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[Assistant] Shallow pools that never completely drained were filled with tiny sea creatures.


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[Assistant] The others were reckless, leaping over the rocks, perching precariously on the edges.


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[Assistant] Except for the small part of my mind that was wondering what Edith was doing now, and trying to imagine what she would be saying if she were here instead. Suddenly everyone was hungry, and I got up stiffly to follow them back. I tried to keep up better this time through the woods, so naturally I tripped. I got some shallow scrapes on my palms, but they didn't bleed much. When we got back to First Beach, the group we'd left behind had multiplied,


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[Assistant] As we got closer I could see the shining straight black hair and copper skin of the new arrivals. Teenagers from the reservation come to socialize. Food was already being passed around and the hikers hurried to claim a share. Erika introduced us to the new kids as we entered the driftwood circle.


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[Assistant] He didn't fill the need to fill every silence with talk, leaving me free to think while we ate.


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[Assistant] Darting in front of the sun momentarily, casting long shadows across the beach, and blackening the waves. As they finished eating, people started to drift away in twos and threes.


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[Assistant] By the time they all had scattered, I was sitting alone on my driftwood log with Logan and Taylor, talking about the CD player someone had brought.


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[Assistant] And three teenagers from the reservation, including the girl named Julie and the oldest girl who acted as spokesperson.


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[Assistant] A few minutes after Alan left with the hikers, Julie came over to take his place by my side. She looked 14, maybe 15.


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[Assistant] However, my positive opinion was damaged by the first words out of her mouth. You were Beaufort Swan, aren't you? It was like the first day of school all over again. Beau, I sighed. Right, she said, like she'd already known that. I'm Julie Black, she held out her hand. You bought my mom's truck. Oh, I said, relieved, shaking her warm hand. Bonnie's your mom. I probably should remember you.


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[Assistant] No, I'm the youngest of the family. You would remember my older brothers. And suddenly I did. Adam and Aaron. Charlie and Bonnie and Bonnie's husband, George, I remembered now. He died a few years back. Car accident or something. And Charlie had been really sad.


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[Assistant] had thrown us together a lot during my visits to keep us busy while they fished.


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[Assistant] We'd never made much progress as friends. Of course, I'd objected often enough to end the fishing trips by the time I was 11. Adam and Aaron and... Jules, wasn't it? She smiled. You do remember. No one's called me that since my brothers left. They aren't here?


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[Assistant] I examined the boys at the ocean's edge, wondering if I'd be able to recognize them now. Jules shook her head. No, Adam got a scholarship to Washington state and Aaron married a Samoan surfer. He lives in Hawaii now. Married? Wow. I was stunned. The twins were only a little over a year older than I was. So how do you like the truck? She asked. I love it. It runs great. Yeah, but it's really slow. She laughed. I was so relieved when Charlie bought it.


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[Assistant] I don't think a tank could take out that old monster, she agreed with another laugh. So you build cars? I asked, impressed. When I have free time and parts.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't happen to know where I could get my hands on a master cylinder for a 1986 Volkswagen Rabbit, she added jokingly. She had an interesting voice, warm and kinda throaty. Sorry, I laughed. I hadn't seen any lately, but I'll keep my eyes open for you. As if I even knew what that was. She was very easy to talk with.


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[Assistant] She flashed a brilliant smile looking at me in a way I was learning to recognize. I wasn't the only one who noticed.


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[Assistant] You know Beaufort, Julie? Logan asked. I should have known someone like Logan would notice how much I disliked my full name.


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[Assistant] Her sarcasm seemed to throw Logan off, but he wasn't done with me yet.


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[Assistant] Oh, Taylor and I were just saying that it was too bad none of the Collins could come out today. Didn't anyone think to ask them?


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[Assistant] He looked at me like he knew I'd asked Edith to come and thought it was hilarious that she'd turned me down. Only it hadn't felt like a rejection in the moment. It felt like she wanted to come with me, but couldn't. Had I read her wrong? My worries were interrupted by a strong, clear voice. You mean Dr. Kareen Cullen's family? It was the older girl who had first introduced the local kids. She was even older than I'd thought, now that I looked at her closer. Not really a girl at all, but a woman. Unlike Julie's, her hair was cut short as a boy's.


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[Assistant] She was standing now, and I saw that she was almost as tall as I was. Logan glared at her, glared up because he was shorter than she was, irritated because she'd spoken before I could respond. Yes, do you know them? He asked in a patronizing tone, only half turned toward her. The Cullens don't come here, she said, and in her clear, forceful voice, sounded less like an observation and more like a command. She had ignored his question, but clearly the conversation was over.


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[Assistant] Sailor, trying to win back Logan's attention, asked his opinion of the CD she held. He was distracted.


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[Assistant] I stared at the woman, she stood with a confident straight posture looking away from the dark forest.


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[Assistant] She'd said that the Cullens didn't come here, but her tone had implied something more. That they weren't allowed to come. That they were prohibited from coming here. Hermana left a strange impression with me that I couldn't shake. Jules interrupted my meditation. So is Forix driving you insane yet? I frowned. Possibly. I was literally insane at this point. I'd say that's an understatement. She grinned sympathetically. I was still turning over the woman's brief comment on the Cullens, and piercing it


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[Assistant] And piecing it together with what I'd read from Edith's reactions the other day. I looked at Jules speculating. What? She asked. You want to take a walk down the beach with me? She looked at Logan, and then back to me with a quick grin. Yeah, let's get out of here. As we walked north toward the Driftwood Sea Wall, the clouds finally won. The sun disappeared, the sea turned black, and the temperature started to drop. I shoved my hands deep in the pockets of my jacket. While we walked, I thought about the way Edith could always get me to talk.


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[Assistant] How she would look at me from under her thick eyelashes and the gold of her eyes would burn and I would forget everything. My own name, how to breathe, everything but her. I eyed the girl walking alongside me now. Jules just had a long sleeve t-shirt. But she swung her arms as she walked. Not bothered by the cold.


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[Assistant] The wind whipped her silky black hair into twists and knots on her back. There was something very natural and open about her face.


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[Assistant] Even if I knew how to do that burning thing that Edith did, this girl would probably just laugh at me. But not meanly, I don't think. With Jules, you would always be in on the joke.


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[Assistant] Nice friends, she commented when we were far enough from the fire that the clattering of the stones beneath our feet was more than enough to drown out our voices. Not mine. She laughed, I could tell.


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[Assistant] Were those other kids your friends? That one seemed kind of older. That's Samantha, Sam. She's 19 I think. I don't hang out with her. One of my friends was there before, Quill. I think she went up to the store. I don't remember which one she was. She shrugged. I didn't catch many names either. I only remember yours because you used to pull my hair. I did? I'm so sorry. She laughed. Your face.


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[Assistant] No, that was just my brother's, but I totally could have convinced you that you were guilty. It was easy to laugh with her. Guess so. Hey, can I ask you something? Shoot.


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[Assistant] What did that girl, Sam, what did she mean about the doctor's family? Jules made a face and then looked away toward the ocean. She didn't say anything. Which had to mean that I was right. There was something more to what Sam had said and Jules knew what it was. She was still looking at the ocean. Hey, uhm, I didn't mean to be rude or anything. Jules turned back with another smile, kind of apologetic. No worries, it's just, I'm not really supposed to talk about that. It's a secret?


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[Assistant] She pursed her curved lips. Sort of. I held my hands up. Forget I asked. Already blew it though, didn't I? I wouldn't say you did. That girl Sam was a little... intense. She laughed. Cool, Sam's fault then. I laughed too. Not really though, I'm totally confused.


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[Assistant] She looked up at me smiling like we'd shared a secret of our own already. Can I trust you? Of course. You won't go running to spill to your blonde friend? Logan? Oh yea, I can't keep anything from that guy. We're like brothers.


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[Assistant] She liked that. When she laughed it made me feel like I was funnier than I really was. Her husky voice dropped a little lower. Do you like scary stories, Bo?


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[Assistant] For one second, I could hear Edith's voice clearly in my head. Do you think I could be scary? How scary are we talking here? You will never sleep again, she promised. Well, now I have to hear it. She chuckled and looked down, a smile playing around the edges of her lips. I could tell she would try to make this good.


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[Assistant] Do you know any of our old stories about where we come from? The Quillutes, I mean. She began. Not really, I admitted.


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[Assistant] There are lots of legends, some of them claiming to take back to the Great Flood supposedly.


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[Assistant] There are stories of the cold ones as old as the wolf legends, and some much more recent. According to legend, my own great grandmother knew some of them. She was the one who made the treaty that kept them off of our land. She rolled her eyes. Your great grandmother, I encouraged. She was a tribal elder like my mother. You see, the cold ones are the natural enemies of the wolf.


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[Assistant] Well not the wolf, really, but the wolves that turn into women like our ancestors. You could call them werewolves, I guess. Werewolves have enemies. Only one. I stared at her, too eager, trying to decide


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[Assistant] I stared at her too eager, trying to disguise my impatience as entertainment.


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[Assistant] So you see, Jules continued, the cold ones are traditionally our enemies.


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[Assistant] There's always a risk for humans to be around the cold ones, even if they're civilized like this clan alleged they were. You never know when they might get too hungry to resist. She deliberately worked a thick edge of menace into her tone. What do you mean civilized? They claimed they didn't hunt humans. They supposedly were somehow able to prey on animals instead. I tried to keep my voice casual, but I was pretty sure I failed.


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[Assistant] So how does it fit in with the Cullens? Are they like the cold ones your great grandmother met? No. She paused dramatically. They are the same ones.


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[Assistant] She must have thought the expression on my face meant only that I was engrossed in her story. She smiled, pleased, and continued. There are more of them now, a new female and a new male, but the rest are the same. In my great grandmother's time, they already knew of the leader, Kareen. She'd been here and gone before your people even had arrived. She was fighting out her smile, trying to keep the tone serious.


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[Assistant] And what are they? I finally asked. What are the cold ones? Blood drinkers. She replied in a chilling voice. Your people call them vampires.


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[Assistant] I stared out at the rough surf after she answered, not sure what my face was giving away. Do you think I could be scary? Edith's voice repeated in my head. You have goosebumps on your neck. Jules laughed delightedly.


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[Assistant] You're a good storyteller, I told her, still staring into the waves. Thanks, but you're just cold. It's crazy stuff, isn't it? No wonder my mom doesn't want us to talk about it anymore.


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[Assistant] I couldn't control my expression enough to look at her yet. Don't worry, I won't give it away.


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[Assistant] He was pretty mad at my mom when he heard that some of us weren't going to go to the hospital since Dr. Cullen started working there. I won't say anything to Charlie. Of course not. So do you think we're a bunch of superstitious natives or what? She asked in a playful tone, but with a hint of worry. I still hadn't looked away from the ocean. So I turned and smiled at her as normally as I could. No, I think you're very good at telling scary stories though. I still have goosebumps. See? I yanked back the sleeve of my jacket to show her. Cool. She grinned.


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[Assistant] Our heads snapped up at the same time to see Michaela and Jeremy about 50 yards away walking toward us. There you are, Beau. Michaela called in relief, waving her arm over her head. Is that your girlfriend? Jules asked, picking up the edge in Michaela's voice. I was surprised it was so obvious. No, why does everyone think that? Jules snorted. Maybe because she wants them to. I sighed. You ever need a break from these friends of yours? Let me know.


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[Assistant] I didn't know if it was because we'd known each other longer, if not well.


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[Assistant] Or if it was because Jules was so easygoing, but I already felt more comfortable with her than I did with any of the kids I'd be riding home with.


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[Assistant] Mikayla had reached us now with Jeremy a few gazes back, struggling to keep up.


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[Assistant] Michaela looked Jules up and down once, and then turned to me in a move that was strangely dismissive of Jules. Jules snorted quietly again.


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[Assistant] Where have you been? Michaela asked, though the answer was right in front of her. Jules here was giving me the guided tour of First Beach.


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[Assistant] I smiled at Jules and she grinned back. Again, it was like we had a shared secret. Of course, that was true now. Well, Michaela said, eyeing Jules again. We're packing up. Looks like it's gonna rain.


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[Assistant] We all glanced up, the clouds were thick and black and very wet looking. Okay, I said, I'm coming. It was nice to see you again, Jules emphasized. And I guessed she was messing with Michaela.


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[Assistant] It really was. Next time Charlie comes down to see Bonnie, I'll come with.


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[Assistant] Her grin stretched across her entire face showing her straight white teeth. That would be cool.


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[Assistant] And thanks, I added in a low voice, not quite casual enough. She winked at me. I pulled up my hood as we trudged across the rocks toward the parking lot.


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[Assistant] A few drops were beginning to fall, making black spots on the stones where they landed. When we got to the suburban, the others were already loading everything back in. I crawled into the backseat by Alan and Taylor, announcing that I'd already had my turn in the shotgun position. Alan just stared out the window at the building storm, and Logan twisted around the middle seat to occupy Taylor's attention.


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[Assistant] I was free to lay my head back over the seat close my eyes and try very hard not to think.


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[Assistant] Yes, our last podcast, we discussed many important issues. So I thought I'll quickly summarize and then we'll take the discussion forward from there. That's okay with you? Yes. So we were discussing broadly on the topic of protecting Dharma.


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[Assistant] And 2-3 main points that struck me were that


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[Assistant] Those who have Kshatriya nature take it up and in other fields also, when, when we understand who we are,


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[Assistant] So the idea of secularism, which is, which is in the Vedic tradition is more intrinsic


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[Assistant] In the sense that the king's duty is to maintain law and order, dharma, and then one's bhakti is a personal activity which the head of the state


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[Assistant] Whereas in the modern sense, secularism is more a reaction to religious overreach.


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[Assistant] And so we, I thought we could differentiate between a secular government and secularism as a worldview.


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[Assistant] I would like to ask 2-3 questions related with this. Maybe we could go a little backward and in one sense, uh, how was dharma, say,


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[Assistant] We can have spiritual values being taught separate from the educational system. So to create that structure that itself is going to take a significant amount of time.


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[Assistant] And will that structure be able to compete with the mainstream educational structure and its values? Even the mainstream academia, it teaches religion but teaches in quite a different way, which will not necessarily be fostering spiritual values.


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[Assistant] Without being, uh, without coming off as fanatical, without getting into that negative branding and then defending ourselves and...


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[Assistant] Yes, so if you consider from a, let's begin with the historical perspective. The one reason I thought of is recently I've been reading a little bit about world history and in many ways India is the only


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[Assistant] Let's say China is now, it had been, it had a history of communism, now it is a communist-capitalist hybrid. We don't want to go into that, but my point is that while India had been invaded repeatedly by many invaders, but still Dharma had a resilience.


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[Assistant] Uh, even though we could say that the westernization is happening, but in many ways,


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[Assistant] As westernization is happening, still I feel there is some amount of, uh, we could say rejuvenation. Like Indians in the West, many of them, especially after they start having children.


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[Assistant] The two things, one is how, what is the reason for having the staying power and of course we also know that there was, there was a lot of aggression and a lot of damage also happened because of overt or covert, overt or covert aggression. So maybe you could speak something about this.


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[Assistant] Let me clarify what you are trying to say is that, so rather than thinking of dharma in terms of say external structures like temples or that we have to protect dharma means people think about that.


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[Assistant] It was about how many Europeans were, many Europeans had joined Islamic states and other extremist organizations.


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[Assistant] And the whole article's thrust was that


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[Assistant] Actually, it is not Islam that is radicalizing people. Rather, there were people already who were deformed and they had a radical mentality and Islam just became an excuse for them.


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[Assistant] It is, you could say, whitewashing one thing and then, like recently also when the Bangladesh attacks were there, the news coverage was so slanted.


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[Assistant] On one side they said yeaah, but there was some, far more prominence was given to the fact that after India lost to Pakistan, that some people were arrested in India because they were celebrating the victory of Pakistan.


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[Assistant] How to protect dharma and how dharma in one sense was, was it lost due to various aggression. So you are talking about in today's world,


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[Assistant] It's beautiful. So, so what you're trying, if I try to understand what you're saying is that, that there is, uh, there is a,


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[Assistant] Is actually an overcompensation for? Internal emptiness. Internal emptiness, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Of course, I don't know if that is the only category because there are some people, uh, who seem to be totally convinced.


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[Assistant] Okay, so rather than creating systems for transforming people


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[Assistant] So there, that means the shastra gives us proper vision.


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[Assistant] It's rather than telling people don't do this, if you just give them the vision to see how what they're doing is, or which of their choices is beneficial, which is harmful, then naturally they will themselves choose well.


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[Assistant] Very positively about the brahmanas also, how they were like, uh, guides and, uh, mentors and advisors for society and they help them in their times of distress. So there is one...


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[Assistant] Books, pre-colonial western pilgrims who came to India, western travellers who came to India.


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[Assistant] But then at one level we also talked about dharma as conscience.


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[Assistant] But they also would be having some level of dharmic values. So when you're talking about samskaras, you're not necessarily talking about


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[Assistant] The world is completely reduced to mechanical operations and mechanical functions and the whole


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[Assistant] There was a integrated or you could say conscious outlook which is there almost across most, you could say pre-modern cultures.


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[Assistant] They all involve supernatural elements and so many supernatural elements and people are fascinated by that.


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[Assistant] But from there, the way science has progressed is that rather than focusing on the mystery, now it is more of removing the mystery.


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[Assistant] Uh, the state, I thought you said it was, it was controlled by the Brahmanas. But rather than focusing on Brahmanas, it is more like the community, the family, the community, according to the, what are the needs of society it was provided.


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[Assistant] So in one sense, rather than if we take today's professions,


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[Assistant] Is uh, is Vaishal. It is a little more complicated than that.


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[Assistant] Because even within one profession there could be people with different dispositions.


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[Assistant] This is so fascinating, this is like opening a whole universe for me. Because especially in the western world, there is, this is a big issue of turmoil.


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[Assistant] One of the political candidates for the governor, he said that the parent should have no control over what the school is going to teach the students.


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[Assistant] And basically in the school they were teaching all woke ideology, the um, critical race theory and other things. And many parents agitated against that. And the whole election became an issue of parenting.


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[Assistant] We can say that the student, it's not that the student thinks I have learned so much and I don't need to learn anything more, but rather the student


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[Assistant] The left has in many ways penetrated the academy quite a bit. And then they control what is to be taught.


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[Assistant] And there are many parents who feel so concerned that, especially in America, uh, even in India, to some extent it's happening that


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[Assistant] Uh, not so much, but many parents feel alarmed to especially let their children go to humanities. In the STEM field, it has not come so much.


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[Assistant] So that is prevented a little, prevented significantly. There's a decentralized model where people decide based on the needs of the community, needs of the individual, how is, how education should take place.


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[Assistant] So then the ethos that, in one sense, from my perspective, I should, like we say, obey the spiritual master, obey the authority. That's more of a mood of respect that is to be cultivated. It's not something...


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[Assistant] So in one sense, we can say that the Bhagavad Gita,


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[Assistant] And even when Krishna talks about his, his divinity, that he's not talking about his divinity to sort of extract obedience.


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[Assistant] He's talking about his divinity to explain the worldview in which, by which Arjuna will naturally be able to choose what he should be doing.


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[Assistant] So now, you know, some, many of the things which you are mentioning can seem quite different from say,


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[Assistant] What Prabhupada wrote in his books or what Prabhupada...


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[Assistant] Or the way Krishna conscious understood it within, within the Niskan. Could it be because Prabhupada was actually introducing


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[Assistant] He initially arranged for the marriage of his disciples. And then he afterwards said, this is not the business of a Nyasi. I should not be doing it. I'll not be doing it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and one of the challenges is that when we initially get the philosophy,


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[Assistant] It is cross-cultural but also it leads to a certain level of, uh, dismissiveness about other things in life, everything else.


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[Assistant] Like one is, your whole pre-Krishna conscious life was like just a dream, whether it was a good dream or a bad dream, just wake up and now your real life is beginning. And the other is that,


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[Assistant] You know, our Krishna conscious life is not basically like a rejection of our past, but it is like a building upon our past.


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[Assistant] So now in particular situations, eh, quite often the way it is kissing, like you talked about the first guru, second guru, quite often when we practice Krishna consciousness,


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[Assistant] Like you said earlier that there is more focus on teaching rituals among the parents to the children rather than teaching the rationale or the values or the ultimate purpose of life.


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[Assistant] Because that is a situation where many, at least in the early years of Krishna consciousness, they find themselves.


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[Assistant] Rather than considering that the drops build up to make the ocean, what we are saying is that there is no need for the drops at all. We just have the ocean.


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[Assistant] Asurvar Riya, you are the greatest of asuras, in his context, it's actually, he's respecting


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[Assistant] That's beautiful. Earlier we were talking at a spiritual level also, like Pandita Samadarshina. At the same time, there is equality of vision while there is, you could say, variety in how we interact, in interaction.


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[Assistant] Dharma in one sense is recognizing a person's individuality while also respecting their, the fact that they belong to a whole.


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[Assistant] So overall, if you see if the way you have been discussing is that rather than becoming panicky or becoming hopeless.


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[Assistant] And uh, you're talking about avatar, I was also thinking at that time that


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[Assistant] Krishna did fight and kill some demons himself but then Krishna had Arjuna and the whole Bhagavita was spoken not so that Krishna will do


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[Assistant] Arjuna will learn to do his duty. It is more for the human to participate or cooperate with the divine.


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[Assistant] And their contribution is in terms of doing whatever is,


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[Assistant] So maybe there's one last point I'd like to discuss and of course there's many more points we could discuss, but why is it that if the ethos is on individual responsibility, there is so much, uh, of, uh,


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[Assistant] If we consider objectively speaking, uh, in today's world, there are Christians who have mega, there are mega churches with these big pastors, but even there it is because Jesus is a central person. There is not so much centered worshiping of that particular pastor.


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[Assistant] But in our tradition, the, it's not just within Vaishnavism, but in general, there seems to be a lot of personality cult that is there. So the Guru centered ideas. So where has this come from actually?


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[Assistant] In one sense, identifying with one's nation is not a bad thing, but if that identification is without some fundamental values.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a, so again this is, so dharma is not frozen, dharma is dynamic.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, definitely. You could say there's so much more to discuss, but I'll quickly summarize. We broadly discussed today about


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[Assistant] And that's how, later on you mentioned how Shivaji Maharaj, he created many, many Shivaji, people with the spirit of Shivaji Maharaj. And like that, across the, from that hill tribe, across the whole of India, there were people who were inspired to protect Dharma. So then we discussed over there about,


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[Assistant] Historically, while there are remnants of Dharmic principles in various traditions across the world also,


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[Assistant] But still, what has happened is when you talk about samskaras, they are not necessarily just specific rituals. Yeaah, they are refined understandings of how or refined expressions of how the innate nature could be brought about. But at some level understanding that


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[Assistant] Faith or Shaddah. Either Shaddah was the harmonious.


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[Assistant] So in that sense, fanaticism comes when one's


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[Assistant] In the educational ethos, it is not just Brahmanas who taught everything.


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[Assistant] So education was never controlled by the state and not even inconsistency controlled by the Brahmanas. The idea is that it was broadly.


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[Assistant] So the guru's role, the spiritual master's role was more of, uh, was not that the spiritual master replaces the parents. There is a third guru.


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[Assistant] So we understand that that's more of, that won't be disruptive.


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[Assistant] Even Krishna himself demonstrates that in the Bhagavad Gita when he doesn't impose on Arjuna using his godhood but he asks Arjuna to think and decide and he also mentioned how even when Arjuna criticizes


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[Assistant] And he mentions about, he objects to the way Ram acted. Krishna doesn't take objection to that. In the killing of Vali when Ram acted. So the idea is that


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[Assistant] That was one thing which you didn't explore, but I think you pointed out that there's the constitutional, circumstantial and conditional and so instructions.


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[Assistant] Can be at different levels and if you take one instruction and absolutize it, it's like, uhm, what are the metaphor? A GOL in the hands of a?


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[Assistant] Was it a? Monkey. Monkey, monkey. It will just cause damage. It will not be valued.


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[Assistant] That's why even the words of the Guru have a scene in the context of the words of Shastra and the broader tradition in which, through which things have emerged. And toward the end, we discussed also about how in the, in today's world,


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[Assistant] When there is, uh, if you consider the, this was like a theme which is going on throughout that.


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[Assistant] The social dimension and the political dimension in media has been misrepresented. But if we can ourselves understand and then we explain the subtlety, the profundity of how somebody like exalted like Bheeshma,


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[Assistant] Could be attacked for being on the side of Adharma but still at the same time could be respected.


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[Assistant] So that, this kind of subtlety in understanding and interacting, these principles, if we explain them systematically, then that itself will attract thoughtful people.


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[Assistant] And rather than trying to create a system which will which will which will.


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[Assistant] With spiritual guidance or rather keeping the spiritual purpose in mind. And that's how Dharma could be protected and rejuvenated.


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[Assistant] Ah. Well, I must be returning to Dunwell, I suppose.


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[Assistant] Come, Weston's an excellent fellow. He's been a widower too long. He'll make her the admirable husband that she deserves. But you and Emma will lose housekeeper, governess, companion, and friend all at one stroke. His poor Mr. and Miss Woodhouse, in my opinion.


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[Assistant] But she knows how much this marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage. It really is the most satisfactory thing for all concerned, I should consider.


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[Assistant] Yes, but success supposes some kind of endeavor. Am I to understand that you have been laboring these past four years to bring this match about? It's a fine occupation for a young lady, I must say.


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[Assistant] You merely said to yourself one day how delightful it would be if Mr. Weston to marry Miss Taylor. And as it happened, he did. I want to say to be proud of him now. You merely made a lucky guess, that's all.


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[Assistant] Why not? The Martin girls are admirable young women. I have a very high opinion of the whole family.


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[Assistant] I know that Michael Jackson was a real hero of yours.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was, how did it happen? I was, I was in Paris, and I was with Kenny Ortega. We were promoting High School Musical 3, I wanna say it was. It was probably 20, maybe 20, 21 at the time. And we were at dinner, and uhm,


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[Assistant] I was like, uhm, this is Zac Efron, I'm a massive fan and I'm an actor and you're like my hero and I didn't know what to say. I was like kind of, I was just at a loss for words and uh, rambling on and then he said,


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks for showing me how to dance, how to be, you know, how to believe in myself, how to...


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[Assistant] Something along the lines of, hey Zach, and I like stopped crying for a second. He's like, isn't it, isn't it awesome? And I was like, what? And he goes, dreams really do come true, don't they? And I was like...


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[Assistant] The Iron Mountain Armory has been hand crafting samurai armor since 2005. They offer the most authentic, economical, and customizable samurai armor in the world. They currently offer their armor in three separate classes. The Kachi class, or foot soldiers armor, is for the samurai on a budget.


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[Assistant] The Gashira class, or officer's armor, is crafted for a samurai who wants their armor ready for battle. The Taisho class, or general's armor,


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[Assistant] Is meticulously handcrafted by the most experienced armorers, with a samurai who wants the highest in quality.


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[Assistant] We used all three classes during our testing, including the tatami armor.


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[Assistant] We decided to test this particular Taisho class suit of armor because we've trained with it for over a year in the heat, rain, and snow.


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[Assistant] Making a lot like a suit of armor a samurai would have worn after a long march into battle.


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[Assistant] After all of this abuse, we will see if it can still stand up to the ultimate test.


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[Assistant] As you can see, the Samurai armor crafted by the Iron Mountain Armory holds up to the test. Everything that we put the armor through,


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[Assistant] Through grappling, fighting, sparring, climbing trees, scaling mountains, it standed up to the test. It held its own. And still, the armor works as it's designed to. It's versatile, it's flexible, it's repairable. The Iron Mountain Armory and Ryujin swords are crafted traditionally. They're the most authentic, economical armor and swords on the market today.


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[Assistant] And Wedgeworth was an American character actress. Dead on 16th of November 2017.


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[Assistant] At the age of 83, she died after a short illness.


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[Assistant] A.B. Vigoda was an American famous actor, died on January 26, 2016, died of natural causes at the age of 94 years.


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[Assistant] Lee Paterson was a Canadian film and television actor, died on 14th of February, 2007. The cause of death was lung cancer. At the age of 77,


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[Assistant] Phyllis Newman was an American actress and singer. Died on 15th of September 2019. Died from complications of a lung disorder.


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[Assistant] Died on December 20, 2018. Died from complications of a recent stroke in Celebi.


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[Assistant] Jen Maxwell was an American stage and television actress, died on 11th of February 2018, the cause of death was breast cancer.


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[Assistant] Deanna Lund was an American film and television actress. Died on June 22, 2018, at the age of 81 years. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.


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[Assistant] Rick Latresa was an American stage film and television actor, died on 19th of December 2016, at the age of 87. The cause of death was heart failure.


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[Assistant] Mark Lamoura was an American actor, died on 12th of September 2017, at the age of 68 years. The cause of death was lung cancer.


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[Assistant] Viola Harris, she was a famous actress. Died on 23rd of August 2017 at the age of 91 years. Died after 5 years struggle with dementia.


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[Assistant] Al Freeman Jr. was an American actor, director, and educator. He died on August 9, 2012. At the age of 78 years old, no cause was disclosed.


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[Assistant] Patricia Elliott, she was an American theatre, film, soap opera and television actress, died on December 20, 2015 at the age of 77 years. The cause of death was cancer.


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[Assistant] Kevin Conway was an American actor and film director. Died on 5th of February 2020 at the age of 77 years. Cause of death was heart attack.


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[Assistant] Philip Carey was an American actor. Died on 6th of February 2009 at the age of 83. Cause of death was lung cancer.


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[Assistant] Ross Quibon was an American actor and songwriter, dead on 3rd of March 2020, at the age of 69 years. Cause of death was suicide.


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[Assistant] Doris Ballack was an American character actress of a stage film and television, died on 4th of October 2011, at the age of 85, dead of natural causes.


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[Assistant] Orson Bean was a veteran American film, television and stage actor, died on 7th of February 2020, at the age of 91, cause of death was a traffic accident.


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[Assistant] Gerald Anthony, he was an American actor, dead on May 28, 2004, at the age of 52, cause of death was suicide.


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[Assistant] Miriam Cullen was a famous actress, died on 3rd of March 2017, at the age of 8 years, cause of death was pneumonia.


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[Assistant] Died on 4th of April 2020, at the age of 94. Because of that was complications from Coronavirus.


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[Assistant] This all started in September of 2011. I was visiting a friend from China.


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[Assistant] He's from Waterloo but moved to Shanghai to finish school and ended up starting his own company.


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[Assistant] His concept was simple. Create a bike shop that built up the community around it.


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[Assistant] The more we talked about this idea of a business building up the community, we realized that that's exactly what Waterloo is all about. So when I got home from China, we started this journey to figure it all out.


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[Assistant] There are thousands of new startups each year, but what makes the ones from Waterloo any different?


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if something will ever be able to nail down to an exact science, or duplicate in other places, but I know one thing for sure. There's no other place in the world like this one here.


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[Assistant] In the past couple of years have come to define it as two people who are both at different stages of a similar journey of impact who are investing in each other's development. And that can be really powerful.


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[Assistant] Everything from our finance team to our human resources to our marketing team is led by volunteers, supported by volunteers, executed by volunteers.


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[Assistant] That ripple effect of taking solutions from the community level, understanding the core of them, and then starting to share that with others, that is


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, and we actually have a new addition to the Vidyard team. Version of the V-Bot built. Probably won't be able to get this all in the shot.


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[Assistant] And the reason for that is, of course, is that the only real marketing movies get, I think, is word of mouth. You can promote it all you want.


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[Assistant] Uh, but if the first few audiences go there and come back and can't say, I really saw this great film.


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[Assistant] Then you're not gonna go very far. So people went to see the Shawshank Redemption and they came back, oh man, I saw this really terrific movie. It's called the, uh,


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[Assistant] I can see why some people took him for annoying.


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[Assistant] It's a game dating back centuries. I would say chess is a game mimicked by a battle from medieval times.


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[Assistant] The value of uh, connecting with older adults like that, it can't be understated.


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[Assistant] I woke in the hours before dawn, shivering and rigid with terror.


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[Assistant] I couldn't recall the dream that woke me, but the abrupt plunge into reality was equally frightening.


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[Assistant] It had been possible to forget my situation for a time the night before, lost in the pleasures of newfound intimacy. Now I was alone.


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[Assistant] Next to a sleeping stranger with whom my life was inextricably linked. A drift in a place filled with unseen threat.


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[Assistant] I must have made some sound of distress, for there was a sudden upheaval of bedclothes as the stranger in my bed vaulted to the floor with the heart stopping suddenness of a pheasant rising underfoot.


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[Assistant] He came to rest in a crouch near the door of the chamber, barely visible in the pre-dawn light.


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[Assistant] Pausing to listen carefully at the door, he made a rapid inspection of the room, gliding soundlessly from door to window to bed.


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[Assistant] The angle of his arm told me that he held a weapon of some sort, though I couldn't see what it was in the darkness.


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[Assistant] Sitting down next to me, satisfied that all was secure,


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[Assistant] I started to ask what it was that made him spring so abruptly to the alert.


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[Assistant] A large warm hand ran down my bare arm, interrupting my question. No wonder. You're frozen.


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[Assistant] The hand urged me under the pile of quilts and into the warm space recently vacated. My fault, he murmured. I've taken all the quilts. I'm afraid I'm no accustomed yet to share a bed.


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[Assistant] He wrapped the quilts comfortably around us and lay back beside me. A moment later he reached again to touch my face.


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[Assistant] I gave a short hiccuping laugh, not quite a sob. No, it isn't you.


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[Assistant] I reached out in the dark, groping for a hand to press reassuringly.


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[Assistant] My fingers met a tangle of quilts and warm flesh, but at last I found the hand I had been seeking. We lay side by side, looking up at the low beaned ceiling.


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[Assistant] What if I said I couldn't pair you? I asked suddenly. What on earth could you do? The bed creaked as he shrugged.


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[Assistant] Tell Dougal you wanted an amulment on grounds of non-consumation, I suppose.


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[Assistant] This time I laughed outright. Non-consummation. With all those witnesses.


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[Assistant] The room was growing light enough to see the smile on the face turn toward me. Ay, well.


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[Assistant] And I'd rather be embarrassed than wed to someone that hated me. I turn toward him. I don't hate you. I don't hate you either.


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[Assistant] There's many good marriages that started with less than that. Gently he turned me away from him.


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[Assistant] I felt warm, soothed, and safe for the first time in many days.


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[Assistant] It was only as I drifted into sleep under the first rays of daylight that I remembered the knife above my head and wondered again


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[Assistant] What fret would make a man sleep armed and watchful in his bridal chamber?


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[Assistant] Coming, Doctor, you'll like me. Barry, you have another date for lunch, haven't you?


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[Assistant] You're suffering from a bad case of what we might call the dangerous age. You've been living too young. You've been eating too young. You've been drinking too young. You've been, yes, you've been thinking too young.


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[Assistant] And all because you fancy yourself to be in love with a young girl in her twenties.


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[Assistant] What do you prescribe? An operation. Removal of the tumor, sooner the better. You're positive of that? Yes. It's the only chance he has, outside of a miracle. You're absolutely right.


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[Assistant] But injustice to everybody, I'm going to do my best to make him accept. That's more than generous, Leonard. If you lose him, I know it'll be an awful blow to you.


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[Assistant] Well, every time I intend to call Lockberg up, something important turns up. Nothing is that important. Look.


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[Assistant] Test off the assembly line this morning. 41 brand new lines. Thought it evens things up, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] How long do they keep her quiet, Mike? Well sir, that was 13 years ago, come Shrove Tuesday. And according to a letter I received last week, she's still sitting there.


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[Assistant] You're suspended from duty pending a hearing for the hospital board tomorrow, Friday at noon. I'm sorry. You may go.


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[Assistant] There are seven million people in this town. How do you expect to track down the identity of one unknown lunatic?


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[Assistant] Nail up their heads on London Bridge. Today we're not that merciful. When they kick over the traces, we have to throw them out and let them die of broken hearts.


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[Assistant] Now, Mother, I think you are a mind reader. Yes, I... I am at kind of a crossroads.


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[Assistant] The rash hangs on in spite of everything that I've done, although it's confined to our hands. It's obviously a skin allergy. Allergy? Why, that might take months to identify.


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[Assistant] Marjan. I've heard of trouble with Marjan sets. The lacquer contains sap.


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[Assistant] From a Japanese tree of the Schumach family. That could count for the skin disease.


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[Assistant] Then you've never seen insulin tried when the patient wasn't in perfect physical shape. Oh no. No in case of any injury, especially today.


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[Assistant] I know it is, Jimmy. And I don't want to interfere. I'll tell you how you can help me.


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[Assistant] Every instinct I had told me that Dr. Lane was a good surgeon.


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[Assistant] Having his head nailed on London Bridge. Funny, you never think of that once you get started. Young Dr. Kildare, you've got a single-track mind. I'm trying to be like you.


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[Assistant] Suppose I promise you to see Lockberg three times a week and you can stay in the room.


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[Assistant] That is, provided you'll promise not to make a fool of yourself more than three times a year. Why do you think I came up here?


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[Assistant] Me and my pals made a house to house canvas of the neighborhood where your screwball was run over. We found one house where a guy had disappeared. Well, go on.


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[Assistant] That it doesn't claim that it's doing anything else.


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[Assistant] I probably wouldn't spend £3 on one to do that job without knowing what job it's really doing.


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[Assistant] No, I'm enjoying the look of that bit already. Lift the cloche.


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[Assistant] Ooh, you've been treating me.


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[Assistant] I like it, but I definitely question the person that gave this to me.


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[Assistant] I'm intrigued that they've made it look exactly like a standard bottle of Carver Prosecco Champagne and not something a little bit different. That's not going to stand out on a shelf necessarily as to what its USP is. Which I thought they might have bigged up a bit, but then I also quite like the fact that they haven't made a big deal out of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. As a product, I think it's cool, I like the innovation and I think it tastes nice. I mean, what other trees could you get the sap out of? I've got trees in my back garden.


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[Assistant] Alcohol, pretty standard. I'm not saying I would pay this, but I imagine you're probably looking maybe £30 a bottle.


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[Assistant] No. If it's a drink, then it's definitely a side to a meal, not the meal.


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[Assistant] I've definitely noticed over the last year or so that kombucha is suddenly now available in supermarkets and it's suddenly become mainstream in that respect.


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[Assistant] It's definitely a bit more sour. It's not, not tasty. Going back to real.


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[Assistant] Five pounds, but that's a complete stab in the dark.


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[Assistant] I would buy more kombucha if I knew that that's the sort of price that it was because I do enjoy drinking it. I just don't know enough about it and my perception of it is that it would be expensive because it's this brand new trendy thing.


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[Assistant] How about you, handsome? Haven't I seen you somewhere before? Well, it doesn't matter. I like party crashers. He's not a party crasher. I brought him. Oh. I wouldn't mind being followed by a cop.


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[Assistant] It's nothing like a love song. To give you good love.


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[Assistant] I saw him. Why you double-crossing buzzard?


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[Assistant] There's only one job that you coppers would want me for.


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[Assistant] That word gives me pain. No, thank you. I don't go for patriotism or, or patriots.


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[Assistant] Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other. That's your patriotism. Well, you can have it.


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[Assistant] Well that doesn't prove much. I didn't turn him in.


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[Assistant] Alright. You better tell him.


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[Assistant] Why don't you give that copper's brain of yours the rest?


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[Assistant] You saw because you have fallen for a little drunk you tailed in Miami, and you don't like it. Makes you sick all over, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] People will laugh at you. The invincible devlin in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on. Poor dev. In love with a no-good girl, it must be awful. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Marriage must be wonderful with this sort of thing going on every day.


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[Assistant] Well Hansen, I think you better tell mama what's going on. All this secrecy is going to ruin my little dinner.


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[Assistant] The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable children, and this madness between us can't go on any longer.


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[Assistant] How dare you gentlemen suggest that Alicia Huberman, the new Miss Huberman, be submitted to so ugly a fate.


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[Assistant] Oh, we shouldn't have had this out here. It's all cold now.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm not that easily put off. I was too anxious to meet you again.


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[Assistant] He refused to let his lawyers call me, understand. I wonder why.


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[Assistant] Oh, I just have a little shopping. I'd like to go to the Imperial and maybe I'll go to Cosmos and see if they have any new books in from New York.


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[Assistant] To Spain? Does Mr. Devlin know that?


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[Assistant] Thank you, Captain Prescott. I'll keep my ears wide open. Bye.


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[Assistant] Yes, one of the beautiful little native towns. Tell me, are you going to Leopoldina?


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[Assistant] Miss Huberman, may I present Eric Matisse. How do you do?


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[Assistant] I find out what I'm married to. Look what they did to Emil Hupka. Emil, who did nothing. And I betrayed them, I bungled, and there's no excuse.


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[Assistant] Joseph, disconnect the telephone. Madam must have absolute quiet.


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[Assistant] Tell me, when did you first feel sick?


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[Assistant] If you'll come with me, the mountains won't make you seasick. And the Amores Mountains are beautiful. Covered with flowers.


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[Assistant] No, no, thank you. I, uh, never drink more than one brandy, and even this is sometimes too much. I'll just finish my coffee.


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[Assistant] Papa wa dore ka wakaru ka na? Ue kara erande, dekai.


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[Assistant] Two different flavours, cucumber, mint and thyme, and chilli and ginger. Nice!


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[Assistant] It's really refreshing. There's a big hit of ginger and you're left with the warmth of chilli rather than the flavour necessarily of chilli, but it's not slap you in the face, spicy or anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like a health food version of a lemonade. Nice. I think they're both really delicious, refreshing drinks. And if the kefir is doing something great to my gut biome, then that is all round a top effort.


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[Assistant] However, none of them are original versions of those meats. And what I can't work out


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[Assistant] Is whether they are a different animal's meat in place of where I'd expect it to be, or whether it's a vegan alternative.


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[Assistant] With processed meats like sausages, black puddings, bacons, things like that.


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[Assistant] They have so many spices and flavourings added to them. I can see how that can be replicated through spices and that kind of thing. Fine, I get that. But these go the extra mile with texture. And I've not really had that with meat replacements before. It's the texture where you always


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[Assistant] Can kind of tell something's slightly off with what your expectations might be.


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[Assistant] On their own I think is where they really stand out because you can tell that they're decent and the fact that I was sitting there trying to work out are they vegan, are they just a different animal is a real telltale sign that that is a massive advancement.


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[Assistant] If they start getting that good and you don't feel like you're missing out on the meat element, which was always something for me, then


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[Assistant] Like there is a difference in texture, it's not melting in the same way.


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[Assistant] Lactose intolerant. There's so many different elements to cover that aren't health based.


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[Assistant] My last ship carrying a precious cargo had disappeared at sea.


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[Assistant] Now on my way home through the great forest, I've lost my way.


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[Assistant] A beauty, eh? Big, and it'll be tasty too. Got him with one shot. You don't believe me? Then stay and watch me kill the fawn and the doe.


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[Assistant] Now I thank you for it. Without the ring, she cannot return to the Beast's castle. And if she does not return, he will die. Now understand this. Whatever she says or does, you must not...


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[Assistant] I actually want to get this perfect three point game tonight. Like, it's gotta happen. This seems so much easier than bowling a perfect game. I don't know how many balls you gotta throw through a hoop. But I have a basketball hoop in my driveway, and I'm a young curry out there, so...


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[Assistant] So I'm out here practicing for the three point contest on Wii Sports Resort with none other than Beef Boss himself. He's got the ball right here. And I'll tell you what, if he makes it on the first one,


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[Assistant] Great shot BeefBoss, and it was our first try too. This dashing, athletic, sexy,


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[Assistant] The beef boss figure by YouTube is dropping tomorrow, Friday, April.


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[Assistant] You gonna do anything about the ball going away, Beatbox, or no? You're gonna roll all the way into the road, cause that ball's a bitch. And it always wants to go in the road. It just wants to get hit by a car. Well.


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[Assistant] At most a couple hours. Way harder. What's way harder? Bowling? Yea, I would say bowling is way harder than this. 30 shots in a row. In basketball. Mind you not, I beaten Tommy. So like, if I can't do this. Okay, we- oh, okay, beat boss. Okay, okay, well that's-


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[Assistant] Alright, I guess there is a little bit more pressure because it's timed. I kinda forgot about the fact that it's timed. You- These are perfect shots and they're not going in.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is ridiculous. The problem is, I gotta stand up. This will change the game for me. Absolutely game changer right here.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're not getting much arc here, BeefBoss. We're gonna have to correct that. Alright, well, uh, so far...


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[Assistant] Really, beepa. How did you ever think that was gonna work? Whipping the ball at the rim. Zero arc. Literally no arc.


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[Assistant] Okay, now we got some arc, we're still missing. Well I'd say so far this is not what I had in mind.


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[Assistant] I don't know what's with the first shot but it's just impossible.


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[Assistant] Good thing it's the first shot that's impossible. So we just keep on restarting every one second.


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[Assistant] I thought in my experiences with the three point contest, like, I've done, I've done pretty well, and maybe have missed like five of them. So I was thinking, oh this is gonna be easy, I just gotta focus. But apparently that's not the case at all. This is bad.


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[Assistant] Aww, it froze. You motherfucker, HDPVR.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I started kicking it, and now it's back on my screen again. It's on my screen, but, I don't know. Oh look it! Yep, here it is again! Hahaha! Oh my god! I just started, like, forcing my heel into the top of it.


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[Assistant] What are with the first two shots? So that last game that you guys couldn't see, my freaking- I went- I went pretty far.


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[Assistant] We're almost there on that one. We made the first two shots. That's the closest we've ever gotten.


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[Assistant] You whore! Okay, I think I got the strat down here.


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[Assistant] Okay, number two. I needed to- I think I need to go slow the- this first- these first stack of balls here.


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[Assistant] There you go. Yeah, there we go. Solid miss.


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[Assistant] Well we made it for, we made it through one stack of balls without missing.


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[Assistant] Okay. The ball picking up is gonna be my issue. Because Beatbox goes through full, full frickin' hamburger mode, and doesn't know how to pick up a ball.


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[Assistant] This, this remote's gotta be faulty. I had let go of B, and B-Boss is still waving around the ball like, what? I let go of B. It shouldn't even be in your fucking hands. Pick up ball. PICK UP BALL!


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[Assistant] I've never thrown this toad weirmount. Ever before. And it- And it's being a humongous piece of shit. Did it freeze again?


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[Assistant] This capture card's about to get it. It's about to fucking meet its maker. Two freezes. Just like that.


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[Assistant] But now it's having an issue even displaying on my, uh, TV.


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[Assistant] You want me to send you a picture of it? Of my capture device that's right here?


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[Assistant] For a new one of those. PLOPS!


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[Assistant] Stop breaking your shit. Oh my. I'm buying it.


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[Assistant] I have a Toad Wii Remote with Wii Motion Plus inside. It's inside of my remote. Oh my lord. Ancient technology to not have the Motion Plus inside your remote. You know why? Because that's a default Wii remote.


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[Assistant] I just don't get it sometimes. I didn't let go of B, yet the ball's going, throwing across the freaking court like he's passing it.


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[Assistant] I feel like this challenge isn't really hard. I know how to throw, throw swishes. I know how to throw these threes.


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[Assistant] I don't understand it. I have no idea what is going on.


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[Assistant] And the thing is, it happened on the Wii, too. It's not the console. Cause that shit was happening on the Wii. I switched to the Wii U. I'm trying to take it so slow because I feel like this thing just cannot handle my level of athleticism. I couldn't say that word. It took me a few tries.


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[Assistant] Shhh. You don't gotta let go of B to shoot the ball.


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[Assistant] I thought we were past this. I didn't hold it either. I tapped it. And then the ball still did dick shit off.


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[Assistant] That, that is it. I have all the talent needed in the world to do this.


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[Assistant] My sweet fucking nipples. What are you doing? Maybe in a, you know, give me a couple more minutes maybe, but.


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[Assistant] I-I can't break this one because I don't have another Wii remote. This is literally my last one. I need to order more.


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[Assistant] Give me literally one more of those and it's on. It is frickin' on. I swear to god, if I get a perfect...


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[Assistant] I tell you what, if I had another Wii Remote on ready right now, this one would be long gone.


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[Assistant] If I didn't have the world's stupidest fucking Wii and Wii Remote, I wouldn't have any issues. But apparently I do. I just got the bad one of the batch.


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[Assistant] Like where is my pointer even at? Did I forget to plug in the sensor bar? The tip of my toad Wii remote is broke.


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[Assistant] I don't know if maybe that's the reason why. So like the tip, the black part of the Wii Remote, it's all cracked. And, it's... But that must have been from when I chucked it at the ground. I think. Unless I chucked this one before.


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[Assistant] I'm about to buy $200 worth of toad Wii remotes with Wii Motion Plus inside. Even with all these donations, I'm gonna break even on this stream. Friggin four? What? I had to get...


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[Assistant] What was it? $276 for a capture card plus 200 in ToadWee remotes. And that's $476.


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[Assistant] This was an expensive ass mistake. Thank you, your order has been placed.


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[Assistant] You'll have to make other arrangements though when summer comes, gets pretty weak when the weather's dry. We'll take turns about replacing the wore out rope.


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[Assistant] Well, if you don't like it, next well's five miles down the road.


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[Assistant] You're likely going to fix your own well, ain't you? You're ranting you must have some savings put aside.


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[Assistant] And if you get by the year, he generously lets you take your share of the crop, ain't that right?


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[Assistant] Share crop. First year I lost my whole crop. It was runt by the hail.


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[Assistant] Next year, Blackleg got my cow and pig that I'd spent all my savings for. My wife caught cold and she died.


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[Assistant] Maybe I lost them both, my woman and my kid, cause I didn't have no money for doctrine. And here I am with a farm, good one, belongs all to me and worth lots of money.


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[Assistant] So when I see young folk like you with their proudness, noses stuck in the air just makes me laugh.


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[Assistant] You're cotton. Coming along, not too many bugs.


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[Assistant] Still, that's the best way to get rid of the bugs. Rolls them right out in the sun. The heat kills them better than any poison. But you gotta have a good eye and a steady hand. You're a good worker, all right, Tucker. If I was you, I wouldn't think twice. I'd go back to work for Rustin.


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[Assistant] She kissed the baby on its forehead with her cold white lips, then stared wildly around the room, fell back, and died.


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[Assistant] Poor dear, said the nurse, hurriedly putting a green glass bottle back in the pocket of her long skirt. The doctor began to put on his coat.


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[Assistant] The baby is weak and will probably have difficulties, he said. If so, give it a little milk to keep it quiet. Then he looked at the dead woman. The mother was a good looking girl. Where did she come from?


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[Assistant] She was brought here last night replied the old woman. She was found lying in the street.


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[Assistant] Where she came from, where she was going to, or what her name was, nobody knows.


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[Assistant] The one that has the luck and key Say I'm the boy


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[Assistant] What's up, falcon? Do you have the stormtroopers in place? All of them in place.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's not completely crazy. Do you think he's a pro? At least he's a professional. The bike is a good idea. But even in the car, all this stretch, it's completely unprotected. He can stop it with one shot and take the suitcase. And here at the bridge, there's something that needs to get out of the car, up on the bridge and back to the car again. That's a good idea. But you think better. We'll see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'll take him before he's able to press the buttons. There's always another option.


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[Assistant] Now, regardless of whether you're opting in the paid way of setting up your business or a completely free way of doing so, you still need the four components listed here. The business operations, ordering process, collecting payment and fulfillment of your orders. Right now we're in process number two.


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[Assistant] Ordering process. So for you to actually have the View Shop button, this is the lesson that you're going through.


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[Assistant] Payment options such as credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.


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[Assistant] And this website allows you to actually act as your menu and as a storefront for your website. Some of the most popular e-commerce platforms includes WordPress, BigCommerce, Magneto, Shopify, Wix and Squarespace.


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[Assistant] For our liking, we are going to focus on Shopify.


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[Assistant] Now, why is it important for us to actually have this? Because the e-commerce platform allows your website to become a one-stop shop. Instead of having a storefront, like typically as a restaurant, you would have the storefront. This becomes your storefront.


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[Assistant] It allows you to actually show your customers what you're selling, your menu offering. It allows you to start taking in orders. It allows you to collect payment and allows you to actually manage your inventory payment as well.


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[Assistant] Also allows your customers with a branded online experience. So when people are coming in through the doors, they feel like, wow, this is a professional environment, is a professional, uh, Instagram food business versus just sending people to a Google form. That's the reason why having this e-commerce website is super important. Now do not worry. You don't need to be a programmer in order for you to do this.


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[Assistant] We, once again, we're focusing on Shopify and for the rest of the modules and


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[Assistant] Five hours if you have just super average experience and eight hours if you're a complete newbie. And once again, we're going to be providing you the tips and videos in setting up your Shopify website in lesson number five.


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[Assistant] For the sake of this specific lesson, we're showing you the overall gist. There's no outcome that comes out of this lesson aside from you getting an idea of what you need in order for you to set up that shop button. So just go through this, sip on your water and actually pay attention. No need to take too much notes.


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[Assistant] What do you need to set up your Instagram, sorry, your ecommerce website? First up, it is for you to set up your homepage. This is super basic to begin with. You don't need to spend too much time and effort into this because


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[Assistant] Honestly, people don't really care for this specific purpose. Add your logo, add some images for your product, add in your story and your business details, okay? Because we want to be able to connect this website into your Instagram shop.


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[Assistant] What we really care about is your product page. Okay. This is the page that is going to be connected to your Instagram and we're directing people that are browsing on Instagram to this specific page. They can now see the menu offering that you have and select a product to buy.


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[Assistant] Provide high quality photos of your food and a brief description of each of your items. This becomes what people click into and what they see and how they can order.


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[Assistant] Now what else do you need after creating your website? You can actually put that


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[Assistant] You are L into your Instagram profile into your Instagram bio as well. So people can actually click into them and visit your website if they want to.


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[Assistant] But for the sake of what we're doing, we are actually going to be linking it to the view shop. And once again, I want to be showing you more


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[Assistant] As we go onto the different lessons moving forward, specifically lesson number five. But nonetheless, just know for a fact that when you create that website, you're going to be able to link it for your shop right here and also put it in your bio. We're not going to be doing the creation right now.


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[Assistant] If we're looking into, Hey, you know what? I really want to be able to set up my Instagram food business, the paid way.


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[Assistant] Then jump into the lesson number five. That's where we're going to be focusing on how.


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[Assistant] Now the pros and cons of setting up an e-commerce website, it allows you to be able to track your inventory. So then that way, you know, when you're going to run out.


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[Assistant] Of different inventories such as your chicken wings or like cookie batter or whatever the case that you're creating.


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[Assistant] It allows you to receive notification every time someone orders so then that way


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[Assistant] You can stay motivated. So then that way you can actually be like, oh, you know what? I, I need to prepare more for the upcoming week.


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[Assistant] Allows to manage all your payment in one place as well. So then that way you don't need to go out and collect cash and allows you to look much, much more professional.


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[Assistant] On the con side of this versus a free Instagram food business is that there is a monthly subscription fee for you to sign up with Shopify.


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[Assistant] If it's a, if it's a credit card that you're accepting and it also takes a little bit longer initially to set up a website.


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[Assistant] Now a pro tip of this is that having an e-commerce platform actually allows you to efficiently manage your orders as you get higher and higher volume. Let's say if you're getting 50 orders a day, then for sure you need to utilize Shopify as your platform to help you with managing your orders. Now it is your turn. Read the link below.


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[Assistant] Because this allows you to see which platform, um, is the best to use in 2021. And on top of that, select the e-commerce platform that you use, you want to use to create your website, add that website into your Instagram bio. Our recommendation once again is Shopify because it's super easy to do. Jump into lesson five.


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[Assistant] To see how we can actually create your Shopify page for your Instagram food business.


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[Assistant] What is your karaoke song of choice at a place like Banana?


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[Assistant] Bring Strickland here, Dirk. I'll do all I can for him.


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[Assistant] I can't help myself, Dick. I must go wherever he goes.


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[Assistant] What I would discover was much darker and more vast than anything I had imagined.


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[Assistant] When these companies become so important, they're a member of a class that is not jailable.


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[Assistant] And I'll talk about how these systems help people build strong networks as well as provide support to move efforts forward when they stall. And I'm going to be presenting this work, uhm, that I did together with accessibility advocates on Mozilla as well as worker rights advocates on Amazon Mechanical Turk.


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[Assistant] But I'd like to start with a vignette from an effort that's going on, and I've been involved when I was a participant observer, and it has to do with harassment on Twitter.


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[Assistant] This caused a lot of outrage because people were, uhm, upset that, uhm, hate speech on the platform even were reported, a lot of the time goes unchecked, and then when someone's actually speaking out against harassment, they're the one who got shut down.


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[Assistant] So a couple people tried to organize a boycott in response. They chose a hashtag, um, women boycott Twitter. They, uh, chose a date and they broadcasted the event through quite a number of high profile celebrities. But the effort itself was controversial.


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[Assistant] I'm going to argue that there were two main reasons for this. Uhm, the first is a lack of trust in the action. So especially among women of color or trans women who felt like they were all of a sudden expected to participate in a boycott where they hadn't received similar support when they talked about their issues.


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[Assistant] And the other reason that it stalled was that uhm, because there was friction among people who were potential supporters of the effort about, for instance, whether a boycott was an appropriate way to protest the silencing of women.


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[Assistant] And to unpack this a bit, these groups of people with shared issues are very similar to the Dewey information of publics, uhm, that is used by DeSalvo and Dantek and it's, eh, it's rooted in theories of democracy. Talking about groups rallying around shared issues that affect them.


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[Assistant] And this is because of the nature of the challenges that they face. Uhm, these are challenges that are messy, interdependent, and they sound a lot like, uh, wicked problems.


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[Assistant] Wicked problems is a phase that originally came out of urban planning, but it's also frequently used in design thinking to talk about these kinds of problems that are difficult or even impossible to solve because there are just too many moving parts. And the problem itself changes as you try to solve it. So it makes the goal and the path to get to it unclear.


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[Assistant] And we know from prior literature that the basis for a group to be able to work on a wicked problem together is that they need to know each other and trust one another.


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[Assistant] Familiarity is a term that I'm going to use a lot in this talk, uhm, and it's a term coming out of, uh, social psychology and organizational behavior that describes how well two people know each other. For instance, it can be measured by how long have they been working together in the past.


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[Assistant] Familiarity can also lead to trust, which increases psychological safety. Groups with high psychological safety are more comfortable taking risks together.


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[Assistant] But even when you have that, even when you have those networks of familiarity, uhm, efforts can still get stuck, uhm, for instance when there are disagreements.


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[Assistant] And I've worked on designing structured human support that can move efforts forward when they stall. And I'll talk about that in the context of my project Dynamo, which was a collaboration with worker rights advocates on Mechanical Turk.


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[Assistant] Through these two projects, uhm, what I want to do is convince you that if we pay particular attention to a collective's relationships of trust, we can actually design social computing systems that assist that collective in acting together.


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[Assistant] So first I'll talk about Hive, and here we're mostly talking about the early stages of collective action. You have a group of people, they have some kind of shared issue that they all care about, uhm, and people are trying to do the work of deliberation, understanding and articulating what exactly the problem is, and collectively imagining goals and paths forward to alternative futures.


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[Assistant] So what we're, what we're trying to do with this concept of network rotation is trying to get people to share their ideas, but also be exposed to different kinds of perspectives, uh, all while keeping the psychological safety of the group of people who are talking to each other at each point high.


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[Assistant] So usually what happens when a group of people have a shared problem is that each person comes, uhm, and they say the first thing that comes to their mind. Uhm, so in the case of harassment on Twitter, you might have someone thinking that in response we should all boycott Twitter for a day.


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[Assistant] And because of this drawback, HCI Literature has actually looked into the different ways that we can encourage people to engage with each other and intermix their ideas. Uhm, usually the way these systems are designed is that we will have a big gallery or map of everyone's ideas.


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[Assistant] And then we'll go to the person who came up with the boycott idea for instance and show them the recording idea and say, uhm, intermix these two ideas.


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[Assistant] The reason for this drawing on research and communication theory and organizational behavior is that in the real world, uhm, just having exposure to other people's ideas doesn't actually influence us that much. And we're much more influenced by other people's viewpoints when we talk to them.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna propose what I've termed network rotations. Instead of having everyone in the collective talk to everyone at the same po- at the same time, what it's going to do is divide people into teams.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so people are in these smaller groups where they actually get to have a conversation with each other and get to know one another. And then it's going to iteratively weave people together from distant parts of this network.


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[Assistant] We already talked about one of them at the beginning of the talk, familiarity, which increases psychological safety. And I've actually worked on research that used a dynamic programming algorithm to optimize for highly familiar teammates when we didn't know individual availability for each person.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was really important for us in deploying this system to make it usable by, in the real world for people. So we decided to use existing tools that people were already familiar with. So we developed Hive as a Slack app, uhm, which is a chat software and also gives people the option of being anonymous.


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[Assistant] And then at some point, um, Hive decides that it wants to expose your group to a distant perspective. So it might swap out one of your teammates for someone new who was on another team.


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[Assistant] The way it does this in practice is that there's a Slackbot, it'll come to your team and announce that we're moving this person out and this other person may be moving in. And then it actually performs the move.


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[Assistant] Tie strength in that graph is familiarity between every two people who are on the same team together at that point. So if this is the network, these are the teams, what we really care about is the tie strength between people who are on the same team together. The other thing we care about is the general network structure.


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[Assistant] So for instance, if you have these two networks, they have the exact same number of edges, but their structure is different. The way we measure this is that if you take two nodes, uhm, in the graph, and you measure the shortest path between them, uhm, and then you average this over all of the pairs of nodes in the graph, you'll get a measure of network efficiency.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so to explain what this means, uhm, if we set alpha to 1 in this, eh, in this optimization function, what that means is that I only care about tie strength, I don't care about what the network looks like. And that will give us an algorithm that won't move anyone anywhere, and it'll always, you'll always stay with the same people.


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[Assistant] What we actually want is to balance these two, so find a middle ground where most of the time you're working with people you know pretty well, but then you also have these, uhm, a small number of disruptions over time.


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[Assistant] And that's what makes this problem difficult to solve. There is an exponential number of possible solutions, and as we're going, team composition keeps changing, so it's impossible to know what the value of a single move is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I proposed a stochastic search algorithm that tries to do this. So it chooses the best subset of moves at each point, and it calculates the value of that subset of moves. So at each point, instead of doing one move and seeing how much value it has, it takes a whole subset of moves and sees what the value of all of those moves together is.


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[Assistant] Empathizing one day for defining the problem and they went through this process and they were given instructions for what to talk about as well as sometimes deliverables to help guide them.


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[Assistant] And the first thing we wanted to do is, uhm, control for as much as we could and see whether this was actually effective. So we wanted to isolate the effect of network rotation.


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[Assistant] We recruited 115 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to do this. Uhm, we gave them a prompt that was, how can we design, uhm, neighborhood commons to be a place, uh, to bring people together to foster community and mutual aid.


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[Assistant] And we tried to choose a prompt that a lot of people had experience with already, and we actually took a rubric from OpenIDO to measure the proposals at the end.


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[Assistant] And we randomly assign these people to one of, uh, three conditions. So the first condition, the control condition, was when we had no moves at all. So that's the same as when I showed you that graph, when alpha was one, uh, we were maximizing tie strength.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but one thing that we still worried about, even though these network, network rotation was actually resulting in better proposals, was that maybe it made people feel less comfortable contributing, because uhm, we are causing some disruption by moving a teammate off of your team or adding someone new into the team.


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[Assistant] So we looked at a measure that's often used for this, um, psychological safety. And we wanted to see whether psychological safety actually decreased.


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[Assistant] It's a strong correlate with team performance and it's been validated in a number of different scenarios. It's a standard survey that has questions like, uhm, members of this team are able to bring up problems and tough issues. Or, working with members of this team, my unique skills and talents are valued and utilized.


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[Assistant] So when we give people this survey, psychological safety, it gives us back a score, uhm, out of zero, from zero to fifty, uhm, and what we wanted to measure is whether psychological safety of these teams suffered when they went through network rotation.


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[Assistant] There's one group who's actually not in this, uhm, not in this graph right now, and those are the actual people who were moving. So if you were taken off of the team, you were on and added to a new team. And for those people, we saw that psychological safety did actually go slightly down.


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[Assistant] And what this shows is that, that narrow quotation is actually costly. Uhm, and it's important that when we do do it, we do it effectively.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they issued an open call to their communities of volunteers, uhm, an accessibility enthusiast, uhm, asking them to participate in a week-long online design drive. Uhm, the goal of this was to reimagine what an accessible web browsing experience can look like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we also reached out, uhm, and offered, uh, people with disabilities, uh, or people who are caregivers to someone with a disability a $150 gift card to participate in the project because we wanted, uhm, this design drive to be actually grounded in people's real world experiences. And these people were added as team leads, so each team had at least one of these people.


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[Assistant] So this first one is about, uhm, ways of interacting with a computer that is similar to sign language. And actually one of the members of this team, uhm, knew sign language. And what they were saying is that within communities of people who sign, uhm, they're consistently reconfiguring gestures to mean new things.


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[Assistant] A specific gesture that was the name of a friend could mean send an email to that friend or nodding your head could mean save the document.


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[Assistant] The other one was about reactive interfaces, so interfaces that I realize when you're having trouble with them and sort of react to make it easier to do the thing you're trying to do. So for instance, if, if they figured out that you tried to click on a button a couple times and weren't able to, maybe they could make that button larger, uhm, to make it easier, especially for people who have motor problems.


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[Assistant] All of these 86 proposals were reviewed by Mozilla's accessibility team, uhm, who was independent of our study, and they gave the group's feedback on their proposals, uhm, they were, they chose four that they were really interested in and they're continuing to work, uhm, on those proposals.


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[Assistant] So when we did this in the real world, one of the things we learned is that, uh, participants told us that new members brought fresh perspectives, uh, and they allowed for more ideas to come into the room.


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[Assistant] One of the participants said, meeting new people was great, mixing ideas was very helpful, especially as people dropped in and out later in the week.