Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I am going to do a safari race card today and see how many animals I can fit into a Land Cruiser, or shall we say three Land Cruisers? Curtis Steiner sent me these two stamp sets because I wanted to see how many of them I could fit in that Land Cruiser, and I thought I'd take some stills and show you how I built up the image. I stamped first the little car and masked out the bottom so I could add the dirt along the way, and then just kept masking out animals and adding more behind them. So you build a scene up from the front to the back, and I just kept adding and adding and adding. It looks like a jumble right now, but that's one of the things I wanted on this card. I wanted to see how much I could jumble and make it a crazy race for whatever it is they're racing for. I don't know what they'd win if they were animals winning a race in the safari. This car I decided to change the color on after I colored the yellow, and I wasn't going to re-stamp all this. So there you have it. I just decided to color right over top of it because I could, and then started adding my shadows to it. Now like I said, for the bottom of the cars, I wanted this to have a lot of dirt in it so that they're kicking up dirt as they're driving. I did stamp the car as you notice on the kitty wampus, and that is going to make them look like they're all moving and running around as well. And I wiped off a little bit of the ink off the bottom of the tires. And that's one way that you can mask without having to use sticky notes and all that kind of stuff, just mask by taking ink off of something. And that's going to give me the ability to add dirt on there and have these cars look like they're setting into the dirt. You could alternatively use a white pen to add dirt coming up over top of the cars, but it looks a little more natural if you do it this way. So I'm adding a bunch of shadows and things to my car and building up the colors on it to give it some dimension. And I'm mostly going to color from the front to the back as well as I did my stamping from the front to the back. So I want my front image, of course, to be the best colored because that's the one people are going to look at first and catch their eye. So I wanted this car when I spent the most time on it. So it would be the one that would just carry the rest of the card really well. And then start working on coloring all my animals. And it was really fun that a lot of these animals were in the same kind of size set, I guess, in the two stamp sets. I don't know if they meant them to go together this way. But you know, it is what it is because that's how I use them. And I was glad that they did work well together because if you had, you know, an alligator that was a completely different size or something. So if you're using other stamp sets, be aware of what size relationship each of the animals has to each other if you're going to do something like this. Because if you're going to try to make it look like they're really in the cars, they're really having a race, they should look like they're at least in proportion to each other. So I'm going to add my details onto my lion. Once again, if you're coloring this kind of a thing, you want more of your detailed coloring to be in the front. So I did choose having the lion way up front because he's got the most interesting mane and stuff, so I can put lots of details around him. And he's also going to be yellow, which is going to pop him to the front since he's a nice bright color. And I'm going to be careful not to use much more green in there so that the alligator also pops more to the front and starts pulling to the front of the image. Deepen up some of those shadows inside the car and then move on to my crazy giraffes. I did stamp two of the giraffes just because I had a little gap there on the left hand side of that one giraffe. So I thought, oh, let me just add another head in there. So masked him out and threw another giraffe inside. And then added my shadows onto these little guys. And using a couple of different oranges and browns to make them and pull their little ossicones, which I learned from a previous video that I did on giraffes. I should probably do a roundup of my giraffe images at some point too because I think I've colored quite a few giraffes here on YouTube. So now I'm going to color the second car and I'm going to use lighter colors for that one. So I'm going to let this one be yellow. And it's going to recede a little further into the background, that sort of thing. Since it's further back, but I wanted it to have still a bright color. So it doesn't go too far into the back. And then I'm careful about how much I put down at the bottom there because I want to have that dirt kind of come up again. I need some dirt to come in between the two cars. So it looks a little natural there. So that's why that car is stopping in the left hand side before it gets to the front car. And then add the rest of the details onto that. I'm going to jump over and do the elephant to stamp him. He was a bit of a challenge.   So his is kind of tucking back in to drive the steering wheel, but he decided, I guess, to wrap it around the edge of the Jeep. But I had to mask off the corner of the Jeep and then stamp my elephant so that he kind of looks like he's sticking out over top of it. I just didn't want that Jeep in front of his nose. I thought that would be funny. So this was, I think I probably spent more time doing the masking for this than I did the coloring, but I think it was worth it in the long run because it was still just hilarious and so much fun to do. Now I did have extra animals here and, you know, I started off when I was doing my masking and stuff. I was doing the two cars and I realized I needed another car because there was no way that that little rhino and the bird and everything were really going to fit into this one car. So I was going to need another and that's why I stamped a little piece of a car on that left hand corner. And it sounds like I have my own safari race going on outside the window with the two dogs playing. Apologies for them and their craziness. So I'm going to add a blue car back here, which will pull a little of that blue color in from the bird, but it's also going to be a darker color. So it's going to recede to the back a little bit.  And this little guy, I thought he was going to stand in front. He could have been in the car, but I thought he could just be observing the race because he's the little person standing on the sidelines. So again with him, I wiped off part of the stamp when I stamped him so that he was going to have some dust in front of him and I'm stopping the coloring before it gets to everything. So it looks like he's a little bit out there. So now I have that little camera fail accident. That's a really nice thing to have, isn't it? When the camera just turns off and you didn't know it, but there's going to be enough of the coloring of the dust that I decided I'm not going to start this whole thing over again. But I'm just using a bunch of browns and creating different shapes for the dust and getting darker and darker until it just looks right to my eye. There's not really a science to this. Just kind of doing mushy colors. If you've taken my class on my art classes channel where I talk about doing the Copic watercolor, that's a little of the technique that I'm using at the bottom there to create that dirt, just a whole lot of ink, a whole lot of colors and allowing a lot of that to just blend itself in a weird way. So we also had the camera doing a zoomy thing just because it really wanted to be irritating after this. Such fun. So I'm going to add more and more colors on this. Let the cloud of dust go off behind them as well and then create some real dark background or ground ground on that right hand corner because that contrast is going to give me a lot more punch and then just go in with tinier and tinier dots and lines and things to give it more detailed dirt texture with different colors of browns. And then even taking a little bit of white, and this is where I said you could do this going over the cars with white instead of masking them out. But it's a whole lot easier not to have to do that except for where you want it to be.  But I don't have to do it everywhere because I've done some of that masking already with wiping off when I was doing my stamping. So as much time and everything as this took, it was probably one of the most fun cards that I've done in a long time. And thank you to Macy and Gerda for sending me these stamp sets so I could play with them.  I just popped it onto a card base and called it done because I didn't even want to put a stamp sentiment over top of this at all. I'm going to put my sentiment on the inside because it was way too fun. All right, I hope you guys enjoyed this. If you did, click that like button down below. You can subscribe by clicking on my face, watch some more videos, go check out some classes, and leave a comment in the doobly-doo. I like to read your comments. I do click the like button on them so you know that I've read them. I just don't have time to comment on everybody's and reply, but I love to hear what you have to say. See you guys later.


Guys welcome back to my channel, I hope you guys have had a wonderful week so far. Today I'm going to be sharing with you my natural toothpaste recipe that I've been using for quite a while now. I love it because it doesn't contain all those harmful ingredients that you find in your regular conventional store bought toothpaste that you find on the market and it's also really cheap to make so you can make more of it, the list price and it's also really just easy and just easy to whip up in the kitchen so it's ready for when you need to brush your teeth. Plus one of the big things that I love about it is it's zero waste so I've been really following my little zero waste lifestyle recently or a bit more recently for a while and I've really tried to minimise my amount of waste that I use and kind of throw away because I can understand that it has a big impact on our environment. So the toothpaste tube that it comes in is just plain wasteful because one it comes in a tube and a box while the box is recyclable the tube is almost impossible to recycle and often ends up in a landfill. So for me I was like I didn't like how I'm constantly throwing out toothpaste tubes and knowing that they're most likely ending up in our landfill and I just didn't like that at all. So I was like nah so for this recipe the homemade natural version is you can put it into a glass jar or into a stainless steel container and just reuse it as much as you like. So a good question that I have asked myself before is why should I use natural toothpaste? Well I can understand that we have a perfectly good pre-made version all ready to go why would you want to switch to making your own homemade natural version because it is more of a hassle for some it is just you have to make it and you have to you know put it into a glass jar and some people are like oh I just don't want to do this. So when I started reading about what was in these toothpaste that you usually get on the market I found there was a lot of nasty ingredients in them and I was like oh I probably should do something about changing this. So I started researching what all these ingredients were and one of the most harmful ones in the toothpaste tubes that I'd often come across and that I'd started learning more about was one triclosin. Triclosin is an antimicrobial chemical so it's often found in things like antibacterial soaps and products but it has been linked to a lot of health issues and environmental problems. Flu ride was another one and yes this is a very controversial ingredient because it has been shown that having added flu ride to our water and to our toothpaste it has helped in protecting our teeth from deteriorating and decaying. However there have been quite a lot of studies on both sides weighing up the benefits and cons of using this ingredient in our water and in our toothpaste. I personally don't use flu ride in my toothpaste and I also mostly filter it out of the tap water that I drink as well with my own water filter. I found it interesting that flu ride does come with its own warning sign saying that if it is ingested you need to immediately call the poison control centre. I was like just something to think about. Glacierin is another interesting ingredient as it is actually found in many natural toothpaste available however there is a lot of controversy about it. Some research says that Glacierin can actually coach the teeth and prevent them from benefiting from minerals in our saliva so for me I personally don't have it in my natural toothpaste. So factants are an ingredient that I have talked about before in the past in my natural homemade shampoo tutorial video as they are often found in conventional shampoos that you find but it is also found in toothpaste and the form which it is under is usually sodium laurel sulfate. This chemical is used in toothpaste as it gives it its foam and leather however some research has found that SLS can actually cause canker sores and mouth ulcers. Sweeteners like sodium saturin, sorbetol and other artificial sweeteners are added to toothpaste to improve their taste however there isn't much evidence showing that they are very beneficial or even safe to use in your mouth. Xylitol I think that's how you pronounce it again I'll show the word down below so you guys can see has been shown to have some positive benefits for oral health because it's a sugar alpha hole when bacteria consume it they actually can't metabolise it so after consuming it they just die so having it in small doses can be beneficial for your mouth health however I avoid using it in food just to prevent having it in large quantities as having large amounts of it has been shown to have some health issues and cause some side effects so I just tend to avoid it adding it into any food I have but having small amounts has been shown to have some benefits so it's up to you if you want to add it to your toothpaste or not. I have yet to try it myself at the moment I just haven't been using it because it hasn't been in my house and it's just something that I'm not really that fussed on anyway so it's up to you I'll add it to the ingredients list so if you want to you can add it but I just find that I don't need to add it to my toothpaste. So when I talk about it in the recipe I'll mention you can use ground stevia or stevia powder just because they're quite good for sweetening it but I usually use ground stevia just because I've been growing a stevia plant at home and all I do is pick the leaves dry them out then I ground them myself and add it to the toothpaste however some people do get put off by the dark green colour it makes so if you find that you don't like that green colour stevia powder can be for you just make sure you choose one that's as natural as possible so one that has the least amount of added ingredients just pure stevia powder if you can find one but today I'm going to be using stevia drops these natural stevia drops that I have at home because I've run out of stevia ground stevia and stevia powder so that's what I'm going to be using today so thank you guys for sticking through all my talking beforehand we're going to go straight into the tutorial now so I hope you guys enjoy it so for the ingredients you're going to need about half a cup of coconut oil two to three tablespoons of baking soda two small packets of stevia powder or two teaspoons of ground stevia for me I'm just going to use a few drops of stevia liquid today you're going to need 15 to 20 drops of peppermint or cinnamon essential oil it's optional but you can use 10 drops of Moe extract I'll write that again down below I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it but you can use that if you like and another optional ingredient is you can use up to one tablespoon of that xylitol powder so to begin making a toothpaste simply melt or slightly soften the coconut oil then mix in the other ingredients and stir well if you're using semi-hard coconut oil use a fork if not just use a spoon if you're using completely melted coconut oil you'll need to stir at several times while the mixture keep while the mixture cools to keep the baking soda incorporated next pour the mixture into a small glass jar you can make different ones for each member of your family if you like then let it cool completely when you're ready to use it simply dip the toothbrush in and scrape a small amount onto the bristles you can also use a small spoon to put it onto your toothbrush if you like and wow there you have it I hope you guys like the video if you do you know just to give it a big thumbs up and if you want to join our tribe just subscribe down below I hope to see in my future videos guys if you have any other recipes for homemade toothpaste I would love to hear them I always like looking for new things so please share them with me down in the comments below I always have a wonderful day and I hope to see you in my next video see ya


Hi, I am Dr. Shubham Jain, Head of Department of Surgee Columcology at Manipal Hospital, Delhi. And today, I will be talking to you about one of the most common killer cancer that affects most of the people in the world, lung cancer. Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers that we see around the world and it is one of the lethal ones. The reason for this is majority of times we ignore our symptoms of the lung cancer which are very vague such as breathlessness, cough and tiredness. Because of these reasons, most of the times this disease is detected at a later stage. During the Covid pandemic, what we saw was because of the increased acceptance of the CT scan by amongst the people, people were coming at an earlier stage when they were detected with any lesion in the lung. Because of this reason, the detection of the lung cancer started happening earlier and we were able to offer surgical treatment to these patients. We were able to perform surgeries through vats and robotic which are minimal access techniques which improve the outcomes after the surgery. Not just that, the screening programs that are prevalent especially in the western countries help us detect the lung cancers at an earlier stage. So I'd just like to say that if you are a heavy smoker of age 55 to 85 years and you have a significant history of smoking then you should definitely consult an oncologist for a low-dose CT scan or checking how you can detect lung cancer early and get it treated early. Thank you.


Family Theater presents Bill Williams and Barbara Hale. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in Cooperation with Family Theater presents Rimbrock starring Bill Williams. And now, here's your hostess, Mrs. Bill Williams, or should I say Barbara Hale. Thank you, Tony LaFranco. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, Rimbrock, starring Bill Williams as Link. Needle Valley didn't look much different in 1866 than when I last saw it. Maybe four years of fighting had changed me a little, but not the valley. I stood for a minute at the head of the trail, watching the red sun drop down behind the Rimbrock. And then I nose my barred roam toward the shadowy floor of the canyon. A few moments earlier, I had to take off my hat to mop the perspiration from it. But now I was cold. This was a bad way to begin, tooling someone else's horse into the valley with a loaded six-gun riding on my hip. Bad enough away for anyone to come home. Much less a minister of the gospel. Easy, easy boy. What's the matter, fella? What's the matter? Easy, easy, settle down. Easy, easy boy. Someone's sure enough waiting for us. Now, easy boy, settle down. Easy, fella, easy. My hands are up. You keep them there. Yes, ma'am. You've got a six-gun, Parsons. Yes, ma'am. Lift it out of the holster by the handle with your thumb and forefinger. Now, drop it. Well, I'm Parsons. I can see that. What are you doing here? I'm looking for Whitley Archer. What for? Sheriff Keefer got a note from him. Did you bring the deed? No, I... It's all right. I'm his daughter. You can give it to me. I didn't bring it. The other man wasn't around. Even if he had been, he wouldn't have signed it. Avery? I think that's his name. Doesn't Avery know we got his partner? Didn't the sheriff tell him? I just told you Avery wasn't around. And you don't have the deed? No, ma'am. Then why did you bother to come at all? Did the sheriff think maybe Dad was bluffing? Not from what he told me. Why'd they send you anyhow?  Well, I guess they figure trouble like this sort of falls into my province. You're wasting your time. If you don't have that deed with you, Alan Barber's as good as dead right now. Your father had killed a man for 20 acres. That's nothing but rock and scrub grass.  You don't know Alan Barber. You're new here, newer than we are. Dad's only had this spread two years. Right from the beginning, Barber's been in with every carpet bagger like Avery that's come along. Bleeding everybody white. Hating the world. He's nothing but a thieving, bitter old man. That's still no cause to kill him. Parson, he stole our land. Well, maybe if I could talk to your father. He won't do no good. You don't want to see him hang, do you? That's what'll happen if he kills Barber. Most folks hear about should thank him. He still won't keep him off the gallows. I don't know what to do. Well, take me down. Let me talk to him, Miss Archer. Can't do any harm. You won't change him. He's got his mind set. Killer never put anything to rights. It's easy for you to talk like that.  I wasn't always. And you don't know Barber. That's the main thing. You just don't know what he's like. We started down the trail into Needle Valley. The girl walking a few yards behind me carrying her rifle and my six gun. The sun had vanished behind the high cliffs and the last purple light of day was fading fast. In the distance along the foot of the eastern wall of the canyon, I could make out a cabin with a corral. And as we drew closer, I wondered if perhaps I shouldn't have told the girl that I did know Alan Barber. That I knew him well. Even though I hadn't seen him in five years. The five years since he threw me out of his house. I won't have a coward for a son. Get out.   I will take up a gun and kill. You mean you won't defend your own home and land? I don't believe in killing. Because the good book says so. Yes. And also says an eye for an eye. Killing is wrong in any cause. You should have been a girl.  Lily Livid.   Now get out. You're no son of mine. You won't fight for your own side.   But I never once made him proud of me. He didn't say so while mother was still alive but it was there. Hidden behind his eyes and I could see it. And yet I never stopped trying to please him. When the war came and he turned me out I joined the Confederate army so I could come home again. I fought and I killed and I prayed to be forgiven by God and my father. I was discharged in Memphis and I wrote him a letter that I wanted to stay there and study for the ministry and then come back home and start a parish. But he didn't reply. For a year I wrote every week and never an answer. And then this afternoon when I get off the stage at Templeton Sheriff Kiefer was waiting. Pink Barber. Yes.   We'd better make it link for the time being. What's wrong? Well it's your dad. He's been took as a hostage by Whitley Archer. By whom? Well he's new here. Got a spread out in Needle Valley. Your dad and a man from the north named Avery took up the land for taxes and well now they won't sign it back. Why not? Well they think there's gold on it. And you say this man's holding my father? Yep. Well I got a letter here from Archer saying he's going to kill him if your dad and Avery don't settle for the price off with him and turn back the land. Where's this man Avery? Oh forget him. What? Well he rode out of town the other way soon as he heard about your dad. Well nothing had suit him better than to own that land all by himself. You mean he didn't even try to help? That man wouldn't help his grandmother out of a well if it cost him a quarter. What are you going to do? Well anything you want but well I got a feeling that if I close in on Archer with a posse your dad will be dead by the time we get to him. You really think Archer would kill him? Well he's been driven pretty far. Here's the note. Come alone and bring the signed deed to my land by sundown. He won't do barber any good after that. Signed Whitley Archer. So that's the way it is. Sheriff I'd like to borrow a horse from you. My sure link. And a gun. It was almost dark when I brought my horse to a stop in front of Whitley Archer's cabin. A gas lamp burned in the front window. I looked back at the girl still holding her rifle on me. For a moment she hesitated then as she started to speak the front door of the cabin swung open and a tall grey haired man wearing a six gun walked out onto the stoop. Dad. It's all right Anne. I've been watching you come down the valley. Sheriff Kiefer send you? Yes. In a way. Dad he's the new parson. Well he didn't look very familiar. I just arrived in town three hours ago. Well welcome to Templeton. It could use a few more law abiding men. Like yourself? I'm just protecting what's mine parson. I hand over that deed and you can take barber back with you right now. I don't have it Miss Archer. Avery wouldn't sign it. You're bluffing. No he's not dad. Then why'd you bring him down here? I wanted to talk to you. Turn your horse around and get out. Dad. You could at least listen to what I have to say. I know what you're going to say parson. Killing barber won't get my land back. Well maybe it won't. Plus which you'll hang. If they take me. And what about your daughter? How's this going to leave her fixed? No home? No father? For two years I've been trying to live here in peace and make a home for Anne. But Avery and barber wouldn't have it. First they tried to buy this bread. Then they tried to scare me off. Then finally they pulled this last trick. Taken it up for taxes and trying to force me out. Well it ain't going to work. Maybe I won't get this land but they won't either. What's barber got to say about all this?  But I'll give him one thing he don't scare very easy. He won't sign the deed even to save himself? He hasn't got it. Besides he said it was Avery that bought up the tax receipts. I wonder if you'd let me have a few words with barber. No. Dad it might help. I said no. You could be missing a bet Miss Darcher. I don't think barber knows Avery's run out on him. If their deals are as shady as you say. Barber's probably got enough on his partner to send him to prison. And what are you getting at? He could probably force Avery to sign that deed. If he threatens to expose him. That way they'd both go to jail. Possibly. But I never met a man who wouldn't choose a cell over a grave. Let him try it dad it might work. I don't think so. Just give me five minutes with him. That's not much to ask. All right Persian. Five minutes. The only light in Whitley Arch's cabin was the oil lamp by the window. The red embers of a log still glowed in the small fireplace. But they showed no feature of the tall white haired man seated in the chair by the hearth. It was only when Anne brought the lamp that I could tell Alan Barber's arms and legs were bound to the chair. And that a handkerchief was tied across his mouth. He looked up at me as Archon did the gag. And I saw his eyes flash in recognition. Well now isn't this touching? I'm the new person Mr. Barber. I just arrived this afternoon and Sheriff Keefer sent me out to speak to you. Huh? He's trying to save your neck Barber. You'd better listen to him. You mean they don't... I'm the person and it's my duty to help prevent bloodshed. Mr. Arch has said I could talk with you if you're willing. I sure, sure, Persian. I'll be glad to talk to you alone. Nothing doing. Dad they aren't armed. I don't care. I've got the Parsons gun and Barber's tied up. You can cover us from outside through the window if you're so scared Archie.  I give you my oath Mr. Archie. He won't leave this chair. You ought to be willing to take the sworn word of a parson Archie.   Dad please. You've got my word Mr. Archie. I just want to talk to him. Your solemn word as a minister? Yes. All right. But if you try anything Barber... He won't. I promise you. Come on dad let's leave him alone. I'll be watching through the window. Don't blink now I might fly away. Just try it and I'll... Dad! All right, all right. I'll just talk for a minute or two.  You got a pocket knife? Yes. Good boy. Don't reach for it yet. Never expected you'd be getting me out of this jam link. I'll wed you you didn't.  You look fit. I've learned a few things too. You really appreciate it? Yes sir. Is there much money in it? I'm not in it for the money dad. Funny to hear you call me that. You did what I told you though. I went off and joined up. Yes? Where'd you fight? Shiloh, Bull Run, lots of places. I wouldn't have thought you had it in you. I didn't. I hated every minute of it. Archie's in the window so is the girl. Keep talking. I went because you wanted me to. But I hated it. There was nothing anybody's got to like son. It's misery and killing and dying. But a man's got his duty. Maybe. You've done yours. So far as I'm concerned, the slate's clean. You want to be a preacher? All right. And they don't have to be any money in it. I've made enough for both of us. So I understand. Preaching's a nice respectable profession too. Slide out your knife and start on the rope on my left foot. Your mother's uncle was a preacher. Maybe that's where you get it. Go on. They ain't looking to slide out your knife. I'm not cutting you loose. Huh?  Sure I will. They wouldn't shoot you. Don't be too sure. I'll use you for a shield. They don't know you're my boy.  Go on. Link, start cutting. I'll be glad to. That's more like it. Just as soon as you sign this land back to Archie and let him give you the tax money. What are you saying? I'm saying you robbed him. And don't tell me you can't sign it over because Avery paid the taxes. I know a little about the law. But I don't have the deed. We'll draw up a deed in fact. And what you sign, your partner's committed to. That's the way a partnership works. I won't do it. You'll do it or I'll tell Archie a lion and let him settle with you. Archie wouldn't shoot a man in cold blood. He hasn't got the heart for it. I wouldn't bank on that. I'm willing to. I'm not signing back this land's sons because I'm not worth too much.  Avery's just playing it smart. If he was around I couldn't work this yarn on, aren't you? You mean you planned it? No, but we figured something might come up when we tried to evict this polecat. Dad, I'm not going to let you get by with robbing him. Are you going to stop me, son? The way I said. By telling him you can't sign back the land without your partner. Don't do it. You'll be sorry. You're going to give him back that land. He'll never believe you when I get through talking. We'll see about that. Archer? Yeah. Yeah, what is it? Did you convince him, Parson? I convinced him. Come on in. How much do you know about partnership law, Mr. Archer? Well, I... I'd do anything, I guess. Go on work, Link.  Hey, what's he talking about? Now listen to me. He called you, Link. Is that your name? Of course it's his name. My name doesn't matter. I'm trying to tell you something. This man can sign a deed in fact that'll legally turn your land back to you. Hey, just who are you, mister? Never mind who I am. I'm trying to tell you he doesn't need Avery's signature. He can do it himself. Isn't it going to work, Link? They don't believe you. Hey, Barbara, who is this man? What's he to you? What's the difference who I am?  Who is he, Barbara? He's my son. Your son? I don't believe it. Search him then. He's probably got papers on him and he's just trying to help me. Look, Archer, it doesn't matter who I am. You stay right where you are. Get his wallet, Annie. Yeah. I got it. All right. I am his son. But what I'm trying to tell you isn't changed by that. Here's some letters addressed to Lincoln, our barber. And that you, Parson? Yes. But you got to listen to me. If my father makes out a deed and signs it, this land goes back to you. Sure it does.  It won't be worthless. Son, it's no use. Dad, you've got to tell him the truth. The truth is I'm licked. Thanks for trying to help.  You're lying. I think you'd better leave, Parson. But listen. I can't blame you for trying to save your father's life. But I'm telling you now, get out. You don't believe what I said? I... I don't. I can't. Even if I give you my Salamoth? Link, don't do it. Nothing's worth that, not to me. Not even telling the truth? But it wouldn't be the truth. All right, Father. You've bluffed me good tonight. Now, let's see how far you're willing to go. You got a Bible, Archer? Well, yes, but... Link, don't swear to a thing that's wrong. I don't intend to. Where's your Bible? Up there on the mantle. Thank you. Parson, think of what you're doing now. I thought it over carefully. This is the holy book, Father. It's probably been a long time since you've seen one. Link, you don't have to do this for me. I'm not going to do anything.  What? You heard me. Go on, swear it. Put your hand on that book and swear it. I don't have to swear to anything I don't want to. You shouldn't be afraid to take an oath on the truth. I'm not afraid. Then put your hand on this Bible and swear it. No. Let's see if you're willing to buy this land the price of your own soul. I'm not a religious man. Seems you've got enough sense to be Godfaring. I wouldn't mean anything. I won't do it. Archer, he's just bluffing. I don't think so, Barber. I think you can make out that deed and I'm going to have you do it right now. I won't. It won't be legal. I'll take my chances. Annie, get some writing paper. No, you can't make me. Hey, they shot out the light. It sounded like it came from up the canyon. Not too far off. That's what it is. You're going to have to let me go, Archer. You leave when you sign that deed. I'll never sign it. Doesn't look like any posse to me. Only one rifle going. It's pretty dark out there. Yeah, and the moon's coming up. I can't see anything. Get back from the windows, Annie. Let me swing open that front door. Maybe we can see a little better. It's the sheriff. You better give up, Archer.  I'm going to swing the door open slowly now. Everybody keep down. All right. Do you see anything? No, but I... Archer, can you hear me in there? It's Avery. It's my partner.  What's he doing out there shooting at us? I think you better answer him, Miss Archer. I hear you, Avery. What do you want? You've got my partner and his boy in there. Send them out right now. What if I don't send them out? You'll be sorry if it takes me ten years. I'll make you and your daughter sorry. You'd better untie me, Archer. He means business. A person looks like you won after all. This isn't any play of mine and I don't like the way it's going either. Cut me loose, Archer. Do what he says, Annie. Dad, wait a minute. What are you talking? Wait a minute. Cut me loose, girl. All right. Dad, listen to me. I don't like this. Avery doesn't mean you any good. What are you talking about? Why does he want both of us to walk out there? How does he know I'm here? Probably heard it from the sheriff. Avery wrote out of town before I got off the stage. If he'd come back and gone to the sheriff for help, there'd be a posse out there. Not just one man with a rifle. Well, maybe he just drifted back into town and decided to handle it himself. I'm no hostage. He doesn't have to help me. What are you talking about?  You're crazy, son. Then why didn't he come out here this afternoon? I told you. But now he finds out I've turned up and he's here. Why? Because it won't do him any good unless we're both killed. I'm your legal heir and he still has to split the land with me. You've got just one minute, Archer. If you don't send Bobber and his boy out, figure them for dead.  They're not dead, Avery. They're coming out. Dad, think about it.  After that, he can take his time about handling the Arches.  You don't know Avery. He won't even have to shoot them if he can make it look as though they've killed us. I'll must through with those ropes, girl. Yeah. That's the last. Well, son, are you coming? Dad, don't...  Maybe you thought wrong. I start you? Yes, Parson. Can I have my six gun back? I guess so. Annie? Here's your gun, Link. Thanks, Anne. That make you feel any braver, son? A little, but I'm still frightened. Yeah? For you. We walked out across the moonlit stoop and started up the trail my father and I. I looked at him once. Tall. His hair shining like silver in the moonlight. And I thought of how it could have been if things had been different. His face was strong and leathery. He didn't look 50. I remember once when I was 12 how he'd taken me hunting. And another time we rode into Laredo on my 15th birthday. And he bought me a pair of high black boots. He started with everything it took to be a great man. I wondered where he'd lost it. We moved on, not talking. And that is as we came to a place where a sharp outcropping of rock overhung the trail. The figure of a man holding a rifle loomed up about a dozen yards before us. I couldn't make out his face, but father seemed to recognize him immediately.  And I saw the rifle come up. Glenn! Dad, father! Dad, dad, it's Link. Are you hit bad? Carson, Carson, are you all right? Yes, I'm all right. Did you get Avery? Yeah, I got him. But we better get my father down to your cabin. When the sun came up the next morning, Needle Valley didn't look much different from the last time I'd seen it. I was sitting at my father's bedside as the first gray shadows crept over the rimrock and down along the jagged walls of the canyon. Seen from the cabin window for a while it all looked beautiful. But then as the sun gradually rose higher, the sharp dark outlines of the valley came clear. Shriveled mosquitos and choked scrubgrass, hot parched ground, that maybe had some gold underneath it. And maybe not. Son, Link. Yes, dad? Some water. Sure. Here. And not too much. I'm dying, Link. Don't talk like that. Arch is gone for a doctrine. You'll be fine. There's no doc in Templeton. He'll find one. You fought at Shiloh, eh? That's right. Bull run? Yes. Was it bad? Pretty bad. You must have shot straight, though. The way you got Avery. Yes. I never knew you did, I Link. We never got to know one another. Well, dad, we... No, no, we didn't.  You're gonna start your church here? I plan to. Always doing things.  I guess so. You were tall and strong, and I wanted you to like me. Did you tell the archer girl I signed the deed? Yes.  What's that? I did that to make you like me. Did you? Yeah. Oh, Link, look how the sun's coming up. Pretty, huh? I didn't take a false oath, either. I knew it was wrong when you wouldn't like it. You rest now. Don't talk anymore. It's all gold, the valley. I know. Yeah. You won't forget to say prayers for me. Never. The valley's all gold. Funny. What's that? I wonder what I ever saw in it. This is Barbara Hale again. I think no one will disagree that as far as worldly goods are concerned, there are, roughly speaking, two kinds of families, those who have enough and those who haven't. There may be many degrees in each category, and the dividing line isn't always obvious, but roughly that's about the way it stacks up. The same is true regarding family happiness. 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Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today, we're gonna talk a little bit about a little application called Buku. I think that's how you pronounce it. I'm not exactly sure. It doesn't matter. I'm gonna call it Buku because that's what it looks like. The idea behind Buku is browser-independent bookmarks. So, let's talk first a little bit about why you would want browser-independent bookmarks. So, it's a good idea if you move between browsers a lot. It's a good idea if you're worried about privacy and don't really want the browser you're using to know all of your bookmarks. Similarly, it's a good idea because you can control your bookmarks and be more organized. That last one's a little untrue. I'll talk a little bit about that later. But browser-independent bookmarks also allow you to transfer between browsers, but also transfer between computers really easily because you have the full. There's not an understanding with a browser you can export your bookmarks to like a XML or HTML file or whatever and transfer it over manually or sync it via Dropbox or PCloud or whatever. But this way, you have literally a file that is associated with this program that you can just install on another computer, point at the program, add that file and you're set up with the same system you have on your first computer and that's really good. And I've been using this now for, I don't know, maybe two months now and I'm really very impressed with it. It does have some quirks, I guess you'd have to say. It's definitely going to change your workflow. I found myself visiting bookmarks a little bit less now than I did before, mainly because it's taking some time to work this process into my muscle memory and it's a, like I said, it's a process. So first, let me open up a browser here and show you what my bookmarks used to look like. So if we could press Control B here and these are my bookmarks here. I was always very, very organized, had them in folders and stuff. They're very, where there's both being categorized and they're all tagged with the Firefox tagging system and it's great. But there are also a ton of these things that I just don't, I mean, this FOSS stuff thing has just kind of been developed into a catch all thing for all FOSS related stuff and the same thing with tools here and there's apps to look at. I have a whole bunch of things in here and that's a whole bunch of stuff from my fan fiction stuff and technology websites and YouTube and all that stuff. I have it all, it was kind of a mess. And because I'm one of those weird people who go through and want to theme Firefox all the time, the bookmarks menu kind of got in the way. So Firefox looks a lot cleaner like this than it does with that menu out and I understand you can put the menu up here, show bookmarks bar.  That's pretty clean. But it also, it ruins the aesthetic of having a one line Firefox thing. This is just one line is awesome. It's the way I prefer it. At one point I had them along the side and that one line, it was, and that looked pretty cool too. But like I said, I'll switch back and forth between browsers. So I really kind of wanted to control over my bookmarks file. Something that was transferable between browsers, something that I could control, something that was easy to add things to. And so Brodie Robinson, I think that's his name, he's another YouTuber that does Linux. He calls himself Discount Luke, which I find hilarious. He did a video on Buku not too long ago. And I decided, I'm gonna give this a try. And since then, I've been using it. So what does Buku actually look like? So I have this bound to a key binding for Rofi. So I used to mod B and these are my bookmarks. And I don't have all my bookmarks in here. So all that stuff you saw, it was all FOSS related stuff. I don't have any of that stuff in here because it's just, that's just stuff I would, I can still get to that stuff by going to the regular bookmarks menu. These are the things that I visit all the time. You know, and it's just, as a matter of fact, I only have 49 bookmarks. And it's just really easy. If I wanna visit one of these, I just, you know, I can just, so let's just say I wanted to visit the Verge. I just type it in. I can also do, I can also type that number if I have that number memorized, which I don't. You know, I can just type in the Verge or that number or whatever. And that's really great. It's very, you know, simple. It works with the menu or Rofi. So let's go ahead and go to a terminal here and take a look at what the menu or Buku actually looks like. And it's about 5,000 lines of code. And I believe that this is written in Python. I might be, yeah, it's written in Python. So yeah, I'm getting to know what Python looks like with that. Oh yeah. Anyways, it's written in Python and about 5,000 words code. And I don't understand a damn line of this really. Some of the things look familiar that from my time with Qtile. And I'm gonna be, I'm gonna try to dive into this a little bit you know, in my own time because I really wanna try to get, because when I go through and say I wanted to open up a bookmark, say I wanted to open it up, I don't know, VGN here is just for my football team. See, it opens up in a new browser. And I don't, or a new tab. And I don't always want it to open up in a new tab. I'd love to be able to have that set so I can kind of alter it, you know, with a different key binding. I'm not quite sure how to do that. It's not something that Buku can do. Buku can do, sounds like a 70 song. But I'd love to be able to do that. So I'm gonna dive into the code a little bit and see if I can figure out how to do that. But really what we wanna look at here is Buku to help. Now there's tons of stuff you can do here. So if you wanna add a bookmark, you do it with the dash A flag. You can update with the dash U, dash W right opens an editor. So if I do one Buku dash W, that brings me here. Then I just add the URL, add the title of the URL, add tags. Now what's great is if you use the, if you use the D menu helper or whatever for this, you can set it up so that it can search for tags instead of the titles or stuff. Now if you look, there's one, oops. So there's one of these flags here. Let's see here. Yeah, format. If you search by with the dash F thing, when you do a search, it will allow you to choose what you wanna search. The N1 will search for the URL, and two URL in the tag, URL title, and four was the URL in the title and the tag and so on and so forth. So I have a script here, cd slash users, search local slash bin. I think it's called, I think it's called Buku D menu, yeah. So then Buku D menu. And this is basically just one line of code. This right here just checks to make sure Buku's installed. And then there's just one line. So it runs Buku with the P flag and the F flag and the number three. So this basically searches for the title and the tag, I believe. And then it formats it in a certain way, feeds it into Rofi in the D menu style. And labels it bookmarks. It cuts out some spaces. And then this argument here basically just tells you if it's empty to open up whatever your selection is. And that's just one line. And this started off as a D menu script. So I just replaced Rofi with D menu. But that's basically all that is. Now this doesn't come with Buku. You have to download this separately. I put a link to D menu run in the show notes description, the show notes description, the video description. You can tell I was doing a podcast yesterday. But basically that's all it does. It just opens up this and uses your Rofi or D menu theme or whatever you do. Because I prefer Rofi, so this is what it looks like. My D menu is themed, but I just don't use it. I'm actually kind of shocked that I still have D menu actually installed. But I don't think that DWM will actually run without D menu installed. So that's just completely beside the point. So if we go back to here and clear this out and do Buku. Buku, I can't type help again. There's tons of different things you can do. So once you get the W that you can delete them, the based on the ID, so each. So if I, let me, one of these things here will list out the one, list out the bookmarks that I have, which, okay, so I will talk about AI here in a second. Because you can import your bookmarks from your browser. It did not work for me. I'm not sure why. I think it's because I had too many folders, but that's possible. One of these things here, I actually list out the things that I have. What if I just type in Buku? Oh, let's see here. Do, do, do, do, do. This apparently always, I never used Buku in the terminal. So I'm not exactly sure how to do it, but I guess it doesn't really matter. You can go through and search it. I don't know why you'd want to use Buku in the terminal actually. I mean, you use the terminal to add your bookmarks and that's what I did. But after that, you almost have to have something with the menu or Rofi.  Apparently this has the idea of two, which I didn't even know. Like I said, I don't know why you'd want to open up a terminal every time you want to do Buku dash O, three. You know, that just opens up Tumblr.  So you almost have to have, oops, that's the wrong one, you know, something with Rofi or DMN. So let's talk, so basically in a nutshell, that's what Buku is. I'm not gonna show you how to add, you know, a bookmark or stuff. It's all there in the help documentation. And it's really easy. Just Buku dash W and didn't fill out the information. You know, that's really all it is. Some things that I don't like about Buku. So in the beginning, I told you how it kind of made me not visit my bookmarks nearly as much.  And when I first started using Buku, I actually kind of didn't use them as much because you kind of have to remember that they're there. You know, so I always have to remember, not only that, you know, Buku is there, but I also have to remember, you know, say I wanted something from AO3, which is, you know, all these here. You know, I have to remember what to search for. I have to, so I want, if I want to, want something tech, as you can see, this doesn't actually, this just searches the title. So it only shows me, you know, like things that have tech in the name. So it's a little, because that, because it's kind of buried, it's not front and center, I had to retrain my muscle memory, but also because it's not easy to search through something outside of the terminal. So if you want to search for something, you know, via tag or ID or whatever, you know, it's really easy to do so in the terminal using those flags, but you would have to write a Rofi or D manuscript if you want to search through tags, you know, you know, using Rofi or D menu, and that's kind of a pain in the ass, and it just is. So it's kind of weird. It's kind of weird that this isn't just a D menu script to begin with, or a Rofi script to begin with, that you have to kind of add it into Rofi. It's also, I don't, I already talked about how it opens up a new tab. So a lot of times when I'm switching between bookmarks, I'll end up like this. I have like five or six tabs open because every time I open up a new bookmark or switch between bookmarks, it opens up a new tab. And I don't really want that. It's kind of a, it's kind of terrible. So I mean, there are some, like I said, there's some quirks that you kind of have to get used to, but I really like the fact that I have, you know, a file somewhere on my computer. I think it's in .boku, I think. I could be wrong. .config.boku, I can't remember. But there's a file on my computer that I can copy to a phone drive or send via Dropbox or whatever to my laptop. And all of a sudden I have all my bookmarks there without having to trust Firefox or Google Chrome to sync them and not steal my data. That's what really impresses me about Boku. And it's something that will, I've gotten used to it now. And I'm going to write that script where I can search via tag and stuff. Cause I think that that'd be really useful cause I have all of the bookmarks that I entered. I gave a whole bunch of tags like fan fiction or technology or videos or whatever. So I gave them all tags, but you can't really search for those the way I have it set up. So that's probably one of my next things that I'm going to do is write a Rofi script where that will go through. Cause it will not be hard. If I, a seeding to this here and then to here, all I'd have to do is change this beginning thing here to search. Instead of search for title, I'd have to search for tabs. So if I do Boku help and go here to the F, the F one, where is F, F, F, F, F, F, past it, past it, past it. It's a, these are alphabetical order. I don't know alphabetical order, but they should be. So if I do, right now I'm doing three, I'm doing title. If I change that to two, or if I changed it to five, that would allow when I do that search, it would search for not only the title, but also anything that matched a tag, which would be cool. So if I typed in tech, I would get all the things that I tagged tech and that's something that I'm going to do. I'm not sure. I might be able to actually just change that now. So if I change this to, I said five. So if we do, actually I'm going to sudo. This is, oops, I can't use my alias here. I got to do NZM. We just go down here and change just five, change letter five. Now if I do D, oops. See it's going to put all the tags now here. So if I type in tech, it'll actually give me everything that I've typed tech or gave the tech tag to. So I've done Verge and the OMG Ubuntu and Android Central and all these things. Whereas before, if you remember, it just showed me an ant tech in ours, Technica. So that's really cool. I think I'm going to go ahead and leave it like that. That way I can just type in fan fiction and that gives me all my fan fiction stuff no matter what site I've been using. So that's really cool. And that was how easy that is. Like I said, in the description, I will go through and link to Buku. So you can find that. It's on a GitHub page. It's very easy to install. It's in the AUR, I believe. It's also, you can also make, it's a very like a buildable package. You can just make install it. So you can compile it yourself. And I will also link to D menu, Buku dash D menu. That is just that one line of code that I just changed. That's literally all it is. There's another D menu script out there called Buku underscore run. It does not work. It's like 40, 50 lines of code. And it's entirely too complicated. Literally that D menu, Buku D menu, just that one line of code is fantastic. It doesn't even need to be a program. It could just be something that you copy and paste into your like SXHKD file and run it like that. I mean, if you didn't want to put a script together. I mean, so it's even a script, even a script at that point is kind of unnecessary. So that is Buku. Let me know if you find Buku interesting by leaving a comment in the comment section where else would you leave a comment? You can also support the channel by going to patreon.com slash linuxcast following us on Twitter at the linuxcast. Or me, I'm personally on Twitter at MTWB. 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InshaAllah a blessed evening we celebrate the birth of greatest human being whoever lived will ever live our Master Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. InshaAllah ta'ala just say a few things inshaAllah I don't know any Farsi poetry so I'll say a few things inshaAllah I'll quote some. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is our greatest benefactor from humanity and he benefits us in all three stages of his life. I mean there's more than three stages but the three stages that we're familiar with his Hayat Dunya wea the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is when he was with the Sahaba he was asking forgiveness for his ummah so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says فاعفوا عنهم مستل في اللهم it is part of the incredible mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and there's so much emphasis in the Arabic it's hard to even no translation is even close it is the incredible incredible mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you have the lean you have gentleness if you were harsh or hard hearted غليذ القلب thick of heart you would have seen people flee from your presence this is very important you know to internalize the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam especially with our families especially men with wives this is very very important women are compromised physically men are more more stoic than women generally and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he treated his wives with kindness with mercy this is extremely important the inward sunnah from his signs is that he made from you spouses that you might live the house is called a mescan it's a place of security for the woman if she doesn't feel like her house is a place of security and safety then the husband has failed in his duty of being a husband this is extremely important how did our mother aisha radiallahu anha described the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was a man from among the men a great man the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam never ever used a filthy language he never threatened anyone in the household he never used bad language he never uh scared his his wives this type of thing this is extremely important if you had been harsh people would have fled from you you see the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam people did not flee from him he brought people together look at his Sahaba where are they from all over the world look at the muslim umma his message is uniting everybody many many people in the west right now converting to islam for different reasons one reason is all of these amarata saaa are coming through everything he says in this even these had some of these hadith are very weak but they come true of course a weak hadith is not modur there's just a little problem here in there it's not it's not an a plus hadith but these things come true and people are starting to notice these things forgive them and the ulamas say imam razi says forgive them for things that they do against you personally but things that they do against Allah ask forgiveness for them make istighfar for them the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his life his life was making istighfar for his umma her mother aisha said that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was standing all night he was he was he was standing the aya tin layla one aya he was reciting the whole night one aya into adhib humf innuhum ibaduk wa in toghfir lahumf innaka anta al azeez al hakeem the end of al maaida if you forgive them if you punish them they are your servants but if you forgive them then you are great and wise and she said he repeated this aya over and over and over and over then he collapsed into sajda and heard him say umma ti umma ti ya rab umma ti so he makes istighfar for his umma during his life he makes istighfar for his umma in his hayat barzakhia barzakhia in the life he is in now so what does the what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say in the quran wa lo annahum if thalamu anfusuhum ja'uka fa istighfar Allah wa istighfar lahum al rasul la wajad Allah wa tawab al rahima that if only when they had wronged their theirselves they had come to you and Allah subhan Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness and then the messenger asked forgiveness for them they would have found Allah uh relenting and merciful go to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he's asking forgiveness for us in his state right now he's asking forgiveness for us tu'radu alayya aama lakum this hadith is sound hadith that your deeds are presented to me when wajad tu khayran hamid to Allah if I see good I praise Allah when wajad tu ghayr astaghfar tu lakum if I see other than that then I ask Allah to forgive you and then on the yawm al qiyama his hayat ukhrawiyah he asked forgiveness for his umma he is the shafi'a wal mushaffaa he is the the intercessor and the one whose intercessor is accepted and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will accept his intercession for his umma so first and foremost let's increase in our love for the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and realize what he's done for us and then we must internalize his sunnah he said if the the jhal comes to you wa anafiqum and I am among you then I will contend with him right but another way to read this is wa anafiqum I am in you I've internalized you have internalized me my sunnah is in you right my khuluq is in you my jamal is in you my jalal is in you these things are within you you've internalized them the jhal can have any effect on you I will contend on your behalf Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us to speak with sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa la alayhi wa sallam alhamdulillahi rabbil alayhi wa sallam alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa sallam


Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa according to the IMF, is among the East Africa countries that have been ranked to have fertile land for the construction business to flourish. And not surprisingly, construction is one of the largest industry sectors in Ethiopia and according to some estimates, the second largest employment generator after agriculture. To eradicate poverty, expand Ethiopia's infrastructure and to create jobs, the government of Ethiopia launched some mega construction projects. In this video, we will take a look at the top 10 ongoing mega projects in Ethiopia beginning with number 10. Please take a few seconds to like this video as we begin the countdown. 10. Addis Africa International Convention and Exhibition Center. The Addis Africa International Convention and Exhibition Center, AAICC, is one of Ethiopia's most prominent ongoing mega projects. It is a public private investment initiative that aims to build an international convention and exhibition center in Addis Ababa. It is expected to be the country's largest and first convention center with facilities such as exhibition and conference rooms, cinemas, theaters, a playground, and other amenities spread across 60,000 square meters of land. According to ALUAB, General Manager of AAICCC, all of the center's facilities are developed using cutting-edge venue technologies, making the center unique in Ethiopia and East Africa in terms of scale and sophistication. The project is projected to cost more than $50 billion and to be completely operational in seven years when all three building phases are completed. The project is currently in its second phase of construction. 9. Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The GERD project, originally known as the Millennium Dam, is a gravity dam located in Ethiopia's Benishingol-Gumas region, some 15 kilometers east of the border with Sudan. The dam has been under construction since 2011, when a $4.7 billion procurement and construction, EPC, contract was awarded to Selene Kostraturi, and it was scheduled to be completed in July 2017. However, it is still under construction due to a variety of obstacles, including a regional conflict over the flow of the Nile delays and the termination of the initial contract with METEC, which is managed by the Ethiopian military. The dam's principal objective is to generate electricity to alleviate Ethiopia's acute energy need and to export to surrounding nations. When finished, the dam will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa and one of the top 20 in the world, with a planned installed capacity of 5.15 gigatons. Construction of the dam is planned to provide up to 12,000 jobs, and around 20,000 people will be relocated during the duration of the project. 8. LAPSET project. Although it is primarily a Kenyan project, the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport, or LAPSET corridor project, often known as the Lamu Corridor, is one of Ethiopia's top ongoing megaprojects. It was inaugurated on March 2, 2012 by Kenyan President Waikabaki, Ethiopian Prime Minister Mal Zinawi, and South Sudanese President Salva Kier. The project's goal is to connect Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, and if finished, it will be the largest and most ambitious infrastructure project in East Africa. The project involves, but is not limited to, the construction of a new 32-birth port at Lamu, Kenya, railway lines connecting the three countries, road networks, and oil pipelines. The cost of LAPSET was expected to be $16 billion in 2009. Recent estimates, however, based on research, placed the project's cost between $22 billion U.S. dollars and $23 billion U.S. dollars. 7. Boll International Airport The current Boll International Airport in Addis Abiba, which can handle 19 million passengers annually, is experiencing congestion due to the ever-increasing number of passengers. So the Ethiopian government has decided to build another airport, which, when completed, will be Africa's largest. The budget is planned to be $5 billion, with four runways, and the potential to handle up to 120 million people per year after the project is completed. The airport would be located in Bishoftu, a town 39 kilometers south of Addis Abiba, and would encompass an area of 35 square kilometers. The ADP Engineering is now undertaking the planning study for the new airport project. 6. TAMS Hydro Power Project The TAMS Hydro Power Project is a proposed multipurpose project in the Barrow River Basin in southwestern Ethiopia. The project region is situated at the confluence of the Barrow River Basin's descending, densely forested highlands and the alluvial, fertile plains of the lower Barrow River. The proposed TAMS Reservoir would have 4.8 billion cubic meters of live storage, a dam height of 248 meters, and a reservoir size of 76 square kilometers. In a country where development is impeded by electricity shortages, the hydroelectric plant would meet a major amount of the region's energy demand. According to global data, which analyses over 170,000 power plants globally, the project is now in the permitting stage. It will be built in a single phase, and is projected to be operational in 2025 after construction is completed. 5. The Lager The Lager is a private public partnership housing project being built by the Eagle Hills Development Business and the Ethiopian government. The 36-hectare site, located at the former Addis Ababa Central train station, is one of the country's largest mixed-use developments. When finished, it will be a $1.5 billion complex, with 4,000 residences, hotels, retail, and leisure activities. The objective is to draw attention to Ethiopia's rich history and natural beauty, while also contributing to the local market by creating jobs and further anchoring the site in the Ethiopian economy. If the project is successful, it will demonstrate that Addis Ababa can support a commercial real estate market, which will strengthen the city's design and finance sectors and attract outside investment. It will also be a victory in Ethiopia's quest to become a middle-income country. 4. Mess Up Tower Mess Up Tower is a proposed 70-story mixed-use building on Mozambique Street in Addis Ababa's Kirkos sub-city. The development, which is expected to be a tourist attraction, is shaped like a mess up, an Ethiopian household item where food is kept. The Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism is in charge of the project. The overall land area for this 74 development is 50,000 square meters, and it will be 250 meters tall, more than three times taller than the Izuri Towers in Eco Atlantic, Victoria Island, which have an average height of 70 meters. The tower's development will cost approximately $681 million, and will include, among other things, hotels, shopping malls, a cultural center representing all areas of Ethiopia, a gym, and a golf club. The project is expected to be completed in five years. 3. Addwa Center The Addwa Center, named after the historic victory of Ethiopian patriots over the Italian invasion at the end of the 19th century, is intended to serve as a landmark that shows the significance of Ethiopian unity in overcoming any kind of adversity, and is intended to be the largest of its kind in the country. The Majestic Addwa Center is being built close to the Addis Ababa Municipality Building, which also houses the mayor's office. It will be built by the Chinese International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group, which inked the agreement with the Addis Ababa City Administration. The center will include a museum with historical facts about the Battle of Addwa, as well as a large meeting space that can hold up to 2,000 people. The center will also have film halls, a library, and places for sport and amusement for youngsters. The $90.46 million mega-project features cutting-edge parking with a capacity of over 1,000 cars at a time. According to current reports, the center's construction was 75% complete. 2. Public Library Project The Public Library Project, which is one of the big projects underway in the city administration, is being completed quickly since the shortage of such facilities, if not addressed quickly, will likely harm future generations in terms of access to libraries and similar amenities. This project, which is now underway and has a budget of approximately 1 billion Ethiopian currency, would address concerns related to library access for the city's young, and those who languish performing things that are detrimental to their health and mental faculties. This library, which is built on 1.8 hectares of land, can accommodate 35,000 people and includes parking for 113 cars. It also boasts state-of-the-art ICT equipment. Both local inhabitants and members of the diplomatic community in Addis Ababa are welcome to utilize the library. 1. Aluda Langano Geothermal Power Project This is a geothermal power project under development in Arcee, Oromia region, Ethiopia. It is being built within the dormant Aludo volcano, a volcanic complex of the Ethiopian Rift Valley with many craters up to 1 kilo-edersim wide. The station has been producing geothermal energy since 1990, but has been paused for expansion. The expansion project, which intends to generate an extra 70 megawatt, is largely supported by the World Bank through the International Development Association. A total of 12 wells are planned for the Aluda Langano extension project, and lately state-owned Ethiopian electric power, EEP, reported that production testing for the drilled wells in the Aluda Langano geothermal site has begun. When completed, the Aluda Langano geothermal power station will be run by Aluda Langano geothermal wellhead power system, a firm completely controlled by the Ethiopian state-owned company EEP. What do you think of Ethiopia's top 10 mega projects? Do leave your comments down below, and don't forget to subscribe to our channel if you haven't done so already. Please remember to like and share this video. Please turn on your notification icon to get alerts of our newly posted videos.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyskatesprac.com, 21.2, Panini Immaculate Basketball, just sold out. This is a five box K-Sprac Picketsies number one, and it also is a brand new release, guys. What a monstrous release date today there was, right? We had a flawless baseball release date, we had this and Impeccable. Now I'm happy I managed to do at least two out of the three new releases. Hopefully I get to do some Impeccable on Instagram, but maybe they're still Impeccable when I get here on Friday again. So I appreciate it, guys. There's the names and the R&B numbers and teams, I should say. And then here is the case. So yeah, I'm going to be heading over to Instagram right now after this. I'm going to take a quick bite, finish my breakfast. I didn't really get to finish it today. I got here at 10 in the morning, guys. 10 in the morning, so I didn't really get to eat a proper breakfast, but I did order a Mickey's breakfast sandwich. I took a bowl of bites in between some breaks earlier, but quickly eat that and then I'll probably start around like 3.30 on Instagram. The color kind of threw me down, but I guess it's the same. Alright, here we go, guys. So a little tough, of course, to hit in one of these.  Alright, first one, how about, wow, Scotty Barnes. That's actually probably going to sell really well. 4 out of 10 rookie base. Very nice. And that is Raptor's Tim. Alright, we got a Davion Mitchell Relic, 35 out of 99. Is that Jersey number two? Wow, that is Jersey number two, even better. Kings is Ben. We got O'Gianna Novi, 12 out of 25, two-color patch. Raptor's again, Tim. And we got a Victor Oladipo, little patch autograph there for the Miami Heat, 19 out of 25. Little acetate over on top. Looks like still Pacers uniform in there, too. But that's Miami Heat, and that's going to go to Joe Christian. We have a out of 10 Duncan Robinson patch autograph. Back to back heat, a heat hits. And then we got a T'99 Jose Alvarado. That's a rookie autograph on card. Pelagons, going to Kyhoom. Solid first box.  What a time, sorry. Rudy Gobert for Utah to 99, and then the Emanian Quigley Relic for the New Year of Nyx to 99. Oh, the Soul of the Games are awesome, man, yeah. Kind of like the Sneaker Spotlights. And then Nyx, that is Matt Smith. Utah is Nyx. About a little team logo jersey numbers. Corey Kessberg, who I think has been playing pretty well this year, right? Not the biggest name out of this draft class, but 19 out of 25, right there for the Washington Wizards Fred. We got a Cameron Payne to 99 for the Suns. Phoenix Suns is Robert Runkel. We have a two of five Grant Williams for Boston. Celtics, going to Chung. And then last one here is a Carl Malone. Seven out of 25. That is MVP's auto. Another one for the Utah Jazz and Nick. Nicholas, there you go, man. Nice little Carl Malone right there. Box three. We got the 25, Dame Dalladame for Portland. Blazers, going to Robert Runkel. John Collins or Alec, 10-99. Yeah, it's a 75, James Harden. That's Brooklyn. Ned's going to Adam Coverman. Ball for the Thunder, a little poo-poo. OKC, that's going to be low. Six of 10. I think he's a really, really good big man. Can shoot the ball. Brooks Lopez. Or Brooklope, as I should say. That is a modern Markster. First hit for the R&B, actually. Milwaukee Bucks. That's eight out of 25. Eight is Michael L. And then last one here is a Anthony Edwards. Nine out of 25. Patch autograph, that's a second year Anthony Edwards. And a three color patch as well. T Wolves, shown with that one. All right, a couple vets. I haven't seen a true RPA. Could be hiding here in these last two boxes. Usually out of the five boxes, usually at least one to two. Could be shaping up for a big RPA, guys. I don't know. Very thin box. And there's a redemption at the bottom. Oh, snap. Redemption at the bottom. Kevin Durant, 13 out of 25. Brooklyn, going to Adam Coverman. I'm going to be a multi, that's true. Brandon Ingram, 10-99. Oh, there for the Pels. Kai Hoon.  There's no way this guy wins three straight MVPs, all right? Did even Michael Jordan do that? He has on a crazy tear, though. Nuggets, that's going to Igor. We have a Kessler Edwards, 10-99 for Brooklyn. We have a Desmond Bain Immaculate Ink, 10-99. That is Griz de Lowe. And then the last one is a redemption. All right, let's check it out, guys. Good luck, everybody. Here we go, here we go. Ooh, it's Immaculate Legends. So it's not even a rookie. So the last one should be an RPA, right? There's no way that this case doesn't have an RPA. Card number one, Bob Petit. Must be way before my time. I don't know. Let me see. Let me refresh my memory. So it says St. Louis Hawks, which I'm assuming that's Atlanta Hawks. Let me double check and make sure that that, of course, team turned into the Hawks, which I'm pretty sure they did. Yes, that's the Atlanta Hawks. So yeah, it was the Buffalo Bisons in the NBL, then the Tri-City Black Hawks, the Milwaukee Hawks, then to the St. Louis Hawks from 55 to 68, and then now from 68 to present is Atlanta. So Atlanta Hawks with that one, that's going to 10. And just in case nobody doesn't know who Bob is, because I do. I know who he is. He's an American former professional basketball player who is part of the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player as well. NBA Champion. Two-time most valuable player, 56-59. Eleven-time All-Star. NBA Rookie of the Year in 55. NBA scoring champion in 56-59. Retired number nine by the Atlanta Hawks. Come on, nobody knows who this guy is? There you go. This guy's 90 years old, so yes, he's still alive. I don't really ever see too much about this guy, so I mean, he must be a rare auto. All right. Last box, guys. I hope this is an RPA or at least a rookie, because we've only had one rookie so far in the three boxes or four boxes we've done. So I feel like this has to be an RPA. If not, at least a rookie autograph. I think the only rookie autograph at the bottom we got was whole day Alvarado. So hopefully we just saved the best for last. There we go. If not, it's going to be really tough to hit RPAs this year. It's usually at least one, at least for the most part. All right, Jordan Poole in 99. We have a quad relic that's featuring Davion Mitchell, Zyra Williams, Joshua Primo, and Desunmu to 25. So that's going to be a randomizer there between the kings, gris, spurs, and bulls. And Jordan Poole's shamanic. We have a Trey Murphy, nice little jungle jersey numbers. We have a Yada 25 Jeff Hornecek for the Phoenix Suns that is Robert Runkle. And we did get an RPA, just not the biggest one, unfortunately, but Dearon Sharp. So this one's more of a vet case than anything. 61 out of 99. That's Brooklyn Nets, true RPA there. And that's going to the Brooklyn Nets and Adam. All right, the last card, though, is a Pelican and it's CJ McCullum. So yeah, more of a veteran case on this one, guys, unfortunately, but we did get a true RPA, though. Just wasn't the biggest. But it doesn't mean every case is going to be like this, guys. It could be much better. So there you go, guys. Still got some good stuff, though.  I never really see him sign so much. And then, of course, we did get an Anthony Edwards RPA, Puku, Dame Dalladame, Carl Malone. Like I said, it's more of a vet case. That was a nice team logo. It was there by Kessbert. Well, hopefully for the next one, guys. Like I said, every case is totally different, although we did get those nice Scotty Barnes. Every case is totally different. It could be a case that has crazy RPAs. It could be a case like this that didn't have too much. But let's do that randomizer really quick. Damn, Justin going in on this guy. I don't know, dude, honestly. But I mean, he signed out of 49. So he at least did 49 of those. Savage, man. Savage. All right, so let's do that quad right there. Kings, gris, spurs, and roll. Four to two, six times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six. And it's going to stay with the Grizzlies. It looks like right there. Four to two, six times. So Grizzlies, congratulations, buddy. That is a deal-up. So I appreciate you guys. Another one's in the store, jaskyscasebrakes.com.