I'm going to show you one of our other training things. Training things were pretty proud of it at the beginning. So we're going to show you the StreetSmart virtual reality system. An excellent tool that we were able to, we actually worked with the teams. And I gave this quick demo, and he said, heck yes, we would jump on board with that. So we're going to acquire through that innovation program. But since then, it has exploded. Sergeant Joseph, who's in the goggles now, I may be playing the role-player of a bad guy. Well, he knows me. And it's sometimes hard to differentiate role-playing scenario that it's Mr. Feldman or so on and so forth. In this world, there are a lot of people in the screen. And a lot of these scenarios are not your traditional one defender responding by themselves. His life was near as important as he was. Put the weapon down, drop the weapon, drop the weapon. Stop it, you dropped the weapon. Max, how are you doing? Again, that's the end of the scenario. Walk us through your thought process in this scenario. Initially, just coming up on two people who were fighting. They weren't doing any harm to each other. They were just pushing and shoving. So I tried to even find verbal tactics to get them to separate themselves. They didn't. And then they gave themselves some distance. And that's when the gentleman in the white shirt decided to pull out a knife. I didn't shoot until he actually made motion towards the other individual and putting their life in danger with a threatening weapon. OK. All right. So you're at the gate here, so I'm going to show this to the individuals you will be interacting with. Are you ready, sir? All right, ready. Yeah, no, I just forgot my ID. Sir, I'm going to need your ID card before you go. Yeah, it's in my computer. We all make the safe sir. But you're going to turn around and go to the control center? In the office yesterday.  Yeah, my cat card. You're going to have to go to visitor control centers. We verify who you are. I'm going to come back and show you. But come on, man. I can't let you on without you properly identifying yourself before. Can't let you on. Please. I'll show you my driver's license. Your driver's license is not valid at the gate to get on by space. You have to call my boss and tell him why I'm going to go in. Sir, you're going to need to turn around, go to the visitor control center. OK, fine. We can try to get you a pass. All right. Sir, the driver's license is not valid. Yeah, right. Sir, you need to listen to what I'm telling you. All right, dude. I'm going to get my ID. No, you're not going to get a driver to get a driver to get a driver. Yes, sir. That was intense. Just watch and start for me. Sorry, but do you think the reps, these types of reps? They are really good. Because the guns, they're exactly what they're carrying on posts. And we started using them. It takes a little bit of use to be in the VR role a little bit. But the reps are really good. It feels like you're right there. You're having a decision. And you have to do it quickly before something actually gets thrown in the air.  You'll see a gun in the VR system. And try to aim it as best as you can.  I'm concerned about it. Just put it in your front pocket. Black and red ones pop up when you only want you to shoot the red ones. And they will start to go a little bit faster as the range timing. That would be awesome. Thanks, teammate. So what are you shooting? Radio. Secondary? Good work, thanks.


I was content in my school district. I grew up there, K through 12. I went to community college in the same community. And I want, it's like, I never knew anything was wrong. My kids went through, I had at least one kid in the public school system there for 10 years until I pulled them. And I thought, oh, it's a great school district until I knew it wasn't. And so I think those people are under this like, this veil of, oh, everything's fine. It's all good. That wouldn't happen here. And so with my book, my goal was, if I could have included this school district, that school district all over the country, but then it dilutes what's actually happening in mine. And I thought if I share all of what's happening in one suburban school district in the middle of the country, it's kind of shocking. You might go, oh, if all that's happening in that one district, then maybe it's happening in mine. And that was my goal, is to make people think, make them wonder, and make them want to look into their school district.


You know, perhaps love is nothing more than the constant rotation of vulnerability. When we don't rotate vulnerability, love becomes a one-way energy. When you don't take your turn to be vulnerable and to be loved, you begin to resent loving others because you get exhausted. Some of you are in a situation where you love more and love better and greater than those who should be loving you back and it gets exhausting. But I want you to take some time off this year from you being the one that has to be strong and love all the time and allow space for others loving you to emerge. Love in longevity is only possible when we take our turns of being vulnerable. Maybe it's your turn today to be vulnerable and let someone else love you. I love you. Sandy loved you today. Thanks for being here.


On your state, Governor Shane Mckenday has sworn in Justice Yerimar as the substantive chief judge of the state. The governor who performed the swearing in at the executive chamber of the governor's office's secretariat in Ibadan said his administration would continue to support the judiciary by prioritizing the welfare of its members. Mckenday further explained that his administration will give Justice Yerimar the support needed to carry out her duties diligently. Justice Yerimar was confirmed as the acting chief judge by the Oyo State House of Assembly on April 12, 2023 following the retirement of the immediate past chief judge, Justice Monata Abimbola. While congratulating the chief judge on her appointment, Governor Mckenday described her as a judge who had always demonstrated hard work, urging her to use her wealth of experience to uplift the Oyo State judiciary. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello everybody! Watch this video to learn about top tools to recover data from XFS drives and how to recover data from such storage devices. XFS is a journal file system, but unlike EXT file systems, it only records metadata changes into the journal. At the moment, this file system is used by default in many red-hand-based distributives. The most serious drawbacks of this file system are its follows. It's impossible to reduce data size, it's difficult to recover data, and there is a list of risk of losing files if there is a power failure while data is being written to the disk. As most information is only stored in the system memory during such operation. Before we start testing various tools, let's explore the structure of this file system. The entire XFS file system is divided into the so-called allocation groups, similar to block groups in EXT2 file system. The size, number, and other characteristics of allocation groups are found in the superblock, and this block is located at the beginning of every allocation group. At least as it is in EXT2. At least the first two kilobytes of every allocation group have the same format. The allocation group 0, together with superblock 0, allocated at the beginning of the disk. The allocation group is divided into four kinds of structures. Superblock, list of free blocks, information on allocated and free denotes, blocks allocated for extension of B3s. XFS is built as a B3 that is why the data is stored in its leaves. And in order to access the information, a data recovery tool has to go down the chain of links before restoring any data. If some elements of this chain are removed, there are chances that the data recovery tool won't be able to find the posterior data. In B3s, keys are combined into blocks containing several of them, which helps to considerably increase their effectiveness on disk storage devices. All leaves are located on one level, the lowest one, and every block, unless it is the only root leaf, should be at least half full of keys. In today's tests, we are going to compare results of searching for data deleted from XFS file system, and we will try to delete some elements of the file system structure to find out how top data recovery tools can cope with the problem. In Windows, you need a specialized utility or a special driver to view the contents of a removable drive, such as a USB flash drive or an external hard disk, formatted into XFS. Fortunately, data recovery tools can recognize such devices and restore data from them. For our benchmarking assessment, we have selected several popular data recovery tools. Hetman Partition Recovery, Reclaiming, UFS Explorer, Disk Internals, Disk Drill, Active Unraiser, and File Scamager. All right, let's get down to testing. On a computer running a Linux operating system, we have created a test disk with XFS file system. We wrote some data to the disk, a few folders containing photos, videos, and documents, and then removed some of them. We will perform the test on another computer running Windows. Let's connect the XFS drive. Windows can't recognize this file system, and when the drive is connected, the operating system suggests formatting it so that the drive can be used. However, in fact, there is no need to format anything. Start Hetman Partition Recovery and scan the drive. You can see that the program can recognize the disk, detect its file system, and display its name and size properly. Right-click on the disk, choose Open, and try Fast Scan first. This type of analysis will scan the disk quickly and display the results. Here are some files and folders have been found. You can see this tool has no difficulty in finding the files deleted in such a way, and it displays them marked with a red cross. Full analysis was not necessary, and it saved us a lot of time because full analysis takes much longer. You can see the contents of all files with the preview feature, and you can search files by name. Now, all the files have been recovered. As you can see, the disk structure is retained, so all files and folders can be found where they used to be, and it makes searching for lost files extremely easy. Without spending too much time and effort, the program was able to find or recover the lost information. Let's try another candidate, reclaiming. Before reaching the main window displaying the disks, you'll have to get through several windows containing additional settings. This could make using the program more difficult for beginners. After that, the program will start analyzing connected hard disks and then display their list on the screen, which also takes some time. The program reads service information, identifies the file system, names, and so on. When the process is over, we can see the list of recognized devices. On this list, you can see the test disk we are using in this experiment. The name and capacity are displayed, but the file system has not been identified. Click Start Scan In the next window, you can choose the scan type, we'll leave the default options as it is, uncheck unnecessary file system options, and click Start. As a result, the program shows some files, but the ones that have been deleted are not displayed. It is difficult to understand if the analysis is over or still running. When we had a closer look, it turned out to be a kind of initial scan, and the deleted files are placed into a separate directory with the name unclassified. For such files, names are not preserved, but they are available for preview, which gives you an idea if it is possible to recover them. Documents cannot be reviewed, so it is still not clear if the program can recover them completely. This is how documents look when we try to preview them. As a result, filenames have changed, the folder structure is damaged, and these tools are likely to use a quick search algorithm by file type. To start a deeper scan, click Resume. In the course of the scan, we can see the program is moving files from the unclassified folder to their previous locations and restores their names and structure. The program has coped with the task, although it took a really long time to complete. Let's try another candidate, UFS Explorer. It shows the disk name, capacity, and an XFS partition below. When you view the contents of this directory, only the files which are still on the disk are displayed. Run a quick scan. The scan type cannot find the deleted files in the root folder, but displays the files which are placed into other folders. The tool fails to display reviews for documents and videos. The quick scan has not found some of the deleted files. Let's check the result of looking for such deleted items. Uncheck unnecessary options. If you don't do that, the search will take longer. This is a disadvantage for novice users who are unlikely to notice and uncheck those options. The search for deleted files is quite long as well. As a result, the program has found the deleted data. It is marked with a different color, but only photos can be previewed. This is another drawback, because we cannot understand if they could be recovered in the end and if they are going to be damaged. Also, it is very inconvenient to know so little about your chances of recovery before you actually buy the tool. The next one on the list is disk drill. The program can see the storage device, its name and capacity, but the file system is not recognized. Quick scan is not available for this disk, as the program was unable to identify its file system. Click Search for lost data. It will start a deep scan immediately. As a result, file names are not preserved, it is difficult to understand which of them were removed, and it is also hard to tell how effective the final result should be. In the preview window, we can watch a video that has been deleted, but the contents of these documents cannot be viewed. The program has found some deleted data, but it doesn't offer a quick scan option. Deleted files are not marked in any way, and file names are not preserved, and files are sorted into folders by type and it's quite difficult to find the one you need. Also, file search takes quite a long time, we recommend trying a different recovery tool if possible. Another one to be tested is Active Anorazer. Its developers claim that it supports XFS, but in the end all we can see is a drive containing some unlocated space, and the program failed to identify its file system. With quick scan, no data can be found. While it takes even longer than a deep scan in this grill, file search by Signature has found some data, but there is no way to tell if any of them were removed as file names and structure are not preserved, so it is difficult to evaluate recovery prospects. Of all files, only photos can be previewed. When we look through the files, we can see that some deleted files were found. However, it is difficult to find specific files as their names and structure are not preserved. Super Scan takes a really long time to complete. In half an hour, it didn't even manage to process 1% of the 10GB drive. We received a similar result from FileScavenger, which also claimed to support XFS file system, but it didn't find anything with quick scan and with long scan it uses a signature search algorithm with file names and structure being lost in the process. The user interface is not too convenient, so it can be more difficult for beginners to use this product. When looking through the files, we can see that some of the deleted photos have been recovered, but documents and videos cannot be previewed and the recovery prospects remain unknown. These files can only be previewed after recovery, and you can only recover files after you buy the license. Well, as for me, there are better products to choose from. Summing up We have seen three programs that managed to find all deleted data in XFS file system. Some of them were pretty quick, and some did it more time to complete the task. So far, the top three includes Hetman Partition Recovery, UFS Explorer and Reclaiming. These grill results are not so good as it looks for files using the signature analysis. To my mind, Activan Eraser and File Scamager are not worth your attention, as they are not free, but their recovery prospects are questionable. In the second half of the test, we are going to erase a part of the file system, one of its superblocks. Let's remove the main superblock. Now we start Hetman Partition Recovery and it recognizes the erased disk as an unallocated space. In this case, only full analysis is available. Select the file system and uncheck the box for searching by file contents, signatures, as it is going to make the scan much longer. The program has found the partition with XFS file system. As you can see, even with the main superblock erased partially, the folder structure and file names are preserved, and this will make searching for files much easier. All photos and videos are available for preview, and the only file type you can't view is deleted documents, but they are recovered in full without any damage. Alright, now let's test UFS Explorer. This utility also displays a disk with its unknown partition. Select the file system and start the scan. The program has found all files, and the folder structure and file names are preserved. The only downside is that all documents and videos cannot be previewed. Recovery prospects for these files are not clear, as you can't view their contents without saving them to disk first. Another tool to test is Reclaimy, and I ran the second test with the disk image, as the file system was erased partially. As I said before, the program's interface is quite difficult to understand, so it makes the task more complicated for inexperienced users to find the ways with the options. Set file system as XFS and start the scan. The program has managed to find deleted files, their structure and names are preserved, and deleted data is displayed. However, there are some problems as well. Documents can be previewed, and the time required for disk scan was 2 or 3 times longer in comparison with its rivals. Disk Grill, Active Unraiser and Files Caminger all use signature-based search algorithm, and this scan type is the slowest. While it fails to retain the directory tree and file names, such results can be classified as poor. Considering that these are commercial products, I would choose a program that offers a more convenient and faster way of searching for lost files. Now, let's draw the bottom line. Only three tools from the list were able to find the data while retaining the disk structure and file names, and they are Hetman Partition Recovery, UFS Explorer and Reclaiming Pro. Some other tools fail to display previews for documents and videos. Without saving the files, it is difficult to estimate if all of them can be recovered. And this is very inconvenient because you have to buy the full version of the program to be able to save files, and in the end, the files could be damaged and some documents or videos will never open. On the other hand, Hetman Partition Recovery displays all files in the preview window, and you can evaluate the program's effectiveness before actually paying for the full version license. The recovery process is very simple because of the convenient and intuitive interface that is easy to navigate, even for beginners. This program lets you retain the folder structure and file names, which makes it easier to search for certain data and saves your time. The algorithm using our product lets you recover data even if the entire structure of the file system is erased. And if the disk has at least some data left, Hetman Partition Recovery can restore it and display it to you due to using signature analysis. And if you need to recover data from a RAID array with XFS file system, which is quite popular with some NAS storage manufacturers, use Hetman RAID Recovery. This tool supports all popular file systems and RAID levels. If you want to learn more about data recovery from XFS-based RAID systems, check other videos on our channel. You can find the link in the description. And that is all for now. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck. While you are watching this video, civilians in Ukraine are dying from attacks in bombardments of the Russian Federation. Putin's insane regime has attacked a peaceful country in the very heart of Europe. Support the Ukrainian army by making a contribution to the font to come back alive. 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Black Africans, amongst others, visited the Americas long before Columbus. Part 6. The manufactured history by Columbus's European sponsors must be exposed and forcefully rejected. Columbus was never the first man to arrive at the Americas, rather he was the first to commit genocide. Sex, slavery of young girls, rape, pedophilias, mass mutilations, arbitrary killings, and transatlantic slavery in the Americas.


Ladies and gentlemen, before we hop in the video, I wanted to give you the heads up, man. It's our second year anniversary, the birthday of Third Street Barbell 3SB.co and Good Company. And so we're giving you all 30 to 50% off everything on the website. So it's only live for the next 48 hours, right? Tuesday, only 48 hours, so I would go now. Things are gonna sell out, I promise. So if you wanna cop something on discount, I appreciate all the support. 3SB.co, enjoy the video. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my Third Street Barbell brand new video. Is this thing on? Hello, kids, welcome. And we're gonna talk to Avi, Avi, Avilia, Avilia today, about gym intimidation. That's a good topic, huh? I get gym intimidation, and I'll share a very embarrassing antisocial.  I've seen you on Instagram and you talk to people. That's not how it works. But we'll dive in. She's got a bench, and we're gonna interview her before a bench because she's competing at USAPL Nationals. I don't know when this video's gonna come out. Probably in time. If you're there, say what's up. We're gonna be there, kicking it. And we'll just, we'll get some cues in between her bench set. Get asked, why my name's Tyler Mike?  And a lot of people do it. Guys, girls, big, small, left, right?  So I came in and talked to nobody. For like six months, I didn't say a word. And that's where a nickname came from. So I was already at the gym, this gym, back in the day, like, probably like six months.  And I was just like in my head, like almost begging for a reason not to go. And so I already drove half an hour to get here. I come and the gates are all closed. And in my head, I'm like, okay, I'll just go home. Yeah, I guess I can't work out today. Yeah, cause we didn't have keys or nothing.   Yeah, I was like, I want to get better. I want to become a better coach. I kind of have to be here to do this thing.  But so many people, especially ladies, for some reason, I mean not for some reason, for a very valid reason. Over the years, they are funneled to the cardio section. Right, like why are light dumbbells pink? I don't want to get on my social justice high hat right now, but why are light dumbbells pink? They're not blue. I mean, and that's a whole another discussion why things are pink and blue. We don't want to go that deep into sociology, but that's already telling you like, yeah, you're not made for this one. Like this barbell isn't for you. Go grab some dumbbells. Yeah, every lady's in the cardio section. They're scared even a commercial gym, not scared but intimidated or fear the judgment or fear. First off, do you have any ideas of maybe why that is or what things that you maybe felt? Like why is the freeway so uncomfortable? I mean, I know some guys are just douchebags and we're douchebags inside and outside of the gym. But then what helps you maybe go to the freeway section and then from the freeway section start to power lift and then not only start to power lift but be in like a legitimate power lifting, strength and conditioning gym. Well, for me, when I started going to the gym, I went to 24 hour and I worked out with a friend of mine and he's a guy. So I just did whatever he did. So I actually, he introduced me to the barbell movement and I just did anything he did. So it was more comfortable, I guess, because I wasn't in there alone. Did you play sports or anything? I played volleyball. So this was after like my senior year of high school volleyball season ended. I was like, I need to do something. And so I go to the gym with him and from there, I liked seeing how much stronger I could get. So I wasn't too intimidated by the other people there. I don't know, I just think about it. But I think right now what helps me or if I think back to it, why I would be intimidated around other, like if there was a bench available, it's like, oh, no, you go ahead and take it. Like, I'll wait. Like I don't need it as much as you do type of thing. But now it's different, obviously. Because you're the strongest one in the gym? Is that what you're trying to tell them? That you're the strongest person at Third Street? Which is true, but yeah. I think it's the confidence and the knowledge. So maybe what I see is like with my clients and their personal trainer, my clients are afraid to do it on their own because they're not sure about their form. They're not very knowledgeable yet on what they're doing. So that's why I go through exercises with them and have them do it on their own, make sure they come in by themselves to do those same exercises that we've done together. Cause like, she's not here, but I know how to do this, we did it together. So like with that, you kind of build this mindset of like, I know what I'm doing, I know I need to grab these weights and I know exactly how to do a lot of arrays. Like I could be in this area, you know? I think that's really smart. Cause I think intimidation like here, there is like this muchacho, muchissimo vibe. Which when you, if you go to a real powerlifting meet, it's not really like that. Like a lot of people more like Zenny. Everyone is a little excited. Yeah, yeah. Cause everyone's a little intimidated. There's always going to be someone stronger. There's literally always someone stronger in you. And once you start to compete, you realize that it almost like humbles you in a positive manner rather than intimidating manner. But I think you're right, having a plan. And I've heard a lot of people tell me that too. Ladies like, well, I just don't know what to do. Hey guys, I don't know what to do. Like where do I go? What do I, but that's the case with anything. Like I'm not, I'm not a software engineer.   Cause I like, I don't know what to do. Yeah. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to explain things. I don't know what's going on. So like education's good. That's why I've always been a fan. And obviously it's hard. Some people don't have the money, but a personal trainer is great. But there's YouTube. Going in with the program, even if you wrote your own, you make a list so that you, when you're walking to the weights area, you know what you're going to do with the dumbbells. Instead of like kind of wandering like, uh, how about this machine? How do you use it? It's like, well, I know what's next. Like, okay, squats first. And then after that, we'll get in split squats. That's over there. I need to grab these weights. So like, it's less guesswork. And you're more confident just walking to each section, grabbing each weight, like, you know, cause you wrote it down already, like before you even went to. So you can do, you can write it yourself, you know? You don't have to like- They can be push-ups and crunches. You don't have to be crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But knowledge and like, builds the confidence, I think. I think so too. Yeah. Cause if you, if you get into a routine and it's kind of like anything, like, the more you do it, the more confident you're going to be. Cause you understand what you're doing. You're more comfortable in it. And despite what everyone tells you, you don't have to do different exercises every single time, right? You know, there's no muscle confusion. There's not all this weird stuff. So like just doing a squat three times a week is awesome. You can do that for the rest of your life and get stronger and get fitter and get more confident. What are your best lifts? Cause we got to give you some street cred for the kids. What are the, what are the PRs? I just hit one actually. I squatted 315 for the first time. Well actually, and then I squatted 320 after that. 320 squat. Some room left in the tank. What's your best bench? 192. Best deadlift? 402. What'd you hit last week? I hit it in January, then I hit it again on Saturday. Now you want to talk about goals for the meat or not? Is that secret? No, goals for the meat. I actually already hit it during training. Yeah. So what, those are going to be, you think those will be like second attempts then? I think, okay, I already surpassed my bench PR or meat PR or goal. And then I surpassed my squat. So deadlifts, I want to hit 420 or 419. 420. I'm going to bench 69 in squat, 420. Oh, that's the one I haven't hit yet, actually. But two weeks, dab on them. No, you're going to smash. And the squat is going to be there. Hopefully we get to film. I don't know if we're allowed to. Do you know those rules? I have no idea. Just do it until I tell you not to. Ask for forgiveness, not, what's that saying? Don't ask permission, ask forgiveness. You never heard that? That's like what the little rebels say. Yeah, that's what bad kids say. Yeah, I always ask permission. Yeah, the YouTube, I always ask permission first. Yeah, right. So I'm kind of a scaredy cat as well.


A hybrid change detection method that combines change vector analysis with vegetation indices is proposed to map the conversion of native grassland to cultivated agriculture and update the grassland vegetation inventory based on multi-seasonal and multi-year Landsat images. The study identifies significant vegetation indices for differentiation between existing native grassland and land, recently converted from native grassland to cultivated cropland, and shows that land conversion can be detected using a single image acquired during the growing season with highest accuracy achieved, using the difference in six between years, DVI, for the shortwave infrared reflectance three-halves ratio, SWIR 32, and the enhanced vegetation difference index, EVI, derived from July imagery. The method could be applied to detect land cover conversion in other grassland regions, but optimal VI's and image acquisition date may need to be modified depending on the type of land use activities implemented in each region. This article was authored by Xiaohuyang, and M. Smith, and Michael J. Hill. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


And the other day, Ukraine's President Zelensky was once more in the news. Only the subtitling algorithm obviously searched in vain in its repertoire for his name because it rendered it as Rene Zelvega. And I thought at the time, it's a good job it wasn't Monica Lewinsky. Otherwise it might have revealed rather more about the nature of the relationship between the Ukrainian government and its chief weapons supplier than the ABC would have been completely comfortable with. But I'll come to that a bit more later. Look, the fact is that the way in which this conflict is presented to us has unfortunately taken on many of the characteristics of a classic Hollywood narrative. We have the goodies and the baddies and you can recognise the baddies because they're the ones wearing the black hats. So even to the extent, I mean Stuart's talking about the universalisation of human rights, building on that principle, we also have the laws of war that are supposed to apply to all parties to all conflicts, juice in bellow, that is the justice in the conduct of war. But in this present atmosphere of witch hunts when Amnesty International, a week or two back, raised concerns over Ukraine putting civilians in harm's way in contravention of the Geneva Conventions. They were met with a complete firestorm on social media and howled down. So unfortunately we're in that kind of atmosphere of witch hunts. That makes it very difficult to talk about or to discern the outlines of what might eventually emerge just peace with justice. And I say that let me digress for a moment into conflict theory. So some of the theories that we share with students in peace and conflict studies include the ABC of conflict. So the ABC of conflict stands for attitudes, behaviours and contradictions. And the proposition is that conflict actually is a set of relations manifest in relationships across a social formation which is characterised by incompatible goals. So conflict is not synonymous with war. War is a form of behaviour which is a response to conflict. It's by no means the only possible response to conflict and let's be thankful for that. But it's always very difficult to get at the contradictions, to open up the contradictions amid a situation of hardened and extreme attitudes and that's what we've got at the moment. So let's try to roll that back a bit. We have to reopen the distinctions between efforts to explain the behaviours or understand the behaviours of parties to conflict on the one hand and attempt to excuse or justify them on the other. So to make it very clear what I'm about to do is to try to help us think why the behaviour of President Putin and the Russians may be explicable as part of a sequence of discernable causes and consequences in a search for clues as to how we might envisage and fashion peace with justice. And I think we have to begin with the strategic question, why is Russia still the enemy? Okay, over 100 years, nearly 150 years ago now, we were in a situation in Europe with the breakup of the last of the gunpowder empires of the late medieval and early modern periods, namely the Ottoman Empire. There was an uprising in Bulgaria for independence and it was put down with extreme force and violence against civilians by the Turks, not only with regular troops but also with these bashy bazooka brigades and they left the bodies of people heaped in the streets. So the Bulgarian emigre community in Constantinople persuaded the U.S. and the U.K. ambassador to visit Sofia to see this for themselves and they were accompanied by journalists and indeed they duly recorded this as a major atrocity. What happened next was that William E. Glaston was running a bio-election campaign in the constituency of Midlothian in Scotland and he took up this theme as the dominant one of his campaign and he successfully shamed the British government into renouncing its military alliance with the Ottoman Empire, which it relied on 20 years earlier in the Crimean War, thus opening the way for a humanitarian military intervention to roll the Ottomans back to the very outskirts of Constantinople and liberate the Bulgarian people from the dividend for their suffering and the lead country in this humanitarian intervention was Russia. So back then Russia was the enemy, then wasn't the enemy, then of course the events of 1917 made Russia the enemy once again, then in World War II Russia was not the enemy then it became the enemy. So there's a set of ready made reasons why Russia has been the enemy, has played the role of the enemy in all these situations. What is puzzling is why after the fall of communism Russia remained the enemy. Indeed one might go further and ask the question if Russia, if there was no good reason for Russia to be the enemy why do we still have NATO? NATO after all characterised itself as a purely defensive alliance. So the Russians after the fall of communism and after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact were left to scratch their heads over why NATO was continuing and they were left to interpret it in no other way than as an alliance against them, especially when they're semi-official if not official offers or applications to join NATO were persistently turned down. Fast forward to 1999 the Kosovo crisis NATO changed its rules previously it had only been allowed to act as NATO on the territory of a member state that rule was changed to allow it to carry out 90 odd days of bombing on the territory of the federal republic of Yugoslavia. The Slav brothers, the Serbs. So now you've got an alliance that is no longer purely defensive but now has an avowed offensive capability pointed out the Russians and this is after a decade when former members of the Warsaw Pact have joined NATO violating assurances given to Soviet leaders by a glittering array of western statespersons, François Mitterrand, Hans-Thiedrich Genscher, even James Baker that NATO would not expand eastward. What happened in fact was that the newly liberated countries Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania kept saying yes you know you keep on pestering us to join NATO we can't afford it because we haven't got the money to spend on our military to upgrade it to the standards NATO would require. Very well the US Congress said we've had all these meetings with these eminent weapons manufacturers they persuaded us to enact legislation to provide for taxpayers to pick up the bill for all these weapons that we're going to send to these countries so hey presto there's NATO expanding eastward. So through all this period NATO is encroaching it looks like a hostile alliance with a remit for offensive action and then suddenly the last domino begins to wobble namely Ukraine. Let's be absolutely clear at this stage the reason there are good reasons why Ukraine is not presently a NATO member. Even now amid the hysteria we've seen nobody has suggested that Ukraine become a NATO member and there are good reasons for that. One because Germany doesn't want to risk Berlin, Paris doesn't want to risk London to keep that blue and yellow flag that we now all know so well fluttering about the territory of the Donbas. Neither should they it would be completely disproportionate so nobody is suggesting that Ukraine become a NATO member. Now therefore we got to this position of stalemate we got to this gradually kind of grinding progression of NATO ever further eastwards dangerous talk about Ukraine's right to make its own security arrangements. Forget that okay because no country has the right to join NATO it has the right to apply to join NATO then it needs a unanimous decision by all existing NATO members to let it join NATO and that's never been forthcoming and it wouldn't be. So now we've reviewed some of the reasons for understanding and explaining why Russia under Putin lashed out we have distinguished that carefully from any suggestion of excusing or justifying it because it remains inexcusable and unjustifiable so let us try to discern what we can amid this potted history of the prospects for peace with justice and I could talk about three forms of justice justice is multifarious of course but let's talk about three forms of justice political justice socio-economic justice and climate justice with regards first to the climate justice and it is a significant blot on the otherwise impressive record of Angela Merkel that Germany planned for new hydrocarbon infrastructure to come online in the Europe of the 2020s whatever the provenance of the gas okay so now that Nord Stream 2 pipeline is mothballed what's being built instead is an LNG liquefied natural gas terminal at Germany's deep water port Wilhelm Tavern and it's going to be a molecular facility so its immediate task will be to take delivery of shiploads of LNG from the United States as a short-term replacement for this coming winter for the gas that is not now flowing from Russia but it's being claimed at least that it will then transition to handling liquefied hydrogen as part of Germany's commitment to meet a net zero target by 2045 so that is one promising augury for peace with justice to cut out of the Ukraine crisis there are of course two arguments being made one argument is that with the jeopardy that we have of which we have now been apprised which is a condition of supplying oil and gas from Russia we should all rush to increase our own capacity and our own supplies or source them from elsewhere instead that is to be deprecated what is altogether better and is in there in the mix somewhere is the impulse which says we must bring forward the moment when we cease to rely on hydrocarbons in the interests of climate justice because as people here will be well aware global heating is not only a danger in itself but is also exacerbating existing axes of disadvantage and injustice all over the world so there is one glimmer of hope for climate justice that could come out with this second one social economic justice now it's been a persistent feature of the transition from state communism that the variant of capitalism which people have attempted to instantiate in his place has borne all the worst characteristics for capitalism because of course there are many different capitalisms there is the variety familiar from the the anglosphere show is that the casino capitalism you know the kind of variety that Stuart's talking about where international flows of arantia finance are seeking out parasitically opportunities to profit probably to whisk away the ill-gotten gains into a tax haven that is the dominant form in the uk it's it's a very prominent form in the u.s. and it's has made many more inroads than we should have allowed here in australia but there is also the other another form of capitalism sometimes called renish capitalism particularly associated with the german economy which is inscribed deeply into the rules and regulations of the european union so one of the encouraging auguries from this is that ukraine's application to join the european union has been accepted to the extent that it's now a candidate member and it would be all together better to to develop the ukrainian economy along those lines what a change that would be from the disastrous period of the 1990s when the former soviet space was subjected to what was called economic shock treatment when price controls were abandoned overnight public services were immediately shut down and everyone thrown out of work associated with inflation in the thousands of percent and those unforgettable scenes that are seared deeply into the psyche of the russian and ukrainian peoples of having to gather up meager possessions display them on the pavement outside your home in exchange for a few coins to get food for your family that was the result of the economic shock treatment that was imposed on the former soviet countries after the fall of communism no we mustn't go there and to that extent the rather more sinister and less propitious developments in ukraine include the adoption of these laws which were passed by the parliament only last month just over a month ago which will deregulate industrial relations to the extent of allowing employers with under 250 staff to hire and fire fire and rehire in fact which is inimical to the kind of ranish capitalism of the EU and indeed is outlawed by social provisions in the EU charter of fundamental human rights and this incidentally is why the british tories wanted out of the EU because to them it represents an interference in the god-given right of orantea capitalists to accumulate and reproduce capital without any responsibility to anyone but themselves so ukraine's candidate membership of the EU is another good sign now let's come on to the say the most difficult one to last the political justice in the schema set out of conflict theory by johan galton one of the chief propellers chief theorists of conflict and he characterizes peace as the absence of violence so because if you remember conflict is a relationship between two or more parties within compatible goals we're never going to get rid of conflict we went around demanding an end to conflict as the definition of peace it would be too big a ask you can say so let's instead define it as an absence of violence what does violence mean galton's influential definition is of violence not by the form it takes but by the effect it brings about the abrogation of human potential and violence can be direct cultural or structural structural violence includes structures that oblige people to live together that don't want to or live apart that do want to and so taking that cue the outlines of a peace deal for ukraine must surely involve some international supervision preferably un supervision of some kind of exercise to settle to everyone's satisfaction just exactly what arrangements are desired by the populations of the cramier donbas and new hansk as to the flak the flutters over there all what is the status of the border which may very well divide them from their friends and family and how they want to cross it and how they want that to be set up now it's it's very important to keep talking about a peace deal because of course that is one way in which a war can end another way i would say the other way but another way in which a war can end is for an outright victory was by an outright victory by one side over the other side and there seems to me to be far too loose and far too liberal an assumption that that is a feasible outcome among a great deal of commentary especially media commentary about this crisis is it feasible fierce critics of wicked old president putin like the guardians simon tisdle for instance for my favorite media whipping boys that he's such a he's so down he's down on president putin but somehow somewhere along the line president putin will discover some hitherto unheralded restraint or sense of proportion and not start a nuclear war instead he will accept complete military defeat and humiliation that seems to me to be a gamble too far so it seems to me that we need to talk about a peace deal we need to talk about a peace agreement an agreement is not with oneself it is with the other by definition so we need to think about what is agreeable not only to ask them to Ukraine but also to the Russians and some mechanism to determine the status of those territories which is taken out of their hands preferably given to the united nations would be part of it another one would be for everyone to acknowledge what everyone actually already agrees which is that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO and once you've got those two building blocks in place you have the potential for political justice you have the potential for socio-economic justice and you have the potential for climate justice and that could be that could fulfill what the same Johan Galton always said about conflict which is that it's an opportunity to use a vogue phrase to build back better


Congratulations, by the way, this must be a really happy time for you and your family. So I was thinking about this last night. I saw you do the interviews on the MLB network, and then when you were at the podium at the St. Regis yesterday, throughout your career, you were always about talking about team. It was about the team. You didn't like talking about yourself. Is this uncomfortable these last couple of days? You know what? To be honest with you, the last couple of days have been a whirlwind. So everything's happened so quickly.  It happens, and then there's so many things going on.  But now I guess it's okay to talk about it a little bit. Yes, it is. I remember your dad used to tell me, he said, I wish Derek would stop and enjoy the journey rather than just worry about where he's getting to. Well, you got to where you wanted to go. You got five championships. I don't know if the Hall of Fame was ever something that you aspired to. Are you enjoying this journey or will you still need time to separate yourself? You know what, I think it hasn't set in yet. So I think it will when I get a little time by myself because, like I said, everything's happened so quickly these last couple of days and I get a chance I have to go back home tomorrow. So I'm sure tomorrow when I'm sitting around and get a chance to think about it, maybe it will, but maybe it might take until this summer before it actually does. But it's been quite the last 36 hours. You know, being involved in this business and you being there the entire time I've been in the business, it's been kind of a foregone conclusion for so long you were going to get to the Hall of Fame. But for you, when did you start even thinking about that it was a possibility? I tried not to. I know people when I say that to people, they don't believe me, but I really tried not to think about it. I think over the last month or two when people would come up to me and they'd congratulate me and say, whoa, I don't even want to talk about this because you can't just automatically assume that someone's going to put you in the Hall of Fame. That's the highest honor. Speaking of which, Derek, obviously there's been a lot talked about here on Talk Radio and among fans about unanimous. You were one vote shy. Does it make any difference to you? Was it on your mind whatsoever? No, it's very hard to get that many people to agree on anything. So I tend to focus on the votes that I got in order to get into the Hall of Fame. So no, I don't think about that. See, Derek, that's why you were able to achieve what you achieve, because I would be fixated on the one person that didn't vote. I would search the world. I would find out who it was and I'd go, I want to know why. And it doesn't seem like it bothers you at all. Well, I'll leave that to you. So you search the world and find out why and then let me know. You know what? I will. If the last thing I do, I'm going to find out who didn't vote for you because I don't understand it because you had a number of all the things you accomplished in your career. What's the thing you're most proud of? Winning. That's it. Bottom line. You know, that's why you play the game. I was fortunate to play for a long time. I was fortunate to play in one team. The only team I ever wanted to play for. And you're playing to win.  And then I still think about the ones that sort of slipped away. But, you know, it's it's winning. That's what you play the game for. Is there any moments that you think about? There's a lot of moments, you know, there's a lot of moments that I think about. There's a lot of moments I've had special milestones and during my career. And, you know, the thing is, is you hear Michael's voice for pretty much all of them soon. I'm sorry about that. That's the one downside. No, you don't have to apologize. Forever, I guess we're kind of linked there, Michael. But I'm sorry for you, but I'm happy for me. Yeah, you know, I've been asked that one, too. But I guess it's a little unfair because it's freshest in my mind. But the last game at Yankee Stadium, which ironically meant absolutely nothing because the only game I played where we've been eliminated. But to get a chance to share that last game with the fans who, in New York, which, you know, my mind's greatest fans in the world, but to get a chance to share that my career with them that last game was pretty special. When you had your first season in professional ball and you made, you know, I think 56 errors, did you think this is not gonna happen? I'm just not good enough? I was completely overmatched, yeah. So your confidence starts to waver a little bit and I thought I made a mistake and I should have gone to college first and how am I gonna turn this around? What's gonna happen? But, you know, everyone deals with adversity. It's just how you overcome it. And I think that made me a little bit stronger mentally and I think it helped prepare me for New York. Now, speaking of New York, I've been talking about you the last couple of days and one thing I keep bringing up is I was amazed, you know, watching as closely as I was for your whole career that you never seem to make a misstep. And New York chews people up and spits them out and two of your teammates had troubles and strawberry and good and they found, you know, New York found trouble for them. Do you seem like you were able to always do the right thing, Derek? Was that by design or was it by happenstance? Locke, was it your upbringing? What do you think it was? Well, look, everyone makes mistakes. You know, everyone is faced with difficult situations and I always just tried to surround myself with people that would help keep me out of trouble. And look, I talked about this years ago, Mike going into my second year, Darrell Strawberry sat me down and he told me what to expect and he shared with me some of the mistakes he made. And I've always just relied on other people's experiences and I think that's how you learn both good and bad. So yeah, I think I'd like to think that, you know, a great support group around me that helped me through some of those times.  How much was just being around October 95 help you get ready for when you did get a chance to play? Huge, it was huge. Just to see what the playoff atmosphere was like.   I think that really helped me out. Obviously when people look back on your career, so you've had a lot of rivals and people you played against and people always picture the Red Sox, of course. Are there any players, two or three in particular, that when you think of your great foes and people you went up against, do you think about the most? Yeah, I think from, you know, from a hitter's standpoint, obviously the matchups with Pedro, I mean, Pedro Shilling, you know, these guys in Boston and Randy Johnson and Shilling in Arizona, I mean, we, but the toughest one on me was Roy Halliday. And you know, I always said that I thought Pedro had the best stuff and baseball, but Roy was the toughest one for me. So these are some of the matchups that come to mind, you know, just right now. All of your numbers that are gonna be on your plaque, the one that stands out to me, 310 lifetime batting average, 308 and 158 postseason games. So you were not overwhelmed by the big stage. How did you make that happen?  Because it was like a game in May. It's still the same game, it's baseball.  And, you know, I always prided myself on being prepared. I think that's how you hear athletes talk about that the game's slowing down. I think it slows down when you're prepared. If you're not, that's when it tends to speed up. So I never wanted to be caught off guard. I wanted to think about situations before they actually happened. And I wasn't afraid to fail. You know, I failed a lot. Michael, you probably see me fail more than anyone. But I failed, I failed a lot. But anytime I was in those situations, I sort of went back into the tank and, you know, relied on some of those moments when I had success and just wasn't afraid to fail. I thought that I had a lot of confidence and I always thought I was going to succeed. You never were nervous in those big situations? I'd butterflies, you know, I always told people if you don't have butterflies, it means you don't care. But I enjoyed them. I mean, those were the moments that you lived for. You were always the leader. That's why you became captain in 2002, I think it was, when you were officially named the captain. Did you feel any responsibility being named the captain as opposed to just always being the leader you were before you were named it?  I want you to continue to do and continue to act the way that you've been acting up until this point.  You don't always do it in a group. Sometimes you do it one-on-one and you have to get to know your teammates, know what buttons to push. But you know, lead by example, that's first and foremost. You have to practice what you preach. I was always fascinated by your relationship with George Steinberg and other people were intimidated. You used to joke around with them. What was that like? How much do you miss them? What do you think he would think about this right now? I like to think he'd be pretty proud. I mean, we had a great relationship and it started with the whole Ohio State, Michigan rivalry.   But, you know, I've always respected him. I'd like to think he respected me. We both thought the same. It was either when or the season was a failure. And I had that approach, that mindset from day one. Derek, I'm sorry, but if he was here now, you wouldn't have much ammunition, Michigan, against Ohio State. Thanks for bringing that up. I was supposed to be a positive phone call. I'll just put it for the next one. Another guy just retired. He's going to retire tomorrow. Did you ever have any interaction with Eli Manning and from afar, what your thoughts about Eli Manning? I did, you know, I had some interactions. Obviously, I had known his brother a little bit better, but I've touched base with Eli throughout the years and, you know, what a joy to watch. I mean, Eli's someone that, you know, he took the field weekend and week out. Regardless of how he felt, he was fun to watch. He had a great deal of success on a couple of championships, which is not easy to do. And Eli's someone that I've respected for not only how he's played the game on the field, but more importantly, how he's handled himself off the field. And I think all New York Giants football fans are going to miss him. You know, Michael brought up the temptations of New York and you were always be able to stay so clean. Was there any temptations, you know, you lived in the PED era, not that you needed it, but did you ever feel any temptation or any weakness at all to stray from the path that you were on? No, no, I played for one thing. It wasn't for personal numbers, it was to win.  I mean, I was just as happy hitting a ground ball the second base or move a guy over or delay down a sacrifice bun to hit a home run. So, you know, we played the game to win. And the boss, you know, he recognized that and he rewarded us for that. You know, you love to win so much. I mean, it was all about that for you. Just watching you, I knew that it was about that for you. Even if you got five hits and you lost, you were not happy. You'd be happier 0 for five and a win. So how are you handling the losing as the owner of a team that's being rebuilt and going through a struggle? Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that too. Michael, you're on a real roll with this guy. Good news here, I got to call him more often. Please do give you a weekly. Hey, look, it's frustrating. It is very frustrating. What people have to understand though is, you know, we took over an organization that had been struggling and had been in the postseason in 15 years. And, you know, we got to build an organization the right way. And I think we're making strides in that direction. Ultimately, people or organizations are judged on wins and losses at the major league level, which I understand. And but right now we're building the organization. We're building it the right way. It's frustrating. I preach patience. I don't have any. It's very frustrating in this position because when you're coming from playing on the field and have an opportunity to affect the outcome of a game, you can't do it from a front office ownership position. But we're getting the right people in place and we'll be there sooner rather than later.  But it seems like this generation of athlete is more about themselves. They're more about the numbers, not thinking about the team, putting themselves out of the team, pointing at the back of their jersey after they score a touchdown or hanging on the rim. When you're dealing with young players and trying to bring them into the organization, do you see that there is a difference between the generations and there aren't as many players that think the way you do? Well, I think you're part of, well, I mean, you can't, I don't think you can't stereotype all athletes and the generation. I also think, you know, now this day and age, everything is, you know, analytics is taking over the game. There's so many different formulas that rate players and it's all about what you do as an individual and that's how people are compensated, it's bottom line. And, you know, I came up in a time where we were compensated for one thing and that was winning and we won and therefore we were all taken very well care of and we had an opportunity to stay with the organization for a long time. But, you know, winning is what you play for and that's why you should play, that's why you should compete. And, you know, I think, you know, people, they say they wanna win, but you have to be willing to make sacrifices in order to do it. The 2000 World Series, the Subway Series, obviously that's a different thing now. Interleague play happens all the time. How special did that feel? Was there something incredibly unique about it at the time? Yeah, I mean, it was all eyes of New York City was on that and the Subway Series. And I've said it before, if we would have lost that series, I think I would have moved out of Manhattan. Because, you know, it would be tough to be walking around streets of Manhattan with all these Yankee fans and we did come out on top. But it's probably one of the most fun series that I played in and fortunately for us, we played a great match team. But fortunately for us, we were able to win it.  It's thanks for asking. See, now you're trying to make up for it. There you are. You just gotta end on a good note. There you go. It is, it's unbelievable. It's an unbelievable feeling. It's something that I would have struggled with during my career because, you know, when you're in your career, it's a very selfish time. But, you know, it's the best feeling that you can possibly have.  I've got two daughters and it's the greatest thing that's happened to them. Awesome. I'm so happy for you.  I want to congratulate you. And we were joking about it before. It was my honor to be, you know, just along for the ride. And if people connect me and my voice to your great moments, that's enough for me. And I'm really happy about that association. And I'm proud to say that I got to announce your Hall of Fame career. Well, thank you very much. And I appreciate everything you've done for me. All right. Thank you, Derek. Congratulations. Thanks again. I appreciate it, guys. That's Derek Jeter.


Ukrainian border guards near Kupiansk destroy Russian position and troops. The Ukrainian Defence Forces in the Kupiansk direction discovered the enemy position and attacked it. The process of destroying the occupiers was captured on video reports the State Border Guard service of Ukraine. We organized a New Year's Eve fireworks show for the invaders, the statement reads. It is noted that on the last day of 2023, border guards, the Steel Frontier Offensive Guard Brigade destroyed the occupiers observation post in the Kupiansk direction. An accurate drop destroyed the enemy positions along with occupiers, the border guard services added. The Russian Army continues its aggression against Ukraine from the territories of its border regions. Occupiers have concentrated approximately 19,000 troops near the border with Ukraine according to the press service of the Joint Forces operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition to military targets, Russia seeks to destroy energy, transportation and industrial infrastructure. The enemy strikes residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, shopping centers and warehouses with humanitarian aid. To accomplish these tasks, the aggressor country has deployed a troop formation totaling about 19,000 individuals armed with tanks, combat armored vehicles, artillery and missile technology, air defense systems and operational tactical missile complexes, the statement says.


Changes are coming to your Navy Fleet Post Offices, or FPO's. New rules will require customs data on all Navy FPO packages to be entered into the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Database. These new requirements will be effective October 1st. The Navy announced the recipients of the 2015 Mrs. Sybil Stockdale Ombudsman of the Year Award August 25th. The Ombudsman awardees were nominated by their commanding officers for serving their command and families with extraordinary, selfless dedication and commitment to family readiness. The awardees will be recognized at a ceremony in San Diego September 24th. And finally, Defense Secretary Ash Carter will host a live, worldwide troop talk September 1st at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. SECDEF will take questions from across the globe via social media. Post your questions via Facebook and Twitter using hashtag AskSecDeaf or email your questions to AskSecDeaf at Mail.Mail. Watch live on Defense.gov. For these stories and more, visit Navy.Mail. Thank you.


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