been heard round the world presented by the DuPont Company makers of better things for better living through chemistry with Donald Crisp as Judge Henry French here is heard round the world time 1875 place Concord Massachusetts by the rustic bridge across the Concord River look at that pack of people look at them on both sides of the bridge up with the metastews stretching way down the river there's a fight take your hands off me I'm going across that bridge it's my just right Mr. you're not going across that bridge step aside Captain no one is allowed across the bridge till the statue is unveiled only governors congressmen judges and foreign potentates are allowed now does that describe you it does I am Patrick Harrington hand even extraordinary to his honor Judge Henry French that's enough out of you get back now back Judge French Judge French here's his honor no he'll tell you he'll fix it what's all the commotion about who I judge this man was trying to do I or don't I deserve to cross the bridge you certainly do Patrick captain since I'm here taking my son's place you understand of course that my son was the sculptor of this statue but what he is now studying in Italy and I've been chosen to take his place at the ceremony was that's all right so go right ahead well now if I take my son's place that means my place is empty exactly your honor well now just a minute I will appoint my handyman Patrick to fill my empty place you follow me captain well now I believe is all quite regular especially as Patrick's strong right arm was used as a model for this statue of the minute man good afternoon captain come along Patrick we'll now deliver an address thank you very kindly your honor for sneaking me in well you deserve it we have gathered here in great concourse to dedicate this memorial to the men at men who stood in the same green field and by this calm river stood and died for us a hundred years ago today when it was first my privilege to act from the committee to select this statue yes my son statue it will be in the school books even I'll be in the school books because I'm the father of Daniel Chester French yes but I feel that's honest I doubted my own son watching the boy grow up I always doubted him even five years ago I doubted him I remember one evening when I'd sent for him come Henry why have you asked Dan to come to the study because my dear I think a very direct talk is most decidedly indicated but he's the fourth child Henry you can't judge him by the others I'm judging him by his brother will really six years older please come in and shut the door Pamela when will was Dan's age he was one of the most brilliant students are that ever had now is Dan at Harvard I'm asking you is Dan at Harvard no dear he isn't well you think he ever will be that's difficult to see but at least he's happy here working on the farm do you think there is the remotest chance of our youngest child ever engaging in any form of intellectual activity higher than that of a rustic oh yes then now now Henry please don't be too severe come in I did son what have you been doing today cutting asparagus did it ever occur to you that there might possibly be some more productive form of enterprise yes father well now that's very encouraging what are you thinking of I was thinking that I should work on a strawberries no Daniel yes sir when we moved to Concord we came partly to be near Boston to my law office but mainly we came to give our children the advantage of growing up in a community where education and culture about yes sir now I may be an error son but I've always believed that ideas could be communicated yes father I think you're right now would you son tell us any ideas you might have received during these years we've been here in Concord I don't know father I like it here I like the birds I like the river I like to walk by Walden pond are those ideas oh dear daughter Henry may I make a suggestion under the circumstances I think anything would be welcome Dan might read more if he didn't work quite so much on the farm well I see all right what books do you think you might read Dan if we shortened your labor I don't rightly know father oh suppose we gave you the afternoons free what would you care most to do should I answer honestly sir by all means if I had my afternoons free father I'd care most to walk out with the girls Daniel what your father's trying to say is what would I'm asking you what are you going to do with your life you are now 19 what will you do father I haven't quite decided I would you like to work in my office as a petty clerk no thank you or a messenger that would keep you outdoors yes but it would be outdoors in a city father and that isn't outdoors would you perhaps be interested in shipping before the mass like that gain avoided no father then what my dear flesh and blood would you care to do father do you figure I earn my keep working with Patrick here on the farm I certainly do then father I just like to keep on earning my keep that boy would have driven a saint the distraction as I look back I realize I wasn't all my fault I did everything I could I tried to interest him in something I left books around I took him to the all cuts to tea I took him to the emissants the Hawthorns and finally in the middle of one Sunday night I gave up Pamela yes you sleep no day what's troubling you from this moment forward I wash my hands of Dan Oh Henry it isn't that he's a troublesome son he's good he's honest he's industrious but I want more I know you do I cannot endure the thought of a commonplace son look he he might be an artist well what could possibly have put that into your head I think he draws a little Dan draw he draws a plow and no more well once I found some pieces of brown wrapping paper under his bed well and they were covered with drawings of God and goddesses well how did they look I confess I didn't frame them it's exactly as I thought why don't I try having a talk with Dan tomorrow try my dear if you want to but I give up I honestly give up oh mom it's me Patrick Dan ain't here Mrs. French I thought he was out here bundling asparagus with you Patrick oh the boy was working hard Mrs. French but then he started glancing up at that pile of turnips over there well he knew his father wanted everything bundled before dark didn't he yes but he keeps looking up at a great round white turnip on the top of the pile about an hour later without a word up he gets goes over to the pile takes that turnip heads out the barn door and away across the field out of sight down by the river didn't you say anything didn't you ask him what was wrong no ma'am I just figured he was took with a long and for turnip Patrick I have to ask you a question about Dan yes of course ma'am now you work with him all day you see more of him than we do what do you think of the boy he's not lazy mrs. French if that's what you mean no sir he'll sweat it out with any man his father keeps saying if he'd only read in the evenings to better himself he just sit where now he does sit every chance he gets there's no denying that no take every evening this week he's been sitting out here with me watching two owls in the hemlock tree the judge says Dan hasn't thought in his head and I don't know what he's got in his head ma'am but oh he's got a fine pair of hands did you see the job he did mend in the harness oh ma'am I tell you watching that boys fingers goers of pleasure like watching a family of fish I did it I've got something I did it oh mother look look what I found inside the turnip Dan you carved that frog out of a turnip all the saints it is a frog do you like it the fanciest frog I ever saw in pants and take hold it's a frog that's going a wooing you like it mother then it is a beautifully beautiful frog he seems to be hopping right at me I thought that too he seemed to be hopping at me right out of that turnip you're listening to herd round the world starring Donald crisp on the cavalcade of America presented by the DuPont company makers of better things for better living through chemistry on April 18th 1875 in Concord Massachusetts before thousands of people the statue of the minute man's about to be unveiled as Ralph Waldo Emerson is speaking judge Henry French the sculptor's father thinks back to the time when he first had a hint there was a sculptor in his son and he tried to help Dan we have most to what's that big bundle on the sideboard Daniel yes sir last night after your mother showed me that piece of turnip and after you went up to bed she asked me what I was going to do about it yes father well at the time I didn't know exactly what she meant or what I could do about the turnip if I knew what she meant but then on the train into the office this morning I started thinking about this and that and again during the day I thought a bit further how do you mean father well that is of course I didn't think about it during working hours because I always keep my mind on my work during working hours oh yes father but during lunch and I recollected a little shop on Bromfield Street that I once saw with paints and brushes in the window eat your dumpling down so when I left the office I stopped on the way to the depot and I asked the shopkeeper if there was any a special material that could be used by someone who might be inclined to make or shape small ornamental objects out of one thing or another with his hands he said yes there was with that he sold me 10 pounds of what is called modeling clay father and that is what is in that bundle that now rests on the sideboard oh father from then on all his spare time Dan stayed in his room he made a lot of little things out of the clay even then I doubt again but one of our neighbors may all cut was a professional sculptor she had just returned from studying abroad so I asked Mrs. French to go to her advice hello there Mrs. French we're all out here in the garden join us for tea Johnny Louisa me thank you I can't stay oh come along Pamela do join us we're reading Louisa's mail and everybody every day there's someone who wants to know why when the little women will get their little men please sit down Pamela here now milk or lamb or clothes no half a clove may I leave you a clove nothing I can't say really but I must have two words with me yes I think she's in her studio may Mrs. French if you look up at the third floor window my daughter may well any moment now thrust out her head may all cut Pamela I'm filthy and sticky and you can't come up and I won't come down but may I come for advice well I hear wonderful gossip of your boy Dan is it true is he talent well he's made a dog's head and he's made two owls and a deer and him around well his father doesn't think he should be further encouraged unless his talent is genuine we'll have Dan bring his stuff over good then you can say what you think don't worry I will I'll say exactly what I think there's my dog miss me and here's two owls well and there's my deer fine let's put them around this way Dan with a light can hit all right oh this is a panther I haven't finished it yet yes it's legs are wobbly it needs an armature what an armature a skeleton a little skeleton of stiff wire a small pipe that keeps it strong and straight then you build the clay around that that's right I like that pair of owls Dan I like that best too do I have such beautiful faces oh yes miss me I think they do in the evening that that wing outstretched it's wonderful that pair of owls was in our hemlock tree every evening after supper he used to put one foot on hers and then his wing around her like that he was courting can you tell that of course you've caught it Dan I've tried to you have I don't know I don't know I Dan if you want to you can come here to my studio every day I'll teach you all I can do you think I could learn I'm not very bright you know and I disappoint people I've always disappointed my father Dan I can tell it from your hands and from your heart you know what can't be taught and what can be taught I'll teach you and when I can't teach you anymore then you'll go to Boston then New York then Rome wrong you want to work with me Dan we start tomorrow if I can just run now and tell my father I'd like to come back here and start tonight the days after that with a happiest of my life we used to ride Boston together I went to my law office Dan went to dr. Rimmer's class in artistic anatomy for surgeons and sculptors this went on for some time then one night as we rode home on the train together father yes son I've come to a decision there's no art school in Boston I've learned all I can from dr. Rimmer I want to go to New York well do you think you're ready dr. Rimmer does and my little animal figures won a prize at the cattle show and I sold the two owls for $50 to that novelty manufacturer where would you study in New York there's a real sculptor there he has a studio right on Central Park I think he'd take me for a month or two young man you seem rather well informed and I can live for nothing in Brooklyn I've already written my aunt Catherine Wells and she'll take me and she knows the sculptor do you consent sir can I do anything else so Dan went to New York learned all about callipers and castings and all the endless mechanical work that makes the sculptors discipline then one night of supper after his return read the paper tonight then I did mother you see what it said about a statue competition no I didn't sir old Ebenezer Hubbard has left a thousand dollars to erect a memorial to the minute man at Concord Bridge mother may I have some more shad did you hear me Dan yes sir there's been a committee chosen to choose it mr. Emerson is one of the members more potatoes to please now I happened on mr. Emerson today I'm really hungry I plowed up five acres today and your father wants to tell you about mr. Emerson oh I'm sorry dad he informed me that small clay models would be invited from various sculptors of the nation and from these the committee would select the best to be made life-size and then cast into bronze I wondered how they might go about it well your interest seems remarkable we have some Chad Henry Dan have you any thought to make such a model no sir or may I ask what restrains you my own limitations what father this is for professionals so what are you you sold that pair of ours for $50 but I'm only beginning I never tried anything in bronze I've never made a full length figure then it's high time you did no son of mine is going to spend his entire life playing with mud and making midgets oh please Henry I tell you it's high time that boy buckles down to a full-sized man please have some shad I'm waiting for your reply Daniel but father this is hard the minute man has to be more than a statue it has to stand for something give me some shad my dear now Daniel Chester French yes father I shall expect you to have something to submit to that committee within six months father owls are owls and a deer is a deer but I don't know how to start on a man you'll do exactly as may all cut said first you draw you draw a minute man then you draw another you draw minute men standing up you draw them sitting down or running or firing or crouched behind a stone wall or standing by a plow or leaving a plow he sleeves rolled up he sleeves rolled down with his musket without his musket you follow me and your shed is getting cold then you do it all all over again in little clay models you will cover your table with models you will cover your bookshelves in your wash stand when your window sill is stacked with them we will give you your brother wills room when six months of elapsed and the house is stacked with clay models you will then select your best model in consultation with your mother and me of course and you will convey that model to the committee they at one glance will decide that it is the best possible minute man and without further delay commission you to recreate it life size and have it cast in bronze do you consensure yes father I do and that's what happened that's why I'm here today taking my son's place because he's a way studying in Italy your honor your honor what oh yes yes yes it's the unveilings about to take place look now we shall never debase ourselves now let the silk and cord be pulled and let the statue face the world in this clear April air let us remember what he stands for sleeves rolled up clutching vigilantly his musket in the defense of American freedom let us remember what happened here as these verses carved on the base of the statue say by the rude bridge that arched the flood that flag to april's breeze unfurl here once in battle farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world even now judge so shall we be going home with the rest no you you just go on Patrick I want to be alone here for a while with just the statue just a moment we have a surprise for you here is the only daughter of Daniel Chester French the sculptor whose story we brought on you we brought you tonight rather on tonight's cavalcade Mrs. Margaret French Crescent an author and a sculptor in her own right thank you mr. Pearson I think cavalcade's audience will be interested in this footnote to tonight's story 50 years from the time my father started his sketches for the minute man in conquered another great statue appears was unveiled on Memorial Day 1922 the statue of another American defender of liberty which can be seen in another hallowed American shrine the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington well Mrs. Crescent those 50 years represent one of America's most distinguished careers in sculpture thank you Mrs. Crescent for being with us on tonight's cavalcade tonight's original cavalcade play heard round the world starring Donald Chris was written by Halstead Wells was adapted from the book journey into fame published by the Harvard University Press was written by Margaret French Crescent featured tonight with mr. Chris been the cast was Elliott Reed is damned Donald Chris may currently be seen in the Paramount Pictures production whispering Smith the music for the defant cavalcade's composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Boris this is Ted Pearson speaking next week cavalcade will present the dynamic and dazzling Hollywood star Ginger Rogers our play is set in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War when a beautiful woman named Lydia Dara out with it a British Colonel and came to the aid of General Washington and the American troops be sure to listen next Monday night to cavalcade and our star Ginger Rogers cavalcade of America's directed by John Zoller comes to you each week from the stage of the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in New York and is presented by the DuPont Company of Wilmington Delaware this is NBC the national broadcasting company


How's your golf game? Hey guys, a different video here for you I know I don't talk about video games too much mainly because I don't have a capture device that can properly convey Like most proper video game channels and I've had some history of game design. I went to school for it I used to write about video games for my university newspaper I'm going to try my best here because I do believe I have a significantly kind of unique view on Last of Us 2 I can understand the rage to an extent that people are Having for the game, but at the same time I also can understand the excellence that is being praised upon this game However, I feel that it's more of a middle ground in terms of both factors I believe that the rage for this game for a certain aspect if you don't know about it yet is Entirely overplayed. I have a feeling that some people just weren't expecting this and this thing that it's talked about is Kind of interesting to me because I thought that this was alluded to in the original teaser and a lot of people had the same Sort of thought process about it. So when that thing happens and people are all mad about it I'm kind of surprised because we all thought this was going to happen a while back I think that they're upset on the matter of how it happens. It's a risky move It's kind of like putting all your eggs in one basket and hoping that it will be approved by most and it's not It's definitely a device of sort of aspect, but that's what I thought at first was a great Storytelling arc. I thought this was a great idea. However The game doesn't take the full advantage of it in terms of its narrative, but first let's talk about the gameplay It's not as improved as I thought it would be in total There's really only one new villain our new enemy type for the infected Which is the shambler and then for the humans There's a dog sure things are tweaked things are improved But if essentially instead of it being last of us to its last of us 1.5 in my opinion in terms of the gameplay Improvement it's still got a cool fun edge to it and the fact that there is so much Customization in terms of the optics of how the game works You can vary how good the enemies are you can vary how much stealth is needed You can vary how much damage you take and you can flip it all through at first There's the difficulty options and then you go into accessibility and controls and all of this is added You can add a slow-mo thing for some reason, but there's so much Optimization in terms of how you can tune the game to your experience I know skill up talked about it for a couple of minutes in his and he's not kidding when he says this is some of the best Difficulty optimization he's ever seen and immediately for me as well. It's not just simply hey Hardcore insanity whatever you can go really deep into this I spent about 15 minutes when I started my new game plus just seeing what are we go with that? But again in terms of the gameplay it is good, but because of how long the game is the game takes about 2225 hours to beat I felt that about halfway through both in terms of gameplay and story wise the game just comes to a Grinding halt and it takes a lot for you to get Reinvested in it admittedly when this halfway marker happens not a kick to the balls But more so it took the wind out of my sails. I was like what I'm going all the way back It's a massive pacing issue in my opinion They really should have done this linear in terms of that there is this secondary character Abbie And you should have gone back and forth with this character And there's a reason why the embargo was about the first 12 hours because by the time you hit the 12-hour mark that's when you switch over to Abbie and My god it just it happens at the worst time you could have been building up to this You could have built up to this by switching back and forth between the characters constantly the obvious method of this game Is that we're showing that revenge does not grant everything? It's a literal eye for an eye makes a world blind story and it starts off Decently enough, but the problem is the game just drags it out too far and it's kind of nailing you on the head It's not as obvious in your face about it as certain films might be like mother mother was so bloody obvious with its Symbolism that it was infuriating whereas last of us to it's not on that level But you can see Druckmann is really trying to weave his own story of misery and torture He's trying to make his own version of the road in sense of a depressing story That doesn't really have a happy ending, but he doesn't really nail it because The game has two endings. I first I thought okay, this is it This is the end of the game. This is where it ends and then all of a sudden they're like, yeah, no But they throw this extra level It's like it could have been a DLC or it could have been something But I feel that they tack this part on and it's a tack on because it's not built out enough But at this point you're already going into the 20-hour mark in terms of a single-player story Which by the way very awesome to see so much Care and dedication put into a single-player game. This doesn't have any multiplayer The first one did which I heard wasn't that great. It was just kind of tacked on Everything every single aspect of the development was put into the single-player which is great And you want to make something worth your while which I kind of gauge on cost to hours in terms of that For every dollar that you've spent you should be able to get I don't know a half hour or an hour out of it and Considering it got 25 Hours out of a ten dollar rental. I'm definitely happy with it If there are some people who would be willing to replay this game sure, however The opening five hours, which the thing happens in it It's a massively long tutorial and it is so arduous to get through it It's what some people complain about with red dead twos a snow mission Which I can kind of see the similarities to however. I really enjoy the snow missions There's a lot of fun in them, especially when you take on the Driscoll gang Last of us two doesn't really have a fun mission and considering it really relies on the narrative to keep you Invested once you've seen these aspects. I don't know about you, but in most times I can't play a game through again unless there's some sort of Neesh or edge that can really hook you back in for example. Halo reach I loved playing through that story multiple times because I like to see what the cinematics were with variant armor Different looks different armor variations and the story was fun. There was a lot of fun missions in it Mass Effect 2 you can make all your different choices There's always a different aspect of the game that you haven't uncovered yet You can always go through this the game do a lot of the things you've already done But then you can always find a different conversation a different outcome last of us, too It doesn't give you that it doesn't have the ability for you to choose anything Sure, if you play new game plus you can see your characters with your upgraded guns and whatnot But in the first one you could use Points or whatever it was to have your characters be wearing different clothing different backpacks They don't give you that in this game Which is a bit unfortunate because I would have liked to see you play the game in kind of silly outfits Maybe if you wanted, but if you don't you have to play through the game as it is and the only variation is the guns I don't entirely see it as a replayable game I tried and I got as bad as far as Just before getting into Seattle and I couldn't do it. I just was bummed out I was burnt out admittedly I have been playing a lot of video games over the last few days I just got 200,000 points on my Xbox, which whoo Achievement of nothing, but talking about something that I think we can all agree on that was absolutely fantastically well done in Last of Us 2 is The visuals. This is the most beautiful looking game. I've ever seen I'm not akin to Naughty Dog or any sort of PlayStation game really which whoo for me my roommates own the ps4 I own the Xbox but seeing the gameplay and the cinematics be one thing like it just seamlessly goes back and forth There's no cut to black and you can obviously see the engine degrade. It's all one.  You're absolutely Trashing the effort that was put in by these artists and these developers.   It's not a worthy business tactic But it's done and it's put into the world because of how quickly we consume media But you can't review bomb. You can't give this game a zero. I wouldn't care if you even gave it a two You can't give it a zero for the visuals alone. There's just too much goddamn effort that's been put into it I think kind of going back to the gameplay the variations in terms of the combat doesn't really change that much you find yourself in very few unique situation and funnily enough all of those unique situations are with Abby Abby has the Best levels are the best combat encounters. Ellie does have one which is where she's being hunted by the wolves And then she comes into an area where there's infected and the wolves and you kind of can throw stuff and make the two Factions fight each other. Abby has similar situations, but she also has a level She has a part where she goes into a hospital and it's straight out of Resident Evil in terms of how much it scared the shit out of me But it wasn't as unique as a Resident Evil level because there's just not too much in terms of difficulty In terms of how you defeat the enemies in this area It's just shoot them a lot and they'll die Whereas I would say the most challenging and the most unique Encounter you have with Abby is at one point where you're fighting the sniper and at first you're like, okay Just dodge the bullets, but then the sniper starts to get infected to come at you and the infected start to increase in difficulty and Variancy all the while you're trying to avoid being shot. This was the most Difficult part of the game in my opinion I felt that this part just pissed me off But I wanted to keep going wanted to get past it But I feel that this part was by far the best level in the game But then it just keeps going and in a nutshell, that's the biggest problem of last of us too It just goes a little bit too long the first one was perfect because it was precise It didn't have many enemy variants, but those enemy variants were perfect. They were exactly fine tuned The game was very linear, but it was a very focused linear It was a very focused narrative last of us to tries to have that but it also tries to have a bit of openness It has a bit of more of an establishing story to it. It tries to reach for too much. It's still a pretty damn good game It's a very very impressive product story issue aside It's one of the most impressive games. I've ever seen made it doesn't excuse the story issues My biggest issues with this game is the pacing and the lacking intuitiveness with the gameplay Improvement the first game came out seven years ago things have just been tuned You could have some arguments saying that Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3's gameplay barely improved But those two games were what like three years apart look at the differences between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 Last of us two doesn't have as much of one. It's just more so fine tuned I just thought there would be more from them. So in the end I would say I would give this game a five out of seven I thought it was well made. I think it's a good game. It just reaches a little bit too far in my opinion I couldn't play this again.  Yeah, maybe you might be upset about How he dies which is exactly the point of the narrative and that's why it's trying to make you Feel and even more invested which you already were and the whole game is obviously talking about revenge is bad Blah blah blah which is kind of corny when you see the final ending I wasn't surprised that he was gonna die as I said at the beginning of this video when the teaser was released People were already speculating that he was gonna die. It was a very very big rumor So I don't understand why people were upset that he did die like some people Literally cut the game up after Joel died. That's the point though.  That's what you want from a narrative You want to feel anger and then yeah, it's a bit weird that you jump into Abby's shoes But we find out why she wanted to kill Joel. She was full-on right to kill Joel Joel He's not the saint that y'all think he is at the very beginning of the game He literally tells Tommy that he sacrificed the a cure for the human race a means of saving the world For Ellie so he could be a dad again And there are some arguments that maybe humanity didn't deserve to be saved anymore Considering how fucked up the world is and that's why the first game ended so well that massive ambiguity That's what made the ending so good And that's why I kind of feel last of us too shouldn't have been made in the first place You always like those endings out of those open-ended endings and last of us two tries almost to have it But it's just a depressing like oh, okay I don't know where on earth they're gonna go with the sequel aside from that visuals are great gameplay is okay It could have been more improved Acting by everyone is phenomenal Sure There are some characters that are in this that die that you don't give an absolute crap about the only people who I cared about in terms of the story where these two Kids that you meet that are from this Skars tribe and then Owen Owen kind of grew on me at the end But I feel that there's a lot of side characters in this that you don't care about as much My main comparison was can I get as much of a out of their deaths as I would have from Red Dead? too and every single character in the gang that died in that game was a Didn't feel that for more than like 70% of the deaths in this game and especially when they were predictable But anyways guys, that's all for me. And this is a very long-winded video I admit but I'm actually gonna be doing an even longer winded video if you guys remember James This was a friend of mine who we did a long talk about the long night and kind of how this was the worst strategy of all-time video We're gonna be doing another video once he finishes the game. I'm hoping he doesn't watch this video because I don't want to spoil it for him but We're gonna do a long long talk So I hope you guys look forward to that because I'm looking forward to it Anyways guys, that's all for me Hope you enjoyed this video if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe Otherwise, see you guys next time. 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M.T. speaks out on leaving ambitious and having no car or home. Rapper M.T. has spoken out for the first time about his financial woes, which has left him without a home or car. He told Chvissa L.I.V.E. that he's doing what he can to survive. The star also revealed that his wife and kids have moved in with his in-laws while he tries to find a new place for them, and to negotiate an exit from his record label entertainment. M.T. first hinted at leaving the label last week when he took to Twitter to share the hashtag hashtag free M.T. and listed some of his frustrations with the label, including being told who he could and couldn't work with. M.T. confirmed to Chvissa L.I.V.E. that he was looking to leave the label but said that he wanted to leave as clean as possible. It is true. It is unfortunate about the how. I am trying at the moment but unfortunately I am surrounded by a lot of people. That is a lift for the next person. I don't blame anyone for saying what they feel is going on but they need to be sensitive to what is happening behind the scenes. The rapper also confirmed rumors that he had lost his car and house but said it had nothing to do with ambitions. They, ambitions, didn't repossess the house and cars. I don't have it anymore. They helped me get it but it wasn't part of the contract. It was simply that I had problems with the maintenance and it is a matter between myself and the agents. M.T. said he doesn't have a stable home at the moment. I just kind of go where I can. My family isn't with me, they are with Avery's grandmother at the moment. I miss my kids but I try to be with them every day. He added that he had a nice meeting with ambitious bosses over the weekend to discuss, among other things, a way to be released from his contract. That is the goal. I don't want to do it in a bad way. I am trying to be as genuine as possible. It is unfortunate that artists in the past have left the way they did. It is not how it usually happens. There are certain things that are not being done for me. Mistakes are not being rectified. I hope it will be resolved soon. Ambitious owner, K. Gussie, Mahyumapaloo, doesn't want me to leave, but it isn't up to him and I made it clear that I want a new start. If I do things the right way, I believe that it will be resolved. I still want to make music. I have been through the most and I am unbreakable. I am not angry or mad. I will get through this. M.T. said he made the decision to leave for his own future and to be an example to his kids. I am trying to do this for my kids. I want them to see me as an example.  Ambitious were not available for comment when contacted by Jussie L.I.V.E. but said on social media that it would issue a statement about the matter soon and hinted at it containing information about M.T.'s affairs.


Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Rod Good morning, Pierre. How are you? I'm doing fantastic considering it is Friday one more day of work and then I'm on the weekend enjoying my family and hopefully the outdoors Because it is is winter now We got tons of snow, but the temperature this week is actually blue for was like minus five Celsius, so it's it's It's almost like short weathers Yeah I'm a big big big winter fan. I'm from Ohio So I'm a big winter fan The unfortunate thing is most people that live in Ohio They complain about snow even though we don't really get as much as I would absolutely love but what does happen and then I Tell people don't complain about the snow because it's Ohio. It's gonna change and it's gonna change drastically I saw our weather report this morning We are expecting like severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes next week already. Oh god I know go from snow to tornadoes. Hmm. It'd be nice to have a snow tornado. I would I would I would appreciate that We call that a blizzard Well you caught a blizzard I call it fun, okay Rod you are now part of the IT hopstock team How's that I am I am so I'm just sort of kind of getting settled in but I have to say that I believe I'm Absolutely gonna love it for a couple reasons First being a security person We had a very small security team up until recently so when I first joined in this role at Microsoft I was the only person That's how small our team was even though across the board At Microsoft we've invested so heavily in security. Yeah, I was that person then we you were that person in Deverell But let's not kid our audience the the the the the amount of personnel that actually work on security product is huge Yeah And that's where that real investment comes from it wasn't just me. I wasn't the only investment Yeah, we've we've had what was the number last number I heard last time I forget 10 billion or something like that When I started in security at Microsoft about two and a half years ago Just as an example of how much we have grown I'm hyper focused on things like cyber security Microsoft Sentinel defender for cloud things like that. Yep By the end of the first year working on Microsoft Sentinel at Microsoft we had like 9000 so customers using Microsoft Sentinel the latest financial report. I don't know if anybody caught that I did obviously But we now have over 15,000 Microsoft Sentinel active Microsoft Sentinel customers and that to me is Absolutely amazing. That's just evidence that our security investments are absolutely paying off Yep. Well speaking of security investments I think we do have some news about security that we're gonna get to in a little bit So you are on our team now Reporting to our glorious Leader Rick and I'm saying that because you might be in the chat And you have a partner I Always pronounce it Joy Lynn, but it is mm-hmm. Is it Joy Lynn? It is Joy Lynn. Yeah Absolutely, I heard somebody pronounce it differently in a meeting this week and I'm like I'm so I'm so self-conscious on the way I always mispronounce names Yeah, and I apologize profusely But anyway, yeah So we've had a few weeks with lots of new people rod and Joy Lynn and Amy which is in the in the chat room Right now. Oh, and she's correcting me saying it's Joe lean like the song. Okay. Thank you. Hey I think oh my goodness, so we've been we've been told Rod. We've been told Lean I thought that was like a Dolly Parton song. It it is actually it's a oh Somebody else's song, but I do believe a Dolly Parton covered it. Anyway, how about we jump into the news? We could do that Let me start this week with the bastion server. So You have to be careful with that name too, by the way Yes, no, it's not the bastard server. It's the bastion server. There we go We can see properly We now support because anybody who has used this knows that it's a fantastic Fantastic product to help secure your environment because we all need to like remote into our VMs and kind of do some management this some installation not a hundred percent of everything can always be Automated every once in a while you have to go in there and maybe just get a log file from it or upload a config file to To a VM. There's all kinds of different things and we also know that exposing our DP and correct me if I'm wrong Rod But exposing our DP to the internet is is a bad thing, correct? that is Bad thing I in fact You go as far as to say that that might If someone ever found out it might get you fired and here's here's a good anecdote So I have You know, I told people that I was gonna be on here and I would say Sentinel a lot just appeased them So here's another Microsoft Sentinel story hashtag not sponsored. Yeah, exactly So I have my own Microsoft Sentinel environment as you can imagine one of the things I do with that is I do demos for customers I use it to Investigate do my own investigations and things like that I Have Defender for cloud tied into Microsoft Sentinel Defender for cloud is very good at identifying You know compliance issues policy issues and things like that I will Manually turn off just in time JIT for my VMs periodically because I know That just as soon as I do that there's gonna be some bot somewhere in the world sitting there waiting to look to find an open RDP or UDP port and I start getting incidents created like a media I'll get 10 within the first, you know, 10 15 seconds that I turned JIT off. Oh, I know it Absolutely that important and what this does is bastion was amazing You don't have to think about it right it automatically encrypts that stream and to me that from a security perspective That is absolutely huge when a customer doesn't have to think about doesn't have to To encrypt those ports or at least protect those ports automatically they can they can do crazy nefarious Silly fangs and this will fix it for him. Yeah, but up to now bastion was allowing you to basically RDP or a remote desktop into either a Linux or a Windows machine through they through the browser so you'd have your desktop or your RDP session inside or a browser session But it made Some activities very cumbersome such as uploading and downloading files Which we have to do on a regular basis if you're getting a log file you're uploading some stuff Now with the RDP the bastion host what it allows you to do is is create a tunnel from your machine Whether it's Linux or Windows and to the bastion and then through that Connect to your VM and actually upload and download files directly from your native client So directly from Windows or directly from Linux without having to go through the browser related So it's going to simplify a lot of things and of course this is a public preview. So it's going to It's going to change like right now for our over SSH on Linux. You can only Upload or or download there's one of the two The other one's not supported right now Upload I think upload downloads not supported right now, but it's it's they're working on it. This is preview so it by the time it goes to By the time it goes to general availability it'll be fixed, but I'm just super stoked about the direction that it's heading and the amount of Value that just little changes like that can give to our audience Need to upload a new config file just Run the script connect make the connection You don't even have to go to the portal once it's created and then you upload the file and then you're done Well, this is another one of those and this is a small kind of little nuance Update some people may consider but this is still part of that security investment, right? We're trying our best to make security just Something you don't have to think about for our products and absolutely it should be I'm we can go back to the early days of Trustworthy computing and you know 20 years later. We're still kind of working on it But I think this is absolutely all part of that and the investment over the past few years is really signifies that so Yeah, no, you're right. You're right So let's jump on to the second item, which is yours, which is AKS clusters I believe well and not just AKS clusters, but this is in private preview or just released into private preview I absolutely love our private preview programs. We have done so much good with these things in creating Services features those nuance features. I was talking about for our customers based on Customer requests and feedback is we're getting customers involved in these private previews They're giving us that feedback the products are changing For the better because of that customer those customer recommendations. This is one of those right in private preview Volume backup or a persistent volume backup of the AKS clusters is now available right so this allows This backup and we'll talk a little bit I think we're going to talk about some other types of backups here shortly and recovery this allows Not just recovery, but also Recovery of one or more Persistent volume backups so they can take advantage of this private preview And it's not just Delegated to the same cluster anymore. You can also send it to a different cluster, right? Let's read Let's restore this somewhere else We could even use that to make Comparisons and things like that which a lot of development environment where you want to test something because you're getting this recurring problem in production and of course Your dev and your production environment are not always the same so you can back up your production Restore it into dev environment and then run through your scenarios. That makes things a little easier. I'm I'm just glad that Cuz you look at some of the workloads in the cloud and I've talked to some developers and And there's a misconception sometimes that's well if I've got enough If my application is architected in such a way that I've got enough redundancy that I don't need a backup I am an old-school IT and ops guy Anything that hits production has got to have a backup a restore and a recovery plan attached to it So if it is production and it is In the business depends on it. You've got to be able to back it up somehow Even if it's just snapshots every hour or something like that for like a container because I understand that some containers there's no Like if it crashes and just flushes it and then creates a new one because there's nothing There's nothing stateful in that that's it's a stateless in a lot of cases a stateless operation so it doesn't really matter But in the case of when you've got a stateless or an application running in a container on AKS or on ACI And you're tying it to persistent storage Then that's that's the the key word here is persistent and you need to be able to be able to To save it somehow. So I'm glad to see that as you're back up in Azure Kubernetes services are now realizing or and making it available The fact that you can actually back up your your nodes and eventually back up entire AKS clusters Yeah, absolutely and just to kind of re-highlight again that importance of that private preview program any Active customer can take advantage of something like this, right? So you show on that page there down the bottom There's a link fill this form out if you want to participate in this and you absolutely do And it's not a very intrusive form is are you native? Would you use it? Yes. Are you willing to precipitate in the program? Yes submit done So we're not collecting any info here Yeah, it's we try it again. It's like the security piece We're trying to make it as easy as possible To interact with Microsoft and Microsoft services and people and products and everything our engineering teams I I think to me I Coming from a long history in my profession as a community person That just warms my heart to see how well we're doing in that area. Yep All right, so let's jump on to our next news item Our next news item is about Azure site recovery and I've I've always been a big fan of Azure site recovery like since the very very beginning Because I had to be at first before with that's before we had Azure migrate I actually used Azure site recovery and with with some customers to migrate their their workloads because a Migration is basically in a site recovery without the restore. Yeah. Yeah, so you Duplicate or replicate your workloads and then you just don't fail it over you just Shut down the original So I've been a big fan of that and I've presented on that like even back into there's a 2014 for Ignite Australia Or Tech at Australia, I can't even remember whether it was Tech Ed or Ignite at that point But I'm I'm really impressed with the way they Every month or every other month they come up with their their roll-up updates They keep improving the software they keep improving the way the replication is done at this month for their January 2022 they've added a whole bunch of Different OS Linux OS is to the support they've fixed some issues with the Windows 2022 and you would think it's Windows it just works But they've had some with the agent the mobility agent as they call it that sits on your machine that replicates the data Now they've added all of those new OS and fixed 2022 and That's that's that's great But they've also listened to the community and people that are using it and made some changes in the restrictions or configurations that they were so in terms of the retention points are now available for up to 15 days is if you're in the past they were the the retention points were only available for just a few days and It wasn't quite enough. We heard the feedback through the feedback loop, but also through us advocates and The product group has made that change so you now can have your retention points that will last up to 15 days Your replication can be enabled on a virtual machine via Azure policy. So this is huge for me Yeah, if you have a tenant or resource group that is identified by tag or by however, you want to identify it as a production workload of Whether or not it needs to be so you can use tag to identify that this needs to be replicated this needs to be protected This needs doesn't have to be So now by policy when you deploy something and with those tags or that's that's Covered by that policy will automatically turn on replication for those VMs So you don't have to worry about After the fact having to go back or because you know if it's made if it's done by human at some point Somebody's gonna drop the ball and the machine is not good enough. I can be replicated Yeah, I agree. I agree. That's that's absolutely huge. That's a big Area that I'm a fan of right because a lot of our a lot of our other services within Azure We're starting to Utilize Azure policy a lot more. This is an area. I think customers really really need Education on Azure policy is absolutely important, but I just want to highlight there is a caveat Just like group policies where a group policy can negate a group policy You have to be very careful because Azure policies can do the same thing and what I would recommend being a data science security type Azure sent Microsoft Sentinel person Alert on those log files when an Azure policy doesn't work the way that it's supposed to because you can get kicked Right in the butt because of something like that. Oh the policies are Very very very powerful, but as you mentioned very very dangerous. I had a policy on the system with a customer that Would turn off certain certain Services because they were being replaced by third party. Yeah, so they would turn off the the native and eventually the They replaced the third party with native support for the what they were using but they forgot that somewhere in their policy They had a bit that would turn it off So they would turn it on they would work for 20 or 40 minutes and then it would turn it off And they couldn't figure out where it was. So policies are Very very powerful So how's that how's that phrase go with great power? Comes great responsibility. So yeah, absolutely. Yeah, but I'm yeah I'm I'm going to I'm going to allow that but I'm not gonna Die on the on the sidewalk like Peters So yeah, so Azure site recovery update lots of updates and lots of bug fixes as well that's always a good thing that we keep track of our bug fix and The next item in our Listing today is a Azure defender for identity. What's it that? Oh, this is great so part of that security investment that I was talking about earlier not just dollars but also Engineering and things like that. We have been at Microsoft and I know customers. I've talked to customers They know that we've been working extremely hard to accomplish this Take all of our security platforms all our defender stuff MCAS which is now named Microsoft Defender for apps All of those different defender branded Services and products into a central console security dot Microsoft com, right? We do have some lingering services that have just you know for whatever reason have taken a little bit of extra time to get there I think MCAS is still there's some pieces of that as well, but defender for identity This week all of the features that you could get from that original defender for identity console They are now all consolidated at security dot Microsoft comm this includes things like the full onboarding administration experience the Incidents that get created they have been consolidated with the advanced hunting In the n365 defender console, which is huge a lot of our customers use that to do hunting looking for nefarious things within the data looking for bad user habits the thing that really I Think is awesome about this is kind of we've been waiting for this from a Microsoft Sentinel perspective. We have this Consolidated defender Connector all of our defender branded services. We have this connector. We've kind of been waiting on there's still again some lingering things We haven't turned on yet. They're still in private preview. This is one of those So with this barrier out of the way with this API and all this stuff in the security that Microsoft comm I'm positive that we'll see that defender for identity piece of that connector enabled very shortly too sweet I think that's stored. So yeah Is there also a an add-on or An amalgamation of search capabilities now So within a console. Yeah security dot Microsoft comm the search capability is there For the features but also for searching through and I assume this is what you're talking about Searching through the data, right? Yeah, so all of those So if you go to advanced hunting in this security dot Microsoft comm you go to advanced hunting In search over on the left-hand side You're going to see all of the tables that are associated now with this centralized console all the identity Tables all of our defender for endpoint tables all the device tables and things like that. They are all there So yeah, you can search across all of them. Obviously You need to know KQL because you can't just you know if you use a search command search with your string It's going to search all tables at once But if you want to tie tables together you have to use your union and your joins I have a series about that. Thanks for shameless Hashtag Series it's specific security stuff right now, but you go to aka ms slash must learn KQL Takes you from day one from scratch with KQL and all the way through so that you'll be able to do things like joins and unions within the advanced console here, so Yeah Appreciate that Andrew was a big fan obviously Andrew he forgot the must in front of learn KQL there, so All right, so we now have going into our last item of the day Or was that our last item of the day It was yeah, there's more but there's more I did wanted to touch on something because We are we have five minutes left You have a Podcast of sort that you do on a regular basis in terms of security. Can you tell us more about that? Yes, every Wednesday night at 5 p.m. Eastern We stream live video on twitch It's the Microsoft security insights podcast We have product managers. We have this you're showing here last week this past Wednesday We had the authors Microsoft folks that have created a new SC 200 exam guide right had them on talking about that talking about SC 200 how to pass and all that good kind of stuff It's amazing conversation, but we do this every Wednesday night 5 p.m. On twitch and then the replay obviously as just the audio podcast is available anywhere You can find podcasts anywhere you listen to your podcast, but it's been on Microsoft security insights calm Yep, it's been an amazing thing I should note and I just want to get people energized and excited about this We are planning our own very first all day Streaming podcast event coming up in the very near future. We're planning is underway right now So it's literally just the podcast just all day long with people and guests shuffled in and out It's going to be pretty cool We used to call that a conference Yeah, now it's all virtual. Well Yeah, one of these days maybe we can talk about in-person conferences. Maybe we'll see. Yes. Yes. I really hope so And to close out today. Oh, we only got a couple minutes Let's look at our azure or Microsoft learn module of the week And considering when you and I talked about this yesterday considering how important Azure bastion host can be to your security We decided that Using the learn module that connect your virtual machine through azure portal using Azure bastion would be a great start So if you've never used it if you are still doing jump boxes Where you have to manage the box that you use to manage other boxes You got to stop that stake start looking into Um Bastion server, of course, there are some differences like you can't use the full rdp client to connect to the art to the bastion host, but it does Close up a lot of those security holes that rod is so concerned with absolutely. I'm gonna go do this one That was good. I've actually done this one before but I think I want to do it again to see if there's anything that has changed mostly based on Some of the improvements into the products that they have. Yeah Because because I know that now when you deploy a bastion host You can actually pick whether or not you're going to allow native client support or not If you've got an existing one you have to go and reconfigure it to enable native native client support But the basis and the basics of what you learn in this learn module are very very important And again, it is bastion so What did I say? No, no, no. I'm just reiterating Okay I thought I messed up with a name again No, sorry, didn't hear you Not that it would be um Unusual I'd do that all the time But you know, it's just it's just not a product naming schema that we generally use so rod you have no idea how many times in my head I say before you and I meet either in a meeting or online like this. It's rod not rob. It's rod not rob I've learned over the I've learned over the years just answer to anything. Hey usually works So I know but I'm it's a signer. I think it's a sign of respect when You try at the very least try your best to pronounce the person's name the way it's meant to be Yeah, I have to apologize to joe lane later Yeah Or Amy actually, I apologize to Amy apparently when I introduced her a couple weeks It's amy It's amy. I think so. I tell me you think so Hey, all right. So thank you very much rod for spending time with us to go over the news item in azure this week Appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for all those that tuned in waiting for me to flub up some crazy things so Yeah, and next week. I am away I will be somewhere in the wilderness on the back of a snowmobile in northern kebek having some fun and trying to survive a long trip in the wilderness, but jay will Cover the host capabilities and I think we will kind of have a special co-host so Make sure to join them and With that being said, thanks rod. Thanks everyone and Have a wonderful weekend. Cheers


Hello there everyone. Welcome back to Game Dev Academy. I'm Shane and in today's video I want to show you a plugin that I've recently been introduced to which allows you to create really good, really convincing terrains and landscapes incredibly quickly and completely interactively. It's very very easy and you get really good results and you get those good results quickly. So what I'll do for you today is I'll kind of show you how it works, give you a quick overview and then you can go off and check it out for yourself if you want. I will leave the link to the plugin in the description below so if you like what you see take a look. Okay that's enough waffle for me. Let's take a look at this plugin. Let's take a look at this plugin then. It's called EasyTerrain2 and once you've installed it it comes with its own little shelf. So if we switch to the shelf you can see we've got lots of these cool little settings for it and we'll use some of these to create a terrain today just to show you how easy and powerful this tool is. So we start with clicking over here this just creates like a new plane that you can use to create a terrain on. So we'll give that a click and then it creates that. It's already subdivided a little bit. It's not as far as we might go later but it's enough to get us started and then to do things to it what we need to do is add layers to it and that's what this little icon here does. So if we add a layer that now straight away you can see has added some terrain to it which is lovely and it gives you a handle for each one. So I'm just going to raise that up so that I can kind of keep it separate but if I move it around you can see that the terrain moves with that and then what I want to do first of all is set out like a base ground level and you can do that through these presets here. So this one here is called the mounting range preset which works pretty well for what I want to do here. So if I give that a click you see you've got lots of these different defaults so you should see this change as soon as I select one. So if we go for something fairly rocky this one's pretty good and straight away that changes to give us a bit of a base layer of rockiness which I like. So we'll close that for now but you can see that that's not quite affecting all of it. There's some area here that's not being done and what I like to do for that is to just turn on tiling. If we tile it you'll see that now goes right up to the edge which is pretty nice. You can kind of change how often this repeats by scaling it like that if you want to that is and if your peaks are too high what you can do is just scale it on the height axis as well and just sort of bring those down so they're not too high. So I'm going to go for that one for my first one and we'll just name this handle as base terrain. So I know what I've got going on and then to make this more interesting we'll add another one on top. So we select this again now let's just yeah it's already called terrain. So what we'll do is add another layer you see a new handle is created and I'll move this up above the original so I know which is which and again you can see straight away it's already doing something and these two different layers of terrain are working together which is great. This time what I might want to do is just rotate it a little bit but we'll see what other presets we've got. So this time I'm going to go for something a little bit more mountainy. So we've got these ones here that one looks pretty interesting we'll give that one a go. So I clicked on it and then that's now coming but I now might decide that I want that to be a little bit bigger so let's scale that up a little bit yeah it's pretty nice and we'll just move it kind of off to the side a little bit. So that gets me started. Now my main issue with this at the moment is that it doesn't look great I'm just going to raise the height on this. Let's get a bit more mounting going. So it doesn't look great but that's just because it's not really been subdivided very far so it's hard to show all the detail. This little chappy here actually allows us to subdivide and it keeps it changeable so I can go up to subdivision level three let's say and we'll apply that and now we get a lot more detail coming through. This now looks really nice I think it looks kind of something out of like a sort of fantasy sort of setting which I think is really cool but what I like about this is you can easily just go back down to subdivision level one at any time to make it easier to edit. Now you can go higher with these divisions and that but if I go any higher than three my pc is not up to it and it just hangs but I am looking at upgrading my pc for another day so we can do that so let's now go up to subdivision level three again and we'll think about quickly putting some color on this. So there we go that gets us started. So now to put some color on it let's just press six we shouldn't see anything if we press six there you go I pressed six and there's just no color whatsoever which looks a bit rubbish so we select it we click on this icon here and straight away it adds some color for us and one of the things I quite like about this is it puts these handles out to the side so it's a little bit easier to distinguish them from the the ones that are doing the terrain so I just need to rename this that's going to be mountain and this one is color one nice to stay organized and then with this you can see we've got a bit of a texture on there but it looks a bit stretched and you can just scale this down to tile it a little bit so now I think that looks better we could tile it you know a lot more take it really far down and that'll give us kind of like a base color and in fact that's what I'm going to change that to base color now what we want to do is try and mix some colors together to make this look really cool so I'm going to kind of think of this as being mud I want something to look a bit rockier now so I'll click on this again we will create another color I'm going to scale this down to be about the same and I'll raise it up so that I can differentiate between these two layers and then I'll click over here and what that's going to allow me to do if I go to where am I file six I can mess with the color going to color balance so let's say I want this one to be a little bit grayer I can do that in the color balance so I want to add a gray tint to this and I can also using this color game I can decide how much I want those to mix together so I can just kind of play around with them which I quite like so we'll go for something like that which is completely overwritten my original color so I need to mask it to make this look better and what we do for that is we click on this one here and then I'm going to control click my mountain and base terrain so I'm creating a mask based on those two height maps and then we can go to mask we have to right click to create a new one and for this one I think I'm going to do a flow map so I'll give that a click and then when it kicks in there you go you can see that now kind of mix us together in a fairly mountainous looking way you can see almost looks like water's been moving over time you get a bit of sediment and stuff which is nice so we're going to call this one rocky color and then once you have a mask you can go in so I'm just going to left click on this now and you can mess around with it seeing sort of say how much do I want certain colors to show through so I might just take some of that away and we can also make the strength of that come down a little bit so it's not too harsh so I think that looks pretty good that's not a bad start how about now we add a little bit of green to this sort of around the bottom to simulate grass let's give that a go so we'll click on this we'll add yet another color we'll call this one grassy color lovely we will scale that bad boy down raise it up lovely lovely and we need to make it a bit green don't we grass tends to be green so we'll click over here we'll click over here and let's add an offset to it so we'll go somewhere in the green spectrum let's kind of make this a bit less garish that's not bad and then how much do I want this to mix something like that so that just gives us a nice dark green so this one also needs to be masked but we'll do that in a different way so we'll select the layers that we want to be a part of it so grass color mountain and base terrain and this time I'll right click on mask and let's go for height map so I'll do this one based on the height the higher what we get the less grass we want to see in this case so by default we're not seeing much we've got a little bit of grass showing up at the top here which is the reverse of what I want so now let's mess with this mask so we'll go into here and the first thing I want to if you start playing with these you'll see it'll make a difference but I want to swap the colors over so let's drag the black over to that side and the white over to that side and you can see now we've got grass sort of around the bottom and let's just kind of do something like that how much of this do we want it to hear yeah we'll go for that now let's say for the last one we want a little bit of snow so we're going to kind of repeat the same process and it's going to look real nice so let's click on this bad boy we will have another color let's rename to snowy color oh don't need that capital O there go away capital O let's just get this tiling a bit more move that up above the others we need to add a bit of a coloring to it quite eight um color offset let's just make that pretty white that looks good to me yeah but a little bit too white that was pretty nice okay and this one we're going to do with a directional it might not work very well but I just want to show you that there's another masking method this might look terrible but we'll persevere with it so let's go for snowy color we're going to do mountain and the base terrain or right click and do directional this time and you can see that's done something maybe a little bit overkill we shall see so the way that we adjust this one while we can click on this and go into the mask and get some settings so we can kind of play around with the colors that we get like that what we can also do is change the rotation of this which will impact where it looks like the snow has fallen so something like that looks quite good so now we've kind of got it looks like it snowed fairly recently doesn't it we've got some snow's falling down there we've got bits of grass that looks kind of cool I like that I would say I'm a fan so that took me what um probably five minutes if that and I've only really messed around with some of the features you can see there's a lot more going on here you can create actual geometry like geometry archways um but there's lots of things that you can do with it you can use this here um you can get some real world mountains and there's only Japan at the moment I think the developer of this plugin is going to add more but you've got that in there you've got different mountains you've got rocks you've got um this is experimental it's if you read down down here it says it can break it so I haven't I haven't messed with it but there's lots of different things that you can do and you can create terrain that that is textured really easily and you can export it out as geometry or as maps as well that you can then use in something else so you could take the height map and normal map and color map over to something like a real engine do more cool stuff so I hope this has been useful to you I know one of the things that I always find fairly difficult to do is to create convincing terrain quickly I generally just bring in a height map but this allows me to create it interactively and get exactly what I want 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In this final video for section 3.1 about matrix operations, I want to introduce one final operation for a matrix. Now this operation is only going to be defined for square matrices that is matrices of the form N by N. And this is called the trace of a matrix. We'll denote this TR of A. And the trace is simply going to be the sum of the diagonal entries of that matrix. So for example, let's take a two by two matrix and a four by four matrix. The trace of A would be the sum of the diagonal. So we look at the main diagonal two and four. We add those together and we get six. That gives us the trace. If we want to do the trace of B, we're going to add together the main diagonal, which are going to get four entries in this one since it's a four by four matrix. You're going to get nine plus nine plus six plus one, which adds up to B 25. And then that's the trace of the matrix. And that's all there is to it for traces here. We just add together the main diagonal entries. Now that seems so simple. It's like, wow, that was pretty simple. We have a whole video on that. That's amazing. But despite the simplicity of the trace function, it turns out the trace function is a very important function in linear algebra. And so despite its simplicity, it'll prove to be useful in the future. And that then brings us to the end of section 3.1.


Now hold up everybody, because we had just recorded the video trying to prep everybody for the press conference that the Ravens got coming up in a couple of hours that we've been anxiously waiting for, for two days. And we were talking about this and that and what to expect, well not to expect and how to go into this thing, but then Mike Garofalo, he said, well there Ravens flock, I got a bombshell for you. And before we read this verbatum, I gotta apologize because I was wrong. So my apologies to all the all team keep it clean because I was dead wrong. I thought it was one thing with this, but it was another and I'll explain in a little bit. So he said, a bit of bookkeeping ahead of the Ravens season ending press conference today. Offensive coordinator Greg Roman has one year remaining on his contract at $3.5 million. So Greg Roman got another year left on his deal. So that means the Ravens actually would have to make a decision on whether to let him go or keep him on. And you know, like Ravens don't like lame duck years, but anyway, we'll talk about that in a little bit. So back to it, Greg Roman has one year remaining on his contract at $3.5 million sources saved. Doesn't mean he sticks, but the notion his contract is up is not accurate. And then he also said, coach John Harbaugh and Eric DeCosta today will address the futures of Roman and Jackson, a combination that's helped them to a 39 and 15 record when Jackson has played since Roman became OC in 2019. Anything other than a stated commitment to Jackson would stun me. Ooh, you see what they doing? They lay in the groundwork. They lay in the groundwork. They trying to prep Ravens fans like, look, don't expect it. We just let, you know, because the first part was like, hey, look, Roman got another year left on his deal. He got another year. So y'all Ravens fans need to chill. But then that second part, oh, the Ravens are, they 39 and 15 with when Lamar plays in Roman's offensive coordinator. So I know what y'all doing. I know what you're doing. But anyway, first my apologies, seriously, my apologies, I was wrong. I really thought that, I thought that Roman's last year of his deal with this past year. The reason I thought that is because I remember back in, after 2019, both Greg Roman and Don Martindale, they both got extensions. And I believe they both became the highest paid at their positions as offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. I believe they became both the highest offensive and defensive coordinator, paid offensive and defensive coordinator in the league, I believe. But anyway, they both got extensions the same year. But then last year, going into last off season, Wink had one year left on his deal.  Harbaugh had a year left on his deal as well, but they gave him, what, three year extension, I think. They gave him that extension last year. But Wink, he had a year left on his deal. And I was like, no, we'll just go on mutual separate ways. So that's why I thought that Greg Roman also just had one year left on his deal last year. I didn't know he had another year left on his deal this year too. So my apologies because all season long, I've been saying that he only got this, this the last year his deal. So that's my fault. So I was wrong about that. So my apologies to y'all for telling you the wrong information. So I had it messed up on my end. But that is a, that's very significant information. That's very, very significant information because Ravens are gonna do something. Ravens are going to do something when it comes to Greg Roman. They're going, a move is gonna be made. He's either gonna get extended or he's gonna probably be let, or he's gonna be let go, not probably. And that's my opinion. I think it's gonna be one or the other because of the whole lame duck thing. But at offensive coordinator, would they let him ride it out for the last year? I don't know, man. I just, again, like we talked about in the previous video, because I finished that video and I'm like, all right, cool. Hey, I love Team Keep It Clean but I ain't gonna see them until later on this afternoon after the presser. But no, right after that, Mike Garofa, the whole Team Keep It Clean, they gonna love this one. Man, yeah. These Ravens, boy, these Ravens, man. They'll do it to you, won't they? They'll do it to you, won't they? But anyway, hey, we'll see, man. We'll see how this thing goes. I mean, ain't really much more to say about it unless somebody else drops something else that we don't know about. So anyway, Team Keep It Clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Hang in there. Hang in there. It'll be okay. Oh, it'll be okay though. But yeah, this press conference, it just got that much more fun. We out.


This is TFNN the tiger financial news network NN headline news update Tom O'Brien Welcome folks. We have the Dow industrials up 53 Nasdaq down 13 S&Ps up two and a half we go over the S&P and take a look at it folks From the highest of the lows out here in the spy you got a low out here of 282 you get a high of 287 That's where we're at right now volume is going to come in about Maybe about a hundred million That being said yeah, you get a little bounce out here and we'll see exactly Where this can go if you take a look at on a weekly basis bottom line is that you have lower lows with monster volume That's saying we're going lower Another in the sense as we're going to go next week small bounce up here Yeah, the number to keep your eye on coming into those clothes out here is the 285 281 that's the number. That's what we're going into right now We're already at 287 and the next number if it doesn't close under that it's going to be the 288 And what like we're going to see there That's going to set up the B to a C of a potential ABC structure on the way down gold contract What do we have with the gold contract gold contract trading out here up a buck 70 you've done 218,000 contracts. This is still building cars for higher price notes and bonds bottom line They've been the most consistent folks and they're still saying they want higher price In fact, when you take a look at this on a weekly basis, it's pretty amazing the amount of Volume that we've had in here the amount of buyers in here. We're at 1.8 million contracts out here today You're at 2.1 that yesterday. You're at 2.0 the day before this thing is trying to get it into the 124 31 level you have the tenure right now Trading at a yield of 2.45 and King dollar King dollars failed on price failed on volume out here Bottom line is here at 97 125. He did 13,000 contracts now What has happened with King dollar was just kind of intriguing We had light volume out here this morning, but bottom line you it picked up a bit We take this on the weekly basis what you're going to see Is that King dollar right now is at 97 130 97 705 is the number To basically keep your eye on folks Uba Uba went IPO today we have Uba Sold it last night at 45 bucks bottom line another Car company not holding price pretty amazing actually it opened at 42 club. It's trading at 43 73 So you get everyone that bought it on the IPO in the negative which is really unusual folks bottom line Let's go over to lift for a second take a look at lift These are going to be a mess. That's that's the bottom line. No YFT And when you have an IPO can't hold the first day that is a whole different animal now lifts down three dollars and fifty one cents Fifty one dollars thirty seven cents. They're right there folks come right back


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jazzy's CaseRace.com. Last break of the night, guys. 2022 top scrim on black baseball, 12 box, case break, pick of teams, number 26. And again, another fresh case right here, so there is another one in the store now for tomorrow. Here's number 26, Jason Kane, last ball, Mojo with the Mets and the Nationals. Double last ball on the Mojo. So thanks for the fill, guys. Got another case for this. Dunzo.


Happening is kind of a cross between four months, three weeks, two days, and never really sometimes always with the stylistic intensity of the former but the character focus of the latter. And considering one was among my top films of 2020 and the other was among my top films of ever, it's wild that it stands up to that comparison. Following Anne, a student in 1960s France who realizes she's pregnant and faces the prospect of everything she dreamed for herself, vanishing in a pool of placenta fluid, she looks to terminate. Problem is, abortions back then were legal in the same way many American states are working to make them illegal now. Our teenage protagonist, based on author Annie Erno, has to figure out something that doesn't get her and those around her imprisoned. It's a critical reminder of the very real and very human cost of abortion bans. It doesn't stop the procedure. It just makes desperate women resort to truly harrowing measures and the film doesn't shy away in its depictions. Sitting there as it refused to cut from a close-up of Anne's writhing pain during an attempt to self-induce with a knitting needle was one of the most genuinely upsetting experiences I've ever had in a movie theater. And the idea that someone could reach Happening's credits and think, this is the future I want for my country is genuinely horrifying. Oh, whoops, I just donated $100 to the National Network of Abortion Fund. Five stars.


I'm a student, but I graduated from my university 20 days ago. Congratulations! What did you study? What was your degree in? Yes, my major is English. I teach English for students. I was used to teaching for a form-bright English teaching assistant. I'm here in Seoul, South Korea right now to speak at a seminar organized by the State Department for English teachers from 10 countries in East Asia, including Vietnam. What advice would you give people who are trying to improve their English? I think the best way for an English learner is to start with listening skills. They first try to listen to movies with English subtitles, and then they can learn new vocabulary with learner-advanced dictionary. They can try to mimic the pronunciation in the dictionary, so it can help them to listening when the words are in the long sentence. For Vietnamese people, we do not have too many chances to talk with foreigners. So it's a little typical for Vietnamese to enhance their listening skills. So the most important thing for Vietnamese people and other people, other English learners, if they want to enhance their listening skills, is try to mimic the American and British accent, because if they can speak as well as the American and British, they can listen to them. If they pronounce the word correctly, they can recognize the word when it's in the sentence. Hence, they can improve their listening skills. I have one question for you. We gave our students a tape recorder. They can recognize, they can understand the tape, but when they step out from the university, they step out from the class, they talk with the foreigners, they cannot understand them. Can you help me to identify the differences between listening in the class and listening in the real-life situations? I think the one difference is that often when you listen to recordings, it's professional, often it's professional speakers. It's actors or it's announcers, and so it's not like natural speech where there are false starts and people speak fast and don't necessarily speak in grammatical sentences. That's a challenge. I think that ideally you would have, the students would be exposed to natural speech to the kind of conversations that people have where they actually speak in real life. You want to try to find maybe on YouTube videos where people are speaking, but where it's maybe less scripted and more natural. I want to give two more advice that I want to offer to the English learners that we should try to listen to many accents because many people are speaking English around the world these days. We have Indians, Vietnamese and other nations. I think the best way to improve their listening skill is to listen to many voices of English in order to recognize their standard accent of English. The most important thing is that I used to tell my students is not to use headphones or earphones when they listen to English because if you use earphones or headphones, the sound is clearer than you listen to English in real life situation. So I think if you use earphones or headphones when you are listening to English it's not for you if you have to listen to English when you meet foreigners. I train myself since many years in English, self-education because I have learned French and Russian as languages in the school for many years and so I work a lot and I don't have time to go to courses in schools or universities because of my busy work. So I'm going always to Facebook and to Voice of America and BBC English. We get a lot of questions from people asking what advice do we have for learning English so it sounds like you've got some great advice. So you're busy and so how is it again you learned these languages? How did you use Facebook to help you learn? I started with BBC a very simple book and after this I found out on Facebook your website and I'm reading the comments and I'm reading how other people in other countries they learn in the same way English like me, what they have for questions and I also watch your channel and I also have English friends in America and so I get trained Skype. And I visited London and Los Angeles and New York and this is how I train my English and I read everyday magazines fashion magazines and news but especially fashion magazines. I have learned English by myself and I am not very classical learned I didn't classical learn English but I am very interested to learn and continue and try to progress my language. So what did you do to teach yourself? I started by myself by self teaching since I think 1990 I think yes it's a long time but you see how I can speak now and that time it was zero I didn't know anything but now I speak a little bit yes. So what kinds of things did you do? I mean did you watch movies? Did you read books? What did you find most helpful to you? Yeah, I started with a cassette and a book during the tape. Do you remember before CDs and I started with very basic instruments and I started with that including a book and step by step I listened at first and tried to read the book. After that my job was in business field and I had some contact with the foreigners like Italian, German and English or Korean or other nationalities. So gradually my English became a bit better. I mean now you hear it. So it was helpful for me but my starting was with a book and with a tape. But my listening part is very weak because I have faced with several nationalities and people with several sense of the pronunciation and it was very difficult. Even when now I am speaking with you I understand you very difficultly and when I speak with a Chinese the pronunciation is different and so from the part of the listening I am very weak but from speaking I think it's better. My name is Abdel Anis Sayed. I am from Egypt. I am a first graduate from the faculty this year from the faculty of electronic engineering in Morpheus University and I appreciate every effort that does from the oil learning English from there I appreciate this really I appreciate that. Well let me ask you a question I've been asking other callers. How did you learn English? What do you think were the most effective strategies you used to help you learn English and what advice would you have for other people? Yes the very important thing for learning English is the patient for learning any languages and this learned us for practice many words in every day practice English in such very important fields in reading especially in reading magazines reading every books if you specialize in your fields and from my study I study communication engineering and I used to learn English from writing and reading English because of my study. For communication department in our faculty we learn for five years in English materials we have many materials we have our courses that specialize in English and my advice for them is practice and the practice and the practice.


The Lagos State's government have been called upon to enforce a total ban on the operations of Ocada in the state. Stateholders made this call during a forum with the theme, Ocada ban, what next? Held in Ikejua Lagos. Plus, the vice-correspondent, Loviko Koye-Dokun reports that the stakeholders are also called for extension of enforcement timeline of a total ban, her report. It was truly a time of stock-taking and appraisal of sexes since action on Ocada ban took effect in Lagos State. In June this year, the Lagos State government banned commercial motorcycle operations in six council areas of the state. Three months after it was next, what's the true situation? When you look at the six local government and nine LCDs, the accident rate has reduced by 86% of their rebound. Crime rate has also reduced drastically and you would find out that in those local government areas people are beginning to walk, people are beginning to enjoy, you know, like their leisure, etc. And other local government are clamoring for the same ban. Speakers at the forum suggested that a ban should be extended to other parts of the state for protection of lives and property. While lamenting how the carelessness, modus operandi of the operators have led to losses of lives, injuries, and irreparable damages, they lamented how the operations have constituted means of illegal migration and a facilitator of crimes. For the stakeholders, a total ban of operations of Ocada in all local government areas and local council development areas in the state would be most welcome. Speaking, the state commissioner for information and strategy, Benga Omoto, just said the stakeholders meeting was significant to get feedbacks from legations. He said the resolutions will be presented to the governor for a firm decision in the best interest of legations, having satisfied the demands of democracy and transparency through critical engagement. From Legas, Love Ikuku Uyuduku. Plus, TV News. Click the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.