Welcome back everyone. I know a lot of you got wonderful information from the previous, from the previous speaker. This next presentation is one I wish we didn't have to have, but unfortunately domestic violence has gotten even worse during this pandemic. The next speaker is Marta Palais. Marta is president and CEO of Family Violence Prevention Services and the Battered Women and Children's Shelter. So Marta. Good morning Kathy. Thank you very much for the invitation and good morning to everybody. I understand that we have people from the confines of the state of Texas and all over the nation. And even from abroad, so to everybody, a warm welcome. I would like at this point to join me, I know you will, in sending our thoughts and prayers to all of the children and grandchildren who have lost their mothers, their grandmothers and important people in their lives to COVID-19. Throughout this morning, my presentation, I will say a few shocking things. I tend to do that. But one thing that is not shocking is the fact that domestic violence and child abuse coexist. I have been saying that getting blue on my face. And I think we have forgotten some place. But at this point, I will say another shocking thing. And that is, today I am a person. In the not so distant past, I was not a person. Let me explain. While men were creating algebraic formulas and contemplating the stars and enjoying all the privileges of their manhood. Women and children had no name of their own. We had a dual existence, women did. One, as mythical entities represented in sculptures and frescoes and fables and other less ethereal entity, was the one that presented us as a little more than beasts of burden, necessity for men. Women had no voice then. Today, we raise our voices to continue to advance our right to fulfillment. We raise our voices to empower other women, which is basically what we're doing here today. Because we must recognize that in spite of many important advancements, we are still a long road to be traveled to get to a place where differences determined by our gender are equally respected and celebrated. I will go through a brief historical perspective to help us understand where we have been, where we're going, and if we're moving at all. In 753 BC, and please, I will not go through every year, Remulus, said to have been the founder of Rome, established that a husband could beat his wife with a stick of a caliber no larger than that of his right thumb. That was called the rule of thumb. Even then, they were wrestling with the issue of legislating weapons, you see. It is also said that the rule of thumb made it into English common law. And it is also said that that was probably not true. But what was definitely true was that the Roman civil law gave us patria potestas. Latin for patriarchy, which determined that wife and children were the property of the husband. Wife and children had no rights and their actions were the sole responsibility of the husband who had to resort to beatings, necessary to control their behavior and at the same time to assert his patriarchal entitlement. During the Middle Ages, theological writings supported the inferiority of women and added the view that women were susceptible to demonic influence and in need of beatings to diminish the devil's spell. The last two centuries have seen legislative and social advances. Some of them mere attempts at protection and empowerment of women, including the right to an education. That was a big one. In 1869, Harvard University opened its doors to women 50 years later than they had opened the same doors for men only. Alabama in 1871 became the first state to repeal the legal right of a husband to beat his wife. That is, if she reported it, if she was believed and if legislative protections had not been circumvented by an unofficial law, the Stitch Law. That was a way to condone physical abuse as long as the injuries did not need stitches. In 1920, women gained the right to vote for men. In 1960, big leaps here, big historical leaps. In 1960, state and national legislation passed the law criminalizing abuse of children and women, but many were in fact against it, saying that government interference in the family was in fact anti-family. By 1974, another circumvention emerged. That was the Curtin Law, where a North Carolina Supreme Court judge declared that, and I'm quoting, if no permanent injury has been inflicted, nor malice, cruelty, nor dangerous violence shown by the husband, it is better to draw the curtain, shout out the public gaze, and leave the couple to forget and forgive. That same year, 1974, the Credit Equality Act allowed women to apply for credit cards. I remember that, meaning that now we could contribute equally to the household's debt. We were able and allowed to have debt. In 1977, the first shelter for abused women opened doors in Austin, Texas, followed nine months later by the opening of what today is the Battery Women and Children's Shelter in San Antonio, Texas. The term domestic violence was not even coined yet. 1977, that was a year where a number of shelters opened in the United States, and that it is known to be the beginning of the domestic violence movement. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act was signed into law in 1978. Until then, a woman could be fired from her workplace for being pregnant. In very discreet ways, the practice continues in some places. In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officially defined sexual harassment. Defining it was important, but equally important, if not more, was its implementation. That has taken a little longer. Also in 1980, President Carter declared March 8, the International Day of Women, one day out of 365. In 1990, then Senator Joseph Biden introduced a VAWA, Violence Against Women Act, in the Congress of the United States. In 1994, it became a law signed by Bill Clinton. In the early 1990s, stalking was identified as a crime. In spite of the fact that 90% of all domestic violence homicides had stalked and beaten before they were dead. The victims were stalked, 90% of them were stalked before they were killed. In 1993, marital rape became a crime. It is still treated differently than other forms of rape. Strangulation became a felony in Texas in 2009. Before then, it was just a misdemeanor in cases of domestic violence. Almost a decade later, in 2018, 28 women were fatally shot in San Antonio, the highest number per capita in the state of Texas. All of them, except for one, were shot. As a result, 63 children were left without a mother. Remember the rule of thumb back in 753 BC, where the husband was to beat his wife with the stick of a caliber no wider than the base of his right thumb? Well, we're still struggling with matters related to the caliber of weapons, knowing that 72% of all domestic violence fatalities are perpetrated with a gun. Weapons legislation, or the lack of it, directly impacts the lives of women and children. At our shelter, we have registered for six consecutive years the highest daily census in the state of Texas among shelters for victims of abuse. In 2019, in excess of 60,000 women and children received our services, including the perpetrators of abuse. Ten years ago, I saw the need to change the name of the Battle Women's Shelter to Battle Women and Children's Shelter, if nothing else, to allow the community to understand that the majority of the victims of domestic abuse are not women. By far, of course, are not men, though some men are abused, but they are children. The majority of the victims of domestic violence are children. Domestic violence and child abuse coexist. The 36-year-old mother that comes to our shelter, typically on a Saturday at 2 a.m., is brought by the police, accompanied by her three children ages 11, 8, and 6 months. That demographic represents the generational element that perpetuates the exponential growth of domestic violence in a community. This is a case that has stuck in my mind, not only because of the severity, but because it directly involves a child. The mother was kept naked in the back of the truck, allowed to go to the restroom at truck stops, and then back to the truck and clothes were confiscated so she would not escape. But naked or not, she one day escaped, and she looked for refuge at a friend's house. The abuser caught up with her. He scalped her in the presence of their 11-year-old boy, and the abuser forced the little boy to throw the scalp down the toilet. The woman recovered somehow with big scars, but I frequently think of the child. Children are not spectators in the presence of domestic violence. Children are directly impacted.  The psychological impact of domestic violence on the children is unique and different from the impact on the adult victim. The mother that is abused can get a divorce, can sever ties emotional and otherwise from the abuser, is understood if she hates and despises the abuser. The child on the other hand watches and hears his very own biological father or father figure verbally abuse, physically abuse the most important human being in his or her world, the mother. There was another case that I vividly remember as well. A mother was released from the hospital and arrived at the shelter, bandaged, both hands bandaged. She had been severely attacked with a knife in her hands, nerve damage in the presence of her three children. She was expecting a fourth child. It was the children who wrapped her hands in the sheets so she wouldn't bleed to death. It was the children who called the neighbors and it was the oldest of them, a 16 year old, who called the police. As I said, she arrived at the shelter, released from the hospital. The 16 year old was not found, but after a few days he had been hiding behind some bushes, holding the same knife that the abuser used to assault the mother. He wanted to do the same to the father. So that case depicts in very visual ways, and I apologize, the generational impact of domestic violence. Little babies are born figuratively with a blank social template under their little arm. Parents write daily messages on that template. By the age of 14, 15, when the teenage boy begins to explore dating, he will have a full book of instructions on how to relate to others. So in all likelihood, he will be demanding, controlling and aggressive. His little sister, following her own book of instructions, full of messages she received from her mother as a victim, will accept and consider as normal abusive behaviors from her own dating explorations. Domestic violence is not just one more issue in society. It is the most important and impacting issue in a community. I envision domestic violence as a concentric depiction where there are all these rays stemming from it. Child abuse, human trafficking, teen dating violence, teen pregnancy, elder abuse. The high number of incarcerated people, by the way, 92% of incarcerated men that are not incarcerated because of domestic violence assault, but for something else, 92% of them have experienced domestic violence and child abuse growing up. School dropout rate, the general rate of crime, they're all directly related to domestic violence and the dynamics of the home. Low birth weight is associated with verbal abuse. Neonatal death is associated with physical abuse to the mother. If we could remove, and I know I'm being eutopic, if we could remove domestic violence from the center, all the rays stemming off of it would fall and would find a path to solution. The 82nd legislative session, I believe it was the 82nd, mandated the creation of a task force to strengthen the collaboration between the domestic violence camp and the child protective services camp. I remember going back and forth to Austin for those meetings and impatiently realizing that I was coming back home empty handed. At that point, I called the regional director of child protective services at the time and asked her if she would join me in taking action. I could no longer bear to philosophize around the issue that domestic violence and child abuse coexist in homes. She agreed with me. She was equally concerned and really fed up with the lack of programming that would address domestic violence in child abuse cases. And we both agreed that she would send to our batters intervention program, all those fathers that had active cases with CPS so that they could receive batters intervention program. FVPS is Family Violence Prevention Services is a nonprofit umbrella under which several programs exist. We have residential programs such as the battered women and children shelter and non residential programs. Ten years ago, when I changed the name of the shelter to battered women and children shelter, determined the creation of programs that would address that unique, different impact on the children. And we continue to develop programs and to address the needs of the children in a parallel way with the intervention for mothers towards the end of the emergency crisis program. The two come together and other interventions begin to address the nurturing impact on the mother that domestic violence has. And we just say that 72% of mothers that we see agency-wide have active cases with child protective services. So that also determined that we have a position called CPS liaison that addresses all issues related to domestic violence and CPS while they're still active with that system. One phenomenon that has occurred through the years is that mothers are very much afraid of the CPS system and so therefore the lack of understanding of what CPS aims to do and the fear that it is for the intervention of CPS. So this person is entrusted with making sure that both interventions, domestic violence and CPS are integrated into one and that both work towards addressing the emotional needs of the family. So what is domestic violence? I don't remember defining it. Domestic violence is a progressive pattern of behaviors in a relationship where one member in that relationship seeks control of the victim through emotional, psychological, physical, sexual or financial means. Over time, all of these elements can be present in an abusive relationship, but it doesn't have to be any one of them as long as two conditions are met. Progressive and pattern. Science of domestic violence, it is a question that I frequently I get asked. So what are some of the signs of domestic violence? Domestic violence does not begin with someone putting a gun to your head. Domestic violence begins in very subtle ways with name calling, putting the victim down, eroding her self-esteem. All along, the victim is denying some of those behaviors, denying the impact that those behaviors have on herself physically and emotionally. I usually say that the biggest friend, the most important friend of the perpetrator is the denial of the victim. To simplify the signs of domestic violence, especially when it comes to teens, I tell them that in a relationship, there is an array of emotions that are expected to run through a person. But one emotion, one emotional response that is actually the test to abuse is fear. If the person fears the partner, that person, that fear comes from abuse. So I find that people understand that. So what is happening these days while COVID-19 is assaulting our communities. 17% to 21% increase in the number of calls from victims of domestic violence in the city of San Antonio alone, as Kathy said. So the numbers have gone up since we have been under the state at home order. The same strategy aimed at keeping us safe and healthy has created a situation of danger, increased exposure for victims of domestic violence who find themselves trapped and isolated in their four walls in the company of the abuser. The same, of course, goes for the children. Because as I said before, children are not spectators of domestic violence. Children are victims of domestic violence when victims of domestic violence is occurring in their presence. Let me talk a little bit about domestic violence. This is the program that batters intervention program. We intervene probably 2000 men a year. Some of them are mandated by CPS. And the courts also are referring these individuals to our program. We want to establish the difference between anger management and batters intervention program. Anger management looks at the environment to assist the perpetrator in controlling his behavior. The locus of control is external. In batters intervention, the locus of control is internal. It's not because he lost his job that he abused. It's not because the soup had no salt or too much salt that he abused. It's not because of other stressors. It's because he decided to abuse the responsibility and the accountability rests with him. So I hear the bell letting me know that it is time for me to open up for questions. So I welcome your questions. Okay, we have one that garnered a lot of votes for it. And thank you, Martha. As I said, this is a topic we all wish we didn't have to deal with, but we do. How can we support a victim who after utilizing all kinds of resources and support decides to go back to her abuser and the cycle goes on? Kathy, I have to say that nationally, 28% of women go back to shelters seven times. So that means it is not easy for that woman to sever the relationship.  So I would say that for mothers, that is a factor that helps them realize that they need to change something, that they have to do something because of the children. But it is not atypical for a woman to go several times to shelter. That is the recidivism rate. Nationally again, 28% here in San Antonio with our shelter, we register 7.43% of women go back to our shelter. Okay, another one, there are several comments recognizing how important child care teachers and the child care setting is important, how important it is for these children and we all know now with really good brain imaging how much of the brain is formed the first three or four years, which is when most of the folks on this event see these children. And you said Marta, when we were talking a while back about this, that there are wonderful programs for teen dating violence, but they're 12 years too late. So in answer to a couple of the questions, we are actively trying many of us to bring programs into child care centers that will teach social emotional kinds of skills that hopefully will be preventive of domestic violence in the future because I think we all do know and certainly the folks on this at this event know those are the years that are the most critical. So that's, we are trying that there are now middle school programs. The city is beginning. And that answers another question, but that's what we're giving any comments on those early years. Absolutely. Once again, if you remember the case that I presented today of the mother that comes to the shelter 36 year old mother with three children ages 11, eight and six months. The reality of the women that come to the shelter are have children in formative formative years, those critical years where the brain is developing. And when they are absorbing all of these dynamics that are happening in the home, that's why I say children are not spectators of domestic violence, but they are directly impacted. Another question that garnered many votes. Are there childcare settings or childcare settings that are part of that also have liaison with CPS and domestic violence? I do not know that there is such an integration in daycare centers. It's another conversation that you and I have explored so many times have had so many times. Badly needed that this information regarding the dynamics of domestic violence be spread throughout childcare centers. And that perhaps it needs to be the education needs to be standardized throughout communities to make sure that we all understand domestic violence and child abuse the same way. Hey, I think we're going to have to sell is another one and very important. How can we teach our children about abuse and violence? I say the earliest in their life that you can have these conversations, the better a little child, a three year old can understand that he or she must be respectful. And how he or she relates to other little children of his own age. It can begin that early on. It can stop you can stop the cycle of violence, the generation of violence by teaching the children having these important conversations as early as possible. Okay, thank you so much. I think we're going to have to end there. Thank you very much Marta and we will see you all in 15 minutes.


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today is another episode of Curl Talk and we're going to talk all about adding color to your hair. The truth about dyeing your hair from bleach to ammonia to damage. Should you do it? How often do you do it? We're going to answer all those questions right now. Now starting off, I am not a licensed professional hairstylist. I am just a girl who's gotten her hair colored for different times and has maintained beautiful healthy curls without getting damaged. But to add some credibility to this video and everything I'm saying, I do have a lot of hairstylist friends and I was able to call them and bug them and ask them a million questions to make sure everything I say in this video is accurate. So shout out to Felicia Elise and Kristen Brown. They both are curly hairstylists that as you can see have experimented with color and are doing just fine. So let's talk about the main reason why most of you or many people are afraid of adding color to their hair. It's because they're afraid of getting damaged. Obviously right now I'm going to keep it real real in this video. This is the truth right? So we got to keep it 100. I would be lying if I said that it's absolutely impossible to damage your hair by adding color because that would be a lie. Adding color to your hair is all about the type of color that you're using, how you're applying it and how often you're applying it. So let's start off with the number one question. How do I dye my hair without getting damaged? Well I've added color to my hair a total of four times and three out of the four times I used the Clarell Textures and Tones line. And I actually have a full video on how to apply this hair color at home. I will link that above and below. But the great thing about this one in particular is that it's ammonia free. So it's ammonia free. I'm not bleaching my hair. This is a textures and tones line. So it kind of just lightly lifts the color, your natural color, and adds some beautiful tones to your hair. This was designed by African-American stylists and actually made for women of color. So they know that if you have like curly hair, natural hair that our hair is very prone to damage, it could be very dry. So they kept that in mind when making this because they know we still want to have some fun with color. So these amazing scientists knew that and they actually have jojoba oil, which is an oil that we use all the time for moisture, and five botanical extracts. So let's talk about why the ammonia free is a big deal. So a lot of girls or guys that want to go blonder, they will sometimes just jump to bleach, bleaching your hair. So when you bleach your hair, that is a very strong ingredient that is going to just pull out and lift all the color in your hair. Like technically your hair would be white, but because of the formula and the protein color of our hair, it kind of makes like that yellow color. And the fact that this does not have any bleach or ammonia, it just lifts a little bit of that color, allowing me to get these golden tones. Another question you guys asked me was how to decide what color you should do. Well, I personally decided to do highlights to add some dimension to my hair. I use the color 6G Honey Blonde. So if my hair was just all one color, it still would be nice, of course, but you really can see my curls now. Like look at this baby right here. Oh, not you. Sorry, I want this one. Look at that. See how it just stands out against the darkness? So it just really brings out your curls, makes them pop and actually gives me more dimension making my hair look fuller instead of flat. It also depends on your current hair color. So even on the box, it'll show you your start color and the ending result. Don't just assume that your hair is going to be exactly like the box because your hair start color might be different.  If it's a dark brown, it's going to look more like this color. If it's gray, it's going to look like this. So keep that in mind that you're not necessarily going to get the exact results of the box girl because you're not the box girl. Your hair might be a different color. It might be a different porosity. It might be damaged or healthier than this girl. You don't know what she's going through. Going blonde, going full blonde. That's another popular question I got. So the best way to do that, if you are someone with dark brown or even black hair, is to not just do it instantly. Okay? Even if I wanted to go blonde with as healthy of hair as I have, I would not kind of do that risk of just going, you know, commando in one day because your hair will be healthier if you just do a little bit at a time. So yes, if you are a brunette and you want to just go blonde by tomorrow, you can, but if you're worried about damage, it's better to do it slowly but surely. The next question I got was how often should you dye your hair? So you should wait at least four weeks, so like a month between your sessions. So your hair needs some time to grow out. It's good to be maintaining the healthy of your hair in between your color. So don't just rush into it. I mean, I wouldn't really want to do blue on Monday and then pink by Friday. Let your hair breathe. How do I maintain my color after dyeing your hair? Which is a great question. If you want to commit to color, there is a little bit more maintenance because we have lifted the cuticle with whatever product we use. So when we lift it, we added that color in there. So now that it's lifted, that could change the porosity of our hair. If you don't know porosity, I got a full video on that. You can watch that as well. But now that we are adding something to our hair that wasn't always there, it is going to change how our hair is. But like I mentioned, the Clarell textures and tones line does have a hobo oil, the five botanical extract. So because it has that moisture rich formula, I didn't really notice dryness after adding color. But it is important to deep condition your hair once a week. Now if you're one of my loyal subscribers, you're already doing this. So it ain't no thing. Now if I was someone that didn't normally do this, this would be a new added step because it is important to deep condition your hair once a week, especially when you have color to maintain that moisture. But since all of you guys have committed to my deep conditioning challenge, then we're just on the same path. Another important thing post color to remember is how you're washing your hair. This is why especially for those of you that have color, it is so important not to use a shampoo with soul fate.  But you want your color to stay rich and vibrant and slowly but surely that soul face is going to rip more and more of that color away, leaving your hair looking very dull. So now that you've decided that you want color, let's talk about the prep before dyeing your hair. You actually do not want to shampoo your hair right beforehand. It's best to apply the color on your hair while it's dirty.  So kind of protects your scalp from any type of chemical, whatever you might be doing. But your hair strands are also just going to take the color better while you have some of that oil on there. That way you're not applying color to stripped out dry hair. One question I got was should you add color to damaged hair? Well, if your hair is damaged, you really have nothing to lose because it's literally already damaged. But if your hair is healthier, obviously healthy hair with color is going to look better than damaged hair with color, right? But if you do have healthy hair, you should not be afraid of color. Let me be your living proof. I do have very healthy hair and I've gotten color four times and I absolutely love it. What are pentura highlights? This is something I really want to clarify because pentura highlights is not a type of highlight. It's the technique to how you apply the highlights pentura, which means painting. So we're literally just taking one curl at a time and painting the ones that we think should add color. The pentura technique does not involve foils. If you ever dye your hair and you use foils, the foil is going to heat it up. So anytime you add heat, like whether you're using a heat cap with deep conditioning or being in a steam room, the heat is going to open up the hair cuticles a lot. So that is just going to make all the color rush in there, which makes things a little bit more dramatic and a little more drastic. So I decided to use the pentura method. That way, when you paint each curl, you just let the color sit on there. Just let it out in the air. If anything, you could like wrap some saran wrap over it just a little bit, but you don't want to make it hot because then too much of that color is going to get in there too fast. But you got to follow the instructions, especially when doing a box dye at home. They have very easy instructions in here. I mean, even I did it at home when I've never done it before and it turned out pretty fabulous. But even a suggestion in the box is to do a strand test.  See how it looks after five minutes. See how it looks after 10 minutes. Do whatever the box tells you to do and then just see the color that you like. If after a certain amount of time, it's still not as blonde as you want it, leave it on a little bit longer until you see your desired color. That way, if you leave it on too long, you're like, oh, that's too blonde. You didn't just apply it to your entire head and now you're unhappy. One of the questions I got was what is the cheapest way to get highlights? Well, if you go to a salon and get a done by professional, it could cost at least $200 just to get highlights. But the cheapest way, which is actually what I did, was get this box right here, guys. This is the Clear All Textures and Tones line and it's only like $5.99 available at your local beauty supply store. $5, $6. How can you beat that? So there you have it, the truth about adding color to your hair. It's not as scary as some may think. I personally did not want to live my entire life looking the same and I would encourage you to do the same. Switch it up, get a new cut, maybe bangs, maybe layers, maybe get some highlights, blonde, red, purple, whatever you want to do. It's your hair and it's possible to get that fun color without getting any damage. And if you already have some highlights or color to your hair, let us know what you think. Are you happy you got color? How did you do it? Was it worth it? Are you happy with your results? Leave a comment below so we all can be encouraged to maybe change up our look. I obviously recommend the Clear All Textures and Tones line. I'll put all the information for this box below as well as my full video on how to apply it to your hair if you do decide to spend the whole $5 and do it yourself. If you want to see how much my hair has changed via cut color and all that jazz, you got to follow me on Instagram at MsBioncRené. This is also my Twitter and my Snapchat. Let's stay friends and give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week once on Friday and once on Sunday. So I hope to see you guys next time. Thanks for watching BioncRené today.


All right, guys, I'm hanging out with the best animator I have seen. Hi. Thank you. Hi. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing good. It's so good to see you after three months. I think it's the last time you were at the nacho. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, today we are celebrating women. And you know, this is a women in film awards only. How does that make you feel? It makes me feel good.  So always put a name to it. Like what you do, whatever work you put out there. Yeah, that really makes me feel good. Yeah.  Oh, I'm celebrating all the women who stand up for themselves. All the women who work so hard. All those sleepless nights. All those hard working days. They're not for granted. So I'm celebrating each and every woman who's true to themselves. Yeah. Is it a first time to be nominated or not? Oh, I'm not nominated this year. I'm part of the jury. Yeah. So it was, it was quite different and really, really interesting. So this is the second year being part of the jury team. Yeah. And how is it like just being part of the jury? It was quite interesting to see how many women are in the film industry, yet we know so few. I wish there was a way to recognize them more. And that's why I think Wifa is there. The women who are behind the camera doing their best. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. My greatest advice would be put your name on it. Because I feel like there are many women who work on sets and productions and they don't put their name on it. And then we'll never know if your name is not on the credits. Like just be confident in what you do and just again put your name on it. On it. Now guys, in case you haven't seen Wix's work, let me tell you. You just watched the videos and they're like, how did you think of this? I'm always asking myself that question. Is this something you went to school to do? Is this something you were born with? How would you describe that? I think it's, I think it's talent. Discovered it when I was 12, but started sharing my work, putting it out there cancer in 2020. Yeah. COVID. COVID.  Yeah, I'm so serious. You never used to do this before COVID? I used to do it, but I'll never like share my work online. I'll just put it to myself without sharing it. Look at you. Look at you. How does that make you feel, you know, just to see people appreciating your work online? It feels good. It feels good to see Kenyans appreciate art. I think there's always been this notion. There's no money in art. There's no life in art, but truly I've seen it. If you're consistent and you do it well, then for sure, for sure there is life in art. Yeah. All right. For those that really need to see your work, please tell them where they can find you. You can find my work at www.weeksunderscoremanguda.com on Acrosol platform. So TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram. I'm telling you guys, you need to go watch what she does and leave a comment. Just tell me if it's just not out of this world. Thank you so much. All right, mom. Thank you so much and enjoy your evening. You too. All right.


Not far from the edge of our village, there is a well whose opening has been boarded up to keep children like me from understanding the truth. This well had been an important source of water, one of the four main wells that the villagers' 500-ish residents relied on for almost as many years. But keeping us from the truth, or the truth away from us, was more important than keeping every water supply open. The water would have been unfit to drink at this point anyway, I heard my father's friends grumble to each other. I knew the truth, of course, when one child of the village knew, the rest would too. And we had been partial witnesses the day of its condemnation. The last day the well had still been open and inviting. The truth is that my brother had been a hero at that well. They should have put up a statue of him or something to honor at that well, but nobody would go near it after he had gone down and never back up, and they had boarded it up and performed the cleansing, protective rituals over it. This was four years ago. A little girl had fallen into the well one careless afternoon in July when the rest of us had been playing nearby. She had tugged at the rope trying to get a drink of water, and it had given in, reeling in after her, bucket and all, so that we had no way of pulling her out. Now I think of it, she might have been playing tug of war at the time without knowing it, and lost. A few of us ran to get help, but we knew it would be a little too late if someone didn't act now to save the girl. We could hear her echoing calls from the bottom, alive and miraculously unhurt, but fighting to stay afloat, always on the verge of drowning. The water level was so low, we couldn't see anything that far down. We knew she was suspended in utter darkness, and the cold of the underworld were not even the heat of the sun could reach. She had survived till now, but we had given her up for dead. Not my brother, my brother, fourteen and fearless, had made up his mind. He had gone in after her. He lowered himself down the well, inch by inch, by setting his feet flat against one side of the wall, and his back pushed against the other. His arms outstretched on either side as he walked himself farther and farther down. Slowly, he let himself deeper into the well until the light of the fading day could not touch him, and he was lost from our view. All the way down, he called to the girl, coaching her on how to stay afloat until he could get to her. Her splashing grew less frantic, more purposeful, as she heard him and calmed down. My brother was a born leader. All the kids trusted him. Even though we all knew he wouldn't be able to climb back out with her until help arrived, it was a great comfort just to have him waiting alongside you in the depths of nothingness, speaking courage where you had none. I got you. I heard my brother say somewhere in the dark before long, I've got you. Just hold on to me. They'll come for us soon. I promise. And they did come. The village firemen trundled in with their proud new floodlight, precariously attached to their jalopy of a fire engine, followed by a crowd of people, adults and more children, and threw themselves importantly into the scene. This wasn't the first time someone had fallen into one of the village wells. It was an easy shot to glory for them. We children were jostled out of the way to give them room to act. I wanted to stay and watch my brother emerge the hero he was. I could still hear him and the girl calling up to the firemen to let them know they were down there. They were alive. Please hurry. They should have hurried. Instead of putting on a show of keeping people back, the same people they had brought as witnesses. They should have hurried. The scene was getting crowded. I was getting faint from the heat of the sun and the intensity of the situation, having never witnessed a village well rescue myself. But I was famous at home for my inconveniently timed sun fevers, as my father called them, and my weak heart. I was lucky to be alive. The doctors had told my parents at my birth, told them my brother was lucky to have a younger brother to play with. Unfairly, my mother, also present at the scene, sensed my worsening condition and had sent my nurse to drag me home to wait for them and my brother to return. I was already growing bleary with unease, upset at myself for not being able to stay. Finally, I had given in just as the firemen had dismantled the floodlight to bring it over the side of the well, preparing to go in. They hadn't yet lowered a rope. I remember being carried home, half asleep over my uncle's shoulder with my nurse walking close by. My parents had both stayed behind at the well. I remember hearing the firemen shouting, people screaming, the fire engine creaking violently with hurried action. The rescue was well underway, though noisier than I thought it would be. We were far away enough down the dusty path that only the far flung echoes reached us. I fell asleep. When I woke up at home on the outdoor cot in our shaded veranda, it was getting on to evening. The balmy air gave way to a chill and the mosquitoes were dotted on the net over my head like the clingy vestiges of a nightmare. My nurse was sitting on the steps beside me, eavesdropping on the conversation going on inside from the open back door. I shot up and ran around her before she knew I was awake and flew into the house looking for my brother. I found my mother instead crying at the table. My father was on his feet beside her, hands on his hips. He could never sit down when he was upset. His eyes were red as if he too had been crying. I had never seen him cry. Around the table there was a fireman or two, a village constable, the village priest sat near, comforting my mother. The village head had come and gone. I didn't see my brother. No one would talk to me. The discussion had died the moment I barged into the room. My mother wanted to hold me, but hearing her crying into my hair woke up a deep fear in me and since nobody would answer my shouted questions about my brother, I fled the house, leaving my parents pleading calls behind me like footprints. I wanted to run back to the well, sure he would be there, but I was stopped on the way by people coming back the other way, haggard, drawn, ill looking. I recognized one of my friends returning with his own family. It seemed the whole village had made the trip to the well. The later ones were being turned back before they could get there. From what I heard, they had the village holy men praying over the well as the firemen hurriedly boarded up the opening. The rest were told to go home and pray. There would be a general meeting either later that night or early the next morning to discuss what to do moving forward. There was nothing else they could do. We had never seen a village well rescue turn out like this. The drama had always been straightforward. They got the child or they didn't. The follow up hardly needed more than a celebration or a period of mourning. But now they needed a plan. They needed protection. My head felt fuzzy with confusion. And my brother, I asked my friend as we walked back to the heart of the village. He glanced at his parents who were talking to each other in hushed tones, perhaps just as thrown off as we were. Seeing they were distracted, my friend whispered to me, he wasn't there. They shone the light down the well, but he wasn't there. But we saw him go down and we heard them calling. I said fighting down the cold panic in my chest. The firemen were already at the well when we heard them calling. Yes, my friend said, but hesitated before saying more. He couldn't understand it either. His face was ashen in the dimness of evening. They put the light down and he wasn't there and neither was Lina, the girl. But I heard them say there was something there, something else in the water. They had been sent away before anyone knew for sure. I didn't know what was worse, knowing or not knowing. His parents had taken notice of us and had shepherded us into the middle of the walking party like elephants would do with their young, keeping us in the middle of the herd for protection. The whole family had encircled us as we went down the dusty path. I could sense their concern over my well-being, though they hardly said a word, perhaps not knowing what to say. We didn't talk after that.  They were grieving with me. They didn't know what had killed my brother, but they knew he was dead. If he hadn't been at the time, he was now. Never had it that the girl had died the moment she'd hit the water. She couldn't have been calling out. What my brother had descended into was something else waiting for him. The people of my village believe in absolutes. He is dead or he isn't. She was alive or she wasn't. The children were in the well or they weren't. There can be no in between, no shades between black and white, life and death, no matter what we children had insisted that we alone had witnessed. The elders had decided to call the meeting at dawn early enough that we were sure we children would be asleep. I heard about it after. Rumor is the unofficial village messenger and the most efficient one we have. An hour after the meeting had ended. My family was fully aware, as every other family in the village, that we were not to go near that well. There would be the usual funeral rites for each child lost that day. Empty caskets, eulogies that tiptoed around the circumstances of their death, but unless we wanted to lose any more, there would be no tampering with the barriers to the well. Whoever was down there would stay down there. As for what they had seen, no two firemen gave exactly the same description. What they agreed on was that there had been a creature in the dark water, but no children. Any survivors would have been swiftly dealt with, they said, before they could have done anything. The priests were undivided, more certain about what they believed they saw, evil. The beam of light they had thrown into the void had brought up slivers of the truth, a grayish-modeled skin like ancient flesh stretched over long limbs, unblinking fish-like eyes, and there was a smile of some sort on what you might call the face, a hideous, elongated animalistic smile, a grimace of flashing teeth, human-like, but not. They had yanked the light back, afraid to see any more of it, and yet they could hear the children still calling even as they did so. The firemen swore that they heard them, both of them calling out to them to please hurry. They threw the flood of light down before the last echoes had even died out. All they saw was that waiting smile, and the flat dark eyes half emerging from the murky water, waiting. Do you believe in mermaids? In our village, sliced by a river but not so far from any lake or ocean, we have a different lore, a different name for these creatures. I hate to say the word out loud, even in writing. We had not expected them to turn up in wells, but since these creatures are rumored to live in cave pools, it stood to reason they might have traveled through underground reservoirs and found themselves under our village, using our wells as occasional feeding holes. Could they imitate human voices? Who knew? We only know what we heard. Rumor is also our messenger between villages. Ours was not the only one visited from the underground. We were lucky, said the elders of one of the neighboring settlements. We had only one well infested, only two children missing. We didn't have to draw water from our remaining wells that came up cloudy, darkened, smelling of rust. We hadn't had to board up all our wells like other settlements had, and flee the village in mass, leaving only ghosts behind. We didn't have the things climbing out of the wells without warning. When that happened, it was over. Rather than believe what we heard, some of our villagers insisted instead that the firemen were lying, that they had found the children dead, drowned, too late, and used this story to pretend it wasn't their fault. I didn't think so. Our claims were all in dispute, but we agreed on ground rules. Nobody strayed by the open wells too long, and nobody went to draw water alone. The protection of daylight and warnings of the full moon didn't matter. They came out when they were hungry. Time and the absence of further incidents cast the whole event in the vivid blurriness of legend, a nightmare, a bad memory, nothing more. Nothing so far had turned up in the other wells, and slowly but surely, life crept back to its normal rhythms, if not its usual innocence. Still, the other villages remained empty. Nobody came back. We're just waiting our turn, just waiting for a reason. Now that I'm older, I sometimes find myself wandering close by that condemned well my brother had climbed into, stopping by the hidden opening in broad daylight, always in broad daylight. The worn wooden boards were more recently upgraded to corrugated metal sheets, held fast with bolts the size of my fist. I would stand there, lingering and remembering. If the sun is high and my fever returns, I sometimes imagine I hear something, tapping at the covering from the other side, asking in my brother's voice and with a smile to be let out. Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed this story. Special shout out to Victoria from Alex. Thank you for being you.


If you want to understand why labels are signing so many artists off TikTok, you have to first understand how the gamemates change completely from what it used to be. What's up? My name is Brandman Sean and my agency has helped over 100 artists grow their fan base and get millions of streams. I don't say that to sell you anything, just so you have an idea who you're getting the information from. Now there's five reasons that labels are circling TikTok like vultures, so they can find an artist and pick them up from the platform. And we'll start with number five and countdown that way. And number five is momentum. When you see these artists get signed on TikTok, the songs are already starting to take off. And why is that such a big deal? Well, let's just think about it like this. Well, back in the day, you can actually sign an artist and build them from ground up and expect to get a lot of money from the music because they had CDs back then. You've heard people complain about the lack of money associated with music specifically and monetizing music specifically today. Back then, that wasn't so much of a problem, right? Now, when you fast forward till today, it's a lot more of a problem. So labels, they don't want to build a business from ground up. What they want to do is find a business that's already in operation and already finding some success and accelerate the growth of that already established business, right? That's the difference. That's why they want to find artists that already have fan bases. If you look at at least a song on TikTok, that's taking off, even if the artist doesn't really have a true fan base, that song represents a good product, right? It's a hot product on the streets that's doing well and we can at least maximize this product, but that also speaks to an issue. So I'm not going to go too much deeper into the concept of momentum. If you want to hear me speak deeper about that, I actually talked about it in a video, what to do with your song. When it blows up, check it out. I'll put it in the description below. But the fact that they invest so much in singles these days, that hot product brings up another benefit, which also creates an issue, which is number four, they can make money back off of one single. Now, let me break this down. Remember, I talked about you can build a brand new business from ground up or you can actually invest in a business is already successful and bring it more success. Well, when you look at song specifically, now you're talking about that product and you can even have a hot product already or help try to create a hot product from ground up. And this is the situation that so many labels or just people in the industry find themselves in. Well, if I had $10 and I could put it on 10 songs, so now I have a $1 invested in 10 different songs. Hopefully one of those things will start popping. Right now, what if I could just withhold my $10 and just wait to find a song that's already working and give it $10? That's a great thing for labels, because it's really easy to do that today. Not that people can just put their music on streaming platforms, but the issue is now labels are even more focused on singles than they are the artist themselves. A lot of times because I can make my money back off of that one single.  So hopefully they give me more success, but I'm not so invested in it and that creates a short-sighted relationship. Oftentimes, which is where a lot of artists get caught up because they think it's more of a longstanding relationship based on the conversations on the front end, but the reality is not so much. All right, number three, it's a lot easier to break even off of TikTok songs. Now I talked about the importance of breaking even as fast as possible. But let's think about it this way. A label is an investor, right? They're investing in a product and any investor wants to make their money back, so they have to manage their risk to make sure they make that money back.  We want to return on our investment. So that's what a label is looking at because on TikTok, the unique nature of how songs blew up, you already have culture moving around you. You have culture organically working for you. So you don't have to spend as many dollars to bring success to the song as you would on any other platform. A song could be going viral on Spotify, which is great, right? And people do invest in those. But there's a difference if something's just going viral on Spotify based on play listing, because you still have to figure out how do I connect this on another level in culture where if it's already connected in culture, which is the hardest thing to do, right, influence people in the masses and begin convincing them that this song is a good song. If I already have that out the way, then all I have to do is use my plug and play resources to make sure the song gets shelf space and all these other platforms, radio, playlisting, whatever I can, based on my relationships resources and the time I got involved in the track, right? So it's a lot simpler to make things move. Not only do you get your investment back more likely off of the organic momentum from TikTok without doing any work, the work that you do put in is now going to give you even greater returns than it would otherwise. It's like pushing a car that's already going downhill versus trying to push a car uphill just for it to finally go downhill. All right. Number two, market share, market share, market share. Labels want market share and they're fighting a two-way battle at the time. It used to just be label versus label, right? One label wants to make sure they got the hottest acts, the biggest artists and they're dominating out there. It's just, you know, competition is business. However, that's even more meaningful than it used to be because on Spotify, there's a pool system, which means yes, everybody has streams and they get paid for streams. But people who dominate a certain portion of the streams actually get a larger percentage. I'm just going to make up a number real quick. But if I had 70% of the streams, I might get paid a whole penny per stream versus somebody else who has below 50% getting paid a quarter per stream. So not only is it less streams, they're getting paid less money per stream, right? So once you get into a dominant market share, you're actually getting paid more for the same metrics. But that's just on the label side, right? Label versus label, now you have this other competitor, which is the entire indie marketplace. More and more artists are not signing label deals. And as they hold out, but they still exist on these platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, etc., they are dominating market share themselves. So I'm not just competing versus the labels. I'm competing against these millions of artists who are out here trying to work their way up the ladder so they can make more money on Spotify and other DSPs. So oftentimes we hear the conversation of artists not signing to a label so they can reap more benefits of their own labor, but you don't really hear how artists not signing is directly impacting the revenue, not just because of what you took from them, but the impact of your portion being larger actually negatively impacts the return on their investment. That's like them getting $3 as a return of each dollar spent versus getting $10 as a return on each dollar spent. Labels do not want to see independent artists dominate the marketplace. And number one, the last and one of the most important reasons that labels are signing so many of these artists off of TikTok for a long term vision of catalog. Now what do I mean by that? Catalog, catalog, catalog is a collection of songs. The collection of your songs is one of the most valuable things that you can have. You've probably heard people talk about, hey, if you have a song blow up and then you have a catalog, the rest of your music will begin to get heard over time. And then that catalog becomes more valuable as more and more people begin to stream it, not just a direct streaming impact from the DSPs, but it's also the ownership of this music that gets more value over time as you get more fans. Great, right? All sounds pretty good. Okay, but you have to think about a label from a label standpoint. And I'll preface it with this. We've seen artists sign $400 million deals selling off their catalog. We've seen big artists sign $200 million deals signing off their catalog. Future just sold off his catalog for like $70 million. And I know you might not be there yet, but the important thing to understand is there's a huge value to catalog. A company called Hypnosis set aside a billion dollars just to purchase catalogs. AWOL just sold a bunch of independent artist catalogs that they had rights to for a billion dollars, by the way.  Well, think about it like this. If I can invest in an artist single that already shows the value of being a hit, it has that momentum and I can invest in that single instead of wasting time trying to create a hit single, then I can invest in a single that's going to give me a return on my investment. I'm probably going to break even, right? We already talked about that because it's already successful. It's going to probably be successful in the future enough for me to at least make my money back and I might gain even more money from the rest of your music. But even if I don't, I have that song in my catalog. And what if I go sign another artist off of TikTok and I at least have that song of his in my catalog? And then I have that song of hers in my catalog. And year over year, I'm doing this time and time and time again. I don't have to be invested in the overall success of the artist for me to win because I already have the catalog of these proven songs that I can then sell off. If I want to, because the value is growing year and year, me as a label, I'm having a greater and greater catalog being built out that I didn't really even have to put that much risk in to acquire because I use songs that already had momentum off of a platform like TikTok that was lower investment, had organic drive and success. And most artists don't really realize once it starts moving, they don't understand how far the music will continue to go without the label. And now once you sign to the label, you're seeing this skewed vision. Thinking the label's doing that and it's really a lot of times you or at least TikTok itself would already happen on a platform. So now that's a sweet spot for a label, right? I basically got a hot single for free to be added to my catalog. And I've done this 100 times over 200 times over 300 times over. Next thing you know, it's five, 10 years later and I have an extremely valuable catalog and I might sell it for a billy, right? That's an extremely, extremely important benefit to signing artists off of TikTok specifically, right? Low cost investments with high, high potential returns and me as a label, a risk management company as I invest, right? I have to be very, very risk adverse, very conservative. This is the sweet spot. This is the perfect time, the perfect platform and climate for me to do just that. Make a low risk investment with high potential returns and unfortunately, many artists are getting caught in situations where the artist success and the label success still aren't quite aligned because, hey, as long as this one track that you got is still with us, we're good. And I know you want to have a career, but we're already good. That would be nice, but we're not as invested in you having continued success as you are. So keep that in mind. TikTok is a beautiful space to be, but if you hop in the wrong situation, it can get ugly. Now, with that said, I have plenty of videos up here on YouTube of how you can be successful on TikTok specifically, help you break down, understand the platform. We've helped multiple artists do viral hits, literally over billions of streams finding success because of TikTok specifically. So I'm going to put a video over here in the corner. Go ahead and check that thing out. There's a whole playlist of videos breaking down how you can apply TikTok to your own strategy so you can get success and hopefully go viral. See you in this next video.


7 signs God is showing you the narcissist. Before I begin please give this video a thumbs up down below so that it will help to get this message out there to other survivors while we're on the topic of God. You may be wondering how God could let this happen to you or why God didn't intervene when the reality is that God will rarely directly intervene in anything and in fact God's chosen ones may appear to experience more suffering than anyone else because that's what it means to be a chosen one. You're going to be tried and tested. You're powerful and strong. You were made in God's image. God may know that it is difficult for you. God would never allow you to go through a situation that you can't handle. That doesn't mean that God would put you through this but God doesn't intervene because God is love and love is not controlling and the reality is that no matter what happens in this life love always wins in the end because that is our higher nature and there are no lower frequencies in the heavens or after this life which is why Narcissus naturally tried to keep us down in a desperate attempt to prevent us from ascending to the heavens because they have this ingrained subconscious awareness that they are not going where we're going but God would never do that. God is honest and fair. God is kind and compassionate. The Narcissus did this to you because they are of a lower vibration and they already know that they're not going to experience the ascension. They know this is it for them because they chose the path of evil so they're against God. They're opposed to anything pure and good. They are devoid of light and love so naturally these are the types of things that they will do as people who are not of God and although God does not intervene God will try to reveal the Narcissus to you and God will do this by giving you signs so here are seven signs God is showing you the Narcissus. One they're in considerate of you. You want the Narcissus to value you and care about you but they never seem to show any concern and this is a sign from God that this person is not meant for you because Narcissus really don't care about your feelings once or needs. It's all about them. It has to suit their agenda. The conversation must always revolve around about how they're so desirable, powerful or special because they need that constant stream of supply. They can't live without it so they hate having to entertain anything outside of themselves. Two they can't tolerate criticism. They only accept compliments and positive feedback. They can't deal with anything negative that you might have to say because they have a fragile ego so they're easily hurt and offended and no one really likes to be criticized but a healthy person will at least see some value in it rather than dismissing it completely without even considering what you have to say. Which is another sign that God is showing you the Narcissus because it's like no matter what you do to try to fix things you just can't get through to them. They're closed off, they're unreachable, they can never seem to understand. If you ever criticize them it will cause a Narcissus injury and they will get very angry and in that moment it's like they're possessed. It's like a spirit is taking control of them and by that point there's really nothing you can do to reach them. Three, you experience difficulties almost for you. This is a clear sign from God that something is not meant for you. If something is meant to be it's going to be good for you. It won't always be perfect but it will show steady improvement over time. Well when the Narcissus says things gradually deteriorate they get worse the longer you're around them which exposes all of their lies and future faking because then they leave you without any support and you're left to deal with it on your own which shows that they never cared about you. It reveals what type of person they are because by that point they can't hide it from you anymore. You see signs of the emptiness inside of them. Narcissus have a void that can never be filled. They're like empty vessels. They can't be satisfied. And you may witness this emptiness just by looking into their eyes. They have this predatory stare. They don't appear to be friendly. They always look angry because they're constantly trying to take something from you. And they're just examining you to figure out how they're going to get it. They may act friendly and agreeable in the beginning but that's just to get you hooked as their source of supply. The reality is that they are self centered and insatiable. They only care about themselves and yet no matter what you do it will never be enough to fill the void inside of them. But we don't always notice this initially. We make up excuses and justifications in the beginning because we want to like them. So we do what we can in order to please them instead of accepting that it's just who they really are. Five they're envious. They will act like they don't care about you or what you're doing. But then they will do anything they can to outdo you. Whether it's by building themselves up or by tearing you down. And they will even use the enablers or flying monkeys as a means of achieving this goal. But they cannot surround themselves with people who they perceive as being better than them because that would make them feel very insecure and it will prevent them from getting the supply that they need. Six they're fake. They show a deceptive outward appearance. They falsely claim to be something they're not. And that is why you will have difficulty connecting to them because they have an insecure attachment style and an inability to form healthy relationships. Which is why the healthier you get, the worse they get. Seven you feel repelled.   They will make you feel sick. You will experience stomach pains and body aches. And it won't seem to make any sense. But it's because you're in the company of a predator. Someone who is ruthlessly exploiting you. So of course it's going to have an adverse effect on your body because they're feeding from you. And it's God trying to communicate with you to show you that you need to limit your contact with them because they are evil. And they will do extremely harmful things to you until it changes you in a negative way. Thank you all for watching. If you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up, share your thoughts in the comment section and hit that subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel, you can donate at paypal.me.narchsurvivor. You can book a one on one with me on my website. It is narchsurvivor.co.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Come in and tight man. You know why? Hey, see we ain't tight man. This group right here man. We all we got, and we all we need. We don't know who not here, all we care about who here. Hey, you know God's got an opportunity man. Take advantage of this. Hey, it's time to lock some gates. They don't leave ID with a W. It's time for us to turn this around. It's time to turn this around. Embrace the juice man. Play for each other. Play for your brother man. Cavins back. And if he hits, if somebody hits your brother, black jersey. Man. Ah! Ah! Woo! Woo! Man y'all better wake up!  Ah! Ah! Woo! Woo! That's weird man. Wait on three. 1, 2, 3. Wait!


Fel gyntaf, mae'n titerfaeth wedi bod i'n ganddi'r hwnau ymateb ym Ndiych yn llawant,og i'r pargellau hodg maesleniaeth, ac mae'n ddweud maesleniaeth yn llyllwad ar gyfer gyflwyfod gan unrhyw ym mlyg. Dyma'r ganddi'r llwdd hwnnw yn galedd yn fawr .. mae'n ganddi'r pargellol ym ni'n hollio dyma yw'r wrth gwrs. Mae'n hollio—fawr—ryf y ym midwch, bwysig yn ysgrifennu. Ond mae ga'n aelod amgylchedd, gyda'n ei ddod. Yn y blynydd ac yn unig hefyd yn ystod, mae'n contacti ein hwn yn dda sy'n cael ei hoorfyrdd ac mae'n gofyn hynny'n gwyllidegau, ond mae'n gwyllte revoledol â'r gwyllte. Mae'n cychwyn yn hynny'n gwyllte gyda hyffaeth gwneud gan adlusio. Ond mae'n gweld yn nid o ddweud hefyd, a mae'n gweld yn hynny'n gwyllte. Mae'n hynny'n gwyllte. Mae'n ddweud gan ôl i ddechrau'n ysgol. I think they'll be looking at Everton's good form as well and you know be wary of that, but also Everton's squad is stretched at the moment, they can put their best 11 on paper out at the moment, potentially missing a key player in Dekore as well, so it could be a tough one this for us. I mean, they are missing Dekore, let's be honest, he's not playing at the weekend, Michael Enco, the manager said they're going to look at him, he's a possibility, I don't think he believes Seamus Coleman or Ashley Young would be available either, so Everton are missing key players for this one. Both the manager will have a game plan, Everton's issue is Tottenham scored in 29 consecutive Premier League games, they're the only team in the Premier League this season that's scored in every game and therefore, like you said, there is goals everywhere in that side and you know Everton are coming off the back of four Premier League clean sheets on the run, like you said before, four victories, you'll have to go back to 1970 for Everton to win five games on the run. In front of crowds. In front of that, so it's a difficult one obviously for us, but that being said, West Ham have gone to the Tottenham off to Estadim on one a couple of weeks ago, they did have a bit of a ropey run, they've obviously improved the last two games, they've had two good wins at home to newcastle away a forest, but they're not infallible and evident, excuse me, half the goal there and just performed the way they have been doing away from home. Well that's the thing with Tottenham isn't it, they throw the quality and it does very much benefit them, but they push very high up the pitch even when they don't necessarily have to, you know, under post-acog they've got their style and that's their style, they don't really compromise on it, they don't often get a lead and sit back, so I think Everton's game plan needs to be within the knowledge that they might well concede, they might well concede first. Luckily for Everton, Everton do struggle with if a team takes the lead, they can afford to sit back, Everton may have to have more to the ball, we know Everton sort of thrive in that 38-40% possession area. Tottenham might go a goal up and still might continue looking for another goal, still trying to get on the ball, so Everton won't be forced to change their game plan as much if they do concede. We know they press high up the pitch, we know Everton are good on the counter attack and can get the ball up the pitch quickly. It's by no means going to be easy, of course you don't want to concede, but if Everton do go a goal down off the start it might not follow the pattern we've seen Everton games go down when they do concede first. Let me just clarify five away games 1970, that would be one. I meant to put the away in and things. Yeah, you're right I think. One, I mean they could be calm, look at this game without going, apple-eye decor, he's a huge miss, he's 11 goals in 31 games and sure and right he took over as manager, which is an incredible return. I think he's been involved in 13 goal contributions I think, only Dwight McNeill is next to that. There's the manager took over and I think, excuse me. Evans' problem is what do you do there? We do the night against Fbullum, we've tried different things, we've tried James Garner there. Second half against Bain, he went off at half time, he put Lewis Dobbin on and he tried to move things around. We found this last season when Decorey was sent off against Spasic, where Harry Kane had an eyelash in his eye. The three games after that we almost lost the plot because we'd lost the key component from what we'd do. So how do you think we combat that?  Or you scrap that and you come on with a different approach so you never can go with five at the back in recent weeks and you know Decorey's role in that has changed. We've seen against Newcastle, Decorey played deeper so we didn't really play that same role either. I think Evans could benefit from going five at the back again here especially when you look at Tottenham's attack and talent that way you don't have to try and replicate a role without the player. Maybe that still means Harrison playing further forwards and playing off Calvert Lewin but more of a striker trying to really use that pace on the counter attack. Or maybe you look at Dan Jume and I know that might seem shock and based on some of the things I've said about him on the show, you know I don't rate him particularly highly. I thought he did okay against Fullam over than when we would have had a corner and he tried to keep it in and put it out for a goal kick. But he's got something to offer against a team that didn't really work for him. Is that maybe that extra motivation there? So he's certainly an option isn't he?  This is a straight swap. Let's get Dan Jume off. If it's Calvert Lewin or better whatever the manager I imagine it'll be done. Let's have Dan Jume in that pocket behind him and picking it up and running at them and stuff. That's how you then visit him when he came to the club. But is it going to go that way? It's just that he's done it. He hasn't done it. You're right. He's done it. He's done it. He's come on. He's done okay. He got off them a few times. He should have probably won the game for Everton with the volley inside the box. He should have certainly hit the target. But you just don't look at him and think yeah he can come in and do us a job because he just hasn't proven he's worked hard enough now. We have there has been some information put out there he's doing one to one sessions now trying to prove to the manager that you know he really wants to get in and have his say. You're right it could be Jack Harrison if he played three at the back even he could still go with Jack Harrison in that pocket. Is he really going to be ultra but I even go with Beto and Dom. Might be a bit of a stretch given how comfortable Tottenham are in possession to have two strikers. I think he's going to want someone to drop back into that middle and really fill in there. So that probably lies with Jack Harrison. We haven't got, we don't know what's happening with Andre Gomez. He played an hour for the 20 ones then he played 90 minutes for the 20 ones. He wasn't even on the bench against Fulham. So. It suggests he's not in the plans doesn't it? Yeah it seems that way and we haven't got anyone else there to try to give them a feel to freshen up just because of the injury. So there the key area is in Michael Encoe like I said before they're going to make a like decision on him. If he plays then obviously Evan will go back to a back four I imagine and Miko will just drop in at left back but he'll probably end up with a 4-4-1 one and then I do think you'll see Jack Harrison. That makes it difficult because he plays on the right wing. So it does make sense given what's available just right now for the manager to play three at the back. Have Patterson on one side and Dwight McNeill is the left wing back on the other side unless Miko's available and he plays him then you could have Harrison. Or if Michael Encoe plays then he could play McNeill in that behind the striker and Harrison on the bench. So there are a couple of variations but Spears are a good side and I know they had a little wobble, they had suspensions, they had injuries as well. He's still got two key players for them out which has changed Madison and Van de Venne both out at the minute absolutely key players for them. Rytialas na'r old mate is back and unfortunately for us he's scoring goals. But that's it, he's got good players and we're going to have to do our jobs at me every single one of them. Yes certainly and I think one thing Evan and I've got to try and avoid in this match is too much dillydallion on the ball. Tottenham have mostly enjoyed a lot of possession in most of their Premier League games this year. Obviously that comes from having player quality in the midfield as well but I think it's also because they're very good at winning the ball back and they've got very combative midfielders as well and they're very good at packing that centre of the pitch and winning the ball back and recycling it quickly and that's why they make so many chances and then that lends itself to the possession. You don't want to be giving the ball away consistently against Tottenham especially when you're probably not going to have much of it. So whatever we do, whoever plays, is going to have to be very switched on and alert. Brilliant, you should do dillydallion as well, Jack, I thought, excellent. The action here, that would have been quite tremendous to see. Let's have a look at the start and 11 that's your own day to used against in the last game. Here we go. This is a Benly, obviously in last Premier League match. He had Patterson, Godfrey Keane, Tarkovsky, Dwight McNeill and then a four across the middle, obviously Harrison, Decorey, Onan, James Garn and Dominic Calvert-Luney. It certainly didn't set up like that, it was interchanging going on all over the show, wasn't it? I don't know what to do with Onan, I just basically sat in the number six. But from that side, obviously we know Abdelhaid Decorey's out. The side Ben Godfrey came out for the full on game and Brant White was back in there. If he does play three at the back, do you think it will be Keane or will it be Godfrey? I think it will be Keane and to be honest, well I wouldn't normally favour Keane over Godfrey, to be honest. I don't understand if he did want to pick Godfrey for this because you look at the pace in that spares team, if they are to get him behind us, you know, Cullovesky is absolutely rapid, isn't he? You know, we see him Ben Godfrey's recovery pace against Bay and Lee and okay his position and I know that he can get into that but he does have a bit of pace and maybe that could be the difference maker if Tottenham do you manage to get him behind us. We have a little spell we wear control in the ball and they break away with it but I think ultimately if it's three at the back he's going to pick Keane so it's irrelevant really, isn't it? Ben Godfrey has of course been linked with the move to Tottenham in January as well. Let's have a look at the spares side that played last time out. They've gone with Pedro Porre, they've put out a right back, Romero, Ben Davis and Udoji. Beshwmett, who was missing from this one, hasn't he? They've got Paphys Shah, Brennan Johnson, Nea Cullovesky, Sun, who's incredible footballer and Ritial isn't up top so they've got to make a couple of changes as well but still a strong side, like you say it. We have got to be switched on, I mean Everton's record, Everton have won one of the last 21 Premier League games against Tottenham which was at the Tottenham Hot Waste Stadium. It was a header from Dominic Calvert-Lewin on day one of the season, that year with Carlo and Charge and James Rodriguez and people like that on the sides. Great times, although it was cold for nobody in the ground to see it but we have just got to go there and execute our plan like you said but the player we've picked that was good as attacking options that you've got, Huw Minson is still the one that we're picking out as the danger man. This is his numbers from this season in the Premier League. 17 games, 10 goals, XT of 6.35, so he's overperforming. Four assists and he's averaging 3.76, I think that is XA. A game, it's a quote pad, his heat map looks like... ..and to do you know something of a, I mean look at him, it looks like you say on like outbreak, look how, it's everywhere, isn't it? It gets everywhere, one of the reasons why is I think, because don't them have interchangeable forwards, you know, sometimes it'll be Richard Allison through the centre, sometimes it'll be Son, you know, Johnson can probably play there if you need him to, so... He's got an score at Wolves going through the middle, didn't he, Bradley Johnson? So he can rotate out that forward line of looks and that's dangerous for us because we've got to stay switched on to where players are lining up in front of us as well but Son, wherever he is on the pitch, he requires attention.  You'd think, you know, for a sort of winga-turn striker, you'd think it'd be his movement and his pace setting himself up for quite easy chances, which would suggest a higher XG closer to his goal tally, but that just shows you how to finish anything that comes his way at the moment. He's such a dangerous player and you can't give him an interspace if he gets near that box. No, and we've seen him bend on things in, on both sides.  Obviously he's got a bit of history with Everton now with the hands I go and this thing a few years ago, but he certainly wants to watch him. It is going to be a difficult game. I mean, you know, they've got one of the most likeable managers in certainly in the Premier League, haven't they? And he's passed the cochlunge just quickly, is he impressed you with what he's done so far at space? Oh, massively. I mean, I was a fan of him back in the Celtic days as well. It's easy to look at Celtic and think, obviously he should have won the league, it's a two-team league, but at the state day with him before he came in, he's taken them around massively, and he's done the same thing at Tottenham, not just in terms of squad overhaul. I think there's players who've improved under him, you know, Son, arguably having his best season of his career. He's had some strong season before obviously, but Richard listened to him better as well, and seeing players like LaCelso coming back into the mix.  He suits Tottenham to a T, and I mean that with full respect to them, get a manager offered clubs similar stature to a year or smaller than yet to come in and take you to the next level. Tottenham down to plucking someone from above and bringing them down and hoping they'll pull them up with them. Tottenham are a team that, okay, sign your young players and sign these hidden gems, and we'll all improve together. And that said, Griffin Angers is a manager, and he's going to continue doing brilliantly there, I think. Yeah, he's been hugely impressive. He played great football. You see him with the numbers, the goals, the scoring in every game, the only team to do so. We saw that bizarre game against Chelsea, and we were still playing on the half-way line. Mad stuff like that, attacking football, every interview I've ever seen, and I shined. It seems like I shined, fellas. He's really impersonal, isn't he? Yeah. And he loves football, man. He's just well to see an interview with him, talking about Freddie, you do. He's not football, man. And so, therefore, he gets a big vote for that as well. It is going to be a tough game. For us, taking something will be good, just keep it going, keep this run going. Is it a game ever that can win? I mean, I think so. We'd have to probably ride our luck a little bit, but it's a game we can when we've proven over the last week, and we've got 26 points in real time, haven't we? We've won eight games in football so far this season. We've won five away games. We should be eight points off spares. Seven or eight, I think it is. So, you know, Everton have been strong this season. Even when we've been really good, we haven't had a great record to top them, but... But we've seen teams smashing grab them this season. It can be done against them. You do need a little bit of luck, and you need to be very solid defensively, but it certainly can be done. And this is a team who excels in that sort of performance. Let's go and do it. Let's go and have a nice Christmas smashing grab. Be lovely. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. How did you see this one going? Who are the danger men?  Subscribe if you haven't. Thanks for watching. See you later.


Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to install Hypervisor at 2019 operating system, how to configure it, and how to create a virtual machine, how to recover lost data from a Hypervisor or physical disk, from a virtual machine drive, and how to convert a virtual dynamic disk into a fixed size one. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it, to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or radio. Hypervisor at 2019 is a free virtualization product by Microsoft that lets you create and run virtual machines, each of them working as a full-featured computer with its own operating system and programs. With HyperV, you can create several virtual machines running various operating systems, and do it on a physical Windows server. HyperV's hardware sources and computing power let you isolate the guest operating system of the virtual machine from the service operating system, which guarantees its uninterrupted work. There are two versions of HyperV – HyperV Server, an autonomous server that only contains a Windows Hypervisor – HyperV for short – and Windows Server with HyperV, an autonomous computer controlled by Windows Server operating system where HyperV is enabled. In a few seconds, I'll show you how to configure an autonomous HyperV server containing only a Windows Hypervisor. You can download an installation ISO image of HyperV Server 2019 from the official Microsoft website. Download the image, log into your account, and the download link will become active. For the download to start, fill in these fields. I recommend choosing the English version, as it will make the configuration process easier and it will help you avoid errors and let you fix possible errors more quickly. When the download is complete, you need to create a bootable drive or a boot from this image in any other way possible. The installation process is typical and looks like installation of Windows 10. Just follow the wizard's directions. There are hardly any peculiarities in installing HyperV. When the installation is over, you'll be suggested to change the administrator's password. As you enter it, the Hypervisor console appears. HyperV Server doesn't have the Windows graphical interface, or we have all got used to. Most settings can only be configured with the command prompt. First configuration, two Windows are available. The standard command prompt and the S-config CMD window. I will perform primary configuration with the standard management console. The first item on this menu lets you connect a server to the domain or workgroup. Now change the server name. Choose a name that is this short and informative, because you'll be using it often during the configuration process. I agree to restart. The next item lets you add one more administrator. Give the name and then the password. Another important thing to configure is to enable remote access to this computer. This way, you'll be able to control it with Server Manager, MMC and PowerShell consoles. Connect to it with RDP, check its availability with PING, and so on. The fifth item is Windows Update settings. After that, you can check and install available updates. There is one more important thing – enable remote desktop access, type E to enable it and 2 to allow all clients. The next item is network settings. To select a specific adapter, type its index. In my case, it is 3. Now press 1, set a static IP address by pressing S, enter IP address, subnet mask and default gateway. Option 2. Set DNS servers. When this configuration is over, type 4 to return to the main menu. Set the date and time. The last one is telemetry settings. Hyper-V doesn't let you disable it, so select the mode you prefer. I choose the first option – Security. That's all about primer configuration, so let's move to connection settings. To manage a server with Hyper-V Manager, you'll need a computer with Windows 10 installed on it. To establish a connection with the server, it should be available by the host's name. To make it happen, edit the file hosts on the client computer. Add the IP address and name for the Hyper-V server. This is how it looks like. If the account on the client computer differs from the Hyper-V administrator account, and this is how it should be, you need to save your account data, which is used to connect to the hypervisor. To do it, launch the command prompt as administrator on the client computer. And type this command. Specify the server name, administrator name, and the password. By default, a firewall is enabled for the hypervisor to block any external connections. You should either disable it completely by running the following command in the service command prompt, or add several permissions for remote management. Here are some commands to be typed in our shell. You can run this tool from the command prompt. Type PowerShell and then run the following commands. After you have specified the host and the account data to access Hyper-V, you need to check if the server can be pinged by its name. On the client computer, run the command prompt as administrator and type the command ping followed by its server name. The server can be pinged alright, so let's move on. Type PowerShell as administrator and run this command. Type Y to agree. This way, we have just configured the WinRM service to run automatically and enabled the remote management rules in the firewall. Now, you need to add the Hyper-V server to the list of trusted hosts with this command. The last element is the server name. The next step is to set permissions for the anonymous logon group. To do it, you have to start Component Services by running the command d com c n f g in the command prompt. In the Component Services, jump to Computers, My Computer, right-click on My Computer and open Properties. Jump to the tab Come Security. Here, click Edit Limits in the Access Permissions section and set Remote Access Permissions for Anonymous Logon Group. Then click OK. Now you need to install Hyper-V Manager in Windows 10. Right-click on the Start menu, Apps and Features, Programs and Features, turn Windows Features on or off. Find Hyper-V Umbulist, Unfold it, and check the box next to Hyper-V Management Tools. Click OK. Wait until the installation is complete and then connect to the remote server. Open the Start menu, Windows Administrative Tools, Hyper-V Manager, Connect to Server. In this field, type the Hyper-V server name. If you configured everything properly, you'll be able to connect to the server and manage it. Now that Hyper-V server is installed and the primary configuration for your connection is complete, the final step is to create a virtual machine. Check one of our videos for a detailed tutorial on creating virtual machines in the Hyper-V Manager. Just follow the link in the description. When the operating system is damaged, the Hyper-V server's hard disk is formatted accidentally or the virtual machine is out of order. You can still read and extract the required information from the disk if you use a specialized tool – Hetman Partition Recovery. Remove the hard disk from the Hyper-V server and connect it to a Windows computer. Download, install and run the program. Open the disk and start the scan. If the Hyper-V operating system has crashed, you still have good chances to recover virtual machine files from this drive. By default, they are stored in this directory – C, users, public, documents, Hyper-V, virtual hard disks. Select the files you want to recover, click Recovery, select where you want to save them, and click Recovery again. When the recovery operation is complete, the files will be placed into the specified directory. After that, you'll be able to connect a virtual machine and boot it. When a virtual machine is created by the hypervisor, it receives a virtual hard disk, which is dynamic by its time. Due to certain peculiarities of the file system and prominent defragmentation of such disks, deleted files are soon erased, so recovering data from images of such disks often ends in a failure. However, you can change the disk type in the virtual machine settings of your Hyper-V manager. Select a virtual machine and open its settings. In the window that opens, look to the left. Select the hard disk, then look at the right side of the window. Click Edit, Next, choose Converge, click Next, and don't change the disk format. At the next step, select Disk Type as fixed size, and click Next. In the process of conversion, the program will not change the main file of the virtual disk. Instead, it will save its copy, but with a fixed size. Open the file name and click Next. Then hit Finish. Wait until the virtual disk is converted. Now let's check if we managed to change the disk type. Click Inspect, and you can see that the disk type has changed to fixed size. Now upload this file into our program. Open the tools tab, mount disk, specify the parts with the fixed size virtual disk file, and click Open. After that, it will appear in the Drive Manager. All you have to do now is to scan it, select the necessary files, and recover them. You will find the recovered files in the directory you have chosen. And that is all for now. Hopefully this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. 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