Devin, welcome to In The Zone. I appreciate it. Great to have you, man. You're having a great season. Appreciate that. I was reading on your Twitter that you buddies with the Rock. Not buddies. Lookalikes, isn't it? Yes, I guess. I went with the turtleneck with the little chain for one of my games since I've been sitting out. And our social media account made a comparison. He responded. So I grew up a Rock fan. So now I responded to him. And there's a little connection there now. I say he's going to buy you a fanny pack if you win the title. I got to go for that title then. He said I personalized him. I personalized him from the Rock. That'd be a big deal to me. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. That's cool. I know you're a huge fan of Kobe Bryant. We just saw his jerseys retired recently, both of them. Kobe wrote on your shoes for you. Was it last year? Be legendary. That was my rookie year. Rookie year. Be legendary. Tell me the story behind that. My security when we were at Kentucky, Robert Lorre, Horsfield Lakers also. While I was at Kentucky, he always told me. He was like, I love your mindset. You remind me of being. You remind me of being. And I've gotten that comparison from a mindset standpoint, competitive nature standpoint. But obviously, I won't put myself on that pedestal yet. But I always wanted that reputation, that dog-like attitude. Every time I'm on the court, I'm a killer. And every story you hear about Kobe is that. And so he set out the first two games we played them that year. But it was his last time at Phoenix, and we knew he was going to play. So I was really excited for that game. Got the extra rest. Everything woke up stretch. No stretch usually in the morning, but it's a special day playing against Kobe Bryant. His last year, my first year. So I hit Robert Lorre. It was like, is there any way I can get some shoe sign from him after the game? And he was like, I'll see what I can do. So game ended. We ended up winning that game. Won a no versus Kobe. 20 years. We still won a no. Still won a no. But no, Robert Lorre came and grabbed me, brought me back to the locker room. Instead of signing the shoes, I mean, that was a great part of it. But just getting the chance to speak with him. 10, 15 minutes. He had all the ice bags on. Shoes in the ice tub, because he was going through it that season trying to perform for everybody. But just getting the chance to talk to him, he left me with some good things to think about that I still think about today. Yeah, what did he tell you? I'd say just that mindset. For me, he was like, you have everything it takes. Just what is your game going to be? Every night in, every night out, that's what we want. He said, what are you going to be? You've got to learn who you're going against now. You have to study the top dogs. Then he said, you should be studying Golden State every night. You should be watching their film. And hearing that from Kobe, that just makes you want to lock in that much more and then be legendary. He's basically, to me, I think that is the next one out. Let's do it. That's how I took it. So every time I'm out there, I want to go in with that mindset. He, the Jersey Retirement, a lot of people talking about where he ranks all time. What do you think? That's a tough question. See, it's generation-wise for me. It's hard to just do a top five all time because the game was so different in each generation. But me and the young, I have to do top five for sure. That's the way that he impacted the game. He changed the game. If you want to look at numbers, efficiency, and all that, I'm throwing all that out the window. He was a dog, five titles with Kobe's the man. He had an effect on this game of basketball. In my life, personally, not many people will ever have. Did he know when you talked to him, did he know you had this reputation for kind of being a similar mentality to him or not? I think you did. I think the media brought it by him. Postgame, before I had the chance to speak with him. I ended up seeing that after the game. How did you end up scoring that game? 26, 27, not sure. Y'all were matched up one-on-one? No, I don't know. We actually didn't match up much at all. I know I caught it one time in the post against him. I missed a shot, but a shot, his kind of fade away. And he said something. He was like, that's crazy. You went right to my move. He said, I did the same thing when I played against Jordan for the first time. Kobe told me that, and I was like, wow. So there's a picture of it. I missed a shot, but a picture you can't tell. I missed a shot. So I'm gonna hang that picture up. And say you made it. 20 years from now, I made that shot. What is that like playing? I mean, I don't know if you had posters on your wall, but obviously he was a hero, yours growing up. Unbelievable, and it's crazy. I said now to our rookies or our second-year players, I had the chance to play against Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett. I'm a vet now, that's how I feel. So those are legends of the game that I grew up watching. I grew up in Myring, and I had the chance to play against the guys in there last year. But it's crazy, I had LeBron on my wall, Kevin Durant on my wall, and now I'm matched up with these guys night in, night out. How did you develop that killer instinct? Because not everybody has that. Yeah, I'll say I was just born with it, honestly. It just started with, you know, just hating losing.  I never liked being bad at anything. It was ping pong, it was pool, everything I did with my friends. If I wasn't the best at it, I had to keep doing it. So basketball is that sport that you can't perfect. You know, somebody's always gonna be better than you at something, so that's the beauty of the sport. That's what keeps people driven. So for me, you know, that's the love for the game. You know, you have to get better every time you go out there. You know what's interesting, because when you think of guys with the killer mindset, you, Kobe, Michael Jordan, not putting you with those guys, but a lot of those guys, all of y'all, they grew up in the suburbs. And a lot of times people think the game is just inner city. I know your dad moved you to Mississippi to get that toughness.  Even a lot of the best players now, Carl Anthony Towns and guys like that. What do you think that says about, like the game isn't as much inner city as people think, at least nowadays? I think you need a taste of the inner city somewhere in your bloodline or somewhere part of your career. You know, I feel like everybody's playing the suburbs, had to went to those inner city schools and play the game against it and seen that. And, you know, for me, that was my move to Mississippi.  Because you went your sophomore year in high school, right? Yeah, I'd say I had the killer, but it wasn't on full display yet. You know, I feel like it was always in me, like I said, I always wanted to be the best, but I took it to a whole other level where, you know, it's either be eating mentality when I got to Mississippi. So, you know, for me, that kind of changed. Like I'll always credit him. I would never say, you know, I'll suffer anything like that, but also being light-skinned, man.  So, you know, you got to let people know. So what was that like for you culturally to go? Because Grand Rapids or suburban Grand Rapids, you were all white environment pretty much.  What was that like culturally for you? It was different. I didn't like it at first.   When I say blueprint, I was my father. You know, he had all the answers for me. He asked me, is this what you want to do? And then we were just talking about a full ride, full ride scholarship to school. We weren't even thinking about the NBA. So, that's what I wanted. And he knew that. So, you know, I had to go through some growing pains down there, but ended up being the best move of my life. Now I feel like I'm culturally diverse. I can fit in any environment and not credit that to a lot of my success. Your dad, Melvin Booker, played in the NBA briefly. When were you able to beat him one-on-one? We've never played one-on-one. Really? People always ask us that. He'll probably still say he could beat me one-on-one. That's the crazy part. He plays in some men's leagues in Phoenix and dominates them. So, people... Well, he's not that old, right? No, 40 or 45 or so. So, everybody always comes up to me and is like, I see where you get your moves from. Everybody around the city of Phoenix. He's like, I've seen your dad in the gym. You guys play a lot of like. So, now he's more post-work in the gym, but we've never played one-on-one. You mentioned the light-skinned thing. Yeah. Talk about that, because I know what you're talking about, but a lot of people might not understand that. I mean, people just... I say light-skinned, people have the perception of just being soft. People feel like they can punk you. That we say you're not built like that. That's how we say it. And for me, you have to let people know from the beginning. And that's why the first impression, right when I got to the league, was that can't be your mindset. Because once people have that title on you, then they're at you.   I was a white boy at that school. So it was a big difference for me from, like you said, in the suburbs, being the black kid to going to the intercity school, being the white kid, but I got through it. I was fine. Like I said, my mentality, my mindset just overrules all that. Man, look, a lot of, if not most of the best young players coming up now, light skinned. That's true. Y'all ever talk about that? That's true. Carl, Ben Simmons, you know, Lanzo. Light skins are taking over. The duck contest, right? Oh, that's true. Yep. Zach, for sure. Oh, I take pride in that. For sure. I tell dude, Steph Clay. We're up there, we're doing our thing. Yeah, yeah. But Kobe Bryant, is he your favorite player all the time? Favorite player of all time? I don't know if I can do that growing up a Pistons fan. So that was tough for us. But, you know, I respect him so much. To the highest standard, I respect Kobe Bryant and always will forever, but I always say my favorite player growing up was Rip Hamilton. Oh, you had to say that for Michigan.  So Rip Hamilton, you know, he was my favorite player growing up. A big debate is Kobe or LeBron, like the two best players of these generations. Who would you take? For what? As the best player. See, I don't like these questions of comparing people. Cause everybody knows, you know, you can't replace Kobe's mindset. You can't replace his will to win, but at the same time, can't disrespect LeBron and the complete player that he is of getting his team involved to being able to score and now early on they said, you know, he wasn't clutched and now he has big shots all the time too. So, I mean, number wise, obviously LeBron, but you know that mentality and for me personally, I feel like I relate more to Kobe Bryant. So I can't pick one, man. Don't do that to me. Now you, Earl Watson, your former coach, he was on the, in his own recently. I heard about this. I heard about this. Well, he said that you told him you're better than Michael George. So give me the story with that. Man, me and Earl talked after every practice. There was a lot of conversations and surprisingly that probably isn't the craziest one. He says some things also, but you know, for me, you know, he will set the question up. He'd be like, you think you're better than Michael Jordan? And you know how we're raised. I'm not gonna say no. I'm not gonna say no. So, yes, I think I was better than Michael Jordan, but when I say that, you know, it's more of a mindset thing.  You know, you're gonna work to be the best. That's why you play the game to be the best. So, you know, I didn't literally mean I'm better than Michael Jordan in his prime, but you know, I wanna be the best at what I do. Have you seen him since then, Jordan? No, I have not. I have not. Have you met him? Yeah, I've met him a few times. He probably wasn't as big to you as Kobe just because you didn't get to see him. Right, because I grew up in him for sure. And I'm so young that honestly, LeBron probably had the most effect on my generation. Yeah, yeah. You know, Kobe was probably like five, 10 years. So it's crazy how that happened, but yeah, I watched a lot of Mike, watched a lot of film. Do you watch a ton of film? Like other guys. Who's, you watch him more than anybody, do you think? No, I watch a lot of Kobe. I watch Kobe the most from a full-weight standpoint. And he got a lot of his from Mike too. Exactly, so. Earl said also that he thinks you can be the best son's player ever. That's obviously saying a lot. It's probably, I think, Charles Barkley at this point. What are your feelings on that? That's a big statement. Has he ever told you that? Did he ever tell you that? He did tell me that. Okay. I mean, Earl was behind me 100%. People don't know the story behind me at Earl. He was my player development first. So when I wasn't playing as a rookie, we used to spend an extra time in the gym. He was telling me then, you're gonna be special. You're gonna be really special. And then, you know, Horace got fired.  And he was behind me 100%. He said, I think, you know, the quote from Charles Barkley said, I know you're gonna fail.  Yeah, that's when your numbers start picking up. Exactly.  You know, I was 18, 19 at the time. Then the number one option. So seeing teams, best defenders. And like Earl said, you know, it was tough for me. You know, I was struggling a lot.   And I'm getting better every day. So, you know, I credit Earl for a lot of my success. He said he thinks you can, he could see you playing like a James Harden, handling the ball, running off. It's almost like a point. Do you, is that how you kind of would like to play or? Um, you know, I don't mind it. You know, I do it in spurts right now. I like being off the ball. So too, running off screens. But, you know, that's what the game changed. So you look at the two MVP's last year of Russell Westbrook, James Harden. They have the ball in their hand a lot, playing in a lot of pick and rolls and with the passing ability, actually with the way they can score, opens up easy for the passing ability. So, and I can see myself doing a little bit of that. You scored a 70 against Boston and Earl told me that the coach, Brad Stevens, wanted him to take you out. Cause you, the game was pretty much over. Yeah. Were you aware of that? Yeah. The Boston Southeast players were upset. The coaching staff was upset. Like I said, Earl's behind me 100%. You know, he wanted to see me succeed. And his mindset was the same mindset as ours. You know, if you don't like it, then stop it. Yeah. They ended up winning the game. Crazy game of my career. I hear about it probably every day now, but I said Earl, Earl wanted to see me succeed. That's that Kobe mentality. For sure. You go for 70. Yeah, for sure. You have to have some type of mentality just in the zone, honestly. That's crazy. You don't want to answer these. I was going to ask you, who's the best big man in the league? That's not your position, so you got the best big man in the league? Best big man. I'm going to go Carl. College too, man. Yeah, okay, okay. I'm going to Carl. There's man, there's some good bids out there. DeMarcus is having a hell of a season. Yeah, yeah. All the Kentucky guys. You like the Kentucky, I mean, the Kentucky team is crazy. If you had an all Kentucky team, John Wall, you, Carl Anthony Towns, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, how would y'all do against, say, the Warriors? We beat them. I'm going, yeah. I don't know who would beat y'all. That's the heck of a team. Yeah, I like that team right there. That's six, six and above too. Yeah, yeah. That's a tough team right there. Our bench is solid also. Yeah, who else is? I've got Bledsoe, Tyler, Gilchrist, it's a lot of Kentucky guys. When you went there, did you think, because obviously you wanted to get to the NBA, and you want to shine.  We were all concerned at first. I never started a game in college. That's an example, yeah. I never started a game in college. So with our freshman class, me, Tyler, you as my teammate now, Carl Townsend, Trey Liles, we went in thinking it's going to be our team. We're thinking Willie Coley-Stine's about to leave. The Harrison Twins are going to the NBA, so they all decided to stay. We're calling coach like, how is this going to work? You know what I'm saying? Now we have 10 McDonald's All-Americans on one team. Coach says it's going to work. He said everybody's going to eat. So we trusted him. That's where the platoon system started. Five people in, five people out. At the beginning, none of us liked that either. You can't catch your rhythm. You're out there two, three minutes, but one group wasn't playing. The other group was headed right in. We called them reinforcements. So it ended up working out for all of us. We had four lottery picks that year. Crazy year, but Cal wants the best for you. You want you to go to the NBA. You want you to succeed, and that was another great decision I made in my life. Did you guys ever play freshman versus the upperclassmen? Early on we did, in the open gyms when we first got there. I'm taking your freshman one. There was battles, honestly. We were straight out of high school. Obviously we were talented, but they had that years of experience in college ahead of us. But there's definitely some battles, some arguments. Yeah, there's a lot of competing in there. Who's the toughest player for you to go against in the NBA? I'll say Kevin Durant. So you end up guarding him? Yeah, I did sometimes. That height, I guess. He's a guard. He plays with three sometimes. He's just seven foot playing like a guard, man. So many moves. All his shots are uncontested. He's so tall. He can score at all three levels. Just super talented, man. What do you think about, I mean, you see now with super teams, he obviously went to Golden State before that, LeBron and Wade and Vash and Miami. Chris Paul goes to join James Hart. What do you think about that? Like going to join other stars? I think now is something that you have to do. Now I have to say the warrior started it. Just to be able to compete with that team. To be able to compete. And that's where the game has went to. Me personally, I wouldn't like to do that. I don't plan on doing that. But at the end of the day, everybody wants to win. That's why we play the game. And the Warriors set the standard so high where other people had to follow suit. How are we gonna figure this out? Chris Paul wants to be known as a winner. He wants a championship. That's why you play the game. So I understand the decisions that people are making now. But I say that Warriors change the NBA. How have you dealt with, I mean obviously you guys have kind of struggled in your three years here. How does that impact you to just constant losing and not really being a playoff team? It's tough, man. Because if you're an NBA, you've grown up being the best player from probably a long time ago. You always probably grew up on a winning team like I did. So I've been a winner most of my career went to Kentucky, only lost one game. So for me it was a total shock. Just losing. Nightingale you can lose five, six, seven, eight games straight. And traveling different cities you can get down to yourself but you just have to find that within you. Remember why you're playing the game. Remember when you're the kid in the stands that wanted to be on that court so bad. So when we're struggling, Tyson, all our vets always say remember why you're here. And that's to get better. Obviously we have a young team that has to develop. And I think we're on the right path. We have a good young court that's getting better with experience. What will they have to do, the sons, to make sure they keep you?  Man, I just want to win. And I'm sure they do too. Everybody in our program wants to win. And that's a lot of responsibility for me too. I'm willing to take on whatever I have to do to turn this thing around with the young group that we have, just on the right page and start winning. So you like the idea of building, like Michael Jordan, we went to the Bulls and we're a bad team. He built them into a champion. For sure, that'd be great. Especially now losing, being able to win later in my career sooner than later, hopefully. That's what I'm looking forward to. You scored 46 recently against Philadelphia. Ben Simmons, Joel, and you outscored both of them combined.  That was a statement, because obviously they're getting a ton of love. That was a statement. So I know you got the Kobe Bryant mindset, Mamba mentality, so talk about that. I was trying to win the game, man. That's it. Whatever I had to do to win the game. How well do you know them and some of the other great young players that are your age? Giannis, I know Carl, obviously. Well, we know all these guys now. With AAU, we grew up and can't ball together. Like you said, Philly, me and Joel have the same agent, so we see each other a lot. But there's a lot of young talented guys in this league that I enjoy matching up against. You hear about these guys, and they probably hear about me too, so we match up. We see us, we're the future of the league, and I feel like the league's under the good hands. Do you, how do you feel about your, you think your all-star chances are pretty good, or you feel like the team record just hurts it? Team record definitely hurts it. I mean, it feels numbers-wise, and I don't see why not. Like I said, whatever happens, trying to win, turn this thing around, get some wins, and maybe I can start thinking about that. All right, well look, man. I appreciate the time. I appreciate you. Keep up the good work, man. We've really got a bright future, and I'll enjoy watching you for sure. I appreciate that, thank you. And you represent the Lyskin Brothers too. I got you. We need it. For sure.


Hi, beautiful. How are you? You look stunning. Thank you for being here. It's a gorgeous, wonderful day to be alive, to be in this body, to be living grateful for you, to be living and watching me. We're gonna watch some people with very, very, very curly hair, color it blonde, all sorts of shades of blonde, and they're gonna be using bleach to do it. You know, I don't know if you did this, but curly hair and bleach, they don't really mix. It's tough because curly hair is very dry naturally. When you put bleach on it, it becomes even more dry. And things just go wrong and downhill very quickly. Things can start to break off and snap. So I'm sure we're gonna see a lot of that today. Really nervous for these girls who are about to bleach their hair themselves at home. Maybe some of them can create a masterpiece out of their hair. And maybe we'll get some entertainment out of it. Let's watch these videos. First up, we have a video by Mora by Mita. And this is called, I Bleach My Roots and My Hair Broke Off. Oh no, no, no, no, no. I am going to touch up my roots. My roots are out and about. This was about a month ago. Okay, so she is about to touch up her roots and she kind of jumped right into it. So that is what we're at. Now, this is when I had finished touching up my roots. Now I'm just waiting for my hair to process. Why is the hair up in buns like that? That is another no-no because what's gonna happen is that lightener is gonna get on the rest of your hair. It's going to lighten the pieces of hair that don't need to be lightened. And you're going to get even more breakers that way. Next time, don't put your hair up when you're bleaching it. This is not hair dye. This is lightener. Keep it out of the lightener while it's processing. It came out really yellow. I did not leave the bleach in alone because I figured their roots, I figured it would take really quick and I guess poor judgment. Oh, it looked like my roots were lifted. Like if you can see here, it's like really blonde. I only left it in 20 minutes and the direct should do say 30 to 45 minutes. Oh no, no. I would recommend 45 minutes, honestly, for a retouch like this. One thing about having yellow roots like this, it is so hard to make it go away after you do this. That is like nearly orange. So it's gonna take another big round of bleaching and making sure she doesn't overlap on the really light parts in order to make that yellow come out of her hair. I have put the toner in. It's not too bad. It's turning blonde. That's good. We got rid of that yellow. That's what I was worried about, but it's not too bad. It's not what I wanted. Why are we toning your yellow hair? With a purple toner, like what you were just using, it is not gonna cancel out orange and it's not gonna cancel out deep yellow. It's just not gonna work and we're about to see why. Okay guys, so I am back. So let me show you. The roots are still a little dark, but I mean, it's better than the black. This was the color I wanted all my hair to come out. So just a piece of advice, guys, if you do this, leave the bleach in longer. Oh no. This is what I look like. I bleached it. She's bleaching them again. I want to point out here though, her application around her hairline is flawless, impeccable, beautiful. Okay guys, so I am so happy as you can see, it took a light in this time. I left it in 45 minutes. My hair is just falling out. This thing is not healthy. I don't recommend nobody do this. And she pushed it too far. Her hair is snapping off and I'm not surprised. The roots are definitely the right color, but she probably overlapped too much on the existing blonde and it's starting to snap the f*** off. I want it to be really ventilated. So I want you to see, it's toning, turning like a purple. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? No! She's toning it again. And how much do you want to bet? She's using T18 and like 30 volume, which is going to blast open that cuticle again and lift the hair even further and further damage her hair. Guys, I lost a lot of hair this time. Like, look at that. What the f*** is that? That's a lot of hair, sis. Oh my God. My hair fell out in chunks, guys. Look at this. Look at this. Let me show you something. Oh man. Look at this. Look at this. And it's still falling out. No, no, no, no, no. No, stop pulling on it. Stop pulling on it. I have to cut my hair.  It's going to be fine. You're going to rock that short hair cut. I know you can do it, girl. I know you can do it. We're doing a big chop. Rolling out. It has to get cut. It is all coming out in that brush. Oh my God, she's really going for it. I wouldn't recommend cutting like that because then you're going to end up with really short pieces here and really long pieces in the front. But, oh well. That's that. Oh God. I'm sorry. I'm shook right now. It's really heavy. It's just heavy, baby. I know. Listen, she's a trooper. She's just going for it. And I had to really satisfying seeing all that dead hair go. It looks like noodles. It looks like literal ramen noodles that have been overcooked. She's just letting her husband do whatever the f**k he wants. I get it when we're like, we got to cut it so it looks even. So you don't look crazy.  Like I'm trying like this girl. She's nuts. You know what I'm saying? You know what's happening. Oh my God. Baby, that was too short. That was too short. He's just taking clumsy eyes. He's like, right there's good. Right there. Right there. If we can just style it, okay. I think we can pull it together. I think we can wrap it up and make it a little cuter. Hey guys. Ooh, see? She styled it up. This is my first attempt at finger waves guys. So I didn't do the back because I can't really see and I got to get more acquainted with how to do finger waves. But this is how it came out. It's a cute first attempt at finger waves. Not the most perfect, but we'll work on it, you know? It's cute, you know? I'm gagging a little. Yeah, yeah. I'm gagging. In the future, I'd like to get this down more. Mm-hmm. On my face just to get. Let's do that.   I completely agree with that. I think you should do your hair red or purple. If you use something like my color line next model color, your hair will actually be healthier because of the bond builders that are included in it and all the other amazing ingredients like cholera and acid, oils, proteins, and there's nothing that's going to lift your hair or damage it at all. It's like an intensely deep conditioning treatment with hair color. It's going to be very beneficial to your hair and make it look better and brighter and shinier.  It's almost getting a little like a mullet vibe, which that's what you're going for, then go for it, girl. I support you, but get the haircut maybe if you can like professionally or just trim it up and then work on your finger wave skills and I think it'll be perfect. It'll be great. It'll be awesome. You turned a bad thing into a decent thing and I'm proud of you for that. Let's move on to the next video. Up next, we've a video by the channel at KDianni and this is called Bleaching My Natural Brown Hair Platinum Blonde and Damaging My Curls. I'm going to start off with L'Oreal's Technique High Performance Click Blue, the extra strength. This is a blue bleach. You use blue bleach basically to cancel out any orange, yellow tones, you know, get rid of all that brassiness, kind of like in one shot. That is exactly true. Our hair is starting off with a little bit of blonde at the end, so I'm concerned that's going to break off. And then her hair is so dark at the top, so dark and it's curly, so it's dry. So, you know, quick blue is definitely gonna do something. It's gonna definitely lighten your hair, but I worry about the damage. It's about to induce, but you know, we'll see. And then I'm going to be using 30 volume developer. So I don't really follow the instructions or scoops of these because I have a lot of hair. Then I'm going to go with the Claro Professionals Pure White Cream Developer. Okay, 30 volume, good choice. Into the blue bleach powder. You could also use 20 since your hair is very dry, but 30 volume could be fine. Make sure you have gloves because if not, the bleach is going to irritate your hand. We're not gonna section, are we? I just know we aren't. Start off in the back. So this is my hair currently right now. Okay, she's a lot of blonde on those ends. Dark hair, this is all virgin hair, the dark part. And then this is light brown hair. I'm going to grab a Gratio Comb, and I'm going to go at a diagonal. So I am going to bring the bleach a tad bit up to my root, but not all the way because I still want my roots to be dark. So we are kind of painting the hair with our hands and we're trying to avoid the roots, which I don't think is a good idea, but she said she changed your mind. Good, I'm glad she did change your mind. At least the sections aren't gigantic. I guess that's all I can ask for. And at least she's going in there. She's going in there with a lot of lightener, which I love to see people use enough lightener. It's usually so dry. This is nice and moist, there's enough on there. And I'm actually glad she's avoiding her roots, but I wouldn't have put all the color on her ends first because her ends are the lightest. So we're trying to work from darkest to lightest when we apply the lightener, not the lightest to darkest. But at least her roots will probably not be like extremely white because she had actually applied them after the ends, which is great. We're off to a great start. I don't know how it went wrong. So after I finished bleaching my roots, I did let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes. In this clip, you can see that my hair is pretty light. I was kind of scared that my curls were gone, but at this point it was like, it is what it is. Like I already did it. Okay, let me just say it's actually looking good. She used plenty of lightener. It looks like it's fully saturated and she missed no spots, which is more than I could ever ask for, honestly.  I mean, I'm sure she just over-processed it because her ends were already light, but I don't know, it looks pretty good. Being that I knew it wasn't going to be as light as my roots were, I went in ahead and bleached it a second time and you can see it right here. Like my roots are really light and that is mainly because near your scalp, that's where you produce heat, which allows your hair to live faster. If you previously colored your hair, especially since my hair was brown, you're going to have leftover red pigments in your hair. The dye on her ends did not wanna lift it out at all, which is unfortunate because it was going so well.  She has that fine hair, a lot of heat from her scalp and it just lifted really, really fast. Honestly though, it's not looking terrible. So that's what that was. And instead of waiting like a couple of months to color my hair, I went in and did a second process of bleach, which is personally where I messed up. So do not do that at all, you guys. Her hair doesn't look too damaged. I probably would've dried it to feel the texture of it. I would've applied the lightener on dry hair. This way, when it's wet, it's going to take longer. You're diluting the lightener.  So after my second process of bleaching, I did let it sit for 10 minutes in my hair and this is the current condition of my hair.  I was happy about- Okay. Disappointed about my hair's health because I know better. You should probably use a bond building treatment next time while you lighten your hair. That way you're putting some health back into it while you lighten it. It would've really helped a lot maintain the health and the quality of your hair. You're doing a really good job and if you use the right toner at this point, you can really pull this together. But as far as toning, I did go in with the color charm by D14. Okay. That's the pale ash blonde. I used a 20 volume developer, the color Tangle brand. So what I do is split my hair into four sections and then I always color the perimeter of that section first and then I go in between the sections, color the root and then I spread the color throughout the rest. With this toning process, you should start on the most yellow parts of your hair first. That way it gets the most toning benefits and the most amount of time with the toner on that part of the hair. And then move on to the lighter, more white parts. All right, y'all. Oh my God. This is what my hair looks like. Definitely something I have to get used to. The only downside with this is I'm gonna really have to do treatments back to back. I have some critiques but this doesn't look bad. Some of these hairs, they're not curly. Like how my roots are curly should have never like double process like the mid shaft to the end. But I really do love the color.  Like I said, definitely a color I have to get used to. Here's the thing. I think you did a great job. Like for what it is, you did a great job. The only thing I'm kind of wanna critique is I don't love the tone of it. Like I wish it was more yellowy. I feel like it would just make you look a lot brighter and healthier if you've had a more warm tone of blonde rather than a really ashy, like almost green, yellow. I don't know, it's like green and gray in there that I'm seeing, like blue, greens, grays. I wish you were more on the yellow side of platinum blonde, like a cream color. That would just look so good on you. Your hair quality doesn't look terrible. You know, just put some moisturizing curl products in there and I think it'll look amazing and you look really pretty with blonde hair. It's a big change and you did it pretty well. So I'm proud of you, great job. Those were definitely some interesting results. Not the greatest, not the worst, but it was definitely scary watching these people bleach their curly hair and I felt so bad for their curls. A lot of damage going on, a lot of scariness and they pulled off something and we'll leave it at that. Make sure you guys follow me everywhere else if you aren't already here on my social media handle already. Make sure you click the subscribe button right down below if you are not subscribed already. Also click the like button and the bell icon to be notified every time I post a new video. This is my number right here. Yes, it's really connected to my phone and yes, I really do see some of your messages. You can text me right now and I'll be texting some of you guys right back. This will also keep you notified every time I post a new video. If you guys would like to check out my haircare line and my color line, you can do so now at xmodohair.com. You can also check out our Instagrams for inspiration at xmodohair and xmodocolor. Go for it. If you guys would like to live your actual life with me and shop my merch, you can do so. It is so freaking cute. You can shop it at xmodohair.com or with the link below. Today's Instagram shout out goes to Drew and this says, I've recently cut my hair the shortest it's ever been. She did too much bleaching. Ooh, we saw that today. My hair has been about every color in the rainbow and I decided to go back to the same permanent auburn while I let it heal. But I've been feeling pretty bland and I'm still not sure how to style such short hair. Any color, style, tips and suggestions, things. The auburn is definitely pretty. I think it looks really great on you but if you're looking to do a change, I don't know, I feel like I would love to see your hair pink. Like pink and shorter, like really short and really edgy.  My BDSM slick and defined balm will be amazing for your hair to keep it that peasy texture and rehydrate it. It's also really good for damaged hair because it has so many oils in it and it's not gonna dry your hair out at all. So try that.  If you end up doing it, I would love to see a photo and good luck. That's all for today guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye guys.


So let's talk about design and the first major improvement for Next Cloud Hub 5.  Whether it's for work or for personal things, it's probably in front of a screen. So it's really important that the software you're using, it works for us. It gets out of our way, and we feel good and familiar, and we're having fun while using it. This is why we announced Next Cloud Personal last year. And in building that, we followed four design principles. First is focus on the content. We make sure that the information you need is front and center so that you can do the work you need to do as soon as possible. Second is ease of use. Software should get out of your way. We believe in smart defaults and doing things automatically instead of having a billion settings and configuration. Third is great accessibility. Everyone should be able to use Next Cloud. Regardless of whether you use a mouse, a keyboard, a screen reader, whether you have vision impairments or motor impairments, you will be able to use Next Cloud. And fourth, you can make it your own. For feeling at home, it's really important that we're able to customize and personalize our experience. And because of that, we launched Next Cloud Personal. The interface is clean. Your wallpaper still shines through. And whatever was visible in the dashboard previously is now seen across all your apps. So as you change your wallpaper, it reflects across your entire Next Cloud. In this release, we also added some new destruction-free wallpapers. These are wallpapers that are subtle and carbon-understated, and they provide a great look. And if you want something that's not super busy, this is for you. But of course, you can also upload your own backgrounds. It's super simple.  And regardless of what background you choose, whether it's your own or one provided by Next Cloud, the color of your instance automatically adjusts to match the background. This means everything looks seamless and put together. But of course, that's not all. We also have added advanced theming options for people who would like to white label their Next Cloud. This means that you can change your background, your color, your logo, as well as fonts, and how rounded the corners look. And this is really useful for providers of Next Cloud who would like to have some custom branding for their instance. As always, we are also working on accessibility so that we adhere to the strictest standards.


Hello from Quartzite Today's Been a long editing day. It's a little bit too warm for me. It's close to 80 degrees here Bad just cooking dinner. Let's go see what he made So you get ground beef or turkey like Jax give us a turkey so we put it in here and just get taco seasoning mix and you put it in there Okay. Well, this is I did this for Jack because this is an easy thing for people to do cheese onions Salary Peppers Salsa now you can have we don't eat sour cream But if you want sour cream you can put sour cream or you can put lettuce in it, but we don't You Get ahead of lettuce for this not not just a mechanic everybody. Hey, this is a cheap easy meal for a lazy guy That's what it is taco maker All right, so make this up on the road like a pound or two pounds of hamburger and put it in your Bridge, right? Yeah, and then when you get it out. Just get it out warm it up in a play Yeah, okay. Now. This is a fun part now all I know is you have to use drills In the bag like this Cool ranch. We've got Jax spicy stuff because he likes spicy stuff now What you do is you scrunch the bag out And you get it in the bite-size pieces Okay, and you get the Scissors Now this is great for kids in a birthday party. You just make this they can do their own thing, right? So that's what you get, right? Yep. Okay So what you do is you put in a scoop of hamburger or turkey meat, right? And then you put in Tomatoes how much is like this is just that good salsa that Jack told us about mm-hmm this stuff made in, California So they know how to make salsa All right, and then you put in so you like salary. Yep That's the first by the way. I've never had celery inside a taco before Peppers and he says they're not Canadian tacos, by the way, by the way, this is Colored peppers because green peppers are so raw. I know you don't know that but I'm telling you that they're not all the way ripe, right? That's right. Yeah So this is where the fun begins because the kids then you fold this together like so Take it up This is like nachos in a bag, huh?  Taco's in a bag. That's exactly what it is I can hardly wait for this Then you put some cheese on it You want any spices on it? Uh, no, that's good like that So I'll give this to you. Thank you and I'll hold the camera. All right here Let's come out here where the light's a little bit better. Okay Now I got this All right, here we go. Taco's in a bag. Taco's in a bag. It's not Canadian, by the way. It's just a Hey I don't remember the last time I had Doritos, but it's good. It's quick It's really quick. I got probably took us 15 minutes to make that. Yeah, I want to try the cool ranch one after Okay Well, I guess it's uh it for today's video. I was uh editing all day um And then me and badge were around the fireplace And we were talking about bus number two So We had some exciting conversations and uh Yeah, all I can say is that if I do get a bus And uh, I get it before winter time We could fix up some of the mechanical stuff, obviously uh over here and Depending on how this next Six months goes Uh, that could be a possibility Uh, I would have to cash out of this one find myself a new one And start all over from scratch But I do love this bus. It's an awesome bus. It's definitely has its benefits Uh, the size being one of them you can pretty much park anywhere. So if I went bigger I would want to go everywhere That I needed a small bus for and I think that would be a fun trade-off Uh, and then bunk beds for uh, Cody and Josh and Claire bear She can she can have her own bunk back there too. Um, yeah, I will I think I'm taking off tomorrow So, uh, we'll definitely film all that. All right. Thanks for watching


If you're a player, I want to help you improve faster than you have in the past.  If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views, I've helped players worldwide, and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. Your goal is to get 25 touches on each body part. So what do I mean by that? 25 right foot or 25 left foot? Or your weaker foot, but if you've been following me, you know, I do not like the phrase weak foot. You have two strong feet. Then 25 right thigh, 25 left thigh, and 25 headers. Okay, that's where I want you to start. If you're a kid, that should be your first juggling goals. Also, as I always talk about, just left right, good rhythm, alternating feet. Can you get to 500? 100 first milestone, first major milestone, whatever your record is right now, just try to beat it. Get to 100, be excited about that. 500. Let's just talk about how to improve that a little quicker. So the strength of the touch. If it's too weak, you're not going to be able to keep that rhythm.  I'd rather you do that. I would rather you hit the ball into your face, then hit it down on the ground and it dies. Okay, so it's better to hit it too hard in the beginning, and you might smack yourself in the face. That's fine. Then too weak. Okay, the other thing is the speed of my feet. I'm not flat footed. I'm not like this. Okay, I'm sharp on my toes, every touch. I'm putting it down, I'm back up, I'm reacting. If the ball goes, I go with it. You can also add 25 of these mini touches with balance here. Focus on the touch, but also the balance in the supporting leg. Spread the toes, make a nice flat surface, a strong base, strong foundation, and these are just little touches off my toe, and I'm kind of just lifting the knee. I'm not even moving the ankle, I'm just lifting the knee. On the sides, it's about making contact in the middle. If this contact is off to the side, that's going to be tough for me to get there. And then it's also the quickness, the sharpness of this. Okay, because if I'm too slow with this, I'm not going to be able to keep the rhythm.  Headers, a lot of kids struggle with headers because usually they're hitting it and the ball is going forward. It's not going straight up. So in order to do that, I have to get under the ball, make that ball go straight up. If you find your headers are going this way and you're chasing it everywhere, lean back a little more. It would be better for the ball to go backwards than forwards. But all I'm talking about here is analyzing your touches. If every time you screw up and it goes that way, don't let yourself do that again. If anything, go the exact opposite way and then you'll find somewhere in the middle. Put a good bend in the knees, find a good rhythm.  If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy. Footwork, this stuff, but I want you moving. Once you get the foundation, I want you moving forward and backwards. Touches like that, touches like this.  Good, inside, outside, and always both feet. You don't know how many 30-year-old men I play with that only have one foot. Don't be one of those. Okay, so work on those forward drills. When you're doing these, the touches are important, but focus on the lightness of foot. Because if I'm trying to cut and I'm flat-footed, even if I do have a cut, I'm not going to get away from anyone. Okay, so the movement, it's sharp here. The knees are bent, the feet are quick. Anytime I'm changing direction, I always talk about bend the knees, get lower to the ground. Going to shooting, and if you're a young kid or a beginner and you're just starting, you don't need to be shooting from way back there.  All you want to focus on in the beginning is getting good contact off the laces. And I'm shooting from point-blank range. But I'm not focused on hitting corners at all in the beginning. I'm just focused on getting good contact, building confidence in my feet, feeling the difference from a bad shot and a good shot. Okay, so if you have a net like this where it comes back to you or a wall or a little rebounder, I don't want you shooting from 30 yards away because I want you getting repetitions. As a kid, I just want you getting thousands and thousands of repetitions. So if you can start from a young age, striking the ball left-right, just like we juggle left-right, just like we dribble left-right, striking the ball left-right, just getting good repetition. Start that at a young age. When you're a teenager, when you're an older player, an adult player, you're going to have two left or two strong feet. You're going to be able to go both ways. You're going to be difficult to defend. You're going to score more goals because you can shoot with both feet. It's going to serve you in the long run. I still am analyzing and tweaking my technique every single day. So don't think it's something that stops. Improvement never stops. As you get older, you just keep getting better and you can get better and better as you get older because you become smarter in the way that you get outside of yourself and look at what you're doing wrong. It's tough to do that when you're a kid. But a couple of things for the shooting technique free to practice in the beginning. Flex foot. Strong contact. You always hear this. You always talk about it. Point the toes down. Lock the ankle. Lock the calf. Lock the quad. Tighten the upper body. Okay, so strong body. If anything is weak, the shot is weak. It's going to be a lot of backspin. You want a bullet that goes forward with forward spin and even dips and swerves if you hit it right in the middle. Okay, but strong foot contact. Pause the body. Don't let the body sway to one side or the other. And focus on the follow-through. Nice flowing swing. Nice flowing backswing. Flowing front swing. And hit the middle of the ball. I can feel, I can see where it goes if I'm not focused and I'm not hitting the center of the ball. I can feel the difference. You need to learn to feel the difference between a good shot and a bad shot. Big flowings, follow-through. Follow-through towards the target. Don't follow-through across the body. Follow-through towards the goal. So as a kid, juggling, those forward drills, those dribbling drills, moving with the ball, getting lots of touches, shooting with both feet. Your first goal is just to get comfortable with Lace's technique. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.


Hello, 127th Wing. I'm General Mahlmann and welcome to the December drill. As I was preparing for this video I look back over the last 12 months at all the accomplishments that the 127th Wing has done And I'm just absolutely proud of the organization and the men and women for everything that you have done to make this year an amazing success. So think about all the highlight events. We had Airmen working at Operation Allies Welcome. Greeting our Afghan friends here into the United States. That lasted really through the beginning of this year all the way through about March of last year. Additionally, we had over a hundred Airmen deployed as part of RCP-7 this year. And in fact at one point we had Airmen in every major geographic combatant command across the globe. Fantastic work done. Also, we sent tankers and equipment and personnel to Guam for a deployment to support our allies in the Pacific Theater. And then in the spring we did a generation exercise for both the tankers and the ATENS. And this generation exercise was contested where we pulled power, where we pulled comms, where we pulled our radios and had us generate aircraft without having all our computer systems available to us at our fingertips. We participated in Northern Agility 22-1 and 22-2, which were Agile Combat Employment Exercises learning these new techniques that we will need to present forces against a peer competitor. In that, we landed again on another Michigan highway, but this time we did integrated combat turns to include loading munitions on the highway in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Additionally, the tankers took part in doing so many innovative new techniques to include what wing defuel and hot pit refueling for the tankers all again to try to get after our Agile Combat Employment requirements moving forward. Additionally, in July we had our air show and open house. Just prior to the air show and open house, the governor came to visit Selfridge along with the secretary of the Air Force. That was actually on the day prior to the air show and they both got to meet Airman as part of the family day of the air show. During the air show, we hosted well over 100,000 of our local citizens that came out to see what their taxpayer dollars are paying for and I couldn't be prouder of how well the organization supported that air show and open house. Leading up to the air show and open house, we did three STEM events out in the local community trying to inspire that next generation to serve. In total, we probably saw over 1,000 young men and women who are getting ready to embark on their careers, hopefully bringing them into our Air National Guard family. And then rounding out the year, we had both the Air Combat Command and Air Mobility Command Inspector Generals here on base to give us our capstone inspection, which I'm proud to say we did extremely well. We were effective in all four major graded areas and that is a testament to all the hard work that every Airman of the 127th Wing has done. So I want to say a big thank you for all the Airmen. When looking back at that past year, I never expected it to be as busy as it was, but I got to tell you something. The Airmen of the 127th Wing are the magic. It's that you that make those things possible cannot be prouder of this organization and everything that you have accomplished over this past year. Looking forward to this drill on Sunday, we're planning a 127th Wing Commander's Call. This is going to be our first Commander's Call since 2019 because COVID has shut things down over the last several years. During the Commander's Call, we're going to give you time to ask questions of your leadership team, and we're going to try to answer those as best we possibly can. So I'm looking forward to seeing everybody in formation on Sunday of drill. Now looking forward to next year, we're going to continue moving out on our Air Staff transition as we reorganize the Wing. Looking forward to Air Defender 23 in Germany in the summer of next year and then future deployments for some members of our organization. And again, this is the holiday season, so I want to wish everybody a happy holidays. But at the same token, I ask all of you to please be safe over this holiday season. Please have a wingman. Keep an eye out for each other. It is our goal that the 127th Wing is the best led, most efficient, effective, and adaptable organization in the United States Air Force. I appreciate your leadership, and I appreciate your professionalism.


Good morning friends, welcome to Indian Express Weekly Analysis brought to you by Shankar A.S. Academy. Displayed here are the topics we are going to discuss today. I have selected six important topics from the last week's Indian Express newspaper. Before discussion, I have two important announcements. Chakra Initiative brought to you by Shankar A.S. Academy. We are providing 50 plus current affairs sessions, five rapid revision sessions, and nine current affairs tests. The next announcement is regarding Shankar A.S. Academy's pre-storming test series. The batch three of pre-storming test series will begin on 16th November 2023. The first test will happen on 22nd November. So, the link for both these two announcements are mentioned in the description. So, make use of it. Now, let us get into the discussion. Look at this article. It talks about ongoing Israel-Palestine war. In our discussion, we shall understand the brief history of Israel-Palestine conflict. See, this conflict is a complex and long-standing dispute that has its roots in 19th and early 20th century, but it escalated significantly after 1947. To explain it in detail, we need to understand its historical background, key events, and major issues involved in this conflict. First, let us see the historical background. In late 19th century, this region called Palestine was part of the Potomac Empire. During this time, Jewish immigrants who are driven by various factors including religious and political motivations began to settle in the Palestine region. So, this is the beginning of Zionist movement which aimed to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. For more than 2000 years, the Palestine is occupied and resided by Palestinian Arabs. During World War I, the Palestine region was under Ottoman-Turkish Empire. This Ottoman Empire fought alongside Germany in First World War. Since they lost in the war, Britain and France took over the Turkish Empire and divided the empire's land among themselves. The area of Palestine came under the control of Britain. Now, the British government issued a declaration called Balfour Declaration which expressed support for establishment of Jewish State in Palestine. See, the British occupied this Palestine region from 1920 to 1948. During this time, tensions between Jewish and Arab communities in Palestine escalated. The Jewish population grew significantly due to immigration of Jews from various parts of the world into Palestine. So, this was the source of conflict with the Arab majority who are already residing in Palestine. In 1947, the United Nations proposed a partition plan to address the ongoing conflict. The UN General Assembly recommended the division of Palestine into two separate states, one for Jewish and one for Arabs. That is, Palestine was divided into Israel and Palestine. The city of Jerusalem was kept under international administration. This plan was accepted by Jewish leaders but was rejected by Arab leaders. So, this marked a crucial turning point in the conflict. Following this UN partition plan, violence erupted in Palestine. In May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. On the very next day, the neighboring Arab countries, that is Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq, launched a full-scale war against Israel to support the Palestinian Arabs. This conflict resulted in displacement of thousands of Palestinians and marked the beginning of a series of wars between Israel and its neighbors. So, in this 1948 war, Israel won and occupied more territories from surrounding regions. After this, Israel-Palestine conflict was marked by numerous wars, uprisings and negotiations over years. Another important war happened in 1967. It is also known as the Six-Day War. It was a brief conflict between Israel on one side, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and other side. Israel launched a pre-emptive strike and in just six days it captured territories like Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria and it also occupied Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem. So, Israel won the war and it resulted in significant territorial changes in the Palestinian region. After this, there were multiple peace negotiations like Oslo Accords in 1993, Camp David Accords in 2000 and Annapolis Conference in 2007. These peace negotiations have yielded temporary ceasefires and limited agreements, but a final resolution is not yet arrived. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital. The status of this city has been a significant point of conflict. So, this is the summary of Israel-Palestine conflict from 1948. I hope you got an overall view about the ongoing conflict. Now, let us move to the next article discussion. Have a look at this news article. China is building an enormous telescope to detect ghost particles. See, neutrinos are called as ghost particles. So, this telescope will be the largest ever telescope to detect neutrinos. Now, why are neutrinos called as ghost particles? We shall see in our discussion. See, neutrinos are tiny subatomic particles similar to electrons, but they have no electric charge. They are incredibly abundant in the universe with trillions of neutrinos passing through our bodies every second. At first, neutrinos were thought to have no moss, but later scientists discovered that they have very small amount of moss. So, neutrinos have moss. Neutrinos are incredibly hard to detect because they rarely interact with other particles. So, they can be only seen when they interact with other particles. Due to this rare interaction, most neutrinos pass through everything without being noticed. So, this is why they are called ghost particles because they are extremely challenging to track neutrinos. See, neutrinos were first discovered in 1959 and they are second most abundant particle in the universe after photon. Now, what are the sources of neutrinos? Radioactive decays can produce neutrinos. Natural nuclear reactions in sun and stars produce neutrinos. Even artificial nuclear reactions in nuclear reactors can release neutrinos. Neutrinos are also produced in supernovas. So, these are some of the important sources of neutrinos. See, every elementary particle has an antiparticle. That means, electrons have an antiparticle called positron. Neutrinos have antiparticles called anti-neutrinos. But if you take electron, it has negative charge and its antiparticles have opposite charge. But in case of neutrinos, it doesn't have any charge. And the antiparticle for neutrinos that is anti-neutrinos also doesn't have any charge. So, it is impossible to differentiate neutrinos from their antiparticles. So, these are some of the important facts about neutrinos. Now, coming back to the news. As we saw earlier, neutrinos are called ghost particles because they rarely interact with other particles. But sometimes, neutrinos interact with water molecules. So, that is why China is building the largest neutrino detector underwater in South China Sea. Another largest neutrino detector is also present in Antarctic region which is called ice cube. In India also, there is a neutrino observatory which is currently being built in Thaini district in Tamil Nadu. So, this is all about the news. Now, let us move to the next topic. Now, this article talks about CAR T-cell therapy. Let us look into the important information given in this article. This is very important for our Prelims exam because UPSC has been asking a lot of questions related to emerging technologies in medical field. So, CAR T-cell therapy is a short form for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. It is a form of immunotherapy that is used to treat cancer. In this therapy, a person's own T-cells are genetically modified to enhance their ability to target and destroy cancer cells. Here, T-cell is a type of white blood cell which can fight cancer cells. Now, let us see how this CAR T-cell therapy works. In this therapy, a regular immune cells called T-cells are transformed into powerful cancer fighters known as CAR T-cells. So, T-cells are transformed into CAR T-cells. See, here T-cells are special white blood cells that help our body to fight infections and illness.  By using CAR T-cell therapy, we modify the T-cells by changing their genes to make them even better at attacking cancer. After genetic modification, we put these supercharged CAR T-cells back into the patient's body. These supercharged T-cells then get to work and attack cancer cells. So, this is how CAR T-cell therapy works. This is essentially effective for blood cancers like leukemia and lymphomas. Overall, CAR T-cell therapy is like turning your body's own immune cells into cancer-killing superheroes. Note that this therapy is mainly used to fight blood cancers. Recently, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization granted market authorization for India's first indigenously developed CAR T-cell therapy which is called NEXT CAR 19. So, this waives a way for commercial launch of T-cell therapy in India. It will be available to cancer patients in India at very low cost compared to other countries. So, in UPAC, there may be a question like, what do you mean by NEXT CAR 19? Which is recently seen in the news. The answer is, it is a technology related to treatment of cancer. Like this, we need to understand some basic information about the recent news. See, this NEXT CAR 19 is a type of CAR T-cell therapy which is developed by Immuno ACT which is a company incubated at IIT Bombay. So, this particular T-cell therapy is designed to target cancer cells that carry CD19 protein. This protein acts like a flag on cancer cells and this allows CAR T-cells to recognize and attack themselves and start the process of destroying cancer cells. So, this is how NEXT CAR 19 therapy works. Here, we have to note the important key names like NEXT CAR 19, CD19 protein, CAR T-cell therapy, what is T-cell? So, these are important facts for prelims examination. So, this is all about this news article discussion. Now, let us move to the next topic. Take a look at this article. Indian government has taken measures to address rising onion prices by imposing a minimum export price on onion exports. This move aims to control the export of onions from India and ensure an adequate supply of onion within the country. So, this will reduce the rising onion prices. In this discussion, we shall see about MEP. Minimum export price is a price below which an exporter is not allowed to export a commodity from India. The government fixes MEP for selected commodities to arrest domestic price and also to augment the domestic supply. Basically, it is the minimum price at which commodities can be exported from the country. Government imposes MEP under Foreign Trade Development and Regulation Act 1992. Note that minimum export price is different from minimum support price. This MEP is different from MSP. MSP is the minimum price at which government purchase crops from the farmers. So, do not confuse MEP with MSP. Now, if we look at the onion protection, Maharashtra is a leading producer of onion in India. It is followed by Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar and Mathya Pradesh, Bilgam, Bijapur, Bhagalkot in Karnataka are major onion producing regions. There are various varieties of onions cultivated throughout the world like red onions, white onions, yellow onions. In India, red and white onions are mostly grown and if you look at this map, these are the major onion producing states in India and most of them lies on the western part of India. One important fact about onion, onions contain phytochemicals called quercetin and this phytochemical is being studied for their potential health promoting properties. Here phytochemicals are chemical compounds that are produced by plants which have bioactive properties. Phytochemicals are generally produced by plants to help them to resist fungi, bacteria and plant virus infections. So, the phytochemicals are used by the plants as poisons against insects or virus that affect them. A few examples of phytochemicals are flavonoids, phenolic acids, curcumin, carotenoids etc. So, onion also contains a phytochemical called quercetin. So, this is all about this discussion. Here we have seen basics about minimum export price, important onion producing states. Now we shall move to the next topic. Look at this article. It talks about criticisms regarding electoral bonds. Recently, a case is going on in Supreme Court regarding the issues with electoral bond scheme. So, in this discussion today, we are going to see about basics about electoral bond scheme and important issues associated with it. Now first, what is electoral bond? See, electoral bonds are instruments or securities that are used to donate funds to political parties. Imagine you want to support a political party by giving them money. Instead of giving direct cash, you go to a bank and buy an electoral bond. You then take this electoral bond and give it to political party you support. They can deposit in the bank and get the money. In this way, anyone can give funds to political parties. One unique thing about the bond is, donor's name is not written on them. So, the party receiving the money doesn't know who gave it. It's like giving a gift anonymously. Even though your name is hidden, government keeps track of all electoral bonds that are issued and check how much money each political party gets. So, in this way, it is aimed to be transparent and eliminates illegal funding to political parties. See, electoral bonds were first introduced in 2018. The scheme was introduced as a part of the finance bill 2017. These bonds are only available in state banks of India and not in any other banks. So, these are the basics about electoral bond scheme. With these basics, let us now understand the issues associated with electoral bond scheme. The first issue is anonymity and lack of transparency. One of the major criticism is that the scheme allows for anonymous donations to political parties. See, donors can purchase these bonds without their identities being disclosed to public. This lack of transparency can raise concerns about source of political funding and this potentially allows for black money to enter into politics. Then there is lack of accountability. The scheme does not require political parties to disclose the identity of donors when they redeem the bonds. So, this lack of accountability can make it difficult to track where the money is coming from that potentially leads to corruption and unethical practices. Then the third important issue is possible influence of corporations. Critics argue that electoral bond scheme may enable corporations and wealthy individuals to have influence over political parties and government decisions. So, they can make significant donations without any public scrutiny. Then the fourth important issue is inequality in political funding. Small and regional parties often have limited access to electoral bonds. This leads to unequal distribution of funds and create disparities between big national parties and the smaller parties. Then the fifth important issue is impact on electoral integrity. The lack of transparency regarding the electoral bonds can undermine the integrity of electoral process. It can be challenging for citizens to know who is funding the parties which may erode public trust in the political system. Then there are legal challenges. See, electoral bond scheme has faced many legal challenges in India which raises concern about compatibility with laws like right to information and transparency. There have been concerns that the scheme could have used for money laundering or illegal activities as it provides a way to funnel large amount of money to political parties with a limited oversight. So, various civil society organizations, activists and opposition parties have called for reforms to make electoral bond scheme more transparent and accountable. They argue that these reforms are necessary to maintain the democratic and electoral integrity of political system. Overall, the electoral bond scheme has sparked a debate about balance between protecting donor privacy and ensuring transparency and accountability in political funding. So, it remains as a contentious issue in Indian politics.


An investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine has been launched that Russia was accused of bombing civilians. The International Criminal Code, ICC Chief Prosecutor said evidence was being collected on alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. It came after 39 nations called for an inquiry to be opened. Feat is included in the capital Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kursin have come on the heavy shelling in recent days. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has already accused Moscow of war crimes after it launched airstrikes on the country's second city of Kharkiv, killing civilians. On Wednesday, the mayor of Kursin said Russian forces had seized control of the key port, the first major city to be taken by Moscow, since it invaded a week ago.


Well, after 10 hours of deliberation, the jury has found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts. Here's the moment when it happened. Unintentional second degree murder while committing a felony. Find the defendant guilty. This verdict agreed to this 20th day of April 2021 at 1.44 p.m. Signed juror four person, juror number 19. Same caption, verdict count two. We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count two. Third degree murder perpetrating an eminently dangerous act. Find the defendant guilty. This verdict agreed to this 20th day of April 2021 at 1.45 p.m. Signed by jury four person juror number 19. Same caption, verdict count three. We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count three. Second degree manslaughter culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk. Find the defendant guilty. This verdict agreed to this 20th day of April 2021 at 1.45 p.m. Jury four person, 019. Now I want to cut to some live reactions. Now I, it's kind of hard to film because I'm still emotional from, from seeing the verdict, but I just want to read from the New York Times here. So since he's been found guilty, Mr. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced in the coming weeks, but it's likely to receive far less time. The presumptive sentence for second degree murder is 12.5 years according to Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, although the state has asked for a higher sentence. Now I will be perfectly honest. I was not expecting him to be found guilty. At most I thought maybe on the manslaughter charge, but he was found guilty on all three accounts and I am pleasantly surprised. Even if we all saw the video where this man was kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes still in America with our racist criminal justice and judicial system. I wasn't expecting even an extreme circumstance like that with that much evidence that we can see to lead to a guilty verdict, but I'm, I'm happy about this. It's nice to see that George Floyd's family is going to have some justice. They're going to see the man who murdered George Floyd go to jail, go to prison. And that's, that's really good. But of course needless to say this doesn't mean that the issue is resolved while there's justice in the sense that Derek Chauvin will be going to prison. This system of injustice that led to him dying in the first place has to be dismantled. That's the thing. I don't want people to take away from this. Oh, well, that's it. We won. We did not win yet. The fight continues. There is justice in this case. But the system itself that led to George Floyd's murder in the first place, that has got to be dismantled. And that is one main thing that I really want folks to take away from this. We should never have to be in this position where we're begging for justice for someone who is murdered by a racist cop. That shouldn't happen at all. George Floyd will never be here again. He'll never take another breath. And that in of itself is heartbreaking. And so we have to make sure that we fight to stop this dismantle the system that leads to police brutality and police sanctioned murder, state sanctioned murders by police officers against black Americans. But for now, this is definitely good news, a cause for celebration. Again, still reacting to this. We just got the verdict like five minutes ago as I record this. And I'm a little bit discombobulated. I'm shocked to be to be frank. I'm actually genuinely shocked. But more details will follow. It's been three weeks of trials. If you've been following it, it's been gut wrenching. It's been emotional. But now it has resulted in Derek Chauvin going to prison. Sentencing will come shortly. Trying to collect my thoughts here. Wow, just yeah. I don't think there's anything else to really say about this. Derek Chauvin is going to prison. Rightfully so.


So yeah, good afternoon. Thank you for having me So short introduction. I'm indeed. I'm Danny hobo. I'm a backend developer working for Xoff in case you didn't see that yet I'm from the Netherlands and I'm working for the Tallinn office So if you have never seen me before here in Helsinki, that might be the reason why I'm today talking here about speeding up development with the WP CLI or VP Clyde for about easier pronunciation So let's get started First of all, what is VP Clyde? Well, it stands for the WordPress command line interface and The goal why it was created is so that you can manage WordPress installations from the command line Basically, the idea is that you can do everything that you can do from the admin interface and more so How do you get it? Well, as you can see from the steps It's just three simple steps download the file and put it into your part As you can see you don't need to install WordPress first There is a reason for that because you can actually Install WordPress with VP Clyde and that will make things faster as we will see later So let's say that you have installed VP Clyde and you have a WordPress installation running like let's see yet Some examples like what can you do? One good example could be plugins. I mean we're all using plugins. We're all installing them updating them We all know how to do it from the admin, but here's one example how you can do it using VP Clyde So it is just one command as you can see in my screenshot down below. I was installing the poli lung plug-in Just one command it automatically Downloads installs and activate the latest version of poli lung all with one command If you want updates like a single plug-in just type in the VP plug-in update in this case VP plug-in update poli lung and it just if there is an update available It just takes that and it immediately like installs it and make sure that that one is working How about if you want to update all the plugins well, of course, that's possible as well just Use this command VP plug-in update all and you can see that VP Clyde even puts your side in maintenance mode updates all the plugins that has an update available and then Takes it out of maintenance mode I think there is like a small buck in VP Clyde because it says updated three out of zero updates So three out of zero plugins, which of course is a little typo, but as you can see it has worked So what other kind of things can you do with VP Clyde related to plugins? Well, you can for example list all the plugins with status so that you can see which ones are active which ones are Enabled which ones are disabled You can install a specific version So if you want to have an older version of a certain plug-in then that's not a problem If the latest version of any plug-in doesn't work with your site or doesn't work with your team You can't take an older version If you have a plug-in that is not available in the WordPress plug-in directory So some premium plug-in or maybe you developing something yourself that isn't public yet You can also just install them from zip or from git just the way as you used to from doing it in the admin And of course you can also you search the wordpress.org plug-in directory so that you can If you're not completely sure anymore about the name You can just type it in there and it comes up with all the Matches for that name and you can just install that one directly from the command line Well Besides plug-ins. We also all use teams or at least many of us do and basically that works the exact same way So instead of VP plug-in you type VP team and then install the team that you want You can even add the flag to activators right away and as you can see from what I did I did 2017 team. It just installs and activated straight away. So you can all do it with just one command Well besides that it has all the same things that you can do with the plug-in so you can update them Activate your team deactivate install and install like everything before So okay, that's like the usual stuff that we all do from the admin But where can you like really like save a lot of time like what is really the fun stuff? Well, for example, WordPress the core install can be done in just a few seconds And that's if you type really fast, but it can be done like very quickly and You need two steps to do that first You need to create a VP config file because of course WordPress does need to know your database credentials before it does the install so you just with one command can do that as well VP core config and then use your database credentials and it creates the VP config file After doing that, it's just one more command with a few more like parameters such as the name of your website and The admin credentials and by just by doing that WordPress will be installed if you Do those two steps and you go in your browser to the VC Helsinki.f You will see that the website is up and running We all know that the WordPress is already fast by default. It is just a five minute install But this makes it even faster Maybe not you don't see the value of that if you just do one side But if you develop 10 20 30 websites all on the same server or maybe few different servers You can win so much time by just by doing this The same goes for media like pretty much all the websites we develop has a lot of media in it And you can of course you can drag and drop them in the admin and that goes fast But why do that if you can just do it from the terminal if you have all the files already in one folder just run one command and all the Everything will be imported as attachments to your WordPress site Well, as we all know as you develop and you might notice later on that you need to have a few more Temp nail size or like image sizes that are not done yet. You need to regenerate all the thumbnails I've actually always been doing it like this So I'm not even sure of this comes out of the box at WordPress I know for sure there are plugins that can do that for you But it's not needed anymore because you can just do it with commands from VP client in this case I do like three thumbnails because well, it would take a lot of time to do it all But if you want to regenerate everything then you can just do the regenerate all Comments is of course also something we are all testing our websites We want to try and see how does this product look like if it has Thousand comments like does my lazy loading work does my paginating work whatever you're using and if you manually have to create Tons of comments. It's taking a lot of time Yeah, there is one comment in which you can just do it all say which post ID you need comment for how many you want By default it's 100 comments, but in this case I did 3,000 If I just open this specific Post a product like in my website. I can see that there are actually 3,000 comments generated So for front-end developers, this is really useful because it takes Saves you so much time in just like manually inserting comments Well Now we're talking about comments We are all know that a lot of comments on your production website. They will be spam if you don't have anything like Google recapture or People can look comment without looking there will be spam comments and What a lot of spam plugins do I mean, I hope for all using one they mark comments as spam and But don't delete them yet. So they are clogging up your database now here is one comment where you can like one Task where you can see all the comments that are marked as spam Now that in itself is of course not really useful because well, why would you want to see which IDs are marked as spam? What can you do with that? Well, you can actually change the commands in VP client. So in this case, you can see there is one command where you can delete comments Combine that with command from the previous slide and suddenly you have one command that's automatically Deletes all your spam comments from your website Might not be useful if you have like maybe hundred or five hundred spam comments but if you're running a big website with Thousands ten thousands maybe hundred of thousand spam comments per day and you need to delete them You can do it from the admin But it just takes more time and here you can do it with one command everything from the terminal And you're done Database well as already earlier seen today by I think it was at moon to was talking about it You can use VP client for database export and import and he got a really good example especially with the aliases which I'm not touching today, but that really works so I will not say too much about that but yeah, here are the commands how to do it and And yeah, the search and replace which we all know like the benefit of that I have just one extra comment in my very last Command you can actually see that you can add the export Parameter to this command so you can skip one step from what admin showed you can actually straight away Generating sequel file that already have done the search and replace for you So well, I hope that showed a little bit of like the basic commands that come with VP client So of course now you want to know can I create my own custom commands and Answer is simply yes, you can I mean just use the VP client at command in your own plug-in in your own code I'm sorry, and you can start creating your own VP client commands in your own plugins So that you can use them for that as well VP client comes with a few global parameters to speed things up a bit more So loading of skip loading of the teams of the plugins or if you want to have the php debug output So you can see a bit more like what exactly has been going on or what went wrong You can prompt the user for the comment arguments if you don't know them exactly by heart like what can I do? What can I not do? There is a quiet mode so that there is absolutely no output at all and well There are more which you of course can all see in the documentation So well to go back to the main topic like speeding up your development Well start with like using the built-in commands from VP client I mean you can really say some time with that Create your own commands chain them But the two biggest time savers and unfortunately we don't have time to discuss that in a lightning talk like this Is actually the first one is create a script that combines it all So if you want to create a script that Creates a word per site automatically updates all the plugins. You can just Create one script and do it all with just one command or create a script that Loops through all the 20 websites that you are managing and for all 20 websites just run update on one certain plugin that you always want to do and Another like another time saver is using cron jobs. For example, if you have a script that automatically takes Export from your database from a production website You can just create like a script that takes it from there Saves it on the server somewhere else as a backup and have a cron job running it for you Of course, there are multiple ways to achieve this VP client. It's just one way to do it, but Keep that in mind if you like interested in this stuff So yeah, the next steps is like basically if you are interested in all of this Just go to the website go to the VP client or it's very well documented and constantly like progress going on And of course well you can always like talk to me here or talk to me on Twitter Like I'm also not the most active tweeter, but I do Read all your tweets and I will comment if you have anything. So yeah, that's it. Thank you very much