Czech Republic:

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini

Taylor. Denmark: Hamlet by John Marsden,

which is actually a retelling or

novelisation of Hamlet. England: The

Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud.

Finland: White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen.

France: The Phantom of the Opera by

Gaston Leroux. Germany: The Spy Who Came

in From the Cold by John le Carre. Greece:

The Theban Plays by Sophocles.

Holland, or The Netherlands if we're

being pedantic: Girl with the Pearl Earring by

Tracy Chevalier. Iceland: For this one, I

read Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson. Ireland:

(Sorry Katie...) The Good People by Hannah

Kent. Italy: I read Arcadia Awakens by Kai

Meyer. Macedonia: Legacy of Kings by

Eleanor Herman. Norway: Fjord Blue by Nina

Rossing. Poland: The Boy in the Striped

Pyjamas by John Boyce [sic]. Russia: (and I

apologise to Olive in advance) Crime

and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Scotland - I did a poll on Twitter and

like ninety percent of people said that

Scotland totally counts as a separate

country so Ii'm sticking with it: Changeless

by Gail Carriger. Spain; The Shadow of the

Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon. And

finally, Sweden: The Ice Princess by

Camilla Lackberg. The Middle East.

Starting with Iran: Persepolis by Marjane

Satrapi. Iraq: Murder in Mesopotamia by

Agatha Christie. Israel: for this one, I

read The People of Forever

Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu. Oman:

Sandstorm by James Rollins. And finally,

Saudi Arabia: The Green Bicycle by Haifaa

Al-Mansour. Quickly moving across to

North America. Canada: Exit, Pursued by a

Bear by

E.K. Johnston. Greenland: I didn't know

whether to class this with, like, Europe

or North America. It's closer to North

America. I went with that. Cold Earth by Sarah Moss.

And the US: Dangerous Lies by Becca

Fitzpatrick. Jumping halfway around the

world to Oceania. For American Samoa: I

read A Bird in the Hand by Lynn

Stansbury. Antarctica: another one that I

didn't quite know where class.

It's pretty close to Oceania. So, you know,

let's go with that. And for Antarctica,

I read Up to this Pointe

by Jennifer Longo. Australia: Head of the

River by Pip Harry. Fiji: Kalyana by Rajni

Mala Khelawan. Kiribati: Food of Ghosts by

Marianne Wheelaghan.

New Zealand: Wild Pork and Watercress by

Barry Crump. Papua New Guinea: New Guinea

Moon by Kate Constable. The Solomon

Islands: Codetalker - a novel about the

Navajo Marines of World War II by Joseph Bruchac.

And finally, Tahiti: The Island of

Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz. And

last but by no means least, we have South

America. From Argentina: I read The

Disappeared by Gloria Whelan. Brazil:

Perfect Days by Raphael Montes. Chile: I

read Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende.

Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And finally, Peru:

Temple by Matthew Reilly. So there you have

it, friends. That is the 80 books that I read

for my Around the World in 80 Books

Project. If you have read any of these

and you have thoughts on them,

please let me know down in the comments.

Also, if you guys have attempted some

kind of Read Around the World or Around

The World in 80 Books type of a project -

possibly with less books because

seriously, eighty is so many - let me know

down in the comments so we can talk

about how you went and how you found

books and stuff like that, because I

still want to read books set all over the

world next year. Just not 80 of them,

because that was too many. Thank you guys

so much for watching. I love all your faces

and I'll see you on Friday.

Bye guys.

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Skype counseling for anxiety - Talk to an online therapist - Duration: 3:36.

If you are struggling with anxiety or depression or an addiction then I definitely recommend

you consider Skype counseling.

During these Skype counseling sessions I will teach you mindfulness-based methods for working

with anxiety and depression and other difficult emotional problems.

Mindfulness therapy is immensely effective and it works very well online.

It is all about learning how to change the way you relate to the mind, to thoughts and

emotions and memories, whatever appears in the mind as mental objects.

The problem that most people have is that they do not have a conscious relationship

with these mental objects.

When the thoughts or emotions or memories get triggered we simply collapse into those

mental objects.

We lose our perspective, we lose our identity and we become overwhelmed.

This process, which we call Reactive identification, is really the primary cause of our suffering.

It is not thoughts, it is not even the emotional reactions themselves that are the problem.

It is the way we become identified with them.

We lose our identity, we lose our perspective and we lose our ability to skillfully change

and heal these parts of ourselves.

We lose consciousness, in effect as we become identified with our thoughts and emotions.

So, if you would like to learn more about mindfulness therapy an Skype counseling then

simply email me.

Send me an email and ask any questions you have and I will be happy to explain to you

how mindfulness-based Skype counseling can really help you manage your anxiety or depression

or addiction, or any other form of emotional suffering.

This approach is very effective in deed and my clients see benefits within 2-3 sessions

of Skype counseling.

It should not take years to change anxiety or panic attacks or depression.

It is simply a process of changing the way you relate to the mind.

When this changes then you will be able to facilitate the natural healing process by

which anxiety and depression, fear or anger, or any other compulsive emotions can heal

itself.

It is creating the right conditions for healing.

That's the central focus of mindfulness therapy.

So, please email me and let's schedule a session.

Thank you!

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THROWBACK TO 2K16 THIS GAME WAS SO MUCH BETTER THAN 17 :( - Duration: 2:24.

jugging and finessing

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Kim Jong-un plans to complete nuclear weapons development by 2017: Fmr. N. Korean diplomat - Duration: 2:27.

Thae Yong-ho,... one of the highest ranking North Korean diplomats to defect to the South,

has provided some disturbing insights into the regime's nuclear ambitions,... including

its leader's unshakable devotion to the country's nuclear weapons program.

Thae made the comments at his very first press conference in Seoul.

Connie Kim reports.

Appearing in front of South Korean reporters on Tuesday, the former North Korean first

minister to London said Kim Jong-un will never give up its nuclear ambitions not even if

he were given ten trillion U.S. dollars adding its leader Kim Jong-un has plans to complete

his nuclear weapons development by 2017.

"North Korea views the period between 2016 and the end of 2017 to be the optimal period

to complete its nuclear weapons development.

This is when South Korea's presidential election will be taking place and the new U.S. administration

will be going through a power transition.

There is underlying premise that both Seoul and Washington cannot enforce any physical

or military measure to halt its nuclear weapons development."

By obtaining a nuclear state status, Thae said Pyongyang is likely to seek dialogue

with Seoul and Washington and seek to lift sanctions against the regime and halt the

annual South Korea-U.S. military drills.

But, the former North Korean official was skeptical a North Korea-U.S. summit would

happen.

With the incoming U.S. administration being a Republican one, chances of a meeting are

slim as the conservative party has always had a hardline stance against the regime.

"Whether there is any possibility for the summit for the U.S. and North Korea, I don't

think I'm in a position to give you any comment on it.

It should be decided by the next U.S. President and Kim Jong-un.

But I do not think it is likely to happen."

Having entered South Korea in August, Thae said his disillusionment with Kim's reign

of terror had prompted his defection and pledged to devote his life to the reunification of

the Korean peninsula.

To fullfill this aim in South Korea, most North Korean experts believe Thae will actively

carry out public activities.

Connie Kim, Arirang News.

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Rotator Cuff Injection | Auburn Medical Group - Duration: 2:31.

with the first shot you feel excellent

ok so you're not up to the king

this is my friend John and he been my

patient for 23 days

yeah we'll go with that we're going to

go ahead and do the injection hear of

his shoulder for his rotator cuff

syndrome

this is the part where we antiseptic on

the skin in the area we're going to

mary's the spray that makes the skin

cold before on you

yeah we did that last time okay here

comes

alright so you shouldn't be feeling much

with this so if I scream much system all

you feel the medicine going in

so first we put in the anesthetic couple

cc's of lidocaine and then we follow

that up with pain pain with the

cortisone shot you collect with no okay

so you're not up in decatur King brand

name of that is marquis and then I

finished up to get all that stuff out of

the track not terribly important you

know there's risk of having some

cortisone this in which can discolor it

not a big deal

unlikely that it would cause a sinus

tract always help

that's very likely take off the mask

majors in

just kidding

probably

so just looking at the Chipmunks

occupate-o soft instrumental it's it's

it's the pediatric sir thanks for

joining my myself and John yeah he he

behave this time really honest but he

did behave this until next time John dr.

Martin telling you to stay good help

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"Let it snow" Cover - Duration: 2:01.

The weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful

And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

It doesn't show signs of stopping And I've brought some corn for popping

The fire burns way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When we finally kiss goodnight How I'd hate going out in the storm

But if you really hold me tight All the way home I'd be warm

The weather outside is frightful

But the fire is...mmm...delightful

And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Now the fire is slowly dying And my dear we're still goodbye-ing

As long as you love me so Let it snow...

...let it snow...

Let it snow.

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VIDEO- Woman accused of trashing Riverview Starbucks - Duration: 2:21.

HE IS PRESENTLY AT HIS ESTATE

IN FLORIDA.

WE'RE GOING TO WATCH THIS

SITUATION AND BRING YOU MORE

INFORMATION AS SOON AS WE GET

IT.

A WOMAN HAD A TEMPER

TANTRUM IN A RIVERVIEW

STARBUCKS BUT IT DIDN'T APPEAR

TO BE CAFFEINE FUELED.

WITNESSES SAY THE WOMAN WAS

SCREAMING A CAT GETTING CHANGE

FOR THE BUS AND WAS ANGRY

BEFORE SHE ENTERED THE COFFEE

SHOP.

LET'S GO TO JEFF PATTERSON, WHO

WAS LIVE AT THE STORE.

YOU SPOKE WITH A WITNESS WHO

WAS CLEARLY DISTURBED BY ALL OF

THIS.

Reporter: YEAH, GOOD

EVENING.

THIS ALL ESCALATED EXTREMELY

QUICKLY THIS MORNING.

SOME OF IT WAS CAPTURED ON

VIDEO BY A CUSTOMER WITH HER

CELL PHONE.

BY THE TIME LESLIE McHUGH

STARTED RECORDING, MUCH OF THE

DAMAGE HAD ALREADY BEEN DONE.

YEAH, IT WAS CRAZY.

Reporter: SHE DOESN'T WANT

US TO SHOW HER FACE BECAUSE SHE

IS A REGULAR CUSTOMER HERE AND

WAS IN LINE AT THIS RIVERVIEW

STARBUCKS WHEN ANOTHER WOMAN

ENTERED AND WENT BERSERK.

I HEARD LOUD SHOUTING BEHIND

ME.

IT TOOK A SECOND FOR ME TO

REALIZE SHE WAS LEGITIMATELY

ANGRY.

Reporter: SHE HAD HER SEVEN-

YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AT HER SIDE

AND MOVED TO PROTECT HER CHILD

OF THE ANGRY CUSTOMER CONTINUED

HER TIRADE.

THE LADY SHOVED OVER A

COUPLE OF DISPLAYS.

SHE WASN'T INJURED BUT IT

SCARED HER.

Reporter: AT THE END OF THE

VIDEO, YOU CAN HEAR A STARBUCKS

EMPLOYEE COME TO HELP McHUGH'S

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

I WAS REALLY SURPRISED BY

THE STAFF.

THEY USHERED US IN THE BACK.

Reporter: OTHER CUSTOMERS MOVED

TO SUBDUE THE WOMAN.

THREE GUYS AND A LADY

TACKLED HER.

SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE.

SHE SAID THE POLICE KNOW WHERE

TO FIND HER.

THEY SAID NOPE.

Reporter: THEY ARRESTED 32-

YEAR-OLD ABIGAIL ROWE.

AT THIS POINT, SHE HAS BEEN

PLACED UNDER ARREST, SHE WILL

BE TAKEN TO JAIL AND SHE WILL

BE EVALUATED ONCE SHE GETS

THERE.

Reporter: SHE WILL BE GIVEN

A MENTAL EVALUATION.

SHE IS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL

MISCHIEF, TRESPASSING, AND

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA.

DID SOMETHING SPECIFIC

HAPPENED TO SET THE SOFT TO

BEGIN WITH?

Reporter: APPARENTLY, IT

STARTED YESTERDAY.

ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE

WOMAN HAD COME TO THE STORY

YESTERDAY ASKING FOR CHANGE

FROM THE BUS.

THE STORE EMPLOYEES HAVE TOLD

HER BEFORE WHEN SHE HAS ASKED

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Smoke Sesh #8 Cheese Wax -Brittany Smokes Weed - Duration: 4:45.

the way that it is a crack every now on

the floor don't thinking damn this shit

gets 0

what's up guys things come back for

another video really quick i just wanted

to say hello to all of my subscribers

you guys are awesome

welcome to the channel hope you like it

hope you stick around for a while I'm

gonna have my temple incense and into

the smoke sesh

I've never lit incense before my channel

so first time for everything

also don't have a lighter so first time

for everything going on okay that

actually worked

cool ok so i cannot wait to unbox

Ashley's package

unfortunately it is not on its not yet

uh-huh it was technically supposed to be

here like almost almost a week ago and

it is extremely late for some reason

this is the message i'm currently

getting when I look at the tracking page

so yeah that's happening but I cannot

wait to box that soon as it gets here I

won't box it and show you guys what she

got me I'm really excited to see it two

you guys haven't already go over and

check out the video of the package that

i sent her is a pretty cool paiva good i

think i did a really good job picking it

out i tried to pick something that i

don't know i tried to pick something

that I think she would like I don't know

what you guys think you guys like it i

don't know i like it i'm going to get

dad because my name is Brittany and I do

smoke weed but I don't have any flour so

we're gonna take it down but I have some

cheese today

this cheese is fucking awesome i love

cheese i had cheese flower before but

this she's wax is just like so much more

flavorful than the flower that I've had

to yeah i'm going to dab

ok

one thing i do love about this cheese

wax is that it tastes so much like

cheese but on I was kind of surprised at

the taste because it tastes a lot like

oh jeez like straight-up blue cheese

that's what it tastes like I picked it

up with a friend of mine and we're

taking some jobs and she fucking hates

poochie's and she was like this is so

good I was like why it it tastes like

fucking blue cheese like what the fuck

are you talking about you fucking equals

use but i personally love the cheese and

I'm gonna take another job for you guys

driving on these are down to almost out

walks audiences in dispensary

a couple of us wanted me to do a video

on moon rocks so they'll pick up some

rocks

personally I really interested in the

rosin maybe if they have that i'll pick

some up what kind of things you guys

want to see in the future coming up

I've been really into some accessories

lately because I feel like it's a better

way for me to like connect to you guys

and like have like conversation almost

just kind of get to know each other a

little bit better so yeah that's really

all that i think i want to say in this

little smoke such videos sort of like a

mini sesh video just really say thank

you tis not subscribed and hello welcome

to the channel

yeah I can't wait to check out Ashley's

package whenever it does arrive

yeah I guess that's really it for this

video guys I'm gonna go stay educated

stay medicated and i will see you guys

later

I see how to do subscribers lessee no

okay

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Love Fifth Harmony?

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The Bye Bye Man

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Homilia Diária.416: Festa dos Santos Inocentes, Mártires - Duration: 5:13.

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Palavras do Pe Geovane - Solenidade do Natal do Senhor - Duration: 2:52.

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Violencia y caos durante la jornada de devoluciones tras los festejos navideños - Duration: 2:04.

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Rotator Cuff Injection | Auburn Medical Group - Duration: 2:31.

with the first shot you feel excellent

ok so you're not up to the king

this is my friend John and he been my

patient for 23 days

yeah we'll go with that we're going to

go ahead and do the injection hear of

his shoulder for his rotator cuff

syndrome

this is the part where we antiseptic on

the skin in the area we're going to

mary's the spray that makes the skin

cold before on you

yeah we did that last time okay here

comes

alright so you shouldn't be feeling much

with this so if I scream much system all

you feel the medicine going in

so first we put in the anesthetic couple

cc's of lidocaine and then we follow

that up with pain pain with the

cortisone shot you collect with no okay

so you're not up in decatur King brand

name of that is marquis and then I

finished up to get all that stuff out of

the track not terribly important you

know there's risk of having some

cortisone this in which can discolor it

not a big deal

unlikely that it would cause a sinus

tract always help

that's very likely take off the mask

majors in

just kidding

probably

so just looking at the Chipmunks

occupate-o soft instrumental it's it's

it's the pediatric sir thanks for

joining my myself and John yeah he he

behave this time really honest but he

did behave this until next time John dr.

Martin telling you to stay good help

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Chitarra Acustica Strumentale a Piedi Tour Cane Passeggiate Fume Tapis Roulant Video Passeggiata vi - Duration: 38:55.

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Scientific cognition: Aljoša Kravanja & Prof. Dr. Jan Slaby - Duration: 41:38.

Black Box: In the Background of Scientific Discoveries

Jan: Okay, so yeah, I'm Jan Slaby. I'm a

professor of philosophy in Berlin at

the Free University, the area of philosophy of

mind. My interests lie mainly in the

intersection of the social and the mental, so

what I call at times "a political

philosophy of mind", and in this

perspective you ask how specific living

conditions, institutions, technology,

social practices, media intersect with

our individual mentality, our

subjectivity, how subjectivity is

basically formed. So it's really

a perspective that wants to

understand the human subject in its time,

in its specific social setting. So

that's where philosophy probably

intersects with a lot of other

disciplines like social science, cultural

studies and anthropology and so on. And

of course, it is an interesting, I hope,

perspective on the way certain sciences,

fields in the cognitive sciences, are

relevant to how the mind actually works

and .. I think, Aljoša, you

are interested in similar topics because

you're also a philosopher, so maybe we can

kind of agree quite early on

that we are in a specific relation to

cognitive science and the mind sciences.

Probably not a relation of

wholehearted endorsement, more of a

skeptical critical position, probably a

certain distance to these fields, while

we are still in a way interested in them

fascinated by them ... Maybe that's

the first question to you also,

after you introduce yourself, how your

specific relationship is to cognitive

science and the neuroscience, maybe the

brain and the brain science. I

can also tell you a little bit about my

specific take here. But I don't want

to speak too long at the beginning, so

I'm eager to learn what your

perspective is. Aljoša: My name is Aljoša Kravanja

and I'm currently

a researcher in fields of criminology and

philosophy and I also

work as a translator, mostly from

French. The projects that I've been

currently working for is of course my

thesis that I just finished, just a few

months ago, on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant

and, yeah, that's basically it.

I think that Kantian philosophy and

philosophy of German idealism do have a special

relationship to neuroscience, because at the

first glance, they're dealing with a

common topic. You know, subjectivity. But

from two completely opposite or

different viewpoints, so I'm kind of

professionaly inclined to be critical

towards neuroscience and cognitive science,

absolutely. And I think I'll try to

overcome it somehow by

thinking about it,

not only in critical terms.

Jan: On Kant: that's a whole universe. Aljoša: Yes.

Jan: Was it on the Critique of Pure Reason,

was it on the theoretical philosophy, or

something else?

Aljoša: I've written my thesis on Critique of

Judgment, and the main reason is

that I actually tried to sidestep

main theoretical issues of Kantian philosophy.

Because Critique of Pure Reason is,

I think, justifiably read

as the main critique of the three works.

But yeah, so that's the main reason

I wrote my thesis on the Critique of Judgement.

There are actually two paragraphs or

short segments in Critique of Judgement

that have been

read very widely by people such as Schelling

or Hegel, those are paragraphs 76 and 77 and

basically what I've done in my

thesis is, I analyzed those two

paragraphs kind of very deeply

and that's that. Jan: Well that's

far removed from much of what you get in

neuroscience for sure.

It always strikes me on what

high a conceptual level Kant was actually

working. And as philosophers we kind of, we

can grapple all our lives with just 50

pages of his work, I would say. Or with

just the concept of understanding, or the

concept of judgment. I mean, Kant's

theory of judgment is amazing from

today's perspective and also so little

understood in many quarters of

philosophy. And then going from there to,

you know, to all the big claims about the

brain and about how neuroscience can now

understand how decision-making, for

instance, works or how well also certain

perceptual judgments are arrived at. That can

be quite hard and that was

part of my way into a critical

perspective on neuroscience. Some of this

discrepancy in terms of the level of

understanding that is actually reached

on the one side and then the

exaggerated appearance of

neuroscientists in today's climate where

science has a certain high standing in

society, regardless of whether people

understand what the science is actually

about, or how it actually works to have

a study in neuroscience that actually has

any results and that actually tells us

anything about, well, mental phenomena. And,

well, all these difficult processes are

really hardly understood but still

there's some sort of default credibility

lent to all of the, well, narratives or

results or whatever comes out of

neuroscience and that can make it

quite difficult to, well, to

position yourself as a philosopher

outside of the narrow circles of the

Kant insiders or Hegelians or so

on so. Has it been an issue for you

during your studies or during

interaction in university or was it not

a problem that you live in a time, where

neurocognitive sciences seem so prominent

culturally? Aljoša: Yeah, I think that, yeah, I

think it's a broader problem, I guess not

only limited to, of course, to my

situation, that the scientific

and mostly philosophical projects that get

funding, that get the state funding,

usually have to be

concerned with neuroscience. Or they have

to be termed in the framework of neuroscience.

So, for instance, it's more likely to

get state funding if you frame

a project in criminology

in neuroscientific terms

than in, you know, conventional terms of

criminology. So, of course as you know most

likely, the same is with philosophy. It's

harder to get a state funded project that

deals only with Kant or with German

idealism. You have to add that, you know,

neuroscientific part. And the problem is

of course that this is usually just,

you know, just an artificial add-on for

something. It really doesn't

concern the actual theory that you're dealing with.

So yeah, I think that neuroscience,

not as a science, but rather the

standings

it has in society, is problematic in this view.

Jan: Yeah, well, that was part of what a

few collaborators and I thought a few

years ago, that we can take neuroscience

actually as an angle or as a

a topic to investigate the current

situation of,

well ... What it means to be human today or

what it means to do research on the

human. So you could kind of turn the

tables on your signs a little bit and

take it as a test case of how certain

types of knowledge are produced in this

specific setting. Like how, for instance,

some studies are just done because they

will generate public impact. Like work on

the adolescent brain or work on the

criminal brain. You could

be sure that, well, there will be

some sort of uptake and you will get

funding for it and so on and also

work on, well, the alleged

non-existence of freedom of the will,

that we are all determined and so on, or that

there's some programming in

the brain that is from the stone age. So

there are all these kind of shared nice

narratives there that, I don't know,

the public can understand. But when

you, when you try to investigate

neuroscience and such, you kind of see

how knowledge production in neoliberal

times actually works. And I don't mean

this in the sort of shady blame game

type of thing, but rather ... You can really

see also how professional scientists are

forced to channel their topics and also

the whole outlook of their research

groups through these discourses. And

there are various examples, like work on

empathy

it's a big industry. Social

cognition and empathy, where you

see that. And that's really

interesting work to be done here, also

in social psychology. But it always has

to be kind of framed to a certain

template to make it, I don't know, timely,

to make it understandable. And

that's kind of interesting because you

see that there are... I think there are a lot

of, kind of well-meaning people, of

course, in neuroscience but they have

to play by these

rules of framing the topics in

specific ways. And at the same time you

see these discourses. How all these

specific discourses about subjectivity,

how our time actually understands people,

how people should be governed, how, well...

What image of education do you have,

what image of child-rearing

do you have, what image of

dangerous subjects do you have and what

sorts of policies are put forth. And you

can kind of always see, it is almost a

Hegelian sense, you see how neuroscience

encapsulates some sort of

essence of our time in these

entanglements with different practices.

And I think that that was our attempt to

kind of turn the tables and take

critical neuroscience as a way to

do philosophy of our time. So it kind

of mixes philosophy of science and

critique of science with a kind of a

more sociologically diagnostic approach

to the present. And I think that's

one way to, as a philosopher, to kind of

keep your sanity in and of

these developments. Aljoša: So you think that

neuroscience is like naturally

compatible with

neoliberalism? Jan: Well, in some respects I

think it's kind of a poster child of

neoliberalism on various levels.

For one, the way it has taken up certain

discourses. Well, you could talk about

networks, brain networks and network

subjectivities. You could speak about

human capital theory. How there's this

certain background discourse in

neuroscience where, which is about,

well, the resources, the potentials that

an individual has and that you can

cultivate in order to have it marketable

and ready for you. And I think this

is the discourse that kind of one-to-one was

adopted by neuroscience. Also in the

in the whole discussion of

neuroplasticity.

The message is: "Well, your brain is

not hardwired, but you can make it better

if you can cultivate it. And it's

flexible, it makes you kind of have to be

a network individual in the workplace

and so on." And I wouldn't say that it's

kind of a

straightforward adoption, but it's a

sort of tested osmosis of

discursive elements.

Aljoša: I think that coincidences played much role in

my interest in Immanuel Kant.

The fact is that in Ljubljana we have

quite a strong school of

Kantian and also Hegellian

interpretation. We have scholars such as

Žižek, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupančič,

Rado Riha, Zdravko Kobe,

who are well-known not only in Slovenia, but

also abroad. So I think that in Slovenia,

or at my Faculty of Arts, it's

kind of natural that if you want to do philosophy

seriously, then you study Kant or Hegel.

It's a kind of a convention.

And the reason why I chose Critique

of Judgment as my topic of

the dissertation is the one I

mentioned earlier, because I wanted to

sidestep the main theoretical issues

and deal with those more marginal problems of

Kantian philosophy. But like on the

more general level, the reason why I

write my articles

is because I just want to

figure things out. You know, because I like

to see how concepts interact and then perhaps

present that conceptual interactions in a way

that is enjoyable to other people.

And I think that is my main motivation

of production.

Jan: These are great answers to the very

difficult question for a philosopher,

"What is the motivation?" I mean there's

always a sort of general thing that you

want to figure things out for humanity

or what it means to be human and

i think that this is a general level of

a very deep motivation that

probably makes you a philosopher. But

then of course you were a child of your

times and we already spoke about

neuroscience and

the kind of urge to respond to

developments that we find problematic. So

there's a sort of critical impulse

and so for me part of the motivation has

always been this squaring these two

things. Like there's a legacy of

philosophy where you have authors from

2,500 years ago that kind of speak to us

still and tell something about human

nature or about what it means to be human,

but at the same time we know that we

live in a time where things are

radically different than anytime

before in history. And it is

probably a very dangerous time also

politically and so and philosophy has,

I think, this urge to kind of respond to

what's going on out there in the

world of politics and in history. So, and

of course it's very difficult to bring

these aspects together. But on

the other hand it's obvious that when

you read Kant, for instance, or Aristotle,

that they speak directly not only to a

perennial dimension of what it means to

be a rational being,

but they kind of directly address our

political nature and address an ethos

in each of us, and a sort of

rationality. And sometimes, although we

tend to be kind of pragmatic about our

decisions and we have to navigate

complex institutional landscape, there's

still sort of fascination in

philosophy to square human nature on the

one hand, or the nature of being

a rational being, with addressing the

concrete historical time in which we are

living.

Jan: And I think that's one of the

questions I think you wanted us to

address. The way that our research is

responding to the current situation,

politically, historically or whether we

are just imersed in academic affairs. And

I think all off our answers point in this

direction that

these things go together. But it's

always uneasy. It's always an uneasy

interaction between the vagaries of the

day and what philosophy is about

conceptually. So I wonder how you, how

you respond to this challenge of being

up to your time and at the same

time standing in this perennial

conversation of philosophy? Aljoša: Yeah, I think that fundamentally

there are two ways that philosophy can

address the problems of

its time. One is to see in what is

actual, in what exists today, a particular

case of already known general

philosophical notions. And the other way which is,

I think, fundamentally different is that

philosophy can understand its own

actuality or contemporary existence and

society as case of something new, that

has to be thought in a radically new way.

I think that philosophers

are naturally

inclined to see, to actually think in the

first way. You know, to see what is

actual merely as a particular case for

general philosophical notions. And you know,

you see Trump and you see Trump's victory

or Brexit and you say: "A-ha, look.

There's a return of the

notion of sovereignty," or something like that.

Or you can

sidestep that inclination and

try to think of things

as something radically new. The

second way perhaps is harder, but

philosophers such as Michelle Foucault or Hannah Arendt

tried to, explicity tried to go that way.

And I think that, yeah, we should follow

their example. Jan: Maybe there's a

middle way when you when you see how the

philosophical ethos probably is affected

by the current climate. So it's not really...

It must not be on the

level of contents, concepts, questions you

ask, but probably on the way that you

position yourself or the way that you ...

what issues you find suddenly

urgent. I mean, there was a time in the

nineties when I was trained and

analytical philosophy, people were kind

of happy to to talk about very tiny

conceptual issues that were of no

relevance whatsoever, you could say, to

general human affairs. And you could

say, well, at least in the West it was the

kind of time when people were well-off

and the big problems seemed to be settled,

you know, and it was sort of boring time

where people had time to you know

consume or do intricate little things

for their passions. And now that has

changed a little bit, I think. Now there's,

I see it in my students, they are very eager

to address topics of political relevance.

Be it in terms of race or the rise of

populism. I work a lot on emotion and

affect and it was also a long time in

philosophy where emotion theory was kind

of boring. It was about, well, media

amplified political affect, it's about

hatred, it's about climate of fear, the

way we find things relevant. And also

how, on what level you formulate your

philosophical question, so maybe that's a

that's another factor.

Well speaking of the topic of,

speaking of affect, have you ever thought

about affect or emotion in your

philosophy or is that something that you

have never thought about? Aljoša: Well, a few years ago I

actually wrote an article about Dostoievsky

and the notion of

suffering, which was

dealing mostly with affectivity.

And I found the philosophy

of Michel Henry extremely interesting

especially in this view. But yeah,

what I noticed this year while dealing

with Critique of Judgement is how Kantian

take to the notion of affectivity in

Critique of Judgement is actually now always

secondary. Like, you have this first layer,

which is the layer of judgment, and then only

secondary perhaps Kant's analyses

get to the analysis of affectivity. Yeah,

I found that quite interesting and this is

perhaps the general problem with

Kantian thing. Jan: Yeah, we should not go there, otherwise we

would use all our time speaking about

Kant's theory of judgment.

I think one point that we are expected to

address is creativity and thought, and I

think we also, I would say we have talked

about that already, that the way I

think creativity happens, at least for me,

is often about responding to

things that kind of concern my wider

circle of influence. So it's about what

happens in conversations, what happens

with people that are, well, show up in

seminars or at workshops. So that's an input

but of course it's always a difficult

question for philosophers to ask about

what the sources of your creativity are.

And I kind of, I'm almost a little

embarrassed by this question apart from,

you know, all these sort of trivialities

about, "Oh well, yeah, it's

conversing with people and, well,

sometimes we are kind of reading a big

philosopher and we get inspired." But I think

I don't really know what makes

me, the little creativity I have, I

don't know where it comes from actually,

so maybe you have a better answer?

Aljoša: Yeah, I noticed a general pattern,

at least in my writing, that

like my most general creative

process is, starts, begins usually with

discovering an interesting idea. An idea that

at least at first sight seems interesting to me.

Then when I start

writing about it, then I usually find

out that that idea is actually crappy

or, you know, false or a new stereotype.

And then what I

actually write about is precisely the

reason why that first idea is crappy,

you know. And I think that that is the most general

work process, at least for my work,

that perhaps all the others might recognise with

them as well. Jan: That sounds

plausible. We kind of litter our way with

mistakes and errors and wrong turns,

and, yeah. Maybe that's really different

in philosophy than in

other fields but I am not sure.

Jan: Well, the public. That's a, that's our

topic, and I mean. I guess, it's again

an answer that we have to give here

that is kind of mixed and balanced and

and says, well, on the one hand

we are funded by the public,

most of us if we are happy enough for the job,

and the public has some sort of right

to see what we're up to and of course

our interventions, particularly

when they are critical and political,

they should have an impact. And so I can

easily tell people why I critique

neuroscience because I think the real

waste of money happens here, when you

have a research program that is funded

by billions and billions. Think of the

Human Brain project of the EU. It's

1 billion euros or so for the next 10

years. And I think it's very important to

make people understand that there is a

lot of problematic stuff going on in

science. And also to explain people that

it's normal that science takes risks, but

also takes wrong turns and that there's

an institutional dimension to it, that there's

a political dimension to it, and you need

to have an assessment of that, and then

at some point say, well, "Probably the

funding is misdirected here," or "We

would be very cautious about the results,"

and so on. So I think that's a

straightforward case where I think the

public can follow what we do, even people

that are not trained. In other parts of

philosophy that is more difficult. I mean,

talking about people while we inquire

into the nature of agency or

subjectivity in this sort of very

detached theoretical terms, it... i think

it's very, that there are lots of

mediated steps in between before these

issues that Kant probably grapples with

or that contemporary Kantians grapple

with, until they arrive at a point where

you can make arguments that the public

needs to respond to that. Maybe as

a Kantian, when you look at The

Contest of the Faculties or something

like that. When Kant defends the

importance of freedom for the unfolding

of rationality in a public sphere. Maybe

that's the point where you can say, well,

"Every member of the public

should be interested in that because

without it there wasn't

any sort of public anymore." So maybe you have

your take on that?

Kant is a versatile weapon.

Aljoša: Yeah, I think I really feel in the sense of...

I also think that as a philosopher that

is or at least that was funded by the

public, I do have some obligation to

present my findings in a, you know,

accessible way. In a way that is not

accessible only to professionals. Because,

like, the main output or perhaps the

only output of philosophy is of couse words.

The output of natural sciences or technical

sciences are results. You know, results

in form of concrete objects. But philosophy

in the last instance produces

words. And it is, I think, very hard if not

impossible to justify publicly funded with

philosophy that is only, you know, that's

accessible to professionals only.

And that is the case that is,

yeah, greatest and can be seen in

studying Kant, absolutely yeah.

So I agree with you. But on the other hand,

Kant himself

in The Contest of Faculties stated that the

Faculty of Arts and philosophy

in particular has an inherent relation

to the public as such, and so is

in a sense necessary for you. But if a

philosopher said or proposed such a

claim, you know, in a public space

that the public itself is in a way

dependent on him, it's, you know, an

outrageous claim in the last instance.

And philosopher,

he or she should not expect that the public

will receive that claim well, I think.

Jan: Yeah that's right. Well, we could talk all

night about Kant, I guess. I mean the

thing is you have Kant's deduction of

the categories,

I mean, the transcendental deduction and

that's probably one of the most

complicated pieces of philosophy ever to

be written down. So the thing is, you

could say, well, we need people to be

experts on this, you know, but you

cannot expect from them to kind of

really relate what's in there to

something that, you know,

a shopkeeper around the corner needs to know.

But on the other hand it's, I mean ... That's,

that's the thing. The wager is that

it's about human understanding, the human

subjectivity, so the very core of what we

are. And it's kind of not surprising that

it's a riddle and that it's

very difficult. And so I think we have to

find a way just to convey to people what

is that game that Kant is playing, while we

shouldn't probably play it in a way that

everybody can follow, because that

is probably impossible. We could kind of

present to people what the stakes are of

this sort of philosophy. And then there's

some, that it matters how we think about

ourselves as, well, self-determined,

potentially irrational, free individuals,

and what that means. Or what

would it mean to not think of ourselves

in these terms, but kind of to deny

freedom, to deny autonomy, to deny the

possibility of self-determination,

what would that mean?

So, uhm, but I don't know. Maybe Kant

is a good topic to settle on

here. Because it kind of carries this

understanding of,

well yeah, what it means, why is it a

good idea to be a rational being, even

though it's hard. Aljoša: Absolutely. Kant is

interesting here also

because he himself was not only a

professional philosopher but also an author of, you know,

popular essays written about

everything from human races to yet

politics and reading habits. So I

think Kant himself is in a way an example

of how a philosopher even today, I think, you know,

may present his philosophical

findings also in

an accessible way. Jan: Right

yeah and that's why I would

understand my own project also as a

Kantian project in a certain sense of

critique. And the concept of,

Kant's concept of critique is

very complex, of course, but there's also

the sort of straightforward sense of

critique, namely that there's so much

bullshit around. And you can, if you have,

if you have a personal

understanding at some point, you

have probably an obligation to tell

people what is bullshit out there. And

well, that's some of what I, we have

tried to do with certain concepts like

empathy, like resilience, like, I don't

know, neuroplasticity, that there are

certain things that are kind of exported

from science into the public, that are

really, well, either incoherent or

problematic or politically one-sided or...

In terms of the concept of

resilience, which is, that embodies a

whole worldview of, about subjects that

struggle for self-preservation and try

to get ready for catastrophe. And there's

a whole outlook in which the world seems

to be on the verge of catastrophe and so

on. But on the other hand, the term is

promoted by certain agencies that kind

of want a specific type of subject. So,

and I think that's actually kind of a

straightforward sense of critique of

enlightening people about what's

actually in this concept and why it is

probably not such a good idea to

promote it in that in that way. And I

think that's still in a broader

sense a Kantian endeavor.

Aljoša: Additional problem is that, you

know, that public will, especially today I

think, always ask you back: "Who are

you to tell us what is bullshit?"

I think that there is a general

resentment towards, exactly towards

professionals that try, you know, to

determine what is bulshit and what is not

bullshit.

For instance, let's take the

term "fake news" that has recently, you

know came to the front.

I think that this term is in

itself a bit patronising, you know, to the

public, and the public of course

quickly recognized that. And I

think that especially today

the task of public critique performed by

philosophers or

intellectuals in general is, you know, how should I

put it, at risk, you know? Or perhaps less

effective than it was in nineties, I think,

or in eighties. And I think that

that has something to do with

the internet. You know, with communication being

accessible to everyone and professionals

not having privileged

voice in discussion. So I think that

today the task of critique is hard.

Jan: Yeah, it's hard. But I mean, I wonder what do

you think is a right response to

that situation? Would you say that

philosophers just have to go on doing

what they do because they know that they

are doing the right thing? Or would you say

that because the parameters, the whole

outlook of the public sphere has changed

because of the internet, that we have to

change our ways, our practices, the

way we address the public, the modes of

communication, habits of publication and

so on?

What would you think? I'm very interested

in that.

Aljoša: Yeah, that's a hard question.

But I think that the most general

strategy should be that

public intellectuals should not present

themselves as professionals, but rather

as someone actually from

the public or from the people. Because

the main reason, I think, that

professional speech today produces

so much resentment is that people,

that because intelectuals present

themselves as

professionals. And that, I think, naturally

produces resentment reaction. So

yeah, I think the general strategy is that

intellectuals should avoid

presenting themselves as intelectuals.

Jan: Okay, well, I see where you're

driving it, but it's a slippery

slope, of course. I mean you cannot,

you cannot completely hide your education,

your status, your standing and so on.

Although I see what you're driving it.

I think what part of the point might be

to use all sorts of venues for

communication. Not only the official

interview or the newspaper article and

all these, you know, big stages where

professors usually speak from, but rather

engage in all sorts of informal

communication channels, but then make

sure that you are kind of doing what you

always did. Namely, be a critical voice.

Be a voice of reason and be consistent in

that and not kind of, you know, faking it

a little bit in order to be

better perceived.

Jan: For me the best way to work

collectively was usually a partnership

with one individual. Like, two people

writing a paper. Or two people, maybe

three, but mostly two people that

kind of have some overlap in their

intuitions or in their

intentions, and then find a common ground.

But you cannot do it all the time,

because then you have to move on to do

something on your own or find someone

else for a different interest. So I have

a rather big network of co-authors. And

sometimes I see them only, like, for

one week a year. We do a little thing and

then, you know, do something together, and

I don't see the person for another year

and so on. But that's great because at

some point you have a certain... There are

certain ideas that resonate with certain

people, although you don't have much in

common with these people. And so I always

look for these sort of alliances. It's

not the same as a scientific research

group where people are hired in the same

lab and interact every day, and that's

more difficult probably. I don't know.

Aljoša: Yeah, I also think that writing

philosophy in co-authorship is actually quite

hard, because, like, the main

thing that philosopher,

the main principle that philosopher has to follow

is consistency. And you don't,

you can't be consistent with someone

else. You can only be consistent with

yourself. And I think that

philosophy in that view is... Writing philosophy

in co-authorship is, in that view, quite hard because, like,

philosophy doesn't have this external

object that various authors can, you

know, agree upon,

but rather, it produces text and that

text has to have its own internal

consistency and I actually don't

imagine how I would write philosophy

with someone else.

Jan: Interesting, yeah. I know, I mean,

two things about that. It's always easier

when you do it in terms of the text that is

more sociological or legal. And in

neuroscience we had a lot of texts that were,

probably you could say they're science and

technology studies in the broader sense.

That was a little easier because you

could kind of divide the text up

into sections and if the sections were a

little different nobody really cared.

In philosophy you really have to look

for a person who shares an intuition

about a topic. So, and often there are people

that I I know quite well, where I think,

okay, we disagree on a lot of things but

here there's a point in Aristotle where

we agree on a certain concept and we

just write a paper on that concept and

it's still difficult. But then I think we

meet on a certain common ground -- and you

need a lot of conversation to find the

common ground -- but then it can be great

fun. And also I'm a lazy person. I like

it when someone else writes my papers and

I can send them half of the paper and

they, yeah. Philosophy can have a

characteristic motivation problem when

you're on your own all the time. It can

be really tiring. And because writing

is also, it's a hard process, I guess,

for most people, and if there's someone

else who can kind of pick up the slack

from time to time

it's great. Thanks.

Goodbye! Aljoša: Goodbye.

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