Hello everybody and welcome to this session where we are talking about work that in many instances goes unnoticed in many parts of the world. I am Godfrey Motizwa, I'm a journalist and I've been writing about the African story for the past 38 years or so and I have seen my fair share of the destruction of our natural environment. Nature of course like everything else is not static. It is subject to change. But scientists say that what is different about the change that we have seen over the past 4.6 billion years of human existence is that we are destroying the earth at a scale and pace that has meant that we are now threatened our very own existence. In all corners of the world we have got local communities that are working hard to protect their lands and traditions which have been threatened by climate and the nature crisis and exacerbated by rising security challenges. We all have our experiences of how this has gone about. So in this session today we're going to try to take you through the work that's being done on two corners of the world, one in Latin America and another in Africa. Please help me to welcome our panelists for this session. Let me introduce them. On my extreme left Emmanuel de Merode, he's director of Virunga National Park. Let me tell you a little bit about Emmanuel. Emmanuel is warden of the Virunga National Park which covers 3,000 square miles and 44 species including the endangered mountain gorilla who doesn't want to go and say it. We all do. From clean water to 300,000 people, it supplies electricity to 70% of Goma, a city in the eastern democratic of the Congo, a city that's been engulfed by fighting and tragedy over the past few years, a war that continues almost under the radar, it's almost like the whole world is forgotten and said it's normal that there's war in Goma but there are real people that live in Goma. His conservation efforts are being hampered as I was saying by the current civil law in the DRRC with 6.9 million people displaced, particularly affecting locations in and around the park that he's going to be talking about and the work that he has done. Thank you for joining us Emmanuel. Let me also introduce Uyonga Domingo Piers Nampichkai, he's president of the board of directors, Amazon's sacred headwaters. He is a 2023 Schwab social entrepreneur. This is a coalition of 30 indigenous nations in Ecuador and Peru. It protects 35 million hectares of tropical rainforest and they are trying to establish a protected region that is off limits to industrial scale resource extraction, rainforest by establishing a protected region. They are advocating a new economic model and we're going to hear about that model today that prioritizes the well-being of indigenous communities as well as the ecological integrity of the whole bio region. Please help me to welcome Domingo. Thank you. Let me also welcome to our session Atosia Sultani, director of the global strategy for the Amazon's sacred headquarters alliance. So they work together and the 2023 Schwab social entrepreneur as well. So the work they are doing is similar in many respects. She represents the Amazon's sacred headquarters in Glasgow for those of you who went to Glasgow and they were of course tackling big oil. Welcome ma'am. And last but not least Achim Steiner, executive director, UN environment and this was between 2016, sorry 2006 and 2017. Currently he is the UN development program administrator. He comes from Brazil and he has got knowledge of the challenges of conservation of nature on the front lines and opportunities to transform the religious economy through sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. He has been in the DRC. He was also telling me that he has been in Zimbabwe where I come from and there are many stories for us to share today. Thank you for joining us Achim. Let me begin by inviting Emmanuel to give us the work that he has done in the DRC and the targets that he has set in trying to preserve what some say is actually perhaps one of Africa's most important countries, particularly when you consider the minerals that are underneath in the DRC and then you continue of course the natural environment. Thank you. So first of all may I thank you. It's an enormous privilege for me to be here but I would like to say that it's really not my story that I wanted to share with you but the story of an extraordinary team of Congolese Rangers who for almost 100 years have been taking on what are really the great challenges of our generation, the challenges of environmental destruction, those of extreme poverty and those of violence and armed conflict. These young Rangers, generation after generation, have done so in the knowledge that so many of them would lose their lives in the process. So it all starts with this extraordinary park in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a park that is on the watershed of the continent's two great rivers, the Congo and the Nile and it is an explosion of landscapes, of extraordinarily diverse landscapes that go from the highest mountains on the African continent across its forests, its savannas, its wetlands and its great lakes and even offers a view into the very centre of the earth through its extraordinary volcanoes in the south of the park. And because of this incredible landscape diversity you equally have the greatest level of biological diversity on earth and the most famous of its residents of course being the mountain gorillas that we work so hard to protect and it would seem a shame, it would be a bit boring to reduce this to numbers but it is a national park that contains within it over 50% of all the terrestrial species of the African continent. It has more bird, reptile and mammal species than any park on earth, in fact there is a small stretch of less than 20 kilometres in the centre of the park that has more species within it than within the entirety of continental Europe and so from a conservationist perspective if there is one thing that we really need to protect, it is Virunga National Park, if we care about African conservation, if we care about the natural environment on the African continent and it has really been down to this small team of Congolese rangers of young men and women who have really dedicated their lives to that work which has been extraordinarily successful but about 30 years ago the tide began to change very abruptly with respect to their efforts and we saw this massive destruction of the park's wildlife and it really culminated in 2007 with the mass killing of the mountain gorillas, over 10% of Virunga's mountain gorillas were killed in the space of a few days and so it became incredibly important to rethink exactly what was happening, it was far too serious to be able to take up for granted the way we were doing conservation and really what challenged us the most was this image, it was a photo taken by a friend which after a year of investigation into why these killings were happening really helped us to reconsider the entire model of how conservation was happening in Virunga and of course it's a very disturbing image of a group of incredibly vulnerable women who are begging to access the park and what it did was to really bring to us the different realities of how people experience this national park, for us in the affluent world it's this extraordinary park with the greatest wildlife, the most inspiring wildlife, for people who live around the park and there are 11 million living in extreme poverty it's a source of energy, it's the only source of energy and energy is everything, it's the food that you eat, it's your health without the ability to boil your water, it's the region with the greatest number of cholera epidemics in Central Africa and so it's a question of survival, it's a question of the life and death of yourself and your children and so we're really confronted with a situation where we as a global community would like Virunga to survive and we benefit from the existence of that extraordinary biodiversity but there's also a cost and that cost is almost entirely being borne by the poorest and most vulnerable in society and so it's difficult to capture the extent to which we are looking at an issue of social injustice and where there's injustice invariably there's violence and you have to understand the dynamics of violence, how it relates not just to powerful people trying to have their way through the use of force, it's also a deep sense of social injustice within society and of course the cost was also to our staff, 211 of our staff have died since the beginning of the violence and so we have to counter that and it means thinking forcefully very creatively about solutions and so the part started working on alternative energy and developed an extraordinary program that captures the water that comes from these extraordinary ecosystems and converts them to electrical energy and of course what we have now is the greatest source of renewable energy that exists in eastern Congo from this national park, a program that is entirely built and managed by young technicians and engineers from the community and delivers 60 megawatts of energy to the community but more importantly is the birth of a whole new industry of agricultural transformation that's created 21,000 jobs. Now the key to that is that 11% of those jobs are young men and women who have been drawn out of the armed militias, these militias that have really at the source of this terrible conflict that's seen the death of 8 to 10 million innocent people in eastern Congo and is beginning to draw young men and women away from these vans into gainful employment and so that's really the dynamic and I'll leave you with this last picture, Shamavu, one of our orphaned gorillas that was taken by traffickers all those years ago and who this year will be reintroduced into the wild really is a symbol of a natural landscape that has become interdependent with the welfare of the community living around the park but of course it comes at the extraordinary sacrifice of these young Congolese men and women who really need to be remembered in that regard, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, incredible story, 10 billion people dead and we keep on going on as if there's no tragedy that's taking place. 50% did you say of the world's species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, half of the world's species? I realize of course at the beginning that I exchanged you and Ahim but I'm sure you will forgive me. I'm very proud. Thank you. It's a great story to be associated with. Thank you very much for all your work. Let me invite Ayunka and Atosa to talk about the work that they are carrying out on the front lines in the Amazon. I think a region that we all know and we associate with all sorts of different things but I wanted to ask you to if you can connect and draw panels between the work that you are doing and perhaps the similarities that we see with the work that Emmanuel is carrying out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I would like to greet you, all of you men and women present here. So for me, we are all sons and daughters of Mother Earth and we all breathe our fresh air coming from the Amazonian forest. The Amazonian forest is the heart of our planet.  So in that sense, what my brother is doing is very similar to my work and our work in my indigenous community. For us, indigenous people, the Amazonian forest is a living being, a living being that has the same rights of any human being. In this area, we have visible and invisible living beings. So this is what I want to share with you. I would like to share with you the messages of our forest. So for us, actually we have been criticized by governments of many countries. They have told us that we are obstacles for development, we indigenous communities, but it is not like that. We have lived in the Amazonian forest. We respect the forest and we have a good communication and a good interrelations with the Amazonian forest. We have a spiritual connection with it. So in order to protect and preserve this ecosystem, we have organized ourselves. First of all, in order to be successful in our endeavors, we have created an indigenous alliance, an indigenous alliance with Peru and Ecuador, with 30 different communities. Our endeavor aimed to protect 30 million acres of rainforest. So the largest territory that has ever been protected is now protected thanks to us. So this is why today we are presenting this project in order to make sure that the Amazonian forest will no longer be for indigenous communities, but for the whole mankind. So this is why today we are presenting this project in order to make sure that the Amazonian forest is protected. So this is why we have incorporated every single river, because they come from the heights of Ecuador, the high mountains. They go across Peru until reaching the sea. The sea that we all share, we local communities, indigenous communities, that was our starting point for our works. We have had, nevertheless, a lot of difficulties. All the indigenous leaders have been threatened or even killed by companies and all of that for, or just because in personal interests. However, our endeavors are not for ourselves, but for next generations. We want to make sure that this bio region remains preserved, a region with a lot of indigenous knowledge with occult sciences. So we want to protect this natural wealth. We want for it to remain intact in order to preserve this fresh air that emanates from the forest and to make sure that this air reaches every single continent and every single human being. So from that point of view, after having come to an alliance among indigenous peoples, we've also come to alliances with non-indigenous peoples, because we're not listened to if we were working on our own. This is why we have to reach alliances, agreements with key people. To that end, we have a company called Datosa that we've been working with and we've been working together, and the idea is for this example to help us and to serve us. And the idea is that all together, indigenous peoples and not indigenous people are working together. We'll be able to reach a success, to be successful. We have to work hand in hand for a common purpose, a common goal. My colleague works with me and who's always with me. My great ally and friend, it's an honor to be with Domingo for 23 years. We've worked together. This area is, like Varunga, one of the most biodiverse places on earth. It's also one of the most threatened. Amazon Basin, as you know, is a vital organ of the biosphere. In this area of the Amazon, we are working with 30 indigenous nations to permanently protect this area from huge extractive threats. You'll see 92 oil concessions, 5,000 mining concessions, some of them active, some of them proposed. We made history recently through public referendum in Yasuni National Park, which is the sister equivalent to Varunga National Park, where people in Ecuador voted to keep the oil in the ground, the largest oil reserve in the Amazon, a referendum that won 60% of the vote. And now the government has to stop the drilling and remove the infrastructure and restore the area. We've been working in international form and also in the territories. Indigenous peoples are guardians of 80% of the world's biodiversity, yet less than 1% of financial resources for climate mitigation or adaptation reach the territories. Our alliance has created a way to build trust and capacity for indigenous peoples to implement this vision, the bioregional plan for the permanent protection of the headwaters, including everything from strengthening governance to promoting alternative energy, livelihood alternatives, territorial monitoring, legal actions for land rights to get legal title to the lands that still are claimed and not yet addressed by the governments of Peru. We are also working to promote bioeconomy, basically transforming the economic system from a life-blind economic system that we have today to one that is about life flourishing, that puts people and the ecological well-being of the ecosystem at the center. We established the Sacred Headwaters Fund. It is an organization that is made up of 27 organizations of which 24 are indigenous. They are basically working to implement the plan and they are ready to basically receive resources in the territories. We have great technical teams. We have been working also on systemic solutions, calling for a moratorium on oil and mining, calling for well-being indicators, calling for debt relief. The fact is our governments are mortgaging the rainforest to pay just the interest on the external debt. We need massive conditioned debt forgiveness to be able to get these countries out of this logic that they need to drill more just to pay the international financial institutions the interest on the debt they never get out of. So we invite you to join us. There's a lot more you can watch on sacredheadwaters.org. Our vision is in a beautiful video called Amazonia 2041. The Amazon's reached a tipping point. It is like Domingo says, up to all of us to make sure the heart and the lungs of our biosphere, which is the rainforest all around the world, in particular the Amazon and in particular the headwaters of the Amazon, the source of life, the most biodiverse place, the highest number of jaguars. Like you mentioned, it is unbelievable the amount of biodiversity that we're losing. Only 5% of the plant species in the Amazon have even been identified. Indigenous peoples have been living in harmony and like Domingo said, their territories are the most well protected. So we want to get the resources to the front lines and build alliances that are helping implement this transformational plan to go from an extractive to a regenerative flourishing bio-economy based on well-being. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please help me to thank our new set of warriors. When I was reading about this, I came across terms like forest defenders and when I looked at who they are, they are ordinary people, they are indigenous people, they are journalists, they are activists, they are people who in everyday work are doing a lot to serve our natural environment. And a couple of statistics that I picked up apparently since the world or the earth was created, according to scientists, 4.6 billion years ago we've destroyed 50% of the natural forest and of the ancient forest we only have about 20% that is left and we continue. So thank you for the work that you're carrying out. Let me turn to Akim for his thoughts on the connections between the two regions and the lessons that we can learn and perhaps a few thoughts on the economic model she speaks of, of how we can use the natural world we have while at the same time developing peoples. Thank you Godfrey and a great pleasure to join such a wonderful group of speakers or defenders of nature but also of challenges to a paradigm of economic development that has in so many ways turned us from being a part of nature into really an onslaught on nature. I mean if you look at the last 200 years of human development, partly out of ignorance, partly out of greed we looked at nature as really something to be harvested, to be used, to be exploited and often one for lack of understanding not appreciating how profoundly transformative the impacts of that kind of economic pathway would be to the future of the planet and humanity. And secondly then combining it also with something that you alluded to just now, also by the both of you spoke to that in the use of nature are reflected some extraordinary inequalities also in our societies in the way that we are able to access to extract much of the extractive industry of the last 100, 150 years has essentially been an appropriation of lands and resources from those communities who have lived with them for sometimes hundreds or thousands of years into an economy that was that accelerated view that the future is essentially one of making us independent from nature. So I want to begin by connecting a little bit this set of realities that we just heard about to this larger notion of living what now has come to be known as living in the age of the Anthropocene which translated means the age of humans because in many ways we are now in an era where humans have become so dominant as a species on the planet that we are literally transforming planetary systems and in many ways that has given us an extraordinary power to use to destroy but at the same time we live in an era where science, knowledge, understanding but also governance give us the opportunity to do something very different. This is not an inevitable path we are on and much of what you both or all three of you spoke about just now is this valiant battle to try and challenge a paradigm of how you develop. And I think as head of the United Nations Development Program I am always deeply conscious of the fact that we see extraordinary courage, innovation and leadership emerging precisely from the kinds of realities that you have described. I visited Emmanuel in the DRC and in this extraordinary Virunga National Park or that region of the DRC and you at the time Emmanuel also recounted to me in let's say also more personal ways the deep re-learning that you went through with your team in understanding that Virunga National Park would ultimately only survive as this wonderful place where nature and humans could in a sense preserve something extraordinary if people were part of this and not excluded from it. One of the tragedies we have been dealing with is that nature conservation has often been reduced to nature protection and this is where we often go wrong. That park produces power today without compromising its ecological integrity. That park has become also a magnet for a business school. I don't know if that is still running but the kinds of skills and industries and jobs that you described you showed me this crazy idea of building a business school in the Eastern DRC in order to develop the business skills, the manufacturing skills that would allow people to use the assets that the park would provide in a perpetuity in order to also make a livelihood. Just like you are battling the debate in the Amazon right now over a fossil fuel and extractive industry that for a relatively short time horizon could compromise the entire ecological integrity and here comes also this issue of ignorance. Maybe 100 or 200 years ago we did not know that the Amazon is literally the largest water pump in the world and the whole of South America is hydrologically dependent on a functioning Amazon ecosystem in order to generate the rainfall, the water flows that are there and yet just a few years ago again in the country not far from you there was a government that declared essentially open season on the Amazon and here I pivot to my second point which is the importance of linking this kind of insight and alternative thinking to also the way in which we deal with policy. At the end of the day we all live in nation states, there are sovereign states, policies are made, laws are passed, rights are enshrined or ignored. How do we deal with that? And just between the previous administration and the current administration in Brazil in less than a year we have seen literally a 50% reduction in deforestation in Brazil. Now if you ever wanted to have an illustration of what the difference is between one set of policy paradigms and another here you have it. Now throughout this period indigenous peoples, environmental defenders and many others had tried to stop in a sense the previous government from taking those steps but it took an election, it took a policy debate in Brazil to generate a very different paradigm. I think this is where for much of the work that I do every day with my team of colleagues in UNDP our partners with many organizations like yours is to try and find a way in which we can enlighten policy making to the point where it recognizes that in the 21st century humans are not going to separate themselves from nature then go to the moon. Now that may be your most direct way of saying I no longer depend on nature but as far as everything else that happens on planet earth in our economies, in our societies, in our industries whether it's food security, whether it is climate change, whether it is access to water, fertile soils all of this demands of us a fundamentally more intelligent relationship with nature which is central to our economy rather than just an extractive resource. So a lot of the work that we try and do is to help countries develop the kinds of policy frameworks that set the right incentives that connect climate change action to biodiversity and conservation action but also both of them to livelihoods and economies of communities and entire nations to remove the distortions in our economic systems where literally last year again according to the IMF the world spent 7 trillion US dollars of taxpayers money to artificially reduce the cost of using fossil fuels and then we have communities, indigenous peoples in Virunga the story of oil is inextricably also linked to what has been playing out we expect people like that to be able to stand up to a 7 trillion dollar subsidized economy this is where we need to get serious about policy, about rethinking the way we move forward putting in place legislation that empowers communities and here Godfrey, we spoke briefly, you come from a country called Zimbabwe which over 25 years ago took a fundamental legislative decision which was to devolve the power over wildlife back to communities because 100 years of colonialism and conservation policy had essentially disappropriated wildlife from the communities who live with that wildlife the famous campfire program began a process where legislation and economic empowerment literally countered the view that wildlife would only be protected and preserved in national parks and yes sometimes difficult for conservationists that wildlife could also be used sustainably in order for people to generate an income and a livelihood without that kind of policy you would not have had people benefit from wildlife it would have been as often as the case simply been appropriated by a few who might control the upper end of a tourism economy or otherwise so let me end by just saying what connects not only DRC and Ecuador and Peru or the Amazon and the forests of the Congo basin is not just the ecological significance it's actually the emblematic nature of where we find ourselves at this moment in time where living in the Anthropocene is both the most destructive moment in the history of humans on this planet but by virtue of the choices, the science, the technologies the intelligence that we can bring to this challenge of sustainable development we could actually literally transform the next 100 years of development into precisely the opposite of what it has been to the benefit of everyone and ultimately to future generations and I think this is why so much of what we are discussing here is also permeating into a world economic forum debate for many years now because the balance is still not there look at where we are at the beginning of 2024 thank you thank you I had the opportunity of actually visiting the campfire program that you speak about I wrote about it and the impact that it has on some of the poorest people in Zimbabwe said to say I don't know and I don't think that program survives today and I think it comes to the next point that I wanted to raise you speak about the importance of policy but I think perhaps there's an opportunity here perhaps to widen that discussion it should perhaps begin with education this year the statistics show how many people, four billion people also are going to be voting in national elections policy change comes from the governments that we elect as you have just eloquently demonstrated in Latin America so perhaps we need ought to be doing more here in terms of education so can I come to you atosa and ask for your thoughts in terms of perhaps collaborating with other efforts that we are seeing here and perhaps also engaging in the education that enlightens people on the work that you are doing so they don't just see it in terms of you shutting them out of the natural environments but in terms of national development well one of the amazing things that we have been able to launch in the last year is exactly that when you think about indigenous nations in the Amazon we're not just talking about communities yes we're talking about communities but we're also talking about intact indigenous nations who are governors who are governing millions of acres of their rainforest territories and Domingo had been saying to me look we're getting older we've got to be evolving and engaging and training the next generation of youth and currently the education system in these countries is actually creating loss of identity loss of culture and the amount of education indigenous peoples receive the access to education is very little and the education they receive is not relevant for creating governors of massive rainforest territories so we launched a school that was Uyunkar's vision he had had a vision in ceremony that's called the Living Amazon School we inaugurated it in March and it's training the next generation of indigenous leaders who will be inheriting these territories from everything from the cosmology of indigenous peoples to things like practical skills on satellite monitoring, deforestation all bioeconomy, project implementation and so I do think education in the territories is key the right kind of culturally appropriate grounded in the reality the others that we need ecological understanding by the time we graduate from high school around the world we need to understand how earth systems work when I talk about, like you said, the atmospheric rivers the fact that 70% of the content of South America's GDP depends on the atmospheric rivers from the Amazon but also in California Amazonian atmospheric rivers bring us rain in the spring for our agricultural productivity people are like, wow, we don't know that and the fact that this information is not taught in schools we've got to teach earth systems the biosphere is our home and there is a science to how the earth functions and that is something we should learn by the ecological principles how nature does it how does nature design the economy and this is missing in our education so that's a key point so, thanks very much Domingo, you want to add to that? yes, of course so at this point of the discussion I always object whenever young people are not involved especially in international events I never see a lot of youth representation either boys and girls there is a lack of youth participation but we need to realize that the that the leaders of the future are the youth or is the youth so the idea is to create this sort of school in order to make sure that the youth is educated and prepared to face the modern world but we also want to include the young people young men and women who participate who live already in the modern world we need to include that in our ecological efforts so we need to learn from one another let me give you an example so there was the son of this entrepreneur a young man a son of an entrepreneur will budget the price of a tree so that's the notion of a modern young man nowadays but for a young man coming from an indigenous community this tree will represent many other things will represent knowledge, health, tradition so that's what's important for us the importance of life and this reality is not very well known so we need to combine both sciences whenever we talk about preserving nature we do not engage in a discussion in order to paralyze the old industry that would be impossible nowadays because that will bring the world to stop but what we want to see is a real transition so when Casagradas for three years has been working in order to hire professionals from different profiles economies, technicians, etc in order to make sure that we manage to design a new strategy for development in the future and here it is this strategy can be implied in all corners of the Amazonian forest that's very important governance is very important indigenous nations need to learn how to self-govern their territories so we need to learn as we go forward we need to start going towards reforestation and natural economy we need to realize that our nature gives an added value for the whole world so that's where we need to invest not only in mining industry not only in the oil industry or deforestation we need to invest in reforestation and other programs concerning tourism like the one I've been working with for 23 years within the framework of this program we have preserved the environment but we have also invested in education so that's all I could tell you for now if I had money I was going to abide the time for us to continue from the IMF unfortunately we are running out of time I had a quick check around the room to see who we have here and to his point we need more young people we are talking to ourselves but we are not talking to the younger generation that's coming up if you are watching us online please the hashtag to use is Wef24 let me come unfortunately to the end of our session by asking Emmanuel very quickly we have a lot of news reflections on some of the force that we had here and perhaps ways in which you can take the Virunga out of Virunga into Africa and perhaps into the world very quickly if you get a couple of minutes I mean in terms of learning I was thrown out of my economics class at university because I kept falling asleep and I only lasted two weeks but what I did remember what I do remember is the notion that finite resources go up in price over time unlimited resources go down in price and what we are talking about is using those resources the environment sustainably which makes them it renders them infinite and so when the line that represents the cost of fossil fuels increases over time and it crosses that of renewable resources we've won we've created economic viability and so it's a question of time and not everyone unfortunately has understood that I think what brings us together and I'm so pleased you mention Yasuni because that really was the beacon for Virunga because a forested landscape can win over big oil because it's the right decision it is actually possible and it is a pragmatic realistic way of moving forward if we can hold that line for long enough eventually it will become cryingly obvious that it is the best thing for society and it is viable economically and I think that's what really brings us together is putting the interests of the community first whilst appreciating their economic needs thank you please help me to thank our panelists unfortunately we have run out of time we have run out of time I think we needed more thank you for sharing your stories thank you for all your efforts we ought to be thinking beyond where we are and develop that model that you speak about that you are talking about and that we need to work together we're not talking about killing the old economy we're talking about transition integration and we're talking about investing in the future we need young people to know about the issues we're talking about today so they become the new warriors the new defenders of the future and we ought to be learning from each other thank you all very much


You really have to have two for an attack. You have to have an attacker and a tacky and forgiveness and a happy dream that just isn't the two. We were talking before about you're unified with everything and everyone. So there's no two. So attack has no ability to exist as a concept in the state of unified awareness everything is unified mind and there is no attacker and a tacky. The ego is the belief that you have ripped your mind away from God and now you have a mind of your own and therefore all this game of the world is an attempt to hold on to that attack. And make it seem like it's something else.  The victimization just goes on and on and on in all kinds of realms. But really the core idea underneath the law is the belief that attack is real. And the only way out of it is to be shown as Jesus says, I am not a body and my mind cannot attack so I cannot be sick. That's the formula, the Jesus Christ formula for health. I am not a body and my mind cannot attack so I cannot be sick. That's how to, I say, to remember your innocence and to keep it in awareness. But as soon as you believe attack is real and that's where the whole, that's what the specialness is. And then finally, the pleasure part, that's pretty obvious. You know, when you seek for pleasure and when that's a major goal of relationships then you do it by pain. And the more that you're able to just get into your divine purpose in relationships that's an invitation to let go of the pleasure and the pain. And it's not so much that you have to take a stand but it's more that the more you get into your divine purpose the more the distorted miracle impulses and the more that the misdirected impulses get cleared away. It's more like you start to outgrow things.  It's not like you have to make a stand. It's more like you grow stronger in your purpose and those other things start to fade away. And as you keep doing this more and more and more then those things become more peripheral awareness. There's a line that says all real pleasure comes from doing God's will. And that's kind of the direction where this is heading. It's not definitely going to let the sacrifice.  You know, you're drawn more and more into that function and purpose. And then simultaneously your ego desires or things of the world or I might even use the word fantasy. Jesus even talks about fantasies in the Course. And he just says that fantasy is an attempt to make false associations and obtain pleasure from that. And that's quite an interesting description, definition of fantasies. Well, in a lot of relationships there is a lot of fantasy in many different ways. And fantasy fulfillment and we can talk openly about that in the sense that slowly, slowly, gradually as you get more and more into your purpose fantasy begins to lose attractiveness because you get the fulfillment from your purpose. You're getting an intrinsic fulfillment.  You feel connected with your source and that's what all truth fulfillment is. So when we talk about special relationships and holy relationships the ego's goal for relationships is to bond these together and lines apart. You know, the ego will say well, they still have a relationship point and we've heard stories of people that have stayed married for 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years where the bodies are together under one roof but anyone who knows them says oh, it's a pretty bad situation. At first they stayed together for economic reasons for the first decade and then the next decade they stayed together for the children's sake and then the third decade they stayed together because they were too afraid that they would lose too much financially or that they wouldn't be able to handle that or they wouldn't know how to date or whatever the reasons are, you know. It's a bad situation when you have bodies together and lines apart and that's precisely what the ego wants. The ego wants you to have a private, separate mind and to have bodies together and so it's like a charade there's no real harmony with that but it's like keeping up appearances, you know. Somebody asked me that years ago they asked me about that and I said well, I would rather have a truly divine and intimate relationship that lasted one minute rather than a typical egoic relationship of 20 years, you know. One minute of divinity would be preferable to 20 years of games, game plans keeping up appearances, you know, playing, pretending and so on and so forth and the ego, therefore, doesn't really like real communication. It likes its form of communication bantering on about senseless things and pretending they're communicating without really talking heart to heart without really having a direct open communication it's more just talking about all kinds of other things and most of us can relate to that most of us grew up in families where we felt like there were a lot of things left unsaid they talked about unspoken rules it didn't matter whether they were ridden out there were a lot of unspoken rules in our family systems things you just don't do things you just don't expose you just don't talk about so I would not describe my years growing up with my family as having wide open free-ranging discussions where anything could be laid on the table oh, there was only a few things that could be laid on the table and those were carefully controlled and now it's kind of gone the other way it's like people aren't with anything to be laid on the table and the purpose of laying it on the table is for exposing it and letting it go not for blaming, fault-finding all the typical egoic reasons so communication is another thing so that's kind of a general description of about you start to see that there's two different purposes for relationships and one takes you into the heights of having this and the other one leads you into the depths of despair and leads you feeling trapped, frankly and wondering how you can get out and that's why I think there's a lot of times a lot of changing in partners or a lot of when there's a lot of unfulfillment I call them Dixie Cup relationships and if you had Dixie Cups over here but these are these little paper cups where you just get a little drink and they're throwaways nobody saves Dixie Cups you just take a little step and you throw them away take a little step and throw them away and that's very much like how the ego works it's very impulsive it wants its gratification and out of it and there's not any kind of sustaining sense of standing in there and hanging in there and working through grievances and issues is more this kind of gratification throwaway gratification throwaway it's kind of a dramatic example but that's the way it works


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Live from the Mendeley Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering VMworld 2016. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem sponsors. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Peter Burris. Hey, welcome back everyone live here at VMworld 2016. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. I'm Silicon Angle. We go out to the events and extract the statement noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host Peter Burris. Our next guest is Ratmir Timoshev and Doug Hazelman, Vice President of Product Strategy and Ratmir Kube alumni, co-founder, entrepreneur of Veeam, very big, successful product. Big party tonight, a legendary VMworld party you guys have. Some say it's almost too big to go. No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Get the plug in for the party. You guys are doing extremely well. Interesting story, we talked in the past about your success in the VMware ecosystem. Primary show for you guys. But now as you guys are starting to grow, of course, now we're hearing from Pat Gelsinger. This is not your grandfather's VMware anymore. From a one product company to a multiple set of products. How are you guys navigating that landscape for Veeam? Yeah, I mean we see that this is also a very great opportunity for us to continue our innovation path. So over the last 10 years, Veeam has been known as the disruptor innovator. So going from backup to availability market, creating this new market where all the applications, all the data needs to be recovered within seconds and minutes. So we see as our customers are moving to hybrid cloud, there is more opportunity for us to innovate in this market. And today's announcement, or yesterday's announcement of VMware about the cloud foundation, we see the greatest opportunity for us. So take a minute guys to explain the disrupting, key disrupting enablement that you guys have built and what will be the next enabler for Veeam. So I mean if you go back to from a data protection perspective, when VMware first came out, people were using their legacy backup systems and doing it the way they always had. But they weren't leveraging the power of virtualization and snapshots and a number of different technologies. So we really came in and disrupted the entire market. If you look at what companies like Veritas were doing at the time, they were late to the virtualization game. We came in and we literally dominated in terms of the market. And we continued to bring in innovative features like instant VM recovery and sandboxing technologies and have just continued to grow. We have a huge customer base, over 200,000 customers. So and a lot of the incumbents have definitely taken notice and they've developed a lot of positioning against us and those types of things. But that's the idea of being a disruptor is when you come from nowhere in 10 years to all the top competitors having tear sheets on you, it's a pretty big deal. So VMware enabled you guys to be competitive with the virtualization. You guys took advantage of me, great utility and rose to dominance. Congratulations. But now we have cross cloud, which by the way, is kind of vaporware right now. But how do you guys fit into that? And how does that timing affect your business? Actually, we made an announcement last Tuesday in terms of the VM availability platform for the hybrid cloud, where we talked about the fact that customers have data in the private cloud, on-prem, they've got data in a managed cloud, maybe through a service provider, and they also have data then in the public cloud. And from an availability perspective, we want to be able to provide availability for the data, for the customer's data no matter where it's at. And just like VMware, we have also announced a number of new and additional products that fit into that platform that we'll be releasing over the next six, eight months. When you think about the challenges of availability, as we move from backup to availability, how has that changed the relationship between IT and business?   Does it, you know, there's a dollar amount, but there's also a loss of brand reputation, loss of confidence from your employees if you have downtime and those types of things. So from the business perspective, we can say, you know, you need availability.  So how do you protect yourselves against that? And how do you make sure that you're available 24, 7, 365? But specifically when you say availability, you're talking about data availability, right? Right. So talk a little bit about this notion of an IT professional or someone in the VMware ecosystem now having a conversation with a business person about data as an asset that has to be kept available anytime regardless of the circumstances. Is that, are you training your customers to have it? Because that's still not something, that's still something that's not natural for a whole bunch of IT professionals. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely right, yeah, so, but if you look at the evolution in the last 10 years, so, IT was very important. Now it's critically strategic to any business. So because most of the new products that businesses are releasing or providing to their customers are digital or have a very large digital component. That means they have to operate 24, 7, 365. 10 years ago, 5% of our applications and data was mission critical. Now 50, sometimes 100% because our business relies on data and applications running in this hybrid cloud. So this morning you probably woke up and used already 10, 20 services from your company starting from email, tickets, weather, your calendar and so on. So you are using IT services. So you have to have access to this data and services 24, 7, 365. What used to be hours and days now requires seconds and minutes of recovery, right? And that's where the biggest difference between the traditional legacy approach to data and applications. And by the way, also the amount of data and number of applications grew not just 10 fold in the last 10 years, but 100 or 1,000. So we're using 100 times more applications or 1,000 more applications and 1,000 more sources of data. And it's that much more deeply embedded in the business, the result of that data. And one of the things I really like about your story is that it does have IT moving above the notion of technology availability, which increasingly is well understood and not as big an issue to data availability, which is really the asset that the business is focused on and always was even if technology people thought about the hardware or the storage, whatever else it might be. Is that something, again, going back to what I said before, is that conversation becoming more natural as you not only work with IT people, but business people as well? That's an excellent question. So we at our company, we define our core customer. Our core customer is somebody who understands deeply the technology, the virtualization technology, the modern storage technologies, the modern networking technology, the modern software defined technologies. And that person is responsible to build a new modern hybrid cloud. But that person has a business person to report to. Maybe it's CIO, maybe it's CIO. So our core customer is this technical person. We are helping that technical person to have this conversation with his CEO, CIO, or CIO, or this C-level people. Yes, this is our job to help him or her to have this, to translate the IT benefits into the business benefits. Guys, I'd love to get your perspective because one, you've been successful as a company, certainly growing and ramping up in the new cloud models of perfectly positioned for what you guys are trying to do. So congratulations on that. But given the fact that you've been in the ecosystem for so long and been such an integral part of not only creating disruptive value, as you said, but being a witness and being a participant in the ecosystem, can you share your opinion on the number one question I get all the time with respect to VMworld is, what's going on in the ecosystem? We need kind of a weather report. What's going on? I mean, obviously it's changing, it's shifting, it's growing, multiple products I mentioned earlier. It wasn't just the one guy anymore, one persona they were targeting, there's now multiple aspects of the ecosystem. What's going on? Is it growing? Is it shrinking? Is it consolidating? Is it shifting? What is the state of the ecosystem? Well, I mean, it's always kind of influx a little bit. You've got old technologies that move out, new technologies that move in, and you can see it on the show floor every year with how big is that vendor's booth or vendors that used to be there, but aren't there anymore, and it is that shifting landscape of the ecosystem. But I think the nice thing from a VMworld perspective is they've built a very good ecosystem. There's a lot of partners, a lot of great partners down there that work within that ecosystem and continue to help make it grow. So it's going to shift year after year. Robust, so it's healthy? Yeah, I think it is. If you just look down on the Solutions Exchange floor, it gets bigger every year. So it's not getting smaller. Ravi, what's your thoughts? Where's it going? Where's it going to?  We're trying to understand that. I think as companies matured, they learned to work in a competition, right? So the competition is the word in this industry. So everybody's trying to compete, but also partner with each other. So maybe EMC and Dell were competitors. Now they're one company, right? So, and so on. So VMware is trying to find also other partners. And Cloud's on stage. That's a big, that's shocking. Sales force on the screen. IBM, and I wouldn't be surprised if they announced similar partnership with another. Azure. Yeah, maybe, we'll see. Maybe, I know, I wouldn't be surprised, because yeah, this is- They have to. Kelsinger's Planet Plan means mandates, multiple clouds means relationships. Exactly. At least through APIs.  So final question to wrap up. What's your walk away take away from VMworld this year? What do you take back and share with your colleagues? What would you tweet on Twitter? What was your big, what's the big takeaway this year? What's the theme? What's your, what's your notes say? To me, this is exactly what we just discussed. VMware is moving to a new world and opening more opportunities for us as the ecosystem partner. And again, they're partnering with more partners such as IBM, which by the way, we also, Veeam was also part of that big announcement. One of the four vendors mentioned in the IBM slash VMware press release. So, as VMware- The lucrative business opportunities for you guys, you see that. Yes, absolutely. As VMware is maturing as the company and moving into new partnerships, it opens more and more opportunities for us to innovate, to deliver together with VMware and the ecosystem of partners, the solutions that our customers are needing. And I think, you know, from my standpoint, it validates this idea of cross cloud, right?  Obviously, different perspective in terms of what they do, but it really validates kind of what we said.  And I think the good thing is we're locked step in with them. Guys, thanks so much. Everything's clicking together. Big opportunities. Good opportunities to create value and make money, but also create new technologies disrupting. So that's the state of the ecosystem. Thanks for sharing. Veeam here inside theCUBE, of course, at the big party tonight.  Check it out. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Peter Burris. We'll be right back with more after this short break from day two coverage here at the Hang Space at Veeamworld 2016.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another video. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. And help me reach my goal of 10, wait a minute, we hit that today. 10,000 subscribers. So thank you guys so much. I was blown away. I hit 10,000 around 10.30 this morning and I was just like in shock. There for a while I was wondering if I was going to make 10K by TFCon, which is October 22. But today, what is it? August 10th, I hit it and I am just ecstatic. And I have you guys to thank for it. I mean, thank you so much. This has been such an incredible journey doing this YouTube thing. And this whole channel here was started on a dare. Years ago I worked night shift at a casino where I got to throw out entitled rich people. Fun job. And I worked with a bunch of fellow combat vets, law enforcement guys. And when we had nights off, we would play Rainbow Six Vegas or any type of tactical shooter on the PS4. And one of my coworkers says, hey, let's start a Twitch channel and play this online.   I'm just going to embarrass myself. And he says, well, you know, you can tie in a YouTube video with Twitch. That way we can all still gain views. And I'm like, what am I going to talk about on YouTube? And he says, well, you know about those transformer things. Talk about those. And here we are, 10,000 subscribers later. So from the bottom of my heart, guys, thank you so much. And to help with that thanks, I contacted my sponsor, toyhacks.com. I told them about getting ready to hit this milestone and asked if they would be willing to provide decals for another giveaway. And they said, yes. So big shout out to Toyhacks. They've been a great help to the channel. Very, very thankful that they picked me to sponsor. So Toyhacks, thank you so much. So what I'm going to do as my giveaway is my 10K giveaway is I have three prizes that we're going to do a drawing for. The third prize is a decal set for Studio Series 86 Jazz and a decal set for one of the Datsun brothers. So whoever wins this gets jazz and they get to pick a Datsun brother Earthrise vehicle. You can do prowl, blue streak or barricade. And you'll also get one of the Toyhacks armory weapons for those figures. So Toyhacks 86 Jazz with his armory weapon and a Datsun brother with his armory weapon. So that is the third prize. Second prize is going to be a decal set for Earthrise Optimus Prime and Earthrise Megatron. So pretty simple, easy on that one. And the big grand prize is a Toyhacks decal set for a Titan class figure and their minion partner. So if you pick Scorponok, you'll get the Scorponok decals plus Lord Zarek. You pick Trypticon. You'll get Trypticon and Full Tilt. You get Omega Supreme. You'll also get the little base decals that go with it. So there you go. Titan class figure and their minion Earthrise Prime and Megatron Studio Series Jazz and Datsun brother with Toyhacks weapons. So once again, big shout out to Toyhacks.com for supplying these gifts for the winners. And all you have to do to enter my drawing is comment 10K giveaway. Congratulations Patriot Prime. And I'll do the drawing now in about a week. So there you go. 10K giveaway. Congratulations Patriot Prime. So that's pretty much it. I am just floored. What's going on next with the channel? What plans do I have? I have such a stockpile of things to review for you guys. I told my fellow YouTubers, I mean, I'm close contact with Bert and Kato and Rodimus Prime. I said I am putting myself on a figure buying freeze for a while unless it's something on pre-order. Because I've got TF Con coming up. I've got all these figures here that I still need to review. And two days ago, or excuse me, four days ago, I bought this. So I upgraded from my 2001 Jeep Wrangler to a 2018 Jeep Wrangler. So I am kind of buying some goodies for that too. So if you're interested in what's coming up, I have the Origins Bumblebee figure. And I have the four pack with Nemesis Primal, Black Arachnia, Fangry, and Cliffjumber Bumblebee. That's in route, should be here in a couple of days. I've got the Universe Heavy Load, which is a really cool figure. I've got Core Class Starscream still in the package here. I've got Wingfinger still in the package. I've got Toyhacks decals for RC Alicon Black Rorchi. I've got Inferno right here getting ready to get all decal up. So I am going to be very, very busy keeping that content coming out for you guys who, once again, I can't thank enough for your support. I mean, you probably get tired of me saying it. You guys mean so much to me. It just blows my mind how this is just blown up and I couldn't be happier. So I'm going to wrap this up. Once again, you got three prizes you're going for. Titan class decals with Minion, Earthrise Optimus Prime and Earthrise Megatron, and Studio Series 86 Jazz with a Datsun brother and their Toyhacks Armory weapons. You guys will be very pleased if you win that. If you've never seen or messed with a Toyhacks Armory weapon, they do fantastic work. That is a Hound weapon right there. I do have reviews pretty much on everything I just went over. I've got the Earthrise Megatron decal set coming in now and the Barricade and Prowl set coming in as well. Oh, and yeah, I'm blue streak. So by the time maybe that this contest wraps up or the drawing happens, I'll have those figures already reviewed. Maybe, like I said, I've got a lot waiting. So that is pretty much it. I forgot my own comment. 10K giveaway, congratulations, Patriot Prime. I'm excited. I can't even talk. I'm just thrilled to death. I came home. Honey, you're not going to believe what happened today.  Anyway, comment 10K giveaway, congratulations, Patriot Prime. Put you in the running, in the drawing for one of these three awesome prizes thanks to toyhacks.com. And also I want to give a huge shout out to all my channel members and Patreons. I know I always throw your name out when I get a new one, but I finally have a list compiled of all the names that I'll play at the end of the video. Guys, once again, this is Patriot Prime. I appreciate you so much. Onward and upwards, let's say 15K by TFCon. Guys, have a great one. This is Patriot Prime signing out.


Hey guys, what is up and welcome to my channel, so for today's video I have a super exciting review that I've been waiting all week to film for you guys. A lot of you guys subscribed to me because I do love Pat McGrath products and I love reviewing them. Usually I give them up a lot faster, my life has been crazy, I am so sorry but I'm finally getting it up for you guys. I'm going to be reviewing the new Pat McGrath Mothership 5 Bronze Seduction Palette. I just want to get straight into the nitty-gritty of this palette, it is $125, you can pick it up at PatMcGrath.com and Sephora.com as well. It comes with 10 shades, 3 mattes, 2 satin, 2 shimmers, and 3 of her super fine glitter formula which I will go into later but it's my favorite formula ever. This is made in Italy like all of her other palettes, I like to mention that because Italy seems to make some of the best shimmer glitter products and I mean it shows in this palette so I did want to point that out. So let's just talk about the packaging really fast, the thing with Pat McGrath eye shadow and makeup in general is that it's really expensive because it's about the experience. You're literally purchasing art when you buy this, I know it sounds crazy but it's true. So when you get the palette you're going to get it just like the other mothership palettes in this beautiful cardboard with this art on it. It's just the experience, when you buy her products you're getting an experience, you're paying for that experience which I personally think is worth it, this is art, I like to keep it. So it's that same cardboard where you have to unravel the string to open it up and it's going to reveal the same packaging that all of her other mothership palettes come in, this black lacquer case that's extremely heavy and then it has in gold her logo. You open it up, it of course has that same big beveled mirror and then it's going to reveal the 10 eyeshadow shades. Now as you can see it is named the bronze seduction palette because there are a lot of bronze neutral colors but there also is a lot of colorful colors kind but it's not just a bronze palette, it does have some colors in there which really make this palette very very versatile for a bunch of different looks and a bunch of different occasions. Here are the swatches of this palette that I want to show you guys. I'm not going to lie, I think this is probably my favorite mothership palette that she has come out with. I just think that with this color theme you can make this a wearable look but you can also make it really glittery for different occasions going out, going to the club, doing a smoky eye in the evening but still not being too much. I just think the layout of these colors is perfect. She made the perfect color theme for being able to do a bunch of different things with one palette. And by the way all of these shadows did swatch beautifully on my arm, even the mattes. Now let's talk about the formulation of this guy. I am very very familiar with Pat McGrath's formula as I have all of her other mothership palettes. I love them, they are my favorite eyeshadow formula, I'm just going to be honest and straight up and this eyeshadow palette is the same formula and it's amazing and this is now one of my favorite eyeshadows. The mattes blend up beautifully. You do get a beautiful kind of inner corner brow bone satin color in here. It's a little bit more sheer, it doesn't stand out in swatches but it is a very useful and necessary color. She does have a new formula that I've never tried out. This is the shade bronze blaze, it has a base color of bronze gold but it does have glitters in it that make the formula feel gritty but they don't fall over your face and they stay to your eyes. So that's not an issue, it's honestly such a beautiful color, I really love it. It's not the same as her normal glitter formula because the glitters are infused in the shade, they're not quite as finely milled, you can definitely feel them but it looks beautiful on the eyelid. I really like that there is this beautiful crimson red, it's really a satiny shimmer color, very very smooth and it's very unique and it looks very good all over the eyelid and then of course she did put three of her glitter formula in this palette which I'm so excited about because Mothership 4 did not have this glitter formula and I was very disappointed because this is my favorite formula of eyeshadow ever, it's the most beautiful glitter formula, you get so much sheen and so much duo chrome and the color is so much dimension, I just cannot get enough of this formula if she ever came out with a ten pan palette of this formula I think I would die. So one of them is this gorgeous rose gold color which is on my lid, so glittery without the mess, now how I like to apply these glitter formulas, I like to apply it with a glitter glue underneath just to get that maximum pigment but you don't need to, glitter's not going to fall everywhere. If you want more of a sheer layer of that glitter you can get that with this but I just really wanted the pigment to show so I did use a glitter glue underneath in the look that I did today. Also two of those glitter formulas are duo chrome, you get one that is a little bit more green to pink shift and then you get one that is more of a yellow to white shift, if you just want to take a look at these I know it's hard to see, almost a yellow to lilac shift honestly. What's super cool about this formula as well is when it is duo chrome you still can see the duo chrome on your eye, it's just not something you see when it's swatch, it is also duo chrome on your eye. Those two duo chrome colors do have a bit more of a translucent base which I really like to put on top of other eyeshadows, it really changes the look just by layering them and that is what is so amazing about this glitter formula, they layer amazing over other shadows just to transform your look. I would definitely recommend trying that out if you have this palette, you can just be so creative with this palette and you can create so many different looks. I cannot get over this palette, the formulation is a 10 out of 10, that's all I'm gonna say. You get so much variety as far as formulas and finishes go in this palette and it's only 10 shades, I just, I think this is my favorite mothership palette, so I mean truly that's all I can really say about this palette, I'm blown away, it is amazing, every single color in here has a reason for being there and every eyeshadow in this palette is executed beautifully, I mean as it should be, you're paying $25 for it. Really quickly I would like to get into how I did this look and what colors I used, so I started off with the shade Entrapment, which is a terracotta shade, a beautiful shade for your crease, it blended like butter, I had no issues with it, I like that this color is in here because I'm probably gonna use it for every look if I'm being honest, I then went in with this eggplant shade and I use that in my outer corner, again the colors like these tend to blend a little bit more patchy but I have no problems with this, it blended like butter, another reason why I love this palette and I love that they did incorporate this eggplant color because I like more purple-toned looks, I then went in with Skin Show Divine Glow, which is that satin shimmer golden highlight color, I just put that underneath my brow bone, it looks very good there, kind of a boring color but definitely necessary, at this point I did go in and put some glitter glue on my lid and then using my finger I went and applied Rose Gold 005 all over my lid, I basically wanted this to be the center point of the look so I applied it literally everywhere past my crease, I just wanted this to be a really shimmery glittery look and as you can see this formula is amazing, it hits the light amazing, I can't get enough of it and then just to put on another color, I did take the shade Astral Luna Gold, which is that gold to almost lilac shift and I put that a little bit in my inner corners and then also the tear duct area of my eye to highlight and just give a little bit more interest and dimension to the look and put on lashes and did the whole shebang and this is what I did with this palette and I love it if you're interested in anything else that I'm wearing, I will put it down in the description box below, I didn't want to talk too too much about this palette because I mean it's great, everything about it is perfect compared to the other mothership palettes, I think this is different, if you have the other mothership palettes this is definitely unique enough to add to your collection, there aren't any repeats really, it's just such a unique palette and it fits right in perfectly with the collection and I don't think you should compare them, I think you should just buy this and don't even worry about it, anyways as expected Pat McGrath did not let me down, I hope you guys enjoyed this review and found it helpful, if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask me down below and I will see you guys in the next video, bye!


Hey friends today We are hanging out in Disney Springs, and I am so excited because my family is here Bonnie my mom and Ariel and I wanted to bring them down to Disney Springs to try the new cookie the month at Gideon's bake house And then after that because it's Ariel's first time visiting Disney. I want them to stay somewhere special So we're gonna check them in to Disney's Port Orleans resort and they're gonna be staying in the Royal Princess rooms So we're gonna eat some cookies do some shopping and have a beautiful Disney Springs kind of day.  Where's your smile Ariel? That's a smile. I Am so happy that my family is here Most of you guys have seen them in the videos in the past or when I've taken my trips back up to PA But if you don't know my mom is my mom Bonnie is my sister and Ariel is my niece Ariel my sister is Ariel's guardian, and it's her first time coming to Disney So that's why I got the room at Port Orleans, and we're gonna check in later right now Like I said we'll hang out Disney Springs get the cookie do some shopping probably get Ariel her first pair of ears And then we'll go check in and I'll show you the rooms because they're so pretty and we'll hang out the resort a little bit. I Volunteered his tribute to go get the cookies while my mom goes shopping in the days of Christmas store She's got a shop. My mom loves the shop You know how get-eins can be sometimes it could be a couple of hours for a wait Or sometimes they have just a virtual queue where you put your phone number in But I'll go do that so my mom can go shop because she loves shopping She's so excited that Ariel's here, and she wants to buy her ears and buy her nice stuff And I'm excited to be able to like take Ariel to the parks ever since I took her to Kenobos And she rode her first ride and we're gonna take her to Disney and Magic Kingdom But that's that's in the future right now We're just doing Disney Springs today and then waiting for room to get ready, but I'm excited. I'm really happy I hope she likes Disney Looks like they're not doing the virtual queue.  We have a new month's cookie Here is the menu for the month of April and holy mackerel. Look at the artwork I love it and the cookie the month is a white chocolate caramel macadamia nut And they also have an improved banana nitro cold brew. Oh, so I might get that get the good old cookie combo cookie coffee combo look at the cookies The white chocolate caramel macadamia nut and coffee cake one right there I want to get the coffee cake for my mom because she said she liked it the last time I got it All right, we got the goods and it was about a 30 minute wait And I called my mom when I got out to see where she was that so I could bring the cookies We tried them together and she's still up at the Christmas store. So they didn't move far It's still in the same store. So I guess I'll just go to them and try the cookie Here they are delicious things await you excited. Yeah, I got you the coffee cake cookie Yeah, and then I got two white chocolate macadamia nut cookies the caramel one so that we can try and the banana coffee I know you don't want it But maybe Ariel want it and we'll try the limited edition cookie first out Wow, they actually started putting limited edition on the wrapper there Okay, well, we're gonna dive right on in here it is Look at that You can see all the white chocolate chips and the caramel infused in there and actually smells like very macadamia nutty Macadamia nutty, I mean you can really smell the macadamia nuts. So of course you got to break the cookie Look at that. Oh Actually, you can see the caramel right there Holy moly Water thems the coffee cake that one right there. Yeah, look at that Yeah, it's good, right?  Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't even try the coffee yet Oh Ariel's eating the coffee cake Yeah, I definitely think this is a lot better than last month's cookie And I'm gonna give it the combination here give it the good old cookie bite and then you know quick sip of coffee I don't know why these cookies go so well with the cold brew coffees But they do and they said that this banana one is new and improved I think it's just a consistency of the cookie like the density that makes it so good with the coffee But here we go That's the white chocolate macadamia nut one, right? Which one do you like better? This one over the coffee cake. Oh Bonnie you're trying the coffee cake one The coffee cake one's done. I would probably put this in the top three with the banana nut and The oh, I almost lost it. I almost lost my cookies Ariel you want my cookie here? Thank you Enough of the cookie business We decided to make our way down the world of Disney and Ariel saw the train So I think we're gonna go on a little Disney Springs train ride and the old-timer here Bonnie you going on? Ariel is hearing and visually impaired and She can only see and hear with special assistance But she can't sigh and I was nervous about her riding rides, but she loves rides We rode rides in cannobals when I took her to her first theme park and first she did the carousel And she loved it and then we did the big drop water ride and at first she thought it was raining on her It was great and she's been hooked sense and she's been going to carnivals so her coming to Disney She's like so excited to ride rides if I'm like Ariel you want to ride rides? She gets like super excited, so we'll start with the train and then wait till we get to Magic Kingdom I can't wait. I honestly like just see her excited and doing things. It really it blows my mind It makes me just so happy makes my heart warm Did Ariel ask to sit in the front seat Oh boy Here she comes We're gonna go into world at Disney now and see if we can get Ariel her first pair of ears You know get her all ready for the first trip to the park Bonnie. I think we should take area to go see stitch. Oh Yeah, look at it. You see stitch Ariel first it's look up He's up in the air Maybe just stand here for a couple minutes I think he spits It did happen right there Huh Stitch up there What's with the unicorn though one I don't know I Feel like classic many years, but Maribel is her favorite character. So oh I think I found um It's on an Elsa Do you want those? Yeah, those are the ones Oh, it's got a security tag on it Let me see a smile That's the one I Can't believe these ears have a security tag on them and the last time I bought ears I thought that they were like dirty some dollars. These are 44 99 44 99 They ain't playing around and there's a lot of other on an Elsa stuff look there's an Olaf headband here. Oh They're lounge fly ones now. I see yo Ariel's got expensive taste I'm getting Ariel her ears. I want to get my mom this little Winnie the Pooh so I can clip it on her wheelchair Ariel here's your ears. You want to hang on to them? What do you say?  Yeah Yeah, do you have a paper towel or something I'm gonna try to what I'm gonna use the bag I got the bag We're gonna start making our way over to Port Orleans so we can get checked in and Before we leave Disney Springs My mom told me she bought some ornaments up at the Christmas store and she wanted me to go pick them up And I was like, oh what'd you buy ornaments for and she's like all for a bunch of people My mom literally went got custom engraved ornaments on her first day for like family and friends to bring back home Like she you know how like people like oh bring me back something from you know, Disney world like my mom really overdid it I'm looking at the receipts and I kind of want to see what she got because I know you do who she got anything for My mom got Ariel a Walt Disney World 2024 little ornament and then somebody's getting married that my mom knows she's got two grooms and a bride She got them all personalized with the year on it interesting. Well, congratulations Now that we got the ornaments, I think we're gonna actually take a minivan We're gonna take a minivan from Disney Springs over to Port Orleans I was gonna take the boat But we want to get there in a timely manner because we have dinner reservations later on tonight for chef Mickey so we want to get all settled in and then Ariel's gonna go see Mickey Mouse.   Yeah, and Goofy and Pluto. What about Gracie? You need a Gracie? Mom, I'll buy you any Pandora be just to drive straight through there I guess I gotta get her a Pandora be Watch out We were gonna take the minivan, but instead they were gonna take the good old sasa gula to Port Orleans Yeah, I gotta find the one with the yellow ribbon on it nice little boat ride I Was gonna get the minivan, but it was a 30-minute wait So I think this is the fastest way now and plus they get to ride on the boat I mean who doesn't love the good old sasa gula, you know Look at her. She just gets to scoot right on in right. We're taking off May she got that in lock so you don't slide away ma Well now they're putting on the good music Look right behind you the tree houses We made it to Port Orleans Riverside Coming in hot Wow, I really love this resort though What was she doing? Oh cuz we're returning We have made it to Porter leans, and I'm so excited to go check out the room.  Look at how beautiful this resort is Huh, and like I said, we're staying in the royal rooms princess royal or Prince royal princesses I think it's just all royal, but man this resort is amazing Holy moly Here is the room, and I love how you go from just such a beautiful landscape to a royal Princess room look at this Very very nice. I think they are going to love it. I mean it's got look at it's got the magic carpet from Aladdin I think that's really cool. You have like a bayou over here. You have Cinderella's carriage Very princessy like it's the royal rooms, and of course you have all the princesses Actually on the wall right here including Ariel Which I'm excited.  It comes all in quip too comes with the little Frigerator nice little cabinets and look even down here the beauty in the beast Look at that. It's the little The stool the dog. I love this room. I think it's actually really nicely well-themed even with the curtains here This is Disney's, you know, oh The magic lamp from Aladdin as the faucet Yo, I'm geeking out. I Think it's very aw very cozy This is very very nice, and you can actually shut off the lights up here, too Honestly, I really wanted like a nice princessy and kind of Disney themed room for Ariel's first trip So I thought that these royal rooms would be best and they exceeded expectation like I do love it And I also love her that it's my sister and my mom and all three of them are in the princess the royal suite You know the royal rooms.  Wow Well, that's pretty oh Oh, they do my top That's nice What do you guys think of the princess rooms? Yeah, they're nice. I love the fireworks. Oh, I know that's how I was saying Ariel showed me how to use it I was like, oh, I also appreciate the little prince portraits here Prince Aladdin Prince Adam I think that's so nice the Prince and Even a little note from Princess Tiana on the table welcome all we are excited to have you stay with us Your friend Princess Tiana. That's kind of nice, and I love the furniture too. Everything looks so nice It looks so beautiful in here Now that we got to get all settled in the room and they love it Ariel loves the fireworks I didn't even notice them. They were the ones that told me now we can hang out and just kind of explore the resort a little bit and Then probably head on over to chef Mickey's and get something to eat This has been a pretty adventurous epic day so far and I'm happy to share my experiences with you and Kind of like have these memories with my mom sister and creating new memories for Ariel I'm happy that this is her first Disney hotel.  I just like the sound of the horse Yeah, flop flop flop Really look at you're doing it now Bonnie's getting all the photos too We made it to a French quarter look at this beautiful over here There's an alligator on this side. Oh I like the sound of that underneath the bridge I like the sound of the horse underneath the bridge Oh, it was beautiful. Yeah, my mom said I always wanted to be in a horse carriage Yep That's too awesome say bye horsey Bye, we're gonna roast the marshmallows.  I Know did you toast that marshmallow for a long time for a long time? Let me see your marshmallows. Are they perfectly toasted? No. No, not so much Okay, enough of this more business. I think we're gonna go and Go to chef Mickey's now I just wanted to go around and hang out and kind of see the resort and show it off a little bit and get my mom and sister Comfortable so they know how to get around and stuff like that. Now it's time to eat We have made it to the contemporary resort and chef Mickey's is probably the best character Character dining off property because you get to meet, you know Mickey and all of his pals and it's Doesn't cost a day ticket like to get in the park So if you get a reservation at chef Mickey's you don't need to go to the park to actually see the characters This is Ariel's first time seeing Mickey Mouse because we're not we haven't been to the parks yet She got excited she put her little Mickey Mouse shirt on Chef Mickey's is sixty six dollars for adults and forty one dollars for children ages three to nine It's all worth it. You're her My mom and my sister I've eaten here before we had Thanksgiving dinner here But it wasn't the buffet It was just still in like the the dinner service or the family style So I'm excited that they get to try it now. That's the full buffet and I guess the area is gonna see Mickey. Oh There's Pluto all their dancing Why did she likes it before she even ate? Oh Boy, thanks goof. You're the best The man's not the goofy is the best you see that he came back I know I had to go try some of the dumplings in the stir-fry, but how about the turkey and mashed potatoes? I know This buffet is amazing.  Oh, and then they got carrots chicken nuggets broccoli cheese ravioli cheese quesadillas Mickey all peeling each shrimp cornbread croon tongs Egg salad. Oh, look at that focaccia bread and that rotini pasta salad. Oh And clam chowda, ah I Thought I was over but they got cheese and pepperoni flatbread corn dog nuggets potato barrels Mac and cheese honey. I mean, yeah, herb butter biscuits Butter biscuits look at that mac and cheese to and then green bean casserole Like seriously, this is a lot of food for a buffet selection Chef Mickey's is doing it right and it's so colorful in here. I love the atmosphere. Look at this That's like one of the best I mean, what other one of the buffet has a monorail that drives through it Honestly, I love the food is chef Mickey's a lot of people knock but I think that this has the best variety of food They've butter chicken. They've got turkey and gravy Pots stickers like so much variety and I love the little possible. It's not as good as Ohana, but they're pretty tasty There you can't stop looking at groupie Kenya. I know There's Donald Get picture a blue-dose Oh Another restaurant to get views of a monorail just coming through your like restaurant Right and then goofy to your left This can't beat chef Mickey's I say it all the time. Look at there it goes. I Was coming up to grab some desserts and I ran to a friend of mine. What's going on buddy? Look at the shirt. You having a good time. What's the best thing you've eaten at a chef Mickey's so far? The four dogs. Yeah corn dog nuggets. I feel that well. I'm going to get some strawberry lemon shortcake. I don't know what you got S'mores cookie cannoli cheesecake. Oh, what? Thanks, man. Thanks for wearing the shirt. Thanks for watching the videos I'm back on up. I'm back it up. I don't want the people to come mom. I'm sorry Oh And I think that is gonna do it for us today I'm gonna get them back to Porter leans. Let them enjoy their resorts And I'll be headed home with Gracie girl and just hanging out and I can't wait because we have a lot of fun things planned in the future Coming up like I said, they'll be here for a couple of Days and I got a lot of fun adventures. So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it and We'll see you next time. Bye Fire wars


Are you guys going to put DJ on the IL? He is going to go on the IL today, yes. And kind of as I keep talking about this last week, it is kind of a complicated, tricky injury. And what exactly is the right course of action? But we do feel like an IL stint. Hopefully they can get their arms around this better. Hopefully the timeout is something that can serve him well.  And clearly I think over the last few weeks has been compromised. So we're going to do all we can to get him in a good spot. I think there is a feeling that there are some things between rest and different treatments and that hopefully can get him back to that point to where he can be the impactful guy that we know he is when he's right. Isn't that frustrating to you though? Because they kept telling you rest is not going to do it and that the orthotics would work. Well, maybe it set him back by playing him. No, I don't think it was not the rest. I think they're saying is the off season rest is what's going to cure this. There's some trepidation that a week, 10 days, two weeks is going to do the trick. Now that being said, there's a lot of things that they can still try and do that hopefully put him in a good spot and we're going to see. I mean, the one time he did have the four days off, there were a few days there where it was better. But we're going to continue to try and get our arms around at the best they can. And I know there's a lot of doctors and trainers involved in this. And hopefully we can get him to where he's the productive guy we know he's going to be. You keep Anduhar up now? Anduhar's up, yes. OK.


My name is Nati Burton. I'm from Kool in Dorset. I'm a PhD student based in the School of Music and I'm now in my fifth year of part-time study. My research is interdisciplinary in that it straddles both music and literature, where they come together and meet in song. Specifically, my work explores the ways in which poetry and music come together in English song cycles of the early 20th century. So I look at the works of composers such as Gerald Finsey, Bourne Williams, John Ireland. The song cycle is a musical genre, really a collection of songs that are individual but come together to form a complete musical work. They're designed to be performed in sequence. Most often song cycles are written for a solo singer with a piano accompaniment but actually there are very many different kinds of song cycle. My background is essentially in music. I'm a clarinetist, a pianist and a singer and I have a long history of working as a performer and a teacher within musical fields but I also have a long-sanding love of literature and this work has enabled me to bring both of those interests together. Like many musicians I have what you might consider to be a portfolio career. Some of my work as a performer, some of it is as a teacher working both academically and instrumentally but studying at OU has given me the flexibility to fit all of those varied commitments around my studies. Although the reach of the OU is extremely wide, international, vast, one of the things I've always felt as a student is that I've been very closely looked after on an individual level. So whether that's been through the interaction with my supervisors or as a member of the music department, there's been a strong sense of local community even in such a big organization.


Abrams' tank destroyed in Ukraine conflict. One of Ukraine's US-supplied M1 Abrams' tanks looks to have sustained significant damage and appears to be the first loss of one of these prized tanks in combat in the country. Evidence that Ukrainian Abrams' tanks had finally entered the fight only recently began to emerge. This also comes amid concerns about the ability of Ukraine's armed forces to sustain these tanks in the long term. Although Moscow's troops have destroyed the first US-made M1 Abrams main battle tank supplied to Kiev's forces amid the Ukraine conflict, multiple Russian telegram channels reported. Footage circulating online purports to show the vehicle with a large column of fire rising from its turret. It was reportedly targeted by an FPV Suicide drone and sustained at least one hit from a shoulder mounted anti-tank grenade launcher. The tank was reportedly hit near the village of Burdichi, located to the northwest of Avdivka, a key Donbas town recently liberated by Russian forces. A close-up of the destroyed Abrams, taken by a surveillance drone, shows the vehicle's ammunition compartment burned out with the engine compartment on fire. Washington pledged to supply Ukraine with 31 M1 Abrams' tanks in January 2022 ahead of Kiev's long-hyped yet ultimately botched counter-offensive. However, they were fully delivered only by mid-October and have seemingly been kept away from the front line being featured only in propaganda videos. The Ukrainian Abrams have seen actual combat only over the past few days, ending up deployed to the battlefield to bolster Kiev's effort to stop the westward advance of Russian troops following the fall of Avdivka, formerly a major Ukrainian stronghold in Donbas and one of the key staging points for indiscriminate artillery and rocket attacks on the city of Donetsk. What may have been used to attack the tank, what happened to its crew, and whether Ukrainian forces were in a position to recover it or if the Russians may have now captured it are all unknown. Medvedev threatens Berlin, London and Washington with nuclear retaliation. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Federation's Security Council, has threatened the United States and Europe with nuclear war if Russia is returned to its recognized borders from 1991. He said this on his Telegram channel. Medvedev wondered what would happen if Russia lost the war against neo-Nazis along with their western sponsors and returned to its 1991 borders. He speaks to this outcome as the irreversible collapse of present-day Russia which under the constitution includes new territories. Medvedev believes that after that a civil war with tens of millions of victims and the death of the future of Russia will begin. And now for the main question, do these idiots truly believe that the Russian people will simply swallow such a consequential partitioning of their country? That we will all think, unfortunately, it happened. Day one. Russia, as we know it today, no longer exists. It is unfortunate, of course, but we must continue to live in a country that is collapsing and dying because a nuclear war is far worse for us than the death of our loved ones. Children, Russia, and that's the state's leadership, led by the Supreme Commander in Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, would be hesitant to make difficult decisions in this case. Hear me out. It will be totally different. The collapse of Russia will have far worse consequences than the outcome of a conventional even long-term war. Because attempting to return Russia to its 1991 borders will only lead to one outcome. To a global war with western countries utilizing our entire strategic arsenal. In Kiev, Berlin, London, and Washington, for all other beautiful historical sites which have long been included in our nuclear triads, attack goals. All we have, enough guts, for this, if a thousand year old country, our great homeland is on the verge of extinction and the sacrifices made by the Russian people over the centuries are in vain. The answer is obvious, Medvedev added. Ukrainian intelligence announces new surprises in Crimea. Civilians should not use the Crimean Bridge. New surprises await the enemy, states Kirillov-Budinov, head of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. According to Budinov, we owe the successes of Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea to the inhabitants of the peninsula whose resistance to the enemy has not ceased over the past 10 years of war with Russia. The Defense Intelligence Chief explained that for successful defense and counter-offensive, Ukraine must control the Black Sea and Crimea. All previously set tasks have been accomplished. Russia lost a quarter of its ships and was forced to withdraw its fleet to the Caucasus coast. The enemy has also redeployed its aviation as Crimean airfields and military facilities are constantly under our fire. We owe our success to the residents of Ukrainian Crimea, who not only strengthened their resistance to the occupiers but also found the opportunity to monitor the entire operational situation on the peninsula and pass this information to us as soon as possible, Budinov added. Ukraine has also fulfilled another promise. In 2023, our Special Forces officers visited Crimea. New surprises await the enemies and I would not recommend civilians to use the so-called Crimean Bridge, the head of Ukrainian intelligence said. The Crimean Bridge, illegally built by the occupiers, has been hit at least twice. In October 2022, powerful explosions occurred on the bridge causing significant damage. The head of the security service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, confirmed that it was an operation of his special service. In addition, in July 2023, there was another attack on the Crimean Bridge. Two spans were destroyed. Malyuk also confirmed Ukraine's involvement in this attack and noted that it was organized with the help of sea baby drones.