<"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.
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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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Asimetría del Seno Dr. Curvas, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio - Duration: 7:25.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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won't box it and show you guys what she
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check out the video of the package that
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ok
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cheese but on I was kind of surprised at
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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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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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