Hi, so welcome everyone. This is our weekly webinar of what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean every Wednesday at noon and today I'm joined by Camille Talmers who is a Haitian economist He has a very interesting history and I admire him very much. He a lot of things that went through his life made him choose the path of Justice and struggle and even if a man defying people close to him so I as I say I admire him very much and so He is currently a professor in the state of University of Haiti and he is the executive director of PAPDA, which is a coalition of Haitian civil society and he's also a spokesperson for the left political party So welcome Camille. Bienvenido Thank you so much for the invitation and greetings to everyone that's participating in this conversation The COVID-19 crisis began in Haiti on March 19th when the government announced the first two identified cases I have to note that COVID-19 reached Haiti in the middle of a serious crisis the country had been going through for over three years a Very strong economic crisis with the collapse of the national currency with respect to the dollar It lost 75% of its value in two years and also high inflation Which has made it so that the purchasing power of workers has been plummeting and the government has refused to increase the minimum Minimum wage on three occasions So right now we're in a situation in which the people are falling into unheard of levels of poverty With 4.1 million people facing food insecurity and that is a number that is increasing So 40% of the population cannot eat and this is a very very very serious situation in crisis and the economic crisis is also accompanied by a Political crisis that is serious because we are governed by a party that is in the extreme right wing The PHTK that is totally controlled by the United States and has as its political project a Return to an authoritarian government close to the type of government we had with Duvalier So they are nostalgic for this Duvalier is to period and they want to destroy the democratic accomplishments that we have achieved since 1986 and during the past two years We have seen admirable processes of popular mobilizations of mass mobilizations Millions of people on the streets demanding not just the exit of Jovenel Moïse from power the resignation of Jovenel Moïse But demanding the removal from power also of the political party of the extreme right wing That was imposed by the United States in a totally illegal manner The popular mobilization is going much further Not just demanding a change in government but also a change in system saying that it is important to enter into a process of transition In order to set the stage for structural change that will allow us to break with the current system of domination A break with a state that is completely controlled by imperialism A state that is totally at the service of the oligarchy and that destroys the nation destroys the economy and destroys institutions Yeah Camille and in terms of the coronavirus what's the sanitary situation over there how many cases of corona are they currently there And how's the nation's test capacity how has how has the government responded to the pandemic And what's the situation in the rural areas The government was very happy with the arrival of the pandemic and which we could also see in the declarations made by the president on March 19th Where his face was very happy because they started using the pandemic with various goals in mind It's an instrumentalization of the pandemic with political goals First they wanted to rebuild their legitimacy which is very low because nobody has trust in them They want to collect new financial resources from the international community And they also want to set the stage for the next electoral period using those resources that are meant to be used in the fight against the pandemic And using them for political propaganda and to support the candidacies of various PHTK leaders And they are also using those resources in a way that's really embezzlement Because a great part of the resources of the state are being used to make businesses with ties to the party and power richer So you can see very clearly that they have been using these funds in an insulting manner For example, imports worth 18 million dollars were made from the People's Republic of China And they were made without consulting the scientific committee that had been designated to oversee which materials we were going to need And to sense the appropriateness between those materials and the Haitian people They also began distributing food, distributing cash And in the distribution of food, according to several analyses, they were stealing part of the money aimed at these distributions For example, there's a process of overcharging when they pay $27 for food kits When the real value of that, the contents of those kits is no greater than $7 So there is a gross process of theft, of destruction, of pillage, of looting public funds, the funds of the nation And it's something we can note within the decisions being taken They designated three new structures A structure in charge of informing the people, which is called the Permanent Committee of Information A structure which is called the Scientific Committee And one which is called the Multisectorial Committee for Managing the Crisis And it's within these structures that there has been a transfer of responsibility to NGOs Or to the people in charge of NGOs and the directors and managers of NGOs that are very tied to imperialism And have very specific interests in this crisis to support transnational businesses So there are also many scandals in terms of the management of the crisis First they formed a scientific committee of 14 people And within this scientific committee lacks the presence of what we call in traditional Haitian culture The Leaf Doctors, who have an enormous patrimony of knowledge of wisdom of how to use plants And the majority of Haitians are alive thanks to this knowledge So how can they construct a scientific committee for a case in which western medicine Does not have many answers for this pandemic and not use, not value this traditional knowledge of popular culture And popular practices to face diseases Also in Haitian universities there are reach searchers who have dedicated 30 to 40 years of their lives To standardizing, to finding a way to improve that knowledge So there has been a negation of popular culture And that is one of the basic characteristics of this government Another scandal is that on March 19th they decreed that industrial businesses could no longer work And it was a general measure saying that we would have to be in confinement Which is absurd because in Port-au-Prince for example, 92% of the economy is informal And everyone has to go out to find their food So you can't tell people that they have to stay at home when their job is on the streets And they don't have a way to earn resources from their homes And it's the same for people in rural areas A rural Haitian has to leave home every day to take care of their animals To find water for their animals Sometimes walking 5 or 6 kilometers to find water To cultivate the land because we're in a period of planting And it's the most important period of the year for crops So they can't stay home, they have to work, otherwise they die of hunger There's a total disconnect between the measures taken by the government and actual reality And we have to denounce something that we consider a scandal And it's that in the days after the closing of these businesses A few days after that, the government under pressure from the U.S. Embassy and U.S. corporations Re-opened duty-free zones and allowed that 50% of the duty-free zones begin working again To produce materials for the U.S. market Because these zones produced surgical shirts and pants PPE for the U.S. market So they opened 50% of these duty-free zones without any type of precaution to protect the lives of workers That is to say that the lives of the Haitian workers had no value It was more important for the businesses to make profits and satisfy the demands of the U.S. market They could also be producing products for Haiti, like masks, no? Why are they exporting billions of cubic meters of fabric to the United States? Why don't they produce masks? And despite the fact that the government requested the production of 20 million masks from these businesses Until now they have not distributed these masks and they continue producing for the U.S. market Another scandal is the fact that the U.S. government continues deporting Haitians Undocumented Haitian migrants or criminals that leave jails in the United States And we know that the epicenter is the United States with the highest rate of infection and deaths And it is from that source of infections that they are deporting Which is something that is completely insane and absurd and criminal Because of course we know that the Haitian health system is very weak And does not have the capacity to even do tracking of people who have been in contact with those who come with infections For example, the government of Canada suspended its deportations during the period of the pandemic But the Haitian government is so completely submissive to the will of the United States That they have not even requested a moratorium for the arrival of the deported people And in Haiti last week there was a scandal because among the people being scheduled to be deported that week Was a criminal who was the head of a paramilitary group that rose up during the coup d'etat against Aristide in 91 To organize massacres against popular working class neighborhoods And the man took responsibility for these crimes So people were furious knowing that this criminal could come and he would not be prosecuted by Haitian justice Which is a slap in the face to the dignity of the Haitian people from imperialism and from the Haitian government We can also underline that in terms of information the people don't believe the information distributed by the government Because the government has a history of lying, of making false promises And people think that they're using the crisis for political gain So for example, in the distribution of food you can see the picture of the wife of the president And the logos of the foundation of the political party in power So there's a very clear instrumentalization of the pandemic And furthermore in some working class neighborhoods they use that distribution to strengthen the criminal gangs that are controlled by the government That are also being used against the mass mobilizations to terrorize the people and try to impede the process of mobilization that had begun So Camille, you were saying that in Port-au-Prince for example 92% of the population are in the informal economy So they have to go out if they want to survive, if they want to eat So in most of the countries the solution to retaining the virus has been quarantine What measures should the Haitian government be taken to protect its citizens taking into account that specific situation? No, well we have to take measures that are adapted to the situation For example, we could manage gathering points differently, so in markets In markets we could take measures to use masks, to use physical distancing To extend the working hours of the markets So that there are fewer people at the same time and we could have a calendar with the business people So in the point of sales for the lotteries where people gather and in cell phone charging places, that sort of thing It is very easy to identify those spaces and take adequate measures for protection Which has not been done because the government is not really worried about the lives of the people One of the things I wanted to highlight is that in the last weeks of March, lots of Haitians came who were fleeing the pandemic In the Dominican Republic who have more than 11,000 infected and more than 400 people dead Whereas in Haiti we have 239 infected and 18 people dead So there are lots of Haitians who are fleeing the pandemic, Haitian migrants who fled the pandemic and came back So there are lots of migrant Haitians in the Dominican Republic who fled the pandemic and returned to their country And the last three weeks of March, 94,000 Haitian citizens came back fleeing the pandemic And of course at the border the government did not take any specific measures to identify if there were infected citizens And to monitor the people who were in contact with the infected people So both governments, the Haitian government and the government of the Dominican Republic who share the island and have a border In which is very heavily trafficked coming and going They have not taken any shared or joint policy in order to manage the crisis So they haven't taken any joint policy to manage the crisis intelligently Guide by the basic interests of both peoples The number of tests that are available is very low Before the arrival of the two planes that came from China The government had 1200 tests for 11 million people In fact we discovered that a lot of these tests have been used for the ministers of the council of government And they have not been used for the people So at the level of the border there's a hospital that is very well equipped for testing And it has testing but globally there haven't been more than 2000 tests So of course we have reason to suspect that the infection rate is much higher than what is recognized by the government But what we can say is that there is no explosion of the epidemic Because if there had been such an explosion it would be visible in terms of people going to the hospitals for example There hasn't been an explosion of the pandemic but in the last days we've seen a rapid increase in the number of infected We can also say that the government in terms of communications did a very poor job Because they projected their projections that were organized by the University of Connecticut and Oxford They were projecting a huge number of dead in Haiti and they were comparing it to the earthquake So it's completely irresponsible to do this And the minister of public works made declarations that were very indignant Saying that he was ready to bury 150 people every day So you can imagine that a statement of this type how people would react So the government was more interested in deaths than in protecting the lives of the people And the minister of public works made a statement that caused a lot of indignation Saying that he was ready to bury 1500 people a day So you can imagine that a statement of this type it shows that the government is more interested in the number of dead than in life Than in protecting the lives of the people Thank you Camille for your brilliant intervention I just wanted to know what are your prospects for the recovery of Haiti Well we are very worried because infections are increasing rapidly now Despite the fact that they are moderate levels compared to other countries But there is the risk of an important number of dead people Because our health system is totally destroyed by neoliberal policies the past 20 years It's a government that does not invest in public health Just 4% of the national budget goes to public health In 2017-2018 they invested more in the parliament than in public health For 11 million people we just have 911 doctors for 11 million people We have lots of public hospitals that are not really working that they pretend to offer free services But in fact the people have to buy everything when they go to the hospital They have to buy cotton, the medicines, everything So we have a public health system that is destroyed that has to be rebuilt And it has to be given the priority it deserves So the capability of the technical and scientific management of the government is very limited And we could have a situation that is very serious But we also have confidence in the people's capabilities People are using leaves and traditional medicine to prevent disease and to protect themselves We've had very interesting conversations with university researchers Explaining how do we can use these leaves in the context of COVID-19 And we in the people's movements through our party and through the Popeye Patriotic Forum We have launched as our fundamental banner the formation of brigades of solidarity throughout the country In every state and department and neighborhood to form a committee of solidarity The goal of which is to inform and raise awareness and use all of its available resources to protect the lives of the people And to also mobilize the resources available Because that's one of the things that hasn't been done Many people for example who are retired, there's many leaf doctors There are many people who've worked in that sector that have not been mobilized by the government So we're calling for this and for youths, for university students, people studying medicine Kids in schools who are available to form and enter these brigades So we're hoping for a huge social and people's mobilization to face the disease So we're waiting for a huge mobilization, a social and people's mobilization to face the disease And at the same time connect what we're doing against the disease with the basic political struggle We're undertaking for a change in the system, a radical change towards socialism Yes, it's very interesting what you're saying And we can see that in these countries where there are these right-wing governments That don't care about their people that are just interested in profits Well, we can see a huge mobilization and social movement organized And trying to help people in need We can see that in Brazil for example with the MST and other social movements There's also an interesting example in Puerto Rico where there was an impressive caravan As you know, lots of kids eat in schools And since schools are closed, lots of families cannot keep feeding their kids So there was a mobilization to demand that the food available be distributed directly to families And the police repressed this severely There were arrests and the people mobilized against the barracks And they stayed until nine at night despite the curfew And they demanded the liberation of the people arrested And that was successful, so that is an example to show that despite COVID And despite the curfew, it is possible to keep mobilizing And it's important to denounce how COVID-19 is used to intensify the repression of popular sectors Yeah, so Camilla, I just wanted to say that we at Code Pink We have launched a new campaign for Latin America called the New Good Neighbor Policy Campaign And this initiative is aimed at forging a new inspiring vision of US foreign policy And what this means for the US or what it means, how the US could be a good neighbor Then it shouldn't meddle in other countries affairs, this is the first point Not in the form of elections or sanctions or military interventions, etc The other point is the respect for other countries differences, languages, cultures And the third point is to work together for a common good So we know that there's a large US naval presence in the Caribbean And in particular for Haiti, we know that its neighbors have not been at all supportive We certainly know our government hasn't But what countries are truly being a good neighbor and helping Haiti with no conditions, no mailing And how can we, the people of the US, can be a good neighbor to the people of Haiti And I'm not talking about charity, but constructively speaking I want to take advantage of your question to say hello to my Haitian compatriots who live in the United States We know that migrants and black Americans have been the most affected sectors by the pandemic Particularly in New York and we have friends that have died We have a collaborator with our party who recently died in the US Who was 50 years old and he died of COVID-19 So we know how they are suffering and how the people's sectors, the working class is paying a very high cost for this pandemic And this concept of a good neighbor is very important Because in building these committees of solidarity, we are insisting on a basic mechanism of solidarity Of changing the vision of how we organized life Because one of the things about COVID-19 is the fall of neoliberal values And it demonstrated the monstrosity and the unsustainability of the neoliberal capitalist system We have to prioritize the internal markets with respect to the global markets We have to deprivatize everything that's been privatized or liquidated from the public sector And we have to put life above all and these are the basic lessons that we're using to truly create a socialist culture A culture of siblinghood That will be very useful when the time comes to fight to destroy capitalism and go towards a different social system So we in Haiti of course were people that have always strongly believed in international solidarity The people that has throughout its history has shown a lot of solidarity to other peoples And we have to greet the wonderful solidarity offered by Cuba, offered by Venezuela also And there's a medical brigade in Haiti that has been in Haiti since 1998 And that has obtained impressive results in terms of improving health statistics And within this Cuban medical brigade we have 25 epidemiologists who put themselves at the service of the government to fight against COVID-19 It's also very important from the Caribbean to acknowledge the wonderful lesson of solidarity offered by the Cuban Revolution That was available to support Italy, France, other countries in Africa and Asia And many of those countries are countries that are much richer in terms of GDP than Cuba And Cuba demonstrated that siblinghood and that solidarity And also the concept of community medicine, it's medicine not as trade or merchandise, not commercialized But it's medicine within the community and it's giving impressive results Like for example in Venezuela and Nicaragua that also have this concept of community medicine And that's the way of decommercializing lots of aspects of basic services to show that we should have a different sort of management of the common good And a management that assures or ensures the best possible life for the majority of people So that's fundamental and we have to denounce the recent position taken by the Moïse government that made an alliance with the United States To condemn the democratic government of Nicolás Maduro and that even voted in the OES against Maduro Despite the fact of the solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution since Chavez came into power with Haiti Yeah, I also wanted to take advantage of this moment to inform you and the people who are listening to us That CodePink initiated a campaign, a petition to the Nobel Prize committee asking them to include the Henry Rieve Medical International Medical Brigade Into the list of the candidates for the prize next year So I will ask you to go to the web page www.codepink.org and sign this petition because they really deserve it And Camille please tell us how can we help the people of the US, how can we help Haiti? Well, we need to denounce imperialist policies of Donald Trump, the politics of fundamental disrespect for the Haitian people with the deportations that are being made And denounce the policies of the Haitian government and to raise awareness about the struggles of the Haitian people And the ways that we're organizing with the patriotic front and the five leftist parties that are being built and broadcast that information so that we can have a different perspective of what's happening in Haiti And show solidarity to the Haitian diaspora, the workers, the women, the men who work in the public health sector in the US who are suffering very much And to see how we can connect the popular struggles of migrants with the popular struggles in the Caribbean and Haiti And I think that's an area of work that's fundamental and we're very interested in that through, for example, the assembly of the peoples of the Caribbean And every time we do that meeting we try to invite people from the Caribbean diaspora in the US to show that the future resides in building solidarity between all workers despite their location It's very important to create that sentiment of the international sentiment which is the key to destroy capitalism and create another system So it would be interesting to see concretely how organizations of health workers in the US could contribute to help Haiti and to be present in the struggle that we're carrying out Whether through information, training, giving materials and through talking about another concept of health and medicine Thank you very much, Camille, for all your time and all this incredible analysis and information that you have given us about Haiti in this moment And everybody, thank you for watching us. Remember what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean every Wednesday at noon Thank you so much, Camille. Stay safe Thank you for the invitation and to everyone listening. I'd like to say it's important to understand what's happening today and intensify the struggle to have a substantial change in how we organize our society and lives Thank you. Thank you so much, Camille, for joining us


This is a redemption video, gotta redeem myself for the terrible happening last time. I hydro-dipped a pair of Crocs a while back and as much as I was lying to myself, I failed, I really failed. And after I did the video making my Hot Wheels hair track, like for real, like actually accomplishing it after I failed the first time I was like, I need to go back and fix this mistake. I bought acrylic spray paint to hydro-dip my Crocs and as you would expect, it dried on top of my Crocs and flaked off. It made a disgusting mess, they're unwearable. I went and bought oil-based spray paint, which is what is going to work. Stick on my Crocs. I have two pairs, maybe make one tie-dye and I also, look what I found. Glow in the dark Crocs. I feel like that has to be a thing. There's no way around it. I loved the way that it looked, but it just did not work. If you're coming over here to drink out of this, you got another thing coming. I want one to be an exciting array of colors the same as last time because I'm still committed to this color theme. Even though it is now November, I do not care. Thank you. What if I just did yellow with the glow in the dark? Yeah. Kaye shouldn't see the first one. Basically, the process is, you just spray this in here. Oh my God, whoa. Am I going to get this all over me? Yeah, you're painting. You got to wear painting clothes. But I like this sweatshirt. I didn't take it off. No. All right, Kerm, go. Pitching on. Woo! I do not have a Patreon, Julian. I do. Bring it up, bring it up. What? Ow! Julian. Oh, this one's different. What did I do? You just broke it. It's a marking paint. Oh! More, more, more, more. Whoa. Wait, that doesn't look good at all. We're just... Oh, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup. I mean, that doesn't look good. Well. Ready? One. Two. Count faster. Three. I'm dipping it again. I don't like this. That looks terrible. No, it looks dope. What do you mean? Wait, I don't like that. Okay, that looks cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Wait, that looks good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't touch it. Just do it.  Oh, you forgot to... Wait a minute, I just thought of something. What? You should have done the glow in the dark first because look at the water now. Wait, how is this redemption if I'm doing it worse than the first time? Oh, that looks good. Oh, that one's sick. That one's dope. Okay, that's it. What do you think? Well, I think you sometimes drown out all the other colors by doing what you just did. Oh my God. Okay, that looks so sick. Oh, it's ugly. It looks really ugly. Wait, so you have one that looks cool and one that's ugly? That one's ugly. This one's much more vibrant. How's that? It's really cool. You like it? Yeah, it's super cool. I think you should stop because you're gonna ruin it. It's much better than last time and it looks like it's gonna stay on better than last time. The acrylic paint was really bad. Who are you fighting? Everybody. That's super dope. That's like, I love this color scheme. This is my city right here. And then I'll spray paint the outside of them glow in the dark. You think it'll work? Maybe. Ready? Good luck. Thank you. Oh, that's so cool. It looks so sick. I really like this one. Oh, that's so cool. This one's gonna come out good. Oh, damn. Okay, these are my favorite. These are my favorite. These are so cool. When can I spray paint them glow in the dark? I think once they dry. Wait, can you spray me? You go in the dark? No. Please? No, whatever.  I'm into too much. Gene hits. How long do these take to dry? I'm not reading instructions in case you haven't noticed. These are so sick. I'm a big fan. Dries to the touch in 15 minutes and to handle in one to two hours, fully dry in 24 hours.  All right, let's let them dry. All right, let's let them dry. I'm really excited. I mean, those look messy. I think maybe... They're cool though. They have like an artsy look. That's like a representation of my too much gene. Really narrowed down the process here. Like this is something that actually looks pretty cool.  You light up what? Did I get pink all over me? Let's see. There's a little right, right around. What can we learn? As you can see, while in the process of drying, we're also hopefully fingers crossed, charging these up. This looks so good and is probably dry. That's the first initial dip. This is a nightmare. This is just chaos. There's like parts chipping off. It's cracking. It's clearly too much paint. It's definitely still wet. I think what I've learned from both using acrylic paint, which does not work at all and actual spray paint is that when you have a too much gene, you have to stop after the first dip. There is no redipping. I thought maybe I could cover up my mistakes with another mistake. This does not look good. And I'd be surprised if this dries correctly in any capacity. This is redemption, hopefully a glowing redemption. Literally a glowing redemption. I want to glow in the dark. They should absolutely have glow in the dark kids' crocs. When I was a kid in the 90s, if you had those shoes with lights in them, like why would you ever buy regular shoes? If you could have glow in the dark crocs, why would you ever not have glow in the dark crocs? Anyways, we're going to let these dry for a little bit and hopefully we have some glow in the dark crocs to show for this. Because if this doesn't work and this doesn't dry and these don't come out exactly perfect, I'm going to be devastated. What's so funny? When it starts as redemption and ends up as devastation. Stop. If you're looking to do this for real, my recommendation is keep your color scheme relatively simple and only dip them once. Please learn from my mistakes because it has taken me two videos now to learn from my mistakes. Jenna, come inside. No. You can't. Are you making fun of my dexterity? You want to know how else I sit? You want to know one of my favorite ways to sit? If I'm just chilling, I like to put my foot like this. Cut, like 10 minutes ago, cut.  Yeah, correct I did. Probably bit. Oh. Do you know if I'm ever still like this? Here's the pair that I tried to do like the original way. I made a mess. My too much gene really jumped out. I don't even think I'm going to put these on because there's thick amounts of paint that I don't think are completely dry. They look like they might flake off in some spots. For the most part, I mean, they're pretty cool. Like I don't hate them, but these are my pride and joy. These came out absolutely perfect. So I'm pretty pleased with this result. Mediocre pleased with this result. I think they'd still be cute, right? Like should I put them on? They're pretty cool. Not gonna lie, like that's a cool look. But I think if I had kept them simpler like this part, probably would have had some more success. But you know, I just cannot be stopped by Julian, myself, an act of God. I cannot be stopped. These will serve as a reminder to me to stop it. Okay, I'm ready to test them. Do you want to come see? Yeah. Like this is a look though. Close the door. Are you ready? Yeah. We gotta charge them up. That's not. Did I fail again? Look at this. Why, because it's flaking? Look it. So they're flaking a little bit. Wait, I'm so upset. Look it. Why is it doing that? Don't cry, don't cry. Stop crying. Stop it. I thought because it was a different type of pain, it wouldn't do this. It still looks super sick. And it's only like flaking on the heel and the strap. But it was so cool. It still is cool, babe. I'm so sad. This isn't redemption at all. I've made the same mistake twice. Should I go do clown makeup? Doing clown makeup because I've been fooled by spray painting crocs two times in a row now. I want a pair of custom hydrodip crocs that will last me forever. Is that so much to ask? Yeah. And I want them to glow in the dark. Take them right in. I'll meet you in the bathroom. Get in here. Are you ready? I'm ready. Whoa. See, I told you.  Glow in the dark crocs, glow in the dark crocs.  See, this is sick.  This is so dope. Are you excited? Party during the day and party at night. Hell yeah. I wanted to look at them closer. Why are you crying? We're just in here looking at my crocs. I don't think that they're unwearable. Like the other ones were unwearable. This should be totally fine because it's thin enough, but if it sort of wears off over time, it's whatever. I think what I learned from this video though, the second one now, like I'm an idiot, A, but B, I need to spray paint more stuff glow in the dark. What have I been doing? I think you're right about that. What else could we spray paint glow in the dark? That's not what this video is about. Yeah. Oh, that's spraying things. Spray paint stuff, fill in the cap, spray paint the frames of your glasses, glow in the dark. No, please. How distracting would that be at night? Amazing. I couldn't see anything. I'd be like at a rave. I don't care. But it'd only be me at the rave. I don't care. I'm alone at a rave. Yeah. Should I spray paint this necklace, glow in the dark? Yeah, I think we're running out of SD card space. I don't know. I redeemed myself for like a little bit. They're not perfect, but like I wonder what would happen if instead of hydrating them first, I just spray painted them glow in the dark. They're like functional, they're wearable. And like during the day, I get to look like this, which I think is sick. It's definitely a look. And at night, I glow in the dark. Are you jealous of what? A little bit I am. I know. They look really cool. I think you did a good job with these ones. Your shoes glow in the dark now. They didn't before. Yeah, I mean that's pretty tight. I can't say that I fully redeemed myself, but I did try, for those of you that were curious, the actual recommended type of spray paint that was not acrylic. And these were my results. It's still a little cracky. It does work better. But it's not perfect. It's not perfect. But it's awesome for right now. And it glows in the dark. Well, that's it.  I tried to redeem myself and I only did a little bit, but isn't that how life works? Anyways, this is very mediocre content. It's like, take the lens off. It cuts. It turns off. Yeah, I was going to say.  So just cut because you took the lens off. Subscribe for more lensless content. Goodbye.


Senate on Wednesday mandates the relevant security agencies to investigate the attacks by headsmen in Benway State on the 6th of April. They also urged the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMR, to provide relieved material to the affected communities in the IDP camp. This follows the point of order raised by Senator representing Benway South Senator Abba Morrow at the floor of the Senate.  So many indigenous of the Benway South Senator district have been mauled down by suspected killer headsmen and hundreds of others have been displaced and have abandoned their ancestral homes and internally displaced persons camps. Survivors of the march attacks in the Kobi, Atakwa, Aprete, Ediku, Oiji, Ijeha, Opaha, Udubu and Ububu communities in the Seneshtura district have fled their ancestral homes and in IDP camps. The onslaught of the march of the 6th of April, 2023 in Umogidia of Otukbu Local Government Area took over 47 lives including a 33-year-old son of the current Council Chairman of the Local Government. It is logical that we be expecting improvement in the security situation in the country because of the massive investments that the federal government and even some states have done in the area of security. So for NEMA, it is imperative that NEMA assesses the situation of the communities affected and deliver something to improve on their means of livelihood there. But as supposed to be a Stogart major, they shouldn't stay in IDP camps for too long.


Alice, training tips is a beginner's cycle. Interrupting true detective again. The show that I'm watching on the bar. Face training, something that I didn't really know that much about. Okay.  Just thinking that pedaling like crazy as fast as I could get there. I was coasting down hills, like not pedaling at all. And then when I started working with a coach, I learned about kind of staying within a specific zone, zone two, and training on that consistently. So I suppose it helped to build my endurance and I could ride for longer without feeling as fatigued. And also when I got off the bike, I didn't feel as fatigued either. Welcome back to the Friday vlog series. Where today? I wanted to do a sequel of a very popular video I published at the back end of last year. 10 tips I wish I knew as a beginner cyclist, but I wanted to have more of a narrow theme focusing on training tips. Reason being, I'm passionate about cycling training. I've been a coach now for over three years and I'm gonna share with you the mistakes I made as a beginner cyclist way back in 2009. And my wife was a beginner cyclist in 2019. She's gonna share some of her mistakes to make up the top 10. So let's get into it. Hey, a quick one before we dive deeper into this video today, we're gonna be talking about training zones a little bit in this video. So for you below is a free downloadable Excel spreadsheet that will help you work out your power or heart rate training zones. And next to it is a free ebook download for those that may wanna go a little bit deeper after this video today. So let's get into it. Tip two, don't ride hard every single ride. And certainly don't ride hard every single day. This is kind of carrying over from tip number one, building base fitness which I completely neglected when I first got into road cycling. Why? It's because I come from an Aussie rules and gym background. So every session used to be hard in my past. So taking that go hard or go home mentality into cycling meant that I got burned out pretty quickly and I neglected. One of the most important fitness adaptations you need with cycling aerobic fitness adaptations. So here's what you need to do. Every single week have easier sessions either focused on zone two or even zone one. Let's just say you ride five times per week. I'd target two to three of those rides at an easier aerobic level and two possibly three rides at a higher intensity. And then for extra bonus points every third or fourth week have an easier week where you might only do one high intensity session that entire week. You might even use that intense session during an easier week to go hit up your favorite local Strava segment or com or maybe you go to your local Bunch Ride and see how many turns you can roll on fresh legs. Number three, don't take your cycling advice from this guy. Hey, you going over there, bike riding, don't ya? Hey, guess so. Well, come on over here, let's have a little chat, eh? Oh, look, it's okay, I'm meeting a mate here. No worries there mate, I'll come over, I'll come over there to you. They know some hills, don't ya? Bit of hill repeats. Yeah, you know I'll be having after these hill repeats, don't ya? Yeah, I'm meeting a mate here, we're just doing some hill repeats. So you know how to do hill repeats, don't ya? Got these hills? Every single repeat, full gas. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Either go hard or go home. So if you're yet to meet a guy or girl like this on your cycling journey, no doubt you will. And he'll have plenty of compelling stories to share that will make you think he's legit. You know where I live my cycling from? Cadell Bloody Evans, 1990s, Great Ocean Road, me and Cadell. We're just smashing it along the Great Ocean Road, we were dropping people left, right and center. It was like a cycling oozy with a few grenades tucked in there. But if he's telling you to smack it as hard as you can, go hard or go home, there's no such thing as an easy ride, then politely thank him for his time and don't listen to anything he says. Yes, power is what? Is that Clark, am I Clark? Investing in a power meter? Okay. How's it beginning on? Well, it made it so much easier for me. I know that probably a lot of guys would wanna get on the road with like the coolest looking rims, is it called rims in cycling? Yeah, yeah. But I think if you're gonna invest in a power meter, which obviously you can't really see. I was training to a number, I was just like, I'm gonna get this amount of watts and I'm gonna stay there, regardless of where I am or what I'm doing. I'd have to, I felt like I was continued, like I felt like it was more of an effort to meet a particular heart rate at any given time, but looking at the power meter, so I look at the power meter, was I just looking at it on my little thing, was so much easier. Tip number five, set clear expectations with your riding partner, either the day before the ride or during the ride.  When I first got into road cycling, I remember every Monday evening I went down Melbourne's famous beach road for an easy spin after the weekend's shenanigans. To clear the legs before what was the Tuesday fast bunch ride we always did in the morning. However, what happened was we'd start riding and it would get competitive and we'd start half-wheeling each other. So this would be your half-wheeling when someone rides about there and then the next person tries to catch up and then he might go out again, getting heated and then this person catches up and then it's a bit of this and it's a bit of this. And guess what? Our easy Monday cruise ended up turning into a threshold session, which is very tough and very fatiguing. And as a result, we went into Tuesday fatigue and we just kept doing this every single time we rode together for an easy spin. And as a result, we ended up in a fatigue state and we ended up on a performance plateau and in fact, our performance started to decline. So it's very easy. Just tell your mates to pull their heads in, set expectations with them, such as just confirming, today we're going on an easy ride. It takes the stress out of riding and it means you can get in those very important zone to and also recovery rides. Number six, appreciate the need to work at different cadence levels. You see, when I was first to begin a cyclist, I'd heard about riding at different cadence levels, particularly lower cadence levels, but I didn't really understand why. So what I did, I just wrote at my organic cadence level, which was around 90, 95, maybe 100. And as a result of doing that, I worked more my cardio vascular system and missed out on building muscular strength on the bike. So what you need to recognize is by working more at a lower cadence, 70, maybe 60, maybe even a bit lower, you're gonna be tapping more into the muscular system. And if you work at a higher cadence level, you're gonna be working or leaning more into the cardio system. So next time you're out on a bike ride by yourself, try this as a little test. For a couple of minutes, ride at a solid tempo, maybe 80 to 85% of your max heart rate. One effort, do at 90 to 100 RPMs or if you don't have cadence sensor, just try riding at a higher revolutions per minute. Then take a couple of minutes in recovery and then do another effort, maybe it's 60 to 70 RPMs and see how you feel. You should note more heavy breathing with the higher RPM effort and more muscular fatigue with the lower RPM effort, which essentially means by riding at a lower cadence, you're tapping more into the muscular system and by riding at a higher cadence, you're tapping more into the cardio system. And by understanding this, you can take this newfound knowledge into your overall training regime. Number seven, understand there is a right to progress. I'll never forget when I was a beginner cyclist, my first ever big ride was 130 kilometers in length, or that's roughly 80 miles. And before that ride, the longest I had ever ridden was 70 kilometers. So on that ride, I bonked severely, just got home and I was fatigued for days, maybe even a week. So always keep in the back of your mind progressive overload. We want to be gradual in our progression, in our training. For example, I should have gone from 70 kilometers to 80 to 90, then maybe 100 to 110-ish, and then tried 130, knowing that each 20 kilometer increment is roughly another 45 minutes in the saddle. And that's a long time when you've already been in the saddle for hours beforehand. Now this principle applies to intense riding as well, particularly high intensity interval training, which we'll discuss in point number nine. But what you need to understand is your body will adapt to the physical stress and you want to layer on that stress gradually to get faster and stronger on your bike quicker. Number eight, like the footy players, take an off season. I remember when I first got into road cycling, I was literally throbbing from the mouth. I could not get enough. Day after day, week after week, month after month, I just kept going. And as a result of just going relentlessly hard, my cycling form went like this, and it actually took a boy's trip in 2010 that stopped me from riding day after day. And when I came back from that 10 day vacation, yes, I'd lost a lot of cycling fitness, but after five, six, seven weeks back into it, I was all of a sudden feeling back to my best. In fact, I felt like I'd found an extra gear and it was that lesson that made me realize or respect that the human body is not designed to be on all the time. Overtraining syndrome is more common than you think, and this muscle right here needs a rest from time to time. So think about at least once a year, maybe twice. Take a month or two, either off the bike completely, or ride at a low intensity for that same period of time. And what you will find, once you get back into your general routine, one, two months in, you'll find another gear. You'll take your cycling performance to the next level. Number nine, try some high intensity interval training. When I first was a beginner cyclist, I was literally all over the place with my riding.  Yes, I would be hitting my upper end zones, but it was all over the place. Never was I targeting a specific area and never was I teaching my muscles how to best deal with the rise and fall of the lactate system. So try some high intensity interval training. I reckon the best place to start is a hill like this, one to two minutes in length. Perhaps start at a lower upper end zone, maybe zone four, your threshold zone, ride up the hill, maybe at a lower cadence too. Possibly start at 65 to 70 cadence, working more of the muscular system and work backwards from there. Once you've finished the first effort, ride back down the hill, spin the legs a little bit, clear the byproducts left from the rise of the lactate system, and then go again. Possibly starting with four to five repeats and work your way upwards from there. You'll essentially be targeting a different type of physiological adaptation repeatedly, and you'll also be teaching your muscles how to best deal with the rise and fall of the lactate system. If you're after more info on hill repeat training, I've got a video for you somewhere up there. Number 10, apply constant pressure to the cranks, to the pedals, whatever you wanna call it. When I first got into road cycling, I was very sporadic all over the place, often dictated by the terrain. So pedal hard up the hill, coast down the other side. Or if it was a headwind, I drive it into a headwind, tailwind, take it easy. And as a result of this, there was never a concentrated effort on working my different zones or different physiological systems. And also I was riding, I feel, unsafely because I'd be in a bunch, maybe roll a turn. And the pressure I was applying on the cranks was unpredictable. So we've made t-shirts about this one. Apply constant pressure to the pedals where possible for most rides. Not all, you still wanna go out and do some randomness every now and then, but for most rides. Whether you're riding at a lower level, aerobic pace, or completing intervals, focus on no free pedaling and a consistent pressure. You'll discover that new fitness adaptations occur purely from concentrating on constant pressure on the cranks. Pretty easy and you'll ride more like the pros do, because this is the way that they ride and you'll be more predictable. You'll be a more predictable wheel to follow on the road, which is also a good thing. And another t-shirt I got made up, both made by Gaston the Painter in Melbourne. Thanks for putting them together. Greatly appreciate it. So if you've gotten value from this video today, please don't forget to give it a like and I'll catch you in the next video. It was like I saw something like this with a few grenades stuck in there. People were getting dropped, left ones in and we were just going.


how's everybody doing so far? good awesome we excited to learn about what's coming out in 6.4 hopefully hopefully you're all on the 6.3 running the latest stable um i am damon cook let's see let's get this progressing there we go i am damon cook developer advocate with wp engine i'm also a sponsored part-time contributor for through wp engine yeah here to talk about wordpress 6.4 um most of my slides have about 30 slides and i think every single one has a video on it and like they're all under a minute short they're just kind of the basic walkthrough of what i'm talking about to give you an overview um but i just want to give you the heads up and they all are downloaded so even though i'm not on wi-fi this should be working great um a bit about wordpress 6.4 it's due to be released um in november 7th uh given there's no hiccups it's the third major release of 2023 and it's actually the shortest release timeline so there's a little less time to get all the features and adjustments in but uh there's a lot of great stuff in here that we're going to go through today and i suspect this is gonna i'll probably go through the slides pretty quickly i want to leave a lot of room for questions at the end and i'm also um going to if anybody has any things that they want to dig in specifically on i can open up i have a local instance that i can step through some of the features if we want to get them this uh this this upcoming release has uh the the versions of Gutenberg that it will include are listed here um and it's usually uh this is led by an under under representative gender squad which is awesome i think round of applause for that because i think we need more of that definitely um a bit of a heads up i did this presentation uh week or two ago in rochester and the lot of the landscape is changing because this is all work that's being done as i speak for these releases so some of these items have already shifted to the next version of 6.5 the font library was a kind of a major feature that got pushed to 6.5 and i think it's really close and they're still working on it but it's going to be a great feature and then some other things time to read block table of contents and the scrolling marquee just some new blocks on the horizon that got pushed to 6.5 and the interactivity api it was actually merged but um it's not really publicly usable for developers yet so that that's going to be hopefully in 6.5 as well revisions to template and template parts and post formats uh does there anybody remember post formats anybody still using them no okay well they will maybe have another heyday and make a comeback um and now we're getting into the video segment here where i want to show some of these features um image for 6.4 coming out november the image light box is one of the new features um here we're showing just an image well actually it's a gallery block with images and each item you have the ability in the editor to toggle on this feature to have the image overlay and you also have the option being shown here in the global style so you can enable it globally and then the user could you get opt out on an individual basis on each image so you can take a either or approach but it is an opt in out of the box experience unless the the theme explicitly enables it so yeah here's just a preview of adding images into a gallery and then another feature i'll be talking about shortly is that you can see the little thumbnails on the list view which give a little preview of what is being inserted so you can kind of see where your lot uh images are laying out so that's image light blocks placeholder aspect ratios i apologize i think this video came out a little blurry but that's the only one and i apologize this is a feature that should help pattern and theme creators you can if you're creating patterns if you want to insert an image but they might not have an image associated with it you can set the aspect ratio so once somebody inserts that pattern and goes to add an image it'll maintain that aspect ratio for the placeholder so that's a really nice quality of life for pattern developers and also on all these slides which i'll i'll share the the link at the end i also have these you'll see these odd numbers these are links off to the tickets that relate to these features that were emerged so if you want to read up a little bit more on the details of what goes into them you can go there um list view so this is actually uh impacts the group lock you can now rename over in the sidebar you can set custom names on the group lock which is just kind of a nice quality of life again organizing if you want to rename things and keep things organized if you're like a figma user and want to name your layers and all that good stuff and there's two options there's you can rename in the the list view but you can also rename i think it's coming up in this preview but you can rename over here in the side as well and they sync up yeah there's the that's the sidebar there um another group related and columns block related feature enhancement is the ability to set colors it's just introducing more supports basically for more elements nested within a group and column block so you can set colors on buttons and headings so gives it a kind of context so this is again another kind of a pattern if you're a pattern creator it helps set some context and style options to refine when a user inserts your pattern what they what they can do and and change in it as far as colors uh this relates to the group block you can they've added background image support so you can sign it previously i mean the cover block allows for greater flexibility of setting a background image but it kind of has its own use cases whereas the group block it's a nice addition to have the background image and this is kind of a first iteration i'm sure they'll be uh i think there's already plans for two enhancements for this to set positioning or uh scale of the image um but that's a nice addition to the group block and this actually slide uses the lightbox so you can kind of see this in action but this feature another most a lot of these items in 6.4 are just quality life enhancements to add more supports for blocks that you know like the example of having colors available for nested heading elements just kind of refining a lot of the features so this toolbar the toolbar for the quote navigation and list block um previously if you are editing a nested item the toolbar kind of followed it around now it's attached to the top so it became really problematic if you you know if you got down here to this bottom item and you're trying to edit that and the bar was kind of and then you decided you want to go above and edit this one the bar was in the way and it kind of was not a great user experience so now it's captured to the top of the block itself vertical text orientation this is something that a block theme has to opt into but you can change the orientation of your text so you could do some interesting design design choices but i think there's still more work to be done to uh basically just take into account for different right to left languages and yeah well i mean this is great for languages that are up and down probably but yeah it's just kind of a nice style enhancement but that has to be opted in through the block theme and the theme.json and here's the little snippet that would go in there for writing mode um in the navigation block you can now add button elements which is a nice addition because previously i think it just was link support so yep here's an example of just inserting a button into your navigation and i kind of touched on this earlier but in the side list view for gallery and images you can see a little thumbnail now that just gives you a visual reinforcement of what images are attached to these items within the editor and then i think these next few are related to the query block the pagination for the query loop block so if you have you know dozens of posts in your query loop you need pagination obviously and so now you can set the mid number for how many pages are showing so this is justing the query page number block i believe it's called which is a nice addition and then the enhanced pagination so you can enable this so the page will not refresh should the user paginate to the next uh well previous or next so this is a really nice this back to the good old days of ajax but i think this also uses the this is one of the new use cases for the interactivity api for theme developers in theme.json we there it already exists fluid typography support but i think it was a common uh complaint that users wanted to be able to set when the max and min viewport width of when the fluid typography kicks in so like for example this is saying between 800 and 600 the fluid typography would adjust from small to large but at 800 that's where it would stop it would not get any larger than that which is not probably a very good use case but it's just showing an example of how you would use it in theme.json block hooks this is a pretty neat feature but it's in a very early iteration i think there's going to be a lot of follow-ups in probably minor releases after 6.4 to extend this functionality this is for uh block and plugin developers um if you develop a custom block and you can say you could hook it on or insert it um anywhere in a template template part or a pattern so say uh you want to hook into well this example the group block there's verse spacer column in group in this one and you can you can specify whether it's before after and then if you if it's a if you're a hooking into a block that has allows for inter blocks or nested blocks and you can say first child or last child and it'll kind of insert it into that DOM essentially relative to that but there are some new filters that the dev notes for this which usually come out in the next week or two will have a lot more information around this so stay tuned on the developer blog on make.wordpress.org and there's also documentation here for the block hooks but there's it's still early for this but i think it's going to have a lot of potential uh to for extenders to use in the blocks uh per block layout support though this is again block theme authors you can specify whether um blocks that support layout whether you want to have it enabled or not this is like you know um a line wide a line full you can just disable it all together so in this case we're turning it off for buttons so if somebody inserts buttons they won't have the option to go wide or full uh that's a nice enhancement for theme developers and then the new theme 2024 um these are some screenshots of the designs that came out of um it the new theme you typically um we focus on one kind of topic for a new theme but this one has several different topics they're trying to address builders and writers different use cases artists and then businesses so there are different designs and even full page layouts to account for that which is really nice and then back to video this is just a video of showing some of the style variations for 2024 so you can change the colors um and give it an overall aesthetic different view and set the fonts of course the the font library well that's not that's not included in that but you can change the fonts based on the theme that includes it and i can again i can open that up later in a local site if you want to see more of that more quality of life enhancements um open in the new tab if you insert a link anywhere in a post or in the the block editor and you wanted to open it in a new tab i think this is a one or two less clicks to get there um you can get a preview as well so yeah it's just getting that checkbox to open in a new tab a few of these for the list view which is the sidebar on the left hand side the escape key which is a pretty common uh i shortcut i guess essentially you select multiple items um you want to use escape to deselect them so that was added um for the block the list view again list view another shortcut you can use that um down here what is that uh command control d i think um to duplicate items in the list view um this one's for i guess yeah block and plugin um authors you there's a new use block editing mode um which allows you to specify three kind of different things for when a user inserts your block you can have it disabled for editing mode or default which is just what you the default state that you wanted in and uh content only which would disable a lot of the color changes uh margin layout support and just allow the editor to edit the content only so this is a new hook for plugin authors and block user block writers to use which is a great handy feature command palette does anybody use the command palette uh i had a feeling yeah um command palette trying to make things quicker to get to um if anybody's alfred user i guess um it's just kind of another way to navigate these different screens and jump around um the i know that there has been work to make it a little more responsive on smaller screens and then there's been additions of uh items to jump to like in the post editor post block editor you can jump around and um toggle on the sidebar list view the block inspector and insert blocks before and after has been added uh here's the responsiveness for smaller screens uh adjustments been made for that uh patterns um you can set custom categories now when you're creating patterns um and then also synced and unsynced patterns uh used to have kind of their own categories in the this side list uh but now they're merged which kind of makes sense um but you can see you can have your own set of patterns the user can have their own patterns and then the theme can also register patterns and they're categorized for you and then if you the user uh creates a custom pattern they can assign a custom category as well which also makes it easier to find them when you go to insert them in the uh block editor uh you can import and export your patterns they're JSON files uh so this is just kind of a nice way to migrate patterns from one site to another or share them and then a list of just kind of a laundry list of lots of other items that uh i'm happy to touch on in uh yeah in a little demo i guess if anybody if there's anything that stands out to anybody but really um that's all i have i encourage you all to try to test they're always looking for feedback and the more testing we can get the better um there's some ways there's some links here on how to test and um where to provide feedback even and i'll be around today and tomorrow and i'd be happy to to try to triage or create any tickets if you experience any bugs that you'd like to report um and yeah just look for this tall guy in the yellow hat and uh i'd be happy to follow up on any of these features that we've discussed today um these slides are at colorful tones if you just go to colorfultones.com it's listed right on the front page uh for all these slides and i just want to give a huge shout out to a lot of uh Ann McCarthy of Automatic she's a developer advocate actually i think her role has changed but she was a developer advocate but her source of truth um she's been doing for the last few releases where she because it's such a large shifting uh landscape she keeps a document up to date of all the features so a lot of this a lot of the artifacts of the videos and imagery and information came from that source of truth so um i just wanted to give a big shout out to Ann for all the work she does and this was created with the the bounce theme and icon block and that's all i have but i want to leave lots of room for questions and demo if anybody wants to see anything any questions um that's a good question so yeah sorry about that he was asking if i'm yeah let me repeat this back um renaming the group block in the list view which i can actually probably be easier to show he's asking if you hover over a renamed group block does it show a tool tip of once it's right let's see i mean that's yeah if it's been renamed is there a tool tip to show that it would be i i would imagine it would say group lock right because you've already you see a custom name but you would want to know that it's actually a group lock uh let's see and go ahead and insert the group lock graph in here and we can go over here in the side in list view rename custom name save and i'm not seeing a tool tip no yeah it's still it still maintains the group uh icon but i don't know if that's a good enough visual indicator for most folks but um that is a great feedback though i i think you know i think that it might exist but it's not being surfaced in a way so yeah it would take some inspection but aria label uh yeah it's got an aria label and described by so that's interesting um there may be i would have to research but there may be some tickets already to extend i was also kind of referring to more like uh we were scrolling through the page kind of through the recipes oh okay kind of like uh yeah right over here in the editor itself now it just shows the right yeah right yeah no that that isn't available here yeah maybe that that cover right there could show the custom name but it is available over on the side here so but it's kind of tucked away so it's also available over here good question any other questions is there anything anybody wanted to see a little bit more of that i touched on or left off but this is in 6.4 i can demo sure um yeah that that i was actually exploring last week a lot and um i know that nick diego developer advocate automatic full-time sponsored he's writing up the dev notes which are close to come out next week he just did a they just did a workshop around and he touched a lot about block hooks and that's on wordpress.tv so i'd highly recommend checking that out um but yeah i think there's um some more documentation to be surfaced around that but it's going to be i think potentially a very useful feature there there is the current use cases being kicked around in exploration are i know the mini cart like the woo commerce to say you know if a theme author wanted to say make the mini cart available in the navigation you could probably say you know in theory you would say um last child right you just say mini cart last child and it would show up in the navigation and the idea with also with block hooks is that it when because the theory is i guess like a plug-in could write a custom block and have that block hook available so you would enable a plug-in and suddenly a block would appear you know like if it's the mini cart it would appear at the end of the navigation like the example i gave but the if the user has already customized like a template part like that template because that that would typically go in the header so if the user had already customized that that header it would not actually insert itself because it recognizes and respects like user customizations but it would still be available if they go into the site editor there's a little ui for it it's like over on the side here actually i think i have one enabled here yeah i can show it's a the like button plug-in which is kind of the prototype for enabling this experience so i have this this is available uh there's some errors in there this is a i can't remember which contributor wrote this but um i think it was the author the hook feature but let me find a post with comments yeah i think i set one up here so this plug-in is using block hooks to insert this like button after i think it's yeah it's after comment i might have the code oh no i don't have the code open anymore um but yeah that's kind of an example of one use case that they're kicking around but i think that there's already talks of being a little more explicit with the apis like saying maybe before but also being contextually aware of maybe before because in theory somebody could say uh before paragraph block right and you would see billions of blocks appear but you want to be um a little more explicit you could say paragraph in a template header next to you know a navigation that's probably a terrible example but you get where i'm going um but i think those are already to uh discussions about extending that api for stuff like that you have a follow-up for yeah at this yeah no i don't think that's i mean i don't think that's the initial kind of idea in use case i think it's more of or at least my interpretation is yeah you write a custom block and you say where you want that block to hook into um so you would say before yeah navigation if it's some kind of custom navigation block or something like that but with that being said like that that's why i was saying like some of the documentation there's some filters that are in this release of 6.4 that i haven't seen documentation around and i know that's going to come out in the dev notes so you can say um so if you were maybe a theme author and you installed a block that used block hooks and said insert this block before a navigation and you wanted to kind of turn that off i mean yes you could do it in the ui but you can also use a filter and say disable that um like in your another plug-in or in your theme so that is the the stuff that kind of needs to still be fleshed out um so if you'd have use cases that you you're thinking of for block hooks i'd love to hear them because i'm curious to hear more of what i feel like i see the potential that i'm trying to also think of like yeah specific use cases and that's where the the real details start to come out of like where will this go and you can give that feedback um to kind of drive that so uh oh yes so so this example of this like block um if i go into edit site uh so now i'm in the site editor and i'm in a single template um and we scroll down and if we click we get into here and actually we gotta because i think yeah we're targeting this this specific like button plug-in is targeting i think the common template yep so there it is so as a user or a builder you could come in here and say i don't like that disable it and turn it off and that'll persist and even if i had previously modified this template like if i had done something else in here and said you know i don't like the comment date and remove that and then came and inserted or installed the like button plug-in it wouldn't insert itself there because the user's already customized it and opted to to have their own experience so but they could still come over here and opt into it at that point sure yep generally the block is there a motion to add the differences between uh big resolution tablet and mobile resolution to display let's say five on the big resolution and three on the tablet and only one mobile right sorry i'm not repeating the questions i should and i apologize um for the gallery block you're asking is there an option to say when you insert a gallery of images say how many like the layout based on the screen size so maybe you want four images across on desktop and then two images stacked on mobile um i don't believe that's possible um you could do it with css and some theme right yeah no i don't think that's um currently but let's let's explore it real quick pretty sure i have a page yeah with a gallery in here yep here's a gallery just want to make sure yep we've got the gallery selected um yeah so you can set columns over here for your gallery and the resolution of your images but it's kind of where the break points are sent are probably dictated by the block theme so you'd have to do some you could do some custom css or maybe some stuff in the theme.json to kind of account for that of how you want um different screens. You have three columns there but the last two we'll split the width can we have a settings that keeps the grid and not fill the remaining space right um yeah so these last two images since there's only two it's just taking up the remaining space and you're asking whether there's an option to say don't take up the remaining space and stick to that right stick to the three columns i don't think there is right now um i've seen some explorations of grid the css grid being incorporated in certain aspects but it's not no i don't think it's currently available to say that in the gallery block but i think it's a great feature and i would imagine there's already a ticket for it to to explore that so sure how are we doing on time um any other questions or any features or things i can demo um i see that you're going to use the mantel and i'm really not good at it i haven't and i thought i can probably just give the word so that was good uh was there any other kind of things like oh uh not to be confused sorry i have alfred installed which is like a system mac yeah so i was doing that um sorry i didn't mean to confuse but there yeah no you can do uh is it command k to bring up the command palette and wordpress and then i could say since i have uh image for selected right now i could say insert or after oh i forget i'm putting the forward slash that's not i wonder if that's not because i'm on an added gallery you probably check this one yeah add after maybe would be a good use case right there and um if i didn't want to come down here and click this thing or click enter um that's i didn't know i know insert after and before were new commands that were added so yeah it's a useful tool i use that in alfred that's why i was i use that all the time i think i saw somebody comment to that feature in a ticket for sure because i think that would be but i mean the idea with command palette is to have the api is available and then plugin authors could come in and like that would be a great plugin uh laura mipsum generator plugin so if you're in the command palette generate some laura mipsum and place it in the editor write it up yeah no i don't think you would i don't think you'd want a nest buttons yeah no um yeah no i think i know um that was just the navigation block so um you can add let me show you it's easier if i go into the site editor and this is just opening up a custom template i built and i'm gonna open up the list view it's a lot easier to kind of see where i'm going with this so if i select the navigation block the page page list is are you available in there but we can say i think you have to detach that yeah i don't know where you let's see i guess you have to select the navigation and edit and then if we edit you can say i thought you would have been able to just insert the button itself but i guess yeah you have to to switch the block transform it seems after you insert a link into the navigation to convert it into a block but all the rest of these are just links i mean really a button block is ultimately a link right now but there are explorations of having the actual html button element available as well so thank you folks um i don't know if there's any other questions or items you want to go over it's short and sweet today i'll be around today tomorrow and if there was any questions that you think of afterward i'm happy to open up my demo site and step through anything and yeah thank you oh thank you yeah yeah i use that for this presentation and there's a lot of work that i still want to be done on that but