All right, let's play this in full. There you go. Let's play this one more time. It's a shorter clip. All righty. You are mentioning here that you have established your timing and your poses. This is still in linear except the root. Just kind of feel things out. I had this really cool stuff in there. I think currently right now the only thing that strikes me because this is potentially... So there's just the early spliny nature of it. I think everything is cool. I think once you get in there, even though I do see an offset here... Isn't that bad? It's just it struck me with those hands coming up together like claws here. And I know I see that it's offset and I see the offset especially through here. There's just something about these where maybe as you come up, just one is just rotated over just a bit more and with maybe more relaxed thumb not to have those Lego figurine, Lego figs claw hands. Just that the only thing that struck me there. But I like that you have how knee go out and then the legs go out first and reposition and then to get up. Just watch out as you get into this. Even though you said spline, this seems like a linear key on that root here. To me what I would work on is because you got some cool details. It goes back, it's ready, that but then this seems into this. I wonder if you can push this a bit more. Is this something where potentially as you ease out of this, is the butt going up first with the more of a lean over with the head or is now the body going forward with a bit of a straightening of the back and the head is around here to then straighten up to get up here. So it's kind of like that or is it something where even though there's this and they're both kind of the same, are you going to potentially push off with this more as this seems maybe further back than this and have a more overall lean this way. That then ends up in something like this. You know what I mean? Well, you could have a lean that's a potential bit further and then step back into this. I think we could have a bit more information in terms of how the character gets up from here to here instead of just literally coming out and this seems a bit too simple. Just a bit. But I'm also very picky here. But other than that, I think there's some really cool stuff there. It just probably also slowing potentially that down a bit more. Now it has to be an old person getting up into this. But it is and it is pretty pretty. Not too fast, but I feel like it's probably also a linear key that does this. But it's a little bit of more information again. Splining this and easing out of this and giving us a bit more information of how, you know, lean forward or lean up or a side lean, just a bit more complexity there could be cool on this. But when I watched this for the first time, the things that struck me were that coming out quickly. But then I thought, that's not too bad. Why not? But then the second thing was maybe it's because of the speed here. The contrast of once you get to here, it gets very spliny with swingy arms. And you got both arms kind of swinging back at the same time. Everything gets kind of soft. If you look at his head too, the chin goes down there. You want to be careful with those spliny, flowy moves on a head. To me, it seems like a person who's busy. Oh, tired, drunk, they're drunk. But it's just not quite there where this seems to have a lot of purpose. So well, it's Tuesday. Let's get up. Oh, I'm so dizzy. Maybe I should have gotten up a bit slower. Like these are kind of the things that I'm seeing here. So for me, I would probably, I would keep this. I like this a lot here. But then she just tightened this up a bit more with the more direct and more distinct side step into a settle. And then that's it. Now, now this is just an exercise, but we can still kind of look at general timing and pushing things to be a bit less contrasty. Where I'm not sure where this, I don't know if it's intentional.   But I think you want to keep this just in the exercise world. So me personally, I would tighten this end up a bit more. You do have a question here about working with arcs and tools and things. I'm going to reply to this in email form here. So let's continue this in email form. And that's it from me for this. Thanks. All right. Thank you.


Some of the people who rely on the environment the most seem to care the least about protecting it. Believe me, I know talking about environmentalism in conservative areas is hard, and we're not used to it. But if there's one thing that's been made painfully clear recently, it's that science don't give a s*** if you believe in it. Rural people don't just rely on the land for their living, but also their recreation, their food, and for rivers to float down on tubes tied to bear coolers. By the way, I consider tubing to be the quintessential Southern activity. Jorts are acceptable attire, it's drinking and driving, but you can do it while you're asleep, and the sun is literally making your neck more red. The rap on Southerners is that we're just too stupid or backward to believe climate science, but that's not really the case. I think more people in the South believe in climate change than the rest of the world knows. It's these people at the top of these power structures that are sort of dominating the dialogue that white male evangelicals are the least likely to believe in climate change statistically. And you know these white male evangelicals are still at the head of the power structure in the South.  But worrying about something and actually taking action are two different stories. Surveys show that while most Southerners believe that humans are deep frying the planet, they are the least likely to talk to their neighbors about it. Which is ironic, because we're also the most likely to greet you from the window of a pickup truck, like hot enough for you? Roll tide. And appropriately enough, roll tide is exactly what's going to happen right up to your front yard. Southern climate change deniers are like people who let their kids handle fireworks. Yeah, we know some, and they make us all look bad, but they are seriously outnumbered. It just seems like with climate change, the media is like anything else when it comes to the South, any other disaster or tornado hurricane comes through. Anytime they show up, they always talk to the dumbest among us. Yes, we're here with the dumbest among us. I've just talked to him. He tells me that his trailer has flown across the field, but he's not worried about it because it isn't mobile home. One of the many weird things about this is that the people who are the most hardcore about God are often the most reckless about destroying his creation. There was something that happened with religion and public opinion where environmentalists were these like strange activist pagans. And so it just divorced the environmental movement from, you know, a whole bulk of people. I don't know who needs to hear this, but environmentalism is not the same thing as being a damn wicked.  I do feel like the preppers aren't probably prepping the way they should. They probably have like, you know, 30 liters of mellow yellow, 12 pounds of spam, and then like 14,000 rounds of ammunition. The water is going to be higher than their cholesterol, but just barely. Even if I haven't convinced you to think about climate change differently, you should at least be madder about pollution. I think one thing we can all agree on is poison is bad. I mean, unless it's those old cartoon jugs of moonshine with the skull and crossbones on them, that was probably some good. We're talking toxic waste runoff from corporate farms, benzene and mercury from fracking and arsenic and lead runoff from coal mining. All of these poisons make their way to the rivers and streams that provide water for millions of Americans. If you look at where the energy companies have hidden their toxic materials, it's all near low income neighborhoods, low income communities. People hear water crisis and think Flint, Michigan, but Flint ain't alone. 5,000 drinking water systems racked up health violations in 2015. Half of them serve municipalities of 500 people or less, i.e. the types of towns that people like me grew up in. So why ain't hillbillies and rednecks more up in arms about this stuff? Well, in our defense, you won't necessarily notice the planet's getting hotter when you live in a place that's already too damn hot to begin with. And the effects of contaminated water are hard to recognize. It's not like every impacted kid comes out with six toes and a tail. And hell, even if he did, we'd probably just be glad that made him better at climbing trees. And then there's the fact that we're getting a steady stream of misinformation from the politicians who are funded by the very corporations who are messing with the planet. Yeah, even though they're quick to cry poor over new EPA regulations, they got no problem finding a few million in their couch cushions to fund candidates who will oppose environmental protections. So I want to talk straight to my rural American viewers for a second. Be a little more dubious whenever those people tell you, oh, it's fine where you are, don't worry about it. Meanwhile, they live somewhere else. And since most voters believe climate change is real, but keep electing politicians who refuse to do anything about it, also be a little more skeptical about the other stuff they use to get your votes. For example, hunters. Does it really make sense to vote for a politician who's going to protect your rifles if his policies are also going to poison the stream Bambi drinks from?


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we're discussing the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. On October 31st, the Indian government initiated the process of the formal bifurcation of the state which is now into effect. Post the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5th, the state has witnessed series of protests, multiple demonstrations and of course changes in the administrative processes. Today we're especially discussing the land reorganization that has been initiated after the abrogation of 370 and to discuss this with us we have Gautam Navlaka. Thank you Gautam for joining us. My first question to you is currently there is a massive lawyer strike which is taking place in Jammu and it's not the first. There are other such strikes that have happened but why is this one significant? How is it connected to the land in the state? Well, the reason by the Bar Association which is actually headed by a Bharti Janta Party person who happens to be its official spokesperson and they have spearheaded this indefinite strike which itself is very striking. Their argument is that by transferring the responsibility of registration of immovable property from the judiciary to a new department in the revenue under the revenue department called registration department for immuable property what the government has done is divested the local people of even little possibility of relief and a transparent system for registration of their immovable property. This enhances the power of the central government over land issue which in any case under the reorganization act they have vested in the central government. Because it's a union territory now not a special status now and they have deliberately done away with major land acts which take away the which used to prevent sale of land to an outsider because it could not be sold to a non-permanent resident at all and there were strict restrictions guiding it. Now having done that as a first step and now with this whole transfer of responsibility of registration also with the central government via the revenue department what you have done is that the union territory now is virtually like a colony ruled by the center where the local population have no control and Jammu's lawyers were agitated precisely because of this that their voices were not heeded they were not taken into confidence they kept on complaining and asking for dialogue and all it was not done. So the central government ignored its own people in Jammu which is quite remarkable in order to push through what it wants to against the wishes of the people it shows that the extent to which they are willing to go. So it's very striking that land issue is something which still is a major issue which played entire Jammu and Kashmir including Ladakh. It's not as if Ladakh is quiet in fact the demand in Ladakh is for the six schedule status which the central government is unwilling to concede now that's a very striking thing that if you wanted to divest I mean bifurcate a state and create a union territory then surely given that it's a predominantly tribal area why don't you bring in six schedule which itself shows the government's intentions of what they plan to do against the wishes of the local community and I think that is the single most important issue. Yeah so we've been seeing that as you mentioned in this answer that there is a there is a reading down of a lot of laws that has now taken place. If you could tell us more about that that how does it give center more power what were these special provisions that were actually protecting the people. Well for instance under the Reorganization Act the police and public order the powers to formulate policies or new laws doesn't rest with the union territory it rests with the central government. Even the chief minister of the union territory doesn't even have the power to appoint his or her own principal secretary it will be done by the lieutenant governor. So much so that the lieutenant governor is actually not only in charge of day to day running he has powers for budget making for over police public order and of course the central bureaucracy he has direct control over their functioning and their transfer or appointment or promotion. The union territory government now I mean Jammu and Kashmir from a special status now reduced to virtually a colony called union territory ruled by the central government will have no power to decide on a variety of subjects which actually directly concern them and directly concern the people not even the budget will be prepared by them. So what powers are they going to have negligible it's like a municipal corporation. And you know the kind of impact that it will have on it is important to understand this from you that the impact that this will have now on how land was distributed who held the land and what kind of changes that it may bring in the demographics of the state. Well the fear is I mean the biggest fear that people feel right now is there is and there is a concerted effort on the part of the government of India to to persuade people to to part with their land for a good price as they have been claiming in the advertisement and propaganda campaign that they have been running in Jammu and Kashmir. So as part of that they're trying to encourage people to sell. So obviously the by reducing the the question of who can own land and who can you know become owner of a of another immovable property who can come and invest in land etc or some real estate company who wants to it opens up doors for them. Yes which reduces the power I mean if you don't even have the local communities don't even have a power through their own representatives in their own assembly to to formulate laws and policies regarding this matter then obviously the central government will decide in the bureaucrats who are completely unrepresentative who have no contact with the local community who are not bound by to follow the wishes or have any political reason why they should follow what the local communities have to say they'll do exactly what the government central government wants them to do and that is the biggest fear. So what will happen to the to all the land reforms and the the the radical land reform that took place I mean I wonder we'll see as as things unfold it's too it's too early to say exactly which way it'll move but the fear is that will they even try to abolish the Jagirdari system and bring it back I mean there is there is there is that fear that also hangs over it this over and above all that has happened in the last 70 years and particularly in the last 30 years Sumeda with untold misery inflicted and violence inflicted on the population and people suffered for the last 30 years and it was almost revolutionary in terms of it's it was almost like a preceding that the state had set in terms of its land reforms for the rest of the country so how has that model now you know suffered is has it suffered a hit and what was that model that was actually being looked up to so much with the state and now that has been completely decimated with the new I wish it was true what you're saying it that the state was being looked at or the radical land reform in Jammu and Kashmir I think we we are becoming aware of it now much too late this is something which we all of us knew even earlier it's now when it is ending it's coming to its you know it's being taken away that we are realizing the significance of it but let me tell you I mean Jammu and Kashmir is is is made complicated because of three principal reasons you know it's a historical dispute which goes back to partition and the way in which independence or power got transferred in the former British colony that we were you know and that how India got divided the second is what the local party which was one of the premier leading political movements in Jammu and Kashmir had promised the people abolition of of the feudal Jagirdari system and land to the land to the tiller and distribution of land to the landless this was the promise on which they had spearheaded a movement and people were waiting for it to be so second was that so keeping these two two in mind I mean once Jagirdari system came into being it did not does not mean that the therefore the dispute ends no the dispute still remains but on top of that at least we have created a society which is far more equitable than it ever was you've done away with the feudal system which had ruined people for for decades and people suffered because the Kashmiris right over land was taken away under the in under the Dogra rule in for nearly for a hundred years so getting the land back yeah was a very important step in the life now they are back in a situation where they are threatened and there is this fear which hangs over them that this present government of India is pushing to diverse them of their rights over the land and when land comes into picture it it it it can become a very it can it can acquire a very how should I say it can become virulent and which way it will go be it's very difficult to say and that's a very important thing that you mentioned in terms of its historical significance and we will keep following how that development takes place what repercussions would the organization act will have on the state of Jammu and Kashmir so on that note we end this interview thank you so much Gautam for joining us and for these stories these updates and many more please log on to newsclick.in and keep following Kashmir with us thank you


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about the Bright Lights of Sarajevo, a poem by Tony Harrison. Now I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as it appears in the Pearson International GCSE anthology and I'll highlight literary and language devices as well as contextual factors that you should be aware of when studying this text. So let's get started. Now before I go into reading of this poem and highlighting the literary techniques it's really important to understand the context behind this poem. So do you remember that this poem is a reference to the Siege of Sarajevo which is the capital of today Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege occurred between 1992 to 1996 in the Bosnian war. Now do you remember that the Bosnian war which happened during this time actually has very many complex causes however the most significant was due to the leader at the time of Yugoslavia which Bosnia was part of and which included Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkan states. Now this leader was called Slavodan Milosevic and he deliberately stoked tensions and conflicts between Serbians, Croatians and Muslim Bosniaks. These groups will be mentioned within this poem. Now Milosevic stoked tensions between them and these were the three main ethnic groups in the region and to bolster support for himself politically Milosevic did use nationalistic ideas of a greater Serbia which is a country made up only of Serbians and this is what of course eventually escalated into war. So what I will do is read the first two verses or the first two stanzas and then highlight important techniques that you need to be aware of. After the hours that Sarajevans passed queuing with empty canisters of gas to get the refills they will home in prams or queuing for the precious meager grams of bread the ration to each day and often dodging snipers on the way or struggling up sometimes 11 flights of stairs with water then you'd think that the nights of Sarajevo would be totally devoid of people walking streets Serb shells destroyed but tonight in Sarajevo that's just not the case the young go walking at a strollers place black shapes impossible to mark as Muslim Serb occur out in such dark in unbeat streets you can't distinguish who calls bread chleb or chleb or calls it crew or take the evening air with a strollers stride no tortures to guide them but they don't collide except as one of the flotatious ploys when a girl's dark shape is fancy to buy a boys. Now of course this opening two stanzas of the poem really highlight the tension but also the normality that underlies this tension so even if there's a lot of war that's happening people in Sarajevo are still trying to continue to live their lives as usual now in the first verse the poet highlights queuing empty and queuing and now the present continuous verbs queuing which are repeated shows just how repetitive life is under siege furthermore the notion that these Sarajevans pass is and the rhyming Kaplet gas essentially emphasizes the predictability of life under Sarajevo and especially life in siege in Sarajevo furthermore the pre modifiers precious meager grams really show just how food is in short supply this is a war economy therefore food is really really in short supply and it's rationed out to people furthermore this is emphasized with the term rationed and this shows of course that this is a war economy and life is actually very difficult during this war moreover the mention of snipers and shells this is a semantic field of war and it shows that life is really dangerous in Sarajevo it's very difficult and unpredictable moreover the present continuous verb struggling shows how arduous life is for Bosnians and Sarajevans in this war it's interesting that the poet in line uses the second person pronoun you and this relates to our assumptions so presumably we are people who are not living under war we don't understand how war is like or life in war is like and so the poet or rather the speaker is directly speaking to our assumptions about this and also in some ways dispelling some of the ideas that we may have also the sibilance street subshells this shows just it creates tension and it shows just how dangerous life is but still in spite of that people are still walking and trying to create some semblance of normality however the conjunction but now this compounds the second person pronoun because it refutes the assumptions we might have about life in wartime so it now builds up this the idea that actually even if it's at war the city is at war actually life still goes on to some degree now in the second verse the speaker mentions black shapes impossible to mark and the shadows emphasize how actually beneath all of the darkness everyone is human and the darkness masks whether they are misleam serb or croat again this is highlighting just how silly and how unnecessary war is especially war which is caused by ethnic strife moreover the rule of three misleam serb croat refers to the different ethnicities and how the war was predominantly ethnic as i mentioned before slobodan milosevic did really exploit the different ethnicities and really stoked tensions and this of course led to the war moreover the reference to darkness usually which represents a fear of evil you usually represent something terrible actually in this case the irony is that it ushers in peace in sarajevo it's actually in the light in the daytime where there's a lot of war but actually when it becomes dark there's peace and everybody goes back to some kind of normality moreover in line 16 there's this reference to different dialects relating to how bread is called hleb hleb or crew and this reference to the different dialects shows the divisions in ethnicities and of course this shows that at root one of the challenges of living in sarajevo is this idea that people were caused to not feel like they could trust each other based on their ethnicities also the alliteration towards line 19 and 20 flirtatious and fancied emphasizes some sexual innuendo so in spite of the war people are still trying to date people are still trying to do regular things that we do in the west and take for granted so let's carry on then the tender raider tone of the voice shows by signals she approves his choice then match a lighter to a cigarette to check in her eyes if he's made progress yet and i see a pair who certainly progress beyond the tone of voice a match of their test and he's about i think to take a hand and need her away from where they stand on two shell scars where 92 sub mortars massacred the bread shop queue of blood dunked across of shredded bread and lay on the pavement with the broken dead and at their feet and holes made by the mortar that caused the massacre now full of water from the rain that's poured down half the day the now even the smallest clouds have cleared away leaving the sarajevo star filled evening sky ideally bright and clear for the bomber's eye in those two rainfall shell holes the boy sees fragments of the splintered palades sprinkled on those death deep death dark wells splashed on the pavement by sub mortar shells now in these next two verses firstly the speaker refers to the tender tone and the litteration here emphasizes the blossoming romance between these two individuals furthermore there's this spark of light that's highlighted match and lighter again this shows that there's some semblance of normality that's happening in the darkness people are just smoking they are hanging out and there's some kind of romance also this romance between the two people that the speaker notices the boy who lights a cigarette it's stated he checks if her eyes in her eyes if he's made progress yet so this reference to romance shows that he's courting her just like how young people in the west state now in line 25 the narrator interjects directly with the first person pronoun I so this is the first time we hear directly from the narrator and then the narrator says I see a pair who's certainly progressed now it's unclear if this is the same couple very likely it is but it's still kept kind of unclear now in line 27 to take her hand now what this shows is it's a show of love and it's of course a contrast to the hatred of war moreover in line 29 shells scars the sibilants here highlights irony it's interesting that the love of these two people could lead to new life of course they could make a baby which is new life but they stand on remnants of death and this death is emphasized furthermore with overt references now to the bosnian war and in line 30 the mortars massacred now the litteration here really emphasizes the extreme violence of this war and the reference to mortars the repetition of mortars really emphasizes the death the destruction that this war has caused moreover in line 31 blood cross of shredded bread so this is a really gory gory language play on words because it associates what we do when we eat bread for example if we eat bread and tea we dunk the the bread inside the tea however in this case the bread is dunked in brought blood and of course this is the blood of the people that were holding it who are now dead now in line 34 there's a temporal shift now to the present to where the narrator is and there's a mention of water which is interesting because it's life-giving it's a symbol of life moreover there's in line 36 the superlative adjective mentioned smallest clouds and this is interesting because it shows that these clouds which which have hovered in the sky they are now clearing away and they're going to make it easier for a bomber or somebody who's a sniper to actually see these people but also other people in the darkness of course this shows how this romance is still intermingled with death furthermore there's the sibilance sarajevo star which shows promise but there's this promise of romance of love blooming but it's in the under the specter of darkness and death furthermore there's the mention of the bright and clear for bomber's eye and this alliteration shows that the specter of war is never too far dangers ever present furthermore in line 40 the palades that are mentioned this is actually a specific constellation of stars which reflect on the water so there's this real interesting contrast between the beauty of nature and the beauty of romance versus the horrendous aspects of war and life at war furthermore there's the a sinderton that's used death deep death dark and the pre-modifier death to show how pervasive war still is so let's look at the final verse the dark boy shape leads the dark girl shape away to share one coffee in a candlelit cafe until the curfew and he holds a hand behind aid flower sacks refilled with sand this is a really poignant ending there's some hope and promise of love romance some kind of normality in the night time however there's constantly the threat of death violence and war now here the dark boy leads dark girl shape away so there's this repetition of dark and shape and it shows the promise of new love and romance moreover the alliteration of coffee candlelit cafe creates some glimpse of normality this is what we do when we are going on dates we go and have a coffee in a cafe maybe a dinner later on so there's some kind of glimpses of normality that we would identify in the west but this is happening in a very abnormal situation of war also in line 45 until the curfew so these glimpses of normality are shattered so alongside this normality cafes candlelit cafes there are curfews and so there's a constant reminder of this war economy furthermore this reminder is compounded with these aid flower sacks and this is of course reference to the UN peacekeepers aid this is you know free food donations made from the west and of course this is again relating to war so that's all if you found this video useful we do have a course covering all the IGCC anthology texts as well as model answers for past papers so make sure you check out that course but also head over to our website www.firstrate tutors.com for lots of English worksheets English courses and materials to help you in this and other areas of English thank you so much for listening