Hey friends, today we are gonna be testing out the new Disney Genie app, and we're just gonna let the app do its thing. A regular day for me, my usual routine, nothing special, I didn't wake up and do rope drop or anything like that, and I just wanna see if it's gonna help me accomplish the things that I normally would wanna do in a park on a regular day. Any hoos, let's go do this. We're gonna start off our day here at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and just like any other day that I come to Animal Kingdom, I wanna ride Flight of Passage, I wanna ride Expedition Everest, and I wanna ride Dinosaur, and we're gonna see if the Genie app is gonna help us do that quicker or faster, and plus I plan on park hopping a little bit later on. It is just about 12.30 in the afternoon, and this is what time I normally would be coming to the parks, and I'm gonna actually launch the Genie now in my Disney Experience app. I haven't even looked at it yet, so we're literally just gonna start off right now and see where the day takes us. There we go, we're just gonna start it up right now. We're gonna pick the attractions that we wanna do. So we wanna do Avatar, Flight of Passage, Dinosaur, and Expedition Everest. So all those, bada bing, bada boom. I like villains. I like live entertainment, and continue. None of those. Entering full strength magic mode. That is really fancy. There we go, oh okay. So we can purchase a Flight of Passage for $11. I'll do that, thank you. Don't mind if I do. Oh wow, that's like in a couple minutes. Yes please, holy moly. Well this is actually really starting to be amazing. Continue, yes. Okay, and we're gonna get the Disney Genie Plus service. Yes we will, don't mind if I do. Done, $15 for the day. Now I also wanna buy, oh wow, Book and Experience. Let's see, oh yes please. Perfect, I wanna purchase a, now I'm gonna purchase an Expedition Everest. Wow, you can do one at $115? Holy moly, oh wow. So I can literally just go ride Expedition Everest right now. It is $111 and it's $115, and I'm gonna do it for $7, yes I will. Okay, so that was actually pretty easy. Like to navigate through the app, I'm sorry I couldn't actually keep it all in there, but I had my address, my credit card information, so it's probably like skipping around a little bit. But for $33, I just booked Avatar Flight of Passage, Expedition Everest, and Dinosaur, all within the next hour and a half. And I'm gonna be able to use the lightning lane. I think that is kind of really awesome. I really think it's amazing. Let me know in the comments what you think, $33, and I can ride Flight of Passage, Expedition Everest, and Dinosaur within two hours. Like that is, all right, I don't know, I kinda like it, but I couldn't, I couldn't spend $33 every single day. Like I can't, I don't know. We'll see how it goes, but on vacation, I think that is really cool and a great option. It's funny because we did all of that and we didn't even go in the park yet. I kinda did it just hanging out out front in this area right here. So I purchased the lightning lane for the Flight of Passage, which is $11, and Expedition Everest, which is $7. So that's just $18 for a one-time purchase. The other $15 is because I bought Genie Plus for the day. So I'm also gonna be able to use that to get lightning lanes at other attractions when I park cop, or if I plan on doing other ones here, and I don't know, like I said, for a vacation, I think I would spend $33 to accomplish what I'm about to do in the next hour when I'm on vacation, not like every single day, but $33 to actually knock out all the things that you would normally not be able to do. I would do it. So here is a look at my lineup. Expedition Everest right now at $1.15, and then immediately afterwards, we get to go ride Dinosaur, and then it recommended me to go get a coffee, which I probably will actually go get a coffee, and then we get to ride Avatar Flight of Passage at $245, and I'm not saying it's better than FastPass because nothing is gonna be better than the FastPass system that we used to have, but this is the times we're living in, and this is what we have, so we're gonna make the best of it and try to enjoy everything that we can. Oh, it looks like we're just in time for the Macaws. Here they come. Oh, coming in hot. One thing I think the Genie app is 100% wrong about is who rides two rides before they get a cup of coffee. Suggesting I go ride Expedition Everest and Dinosaur, and then get coffee, you are so wrong, Genie. Seriously, I think we're just gonna actually grab some coffee right now and then go ride Expedition Everest. We got the pumpkin game changer again, and we're gonna drink our coffee and then we're gonna go ride Expedition Everest. Cheers! Because we had Expedition Everest and Dinosaur both from 1.15 to 2.15, I kinda pushed it to the very end because I wanna see how much we can get done in just about an hour. So we're gonna immediately ride this, then Dinosaur, and then just in about 45 minutes, it's gonna be time for a flight of passage and look at the standby line for Expedition Everest. I hope, I mean, I really hope that the lightning lane isn't that long. Also, if we end up missing our time for the lightning lane, it'll be interesting to see if they give you that 15-minute leanway. That's how it used to be with the Fastpass.  So if we don't make it over to Dinosaur by 2.15, it'll be interesting to see if they actually still let us ride. So for a single person, is it worth $7 to skip this whole entire line and just go on into the lightning lane? Look at that, thank you! There is zero weight for the lightning lane. Not a single person, we're just walking right on. So our official ride time starts at 1.50. And like I said, we're gonna see if we can get over to Flight of Passage by 2.45. That meaning we did Expedition Everest, Dinosaur and Flight of Passage in one hour. And I was able to request front row. Oh no, there's been a tragedy on Expedition Everest. Somebody lost their on-celebrating button down there. I hope they weren't celebrating something special. Goodbye! Hey, I think maybe that's where we'll go next. Gotta hang on to the hats for this one. That's the way to start a day. We're like gonna do. Now it's time we head on over to Dinosaur and use our next lightning lane. Now this one, I paid the $15 to get Genie Plus. So I can get multiple ones that are on that list. The only ones that you have to pay for, like Alacarte is Expedition Everest and Flight of Passage. Right now Flight of Passage is a 95 minute wait and Navi River is 45 minutes. So that is pretty intense. I'm glad that we have the lightning lane for that. I will tell you right now if I had a family of five, I would pay $55 for the whole family to skip the line 95 minutes for Flight of Passage. I don't even care if you have to skip the meal for the day. 95 minutes is insane. Or if you actually want to avoid not paying at all, show up for rope drop. Get here super early and rush in. But like I said, me doing this as a day that I would normally do, I don't like to do rope drop that often. So that's why this kind of works out perfect for me and me being by myself. That is another thing. It is 207, so we are gonna be able to make our lightning lane pass on time, but I'm still gonna ask the cast member if there is a grace period. And like I said before, no way do I think Disney Genie is better than Fast Pass. The thing is, this Fast Pass does not exist anymore and Disney Genie is what we have now. And I actually like Disney Genie better than nothing at all. And it's still debatable, like I said, whether or not I can actually justify spending this much money on a daily basis. But if I'm on vacation, and that's what Disney is kind of looking to market themselves to, is people that are on vacation.  And now it's time for our lightning lane pass and the standby line is 15 minutes. So we'll just bottoming. Hi. Excellent. Thank you. I don't think this is worth it to pay something like all the cart for, especially if it's only a 15 minute wait. Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's a wait at all. Hello there. Welcome to our little trans-dimensional joy ride, folks. I'm Dr. Seeker, your friendly controller and a heck of a paleontologist, if I do say so myself. There is like absolutely no line at all to ride dinosaurs. Sometimes it can get busy though and if you get caught on that day, then the Disney Genie Plus will definitely come in handy. I'm travel commencing in T minus 10 seconds and counting. This is Seeker. Listen up. We've got to get in, grab the iguanodon and get counted for the asteroid hit. Let's roll. Arca-sauce. Not Arca. Arca-sauce. That was amazing. Dinosaur is one of my all-time favorite rides. And if I was on vacation, it was my last day and I was an animal kingdom and that was a 95 minute wait and I wouldn't be able to ride it before I go. I would pay $20 to skip the line and go right down the lightning line. I mean, I would put that up there as riser resistance. And now it's not actually on that a la carte menu. I like how I'm calling it a la carte. It's included in the Genie Plus, but for me personally, I think it's a $20 ride. Now let's check back with Genie and see if they have any other recommendations. It's time to head over to Flight of Passage and just like I thought, we were able to do all three rides in under an hour. Like, and I'm not even rushing. I'm kind of just like walking around slowly and it's telling me to check out Discovery Island Trails, the Boneyard, but I think I want to park hop. So, oh, plan your next park. Tell Disney, Genie, where you would like to do next. Okay, let's see what this does. I want to go to Epcot. Yeah, I want to go to Epcot today. Let's see, pulling out all the stops. Ooh, I want to do Frozen. I want to do Remy's Ratatouille. I want to do Soarin. I want to do Test Track. We'll do all those things. Creating your best Disney day. So it looks like we can actually grab Lightning Lane for Soarin. Oh, wow, a 240, holy moly. So that means we can get off Flight of Passage and then literally drive over to Epcot and be able to ride Soarin right afterwards. I'll take that. Thank you. Look at that, oh, wow. So now we're going to be able to go ride Flight of Passage and then we're going to hop right on over to Epcot immediately afterwards and not wait in line to ride Soarin. And I can see if there's other options that I could purchase. Maybe I should see if I can buy a Ratatouille pass. I mean, that would be interesting, but I've already spent $33, so it's not like I want to spend $50 for the whole entire day. I mean, honestly, for one person, it's not that bad, but for a family, they really, like some families can't afford that. So let's see if we can buy a Lightning Lane for Remy's Ratatouille. I don't know if they're available. Maybe they're all sold out for the day. But wait a second, what's this? I'm not eligible. It says the guest has reached the maximum number of Lightning Lane selections allowed for an individual purchase today. So you can only buy two Lightning Lane passes per day. Wow, I didn't know that. See, I had no idea that was even a thing. I didn't know that you're only limited to two. I didn't do much research into this. I kind of just wanted to go into it blindly so that I can experience how the app works just for anyone else that actually just picks it up and decides to do it. And yeah, you learn as you go and now it's time for flight of passage and then we're gonna head to EPCON and we have a Lightning Lane already for soaring once we get there. Wait time now is 70 minutes and we're gonna scan and go now. Now we can officially say we've done Expedition Everest, Dinosaur and Flight of Passage and did it in 50 minutes and we spent $33 to do so. So, like I said, I'll leave it into your hands to let me know in the comments whether you think it's worth it or not.  Like I said, it's hard for me to say or speak for families because it's just me on my own and I could tell you me on my own would not do this all the time. I would do it maybe once a day on vacation but like, I don't know. Like I said, I would really need to want to get these rides done. And there was no line for the Lightning Lane. One. Go ahead and scan. Bada boom.  Thanks. Hi, how many? Five. Go ahead and hand it for me. $11 is definitely worth it. Definitely, definitely worth it. Sanitize. Thank you. That's right. Please fill all the- The system's ready. Okay. Seal genetic matching aroma. Okay, Dr. Stevens, they're ready. We're missing number seven. Can everyone see me? Number seven. You've all got them.  It tickles. Fun fact, once you get off, let a passage, you'll see these three hand prints with initials next to them. Let me know in the comments if you know what those initials are. They're all three different people. JC, JR, and JL. This is some new stuff right here. Hey, Nicky! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's a new interaction at Flight of Passage. That was awesome just to walk right on Flight of Passage. And I did ask one of the coordinators if there was a window or a time frame in case you missed your lightning lane. And he told me it's best to just make sure you're within your time window. And if you are late, it's on the cast member's discretion if they let you in or not. There's no set allowance. There's no grace period. And it just depends on how the day's going, what the current wait time is. And a little Disney magic maybe. Now it's time, I think, we actually park hop and head on over to Epcot to ride Soren. And I don't know if you wanna start the clock, like when I initially started riding rides, which was 150, but now it is actually three o'clock. So in an hour and 10 minutes, we knocked out all three rides and we're gonna go to Epcot to ride Soren. I really wish Disney Genie Plus could help me with a tram to get to my car so I can get over to Epcot, because it is hot out today. And Animal Kingdom has one of the longest parking lots. And we have successfully made it to Epcot. Oh, here comes Monorail Silver leaving Epcot. Well, that was kind of beautiful with the sun, wasn't it? Even though we did make great time, it looks like we might be late for our Soren Lightning lane. And it's so strange because I wanna say Fastpasser. You know what I mean? Like, I wanna say it, but it's Lightning lane. And like I said, it's gonna be on the cast member's discretion if we're allowed to ride or not. Hi friend, how are ya? Oh, awesome. Like I said, we did make good timing, but the time spent actually getting through the parking lots and to the car actually took up a lot of it. We do need trams back.  Maybe they'll let me know. Have you ever been at an airport and you got super excited when you've seen the pilot walking around? That's exactly how I felt when I just saw the Soren cast members walking by Spaceship Earth. How funny is that? We are now officially five minutes late for our return time. So hopefully they're gonna let us on. We need a little Disney magic. There's my friend Mike down there. He's waiting for me because we're gonna ride together. And look at him. He's just scoping out, probably texting me like, hey, where you at? I'm underneath the Soren sign. Yeah, I'm just sitting here waiting for you. Oh, he is texting. All right, let's see. I'll go on this side. I'm late. Oh, wait, let me in. Oh, wow. Let's go again one more time at the top. Thank you. It let me in even though I am late. So my official tardiness is 14 minutes. 14 minutes and I still lit up green. So there might be an actual allowance of time. I mean, who knows? I don't know if there's actually something scripted or there's rules, but hey, 14 minutes is good. And of course we got to do B1, my favorite. Another cool thing to point out is now I'm riding Flight of Passage and Soren within one hour, like back to back. It's kind of cool because they're like the same type of ride. Soren is done. We are ready for takeoff. Now that we got done riding Soren, I think it'd be fun to actually see what the Genie recommends that we do now that we're in the park. Now I haven't gone off many of the recommendations so far. Like it told me to go ride two rides and then the best time to get coffee was after those two rides. And of course that didn't make a lick of sense. But you know, I'm interested to see what they have in mind here at Epcot. I did maybe have to put in a different preference to say I want to maybe drink some drinks or eat some food, but yeah, we'll see. So it's telling me that I can book another Lightning Lane entry. I can go see Sergio over in Italy. Voices of Liberty at 5.15. And also it's a good time to actually get something to eat at Regal Eagle between 5.45 and 6.15. And yeah, I don't know. None of those are actually really lining up to what I want to do at the moment. Test Track has a super low wait time during Harmonious though. So that's always good. It is a little weird that you can only do two Lightning Lane like separate purchases. So since we already purchased Flight of Passage and Expedition Everest, we can't do any here at Epcot. If it was so and you could, I could literally pay $9 and go ride Frozen Ever After right now at this moment. The same thing with the Remmies Ratatouille Adventure. I could literally just pay $9 and go ride. The next available times for those are 4.35. And it won't let me. Like I said, it's two. So I wonder if you park hop if you do one in one park and then one in the other if that will still allow you to do it. It only says two per day. So it doesn't say two per park. So I don't know. Maybe that'll be another future video. I wish Disney Genie would help me find a place to go grab a beer. But I kinda don't need Disney Genie's help to find the good beer spots. Hey friend, how are ya?  Since there's not any Pumpkin Spice Latte beers available, I decided to get the Lightning Lager which is kinda fitting today since we're doing the Lightning Lane. And I had this beer before and I like it a lot. It would have been cool if they actually put in something that allows you to find beer or mixed drinks but it doesn't have it as a park interest. They have the different characters like princesses and villains. And then park interest, they have parades, live entertainment, park classics, low rides, water rides, thrill rides. And then for dining, they just have casual character, dining and signature. Where's the beer? Where's the drinking around the world? So we're just gonna Lightning Lager it up and enjoy a little time here at Epcot. So cheers.  You know what I mean? I noticed before they did the performances like Sergio, but what about all these character studies? Because before the shutdown, a big part of people's vacations was coming and actually meeting characters. So hopefully they'll actually carry that over and give people the opportunity to actually go see characters. And I guess with that, we are gonna call it a day here. Honestly, I really had fun with my day and actually going around using the Genie app. It's $33 is what I ended up paying for for the day. I would have paid more if they gave me the option to actually do it, but I don't think this is feasible for families on a budget or just anyone that comes to the parks. I mean, I have to think in mind and this is very important. We have to remember that fast passes are not coming back. You know what I mean? They're not coming back. So like I'm all for the Genie app when it comes to actually doing the individual Lightning Lane purchases. I think that's a great idea. I'm not the biggest fan of the Genie Plus app. I don't think it's really worth the value because most of the rides that are on there but wait times aren't that bad and you can actually get away with it without paying the $15. And when we say $15, we're talking about poor person. So as a family, that can really add up. And yeah, I don't know. Like I said, everything changes between me and a family because I'm a single person. A family has a lot of big numbers to actually worry about. And honestly, in the future, I might use it. Maybe I won't use it. It was beneficial to actually accomplish the things that I wanted to do today but it was beneficial at a price, had a pay for it. So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. I think that was my longest outro ever and we'll see you next time. Bye.


It's two years since the government of India changed the status of Jammu and Kashmir revoking the special status it had under the constitution. We have with us a special guest, Mr. Yusuf Tarigami, former MLA of the CPIM from Jammu and Kashmir. He's also the spokesperson of the PAGD and its convener. Welcome to the show, Mr. Tarigami. Mr. Tarigami, have the people of Kashmir adjusted to the new regime? Have they adjusted to the absence of the protection of Article 370 in the last two years? I think, you see, first of all, we must understand what the new situation is, what exactly has been done, the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and that has to be a little analyzed properly. You see, it's not the question of one provision of the constitution getting removed. It is exactly the very bond of our relationship, relationship of the people of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh with the Union of India. That is the bond. And this was the legitimate guarantee provided by the Consulate Assembly of India, which came into being soon after the country got independence. Now, constitution still remains a guide for all of us. And this has been not quite same as far as people of Jammu and Kashmir are concerned. It seems as if constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, it was abrogated but also the constitution of India was not working, is not working in this region of the country. You see, otherwise, ordinarily, whenever any state got divided, new states got constituted. Consumptional, it was mandatory to refer it to the people's opinion, to the concerned population, concerned legislature, has this constitutional direction followed. Vizag is Jammu and Kashmir. I think our countrymen do remember that time and again, the senior leaders of the country have been telling the people of India and people of Jammu and Kashmir that Kashmir remains the crown of India. How was this crown treated? You see, our state, a historic state, and Kashmir has 5000 years history, and then it is downgraded, it is divided with whose consent long before. In 2002, in some place of Haryana RSS held a meeting, National Executive, they adopted a resolution with Jammu and Kashmir, asking the then government not to grant, not to protect the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir. Rather, put Ladakh in the category of union territory, divide Jammu and Kashmir, and grant Jammu a separate state food. This is the design, and this is now when the RSS is in command in the government. This is how they are implementing that plan of dividing the people, disempowering the people, and finally erasing whatever the constitutional rights were provided to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Right, sir, there were certain promises which the government made at the time of the abrogation. What has happened to those promises? What about the development promise? They talk about Naya Kashmir. This needs to be reiterated here today, and we must remind the countrymen that it was in 47 when Maharaja, who was the ruler in Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hary Singh, he remained reluctant to accede to India for some time. It was only when the tribals came to attack us here, Indian army was not here at that point of time. It was the then national conference, Barkar's, they stood up and said, we cannot accept any relationship with ours. We have the tradition, historical traditions. We enter into relationships on our own, and it is how the accession took place when Maharaja, after Indian army support, and he was asked to sign the documents of accession, and that document of accession was followed by, accompanied by another letter. Please look into that. Even Maharaja wanted that accession must remain confined to the three subjects of defense, communication and foreign affairs only. In the rest of the areas, sovereignty must fly with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It is during this period that demonstrations were held between government of India and the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir that an agreement of incorporating article 370 in the constitution of India was decided. Today, BJP is telling and virtually falsifying the history that Sardar Patel was not part of it. The fact remains that it was decided in 1949 at his residence in Delhi, where Pandit Jawaharlal Nanu, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah and Sardar Patel together decided incorporating the commitments made to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the constitutional guarantees of the relationship, providing sufficient autonomy to this historic state. That is how first 306A and then 370 came into being and became the part of the constitution of India. That bond has been assaulted now. How can we adjust with it? We were having a convalescent assembly and one more which was that opportunity was provided by the convalescent assembly of India by incorporating a provision in the constitution of India, which provided which armored the people of Jammu and Kashmir to have one more convalescent assembly and form frame its own constitution as well. That is what we did. That is how today these, the government is talking about Naya Kashmir as they are claiming in the rest of the country building Naya India, New India by destroying the very basic structures of India, modern India. Similarly, they want to destroy the whole Naya Kashmir, which was, which came into being through the hard historic struggles, where land to the tiller was first enacted in this part of the region, while the peasants became masters of the atrial and land where women rights were ensured, where free education up to the university level was provided that Kashmir has remained an eyesore. That is what this government has done on 5th August 2019, destroyed the constitutional provision, destroyed the very constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, destroyed those very rights which were, which emerged out of long struggles of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Now, we have been put in the state of silence, and this silence is not voluntary. This silence is not of our choice. This silence is forced silence. But how long? This is the question which we are posing. This is the question I hope the democratic opinion of the country will someday ask these people who are in authority today. Mr. Tarigami, the government has two other proposals, one on domicile status and the other there is talk about holding elections. Why are Kashmiris so conflicted and worried about the domicile status change? No, it is not. You see the question is domicile. Everything has changed because the very constitutional provisions, the very frame of our future that has been demolished, what has remained now. Otherwise, as far as the rights of land and jobs, those things came into being during Maharaja's rule. And when there were protests, it's not in Kashmir Valley, but in Jammu, Kashmiri Pandits here in Kashmir, and Bokras in Jammu, they demanded that outsiders must not come to encroach the rights on land and jobs. And then there was a notification and that notification ultimately the supreme of that was incorporated in one of the provisions of article 370, known as 35A, that has been abolished. Now, you go to Jammu, ask them, but exactly is there anything to celebrate? There are the jobs now, even the job protection, which the people had demanded, which are available in other provisions of the constitution of India like article 371, for Northeastern states, for private areas, for even Himachal Pradesh. Why Jammu and Kashmir was targeted? The reasons are quite obvious. And as of today, they may try. One thing is very, very unique for them, which only they can do it. Separate lies, just to hoodwink the opinion of the people, but history tells us, coercion, suppression, and any polity based on lies, falsehoods cannot sustain itself for longer period. The country's historic traditions will assert the people of Jammu and Kashmir, unitedly will ask the authorities not to do more injustices, not to commit more, more unlawful acts against its own citizens in Jammu, Kashmir, and other. History will move on. That's why that is how we stand by our own committee. So what are your demands now? What does the PAGD expect from the people, from the government? What do the people want? You see, telling you very frankly, we don't expect anything. You see now, where should we expect anything from this government? We went, Prime Minister asked us to come. We attended the meeting convened by Prime Minister. And yes, we asked in August 2019 before this abrogation took place, publicly appeal to the Prime Minister of India. Don't do anything. First, listen to us. Give us a chance of hearing that opportunity was not given for the two years. We were put virtually the whole population here under restrictions, under unlawful confinements. And then we went there. And where we expressed our concerns, all of us. But the response was, Dilli ki doorya, kam hoongi. Dilli ki doorya, we have to reduce it. Mr. Prime Minister, these words are not enough. Good words, yes. But something concrete needs to be done on the ground. Since last one month, we had asked for the certain confidence building measures. All of us virtually had asked for restoration of statehood, full statehood, which was promised by Home Minister while initiating the discussion on the Reorganization Act. And do you know, parliament, there was a question regarding this issue, and the answer was given by junior Home Minister and saying that statehood will be restored at an appropriate time and after normalcy is restored. One question we must ask this government, you have been claiming that we have done this just to restore peace in the region, normalcy. Even after two years, you are on record in the parliament telling the country that normalcy is not yet restored, so statehood cannot be restored the year. But this is a remission of the government of India, quite failure, even on this claim of restoring peace, restoring normalcy in this region. There is no question of other issues. Our economy is shuttered. Our job opportunities are nowhere seen. The developmental process is virtually halted, and only the developmental process wherever it is seen that is in restrictions that is arresting indiscriminately. That's what the fate of the people of Kashmir today is. And that's why, lastly, I must appeal to the people of our country, listen to us. Please, government does not listen to us, or we don't trust, they don't trust us. We don't trust them. We trust the great people of India. One day they will speak for the country and one day they will speak for the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well. Let's wait for that occasion, that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Taragaman.


Hi everybody, can you hear me all right? Appreciate you're coming out. I this this press conference is extraordinary. I am not trying to do anything other than Show you what I believe to be the truth in terms of the mathematics of this budget and before we get to what I have to do on Wednesday, what I want to do to to prepare and present the House of Representatives with my revenue plan, I want to show you why I have acted the way I have and stood up for what I think is the right thing in in Pennsylvania in this budget and overarching everything of course are differences of opinion in terms of what we ought to do in terms of funding priorities but overarching all of that is the mathematical requirement that we balance this budget and The premise that my premise that we have not been doing that and it's a bipartisan thing I'm not trying to assign blame to anybody. I know this is a partisan place but I am here to say that this is a problem that every Pennsylvania has 12.7 million of us are Faced with a problem and that is if we don't balance our budget after years of not doing it in a bipartisan way We are going to have serious problems this year and even bigger problems next year And that's what I want to talk about today My assumptions and where I'm coming from on balancing the budget. So now I'm going to try to move this forward And I'm not sure how to do this Up here here There we go, okay now at first glance this is the 1415 budget right at first glance it looks like we ended up in a good place We have a 274 million dollar ending balance And that's that's on paper however The 2014 15 budget relied on over two billion dollars of one time and unsustainable sources And that sounds like something a partisan would say right, but it's not The problem is these funds that I'm calling one time and unsustainable actually don't recur in 2015-16 And I have some quotes here as to to where we come up with the smoke and mirrors budgeting But just to break down that two billion dollars for last year in that budget one time revenues $199 million now one time revenues includes $417 million in extraordinary lapses 75.3 million dollars in the balancing incentive program that's increased federal revenues The increased of the use of Department of Health age rebates That's 18 million and then as sheets 389 million now just as use that as an example you're familiar with the sheets You know those things that the treasure throws out in the newspapers every once in a while to say you ought to come and claim money that the state Ours you because you know you had a savings account some time ago that you didn't do anything with it sort of lapses to the state Well that never actually It's always yours in Pennsylvania law But we had a rule that after five years After five years that bank had to give it to the Treasury and it would sit in the Treasury as cash Wasn't necessarily ours. We have still owed it to each of us, but it was in the Treasury Well, they changed that from five years to three years Well when you do that what was five years in that bank now three years all of a sudden you have this big mass of money That gets one time transferred to the Treasury still not our money But it's cash that's in hand and that was one of the things that was used That's the kind of thing that makes up that two billion dollars again one-time revenues rating special funds like the lottery One-time cost shifts As an example of that is the managed care organizations 394 million dollars we decided to pay a month late He's a month late. That's no big deal But an extra month that's some they have to come up with with the revenues to finance somehow finance that 394 million dollars But we meanwhile are off the hook for 394 million dollars just this one year because it just Puts it off for a year, but all those things added up to two billion dollars last year and again I have the quotes. It's just not me. This is the rating agencies you the reporters have been acknowledging us so if you did a Budget that was not smoke and mirrors you'd start with the idea of a Cost to carry something that said okay Here's what we actually spent last year and this is what they mandated in terms of all these smoke and mirrors pushing Kicking the can down the road. So what do we actually have to to raise this year to spend what we have to spend before? Tom Wolf puts anything in for education or act 89 puts anything in for roads and bridges. Well, here's here's what we are We have human services 886 million dollars again start with the total spending that we did last year 29.153 million note billion Then you have mandated increases human services 886 million now You know part of that Is 400 million that was shifted from last year to this year So that 886 million is 400 million higher than it should be because we use that one-time shift of the managed care organizations For example, we still owe it, but we put to this year payment that we should have made last year So we basically doubled up this year And unless we do more smoke and mirrors and kick that can down the road one more time We owe it this year. So it's now not 400 million, but 886 million Pension 715 million we did a smoke and mirrors thing there Also, we took about what 200 and some million dollars out of the the tobacco settlement fund You know, we just took it out. I don't know what why we did that I mean, there's no good financial reason to do it except to say it made the 2014 15 budget a little less as part of that two billion dollars of shifts, but it makes the 2015 16 budget even even higher debt service well, that's what you owe You know, you you make your interest payments That's what you have to do and and the amount of money you have borrowed We had to borrow some extra money last year just to keep the lights on you'll recall So there's 53 million there corrections That is even with no increase in the prison population. You're gonna have to pay prison guards So that's 203 million dollars and then the other category some miscellaneous things 23 million dollars That adds up to 31 billion 33 million dollars if I added nothing in my budget if I wanted to fund nothing in education We didn't want to do anything with anything to increase We would have because of this build-up this compounding of one-year fixes and shifts 31 billion 33 million dollars. This is what we have to spend. It's just mandate now the 15 16 Republican budget again This is the one 1192 is the number you'll recall The IFO revenue estimate that's the independent fiscal office. They their estimate was for 15 16 would be about 29 755 million dollars The total mandated expenditures remember 31 billion 33 million that's where that number comes from that leads to what I'm calling just for 15 16 a structural budget deficit of 1 billion 278 million dollars almost 1.3 billion dollars You're wondering why I'm complaining That's a 1.3 billion dollar structural budget deficit just in 2015 16. I haven't even gotten to 16 17 yet But in that to balance the budget to get to that 1.3 billion and add a little bit for some extra spending that they wanted to put Into 1192 it basically came up with 1.5 billion dollars of one-time stuff It's not honest. What did they come out one-time revenues of five hundred and twenty million dollars? They came up with one-time cost shifts of five hundred and sixty four almost four million dollars and questionable savings of $424 million now what you might ask are in those things okay the one-time revenues There was a budget surplus carried over from 2014 15 of what we said 274 million. They say 300 million dollars well You know, I think There really wasn't a budget surplus, but okay. They said there was the liquor system revenue I've been in business all my life. You don't sell a business and I've been in businesses that you sell You don't sell a business in one week or one month unless you have some crony who's standing there to to take over that business And so you're upfront money the money that you're going to get from doing this and I proposed as you remember a compromise that was extraordinary for a Democrat to propose We would get a lot of money, but we wouldn't get much and if anything in year one it takes some time to do this So I'm not sure where that comes from the one-time cost shifts Authority rentals and sinking fund. That's called plan con They were just going to put off about 300 million dollars that we owe the state owes to school districts for buildings That have sometimes cases actually been built. They just weren't going to pay it Guess you can do that, but that's 300 million that isn't going to be in the 2015 16 expenditure We just decided we're not going to pay it Have you ever done that to your landlord? Mark He was my tenant If you actually do something like that, you're going to end up having to pay it and Usually your landlord is going to give you some kind of grief for for putting it off Well, this is what we're doing because we can child welfare payments. You've heard how human service agencies are Complaining legitimately about the pain and hardship that this budget impasse has caused in the Republican budget They were going to take a hundred and seventy two million dollars of child welfare payments and just put off payment taking the last quarter for 2014 15 or 15 16 in their budget and putting it off till the 16 17 year again That's 170 million dollars. You don't have to pay it's going to be in next year's budget They just took it out of this year's budget. So voila. I mean amazing magic. It's not in the 15 16 budget It's not an expenditure. We make which is true, but we have to pay it the year after that School employees social security same thing 80 7 million dollars put that off Don't pay this years on time let it drift into the next fiscal year into the 16 17 fiscal year So as far as the 15 16 budgets concern It's not an expenditure and then you have questionable savings Costs and revenue adjustments of 237 million and the failure to fund manage a managed care program of $187 million. I got to say I wish I could explain where they came from. I don't understand it So that last 424 million just is savings that just comes out of thin air So if you did an honest budget for 16 17 and said okay What are the real cost drivers for yet about what we had in 1192? You'd actually have to start with the things that were shifted from 14 15 to 16 17 and Acknowledge that that 1.5 million dollars actually had to be paid so the human services It's 654 million dollars again. That's before you I add anything Before anybody says I want to do something different pensions 458 million you have to put that in The debt service is now 78 million That's just what it is corrections 166 million a million dollars and others 147 that's 1.5 billion dollars That means the mandated spending before I put anything in for anything I want or anybody else wants who supports me. It's 30 is 32 billion 536 million dollars So the 2016 17 budget With revenues of 30 billion 247 and mandated expenditures again with what I just said back here 32 billion 536 Leads to a structural budget deficit in the 16 17 budget assuming that you know we Do what what was proposed in 1192 of 2.2 almost 2.3 billion dollars And that's assuming that the budget for 15 16 this is the six. I'm sorry This is 16 17 budget assuming that the 15 16 budget was was actually balanced We'd have a 2.3 billion dollars That's making the biggest assumption that 1.5 billion dollars in the 15 16 budget was balanced Which it is not we'd still have a 2.3 billion dollar deficit with If we were looking ahead that's that's where we are so Let's take some you know pensions one of the things that I think The other side has talked about is how we have to take pension seriously I agree with that and I proposed a pension reform But there's neither there's no mine actually does anything in year one or two 15 16 or 16 17 There's if you just took Senate bill s1 as it was originally proposed it would only Take care of about 2% 44 million dollars would reduce expenditures in year one of the The budget so it really doesn't doesn't do a whole lot So here's the here's my point and and this is why I've been such a stickler about this The math just doesn't work and I think all of us Pennsylvania all of us in this room We have to understand that set partisanship aside. I'm not assigning blame here I'm just saying this is where we are if we don't do anything if we don't figure out how to make the uncomfortable choice of Having revenues that are real of being honest in our budget We're gonna have next year to come up with somewhere between two and three and a half billion dollars of cuts That means most of that has to come out of human services or education I mean you can go into these of the departments but there's just not enough money outside of Department of Human Services and education to find billions of dollars and You're gonna have to make cuts the likes of which we have not made for a long time ten years In fact when it comes to education You're gonna have increased property taxes the same thing is gonna happen here that happened back in 2011 When a billion dollars was cut from education K through 12 and we're gonna have additional credit downgrades because the Credit agencies are gonna say well, you're still using smoke and mirrors So that 83 basis point premium you're now paying on your debt because you're not a triple-a rated state It's gonna go up even higher and so is our debt because we're gonna have to borrow money to fund our deficit So that's the problem Doing nothing now is gonna result in a huge cut for education. I think that probably is the Is a key element here and if people didn't like what they saw four or five years ago They're gonna hate next year Because we simply have come to the end of the line using these one-time fixes funds are empty We've used smoke and mirrors enough and the compounding effect of expenditure increases is just getting higher and higher each year the increases get higher and higher because We have put off Spending in the year. We should have spent it to the to the next year and those bills are come and do Just an education though if we if we really cut what we're gonna have to cut next year if we don't find the revenues this year a Billion dollars that's going to take education funding to the lowest level since 2005 2006 that's a 10 year you have to go back 10 years to get to the the level of those cuts so that's my story and And that's why I'm taking this budget cycle.  No, I'm a business person. I'm a person who actually wants to make my ends meet I want to have a balanced budget and we could argue all the time and we should this is what a democracy is And I'm all for that debating what we should spend money on and how much we should raise But I don't think it's a partisan thing to Want to say insist on a discipline that says we have to be honest about our budgeting The math has to actually work two plus two does equal four in the real world It has to equal four here in budgeting in Harrisburg and we can't keep doing what we've been doing and again It's a bipartisan thing. I'm not blaming any one group, but you know, it's one thing to say We're not raising taxes And we're gonna cut expenditures, but then we need to do it honestly This is the way we've been doing it is not at all honest and we've got to stop it That's what my intransigence has been about. It's not about ideology. It's about math


What's up guys, John Hammond here showcasing more Pico CTF and in the last video I actually kind of forgot to remind us or remind you or even myself to take note of the flag that we got from a challenge Leave for the forest and mark that challenge is complete in our own like directory Backlog of what we've been doing in the capture to flag game So I wanted to do that and I actually thought this would be an awesome opportunity To showcase how we can write our own get flag script and automate not just like we don't want to save a static copy of the flag But we want to like actively retrieve the flag in our own encapsulated process in our own script or program So since we've already written a small script with the shebang line and just the SSH command That allowed us to get into the shell skirt the shell server But we can do stuff while we're connected in that as just a single like One trigger fire execution in that SSH command. So I want to show you how you can do that Let's go ahead and check out that shell script one more time If I cat that out you can notice that it is simply the command to connect to the Pico CTF like shell server But if I tried to run that on its own We log in right but SSH will let us run a command at the very very end of its like actual argument here at the end of the entire Command that we run. So if I wanted to I could run who am I? Just tacked on at the end and it'll explain okay, I've connected to the server I've evaluated and ran the command who am I here's the result I'll give that back to you and I'll drop you back to your original computer You won't you won't maintain the connection. So if I wanted to run like PWD or what what directory? I'm in my in present working directory. It will explain that cool So we can get output of commands and we can take advantage of this Our shell script won't easily do this because we can't run like shell Like who am I because it doesn't know to give that to our SSH command We can tell it to do that by having our shell script support a command line argument Or like we've been using arguments before and all these other commands But we need to tell our shit our script to do that actually as well So let's modify our shell script and then at the very very end we can actually pass in just like a String but with a variable with the variable denoted in bash That will actually have value to it that can change just like you may see that in other programming languages Or if you haven't experienced that at all It's something that has data, but can change it can vary hence a variable so Command line arguments are kind of special because they have like specific syntax to be able to use them every variable in bash starts with a dollar sign but The command line arguments are numbered at zero through nine etc. Or things that you pass to it Zero is actually the name of the script or how you invoke it so dot slash Shell dot sh but dollar sign one is going to refer to the actual first argument We give it so let's leave that here. Let's control. Oh save this and now I can run that same command Dot slash shell dot sh with who am I as an argument and it's passing it along to that SSH command Just like we did originally when we simply ran it with the entire SSH command, but it's just encapsulated in our shell So now if I go into our leaf of the forest Folder we can write a get flag script Nano get flag dot sh again. We have to use our shebang line We can evaluate that Shell command that shell script that will make a connection to the shell server and then it will take the location of this guy we want to find this and We're gonna have to piece this together because we did actually remember to ch mod all of your scripts make sure they're executable Because we need to know that directory or that actual notion here where the flag actually exists Scroll up. Scroll up. Scroll up. I know we found it eventually. Okay. I see it right here and This is the absolute path, but it gives us everything that is the entire path of the flag So we can change in our script Now that we know that that is a solution simply cat That and that essentially will just cat the flag for us right in our own get flag script It's connecting the server all in one go Displaying the flag for us and it acts at its own get flag script. Cool So now if we wanted to we could just redirect that or save that output to another file this arrow We'll redirect it the shift form of the period No output will be displayed in the console, but we can check out flag dot text. It was just created and now we have that I like to do both. I like to create a get flag script Save a local copy of the flag just in case something breaks or the CTF goes down so I know what that flag actually was and We'll have a lot of these get flag scripts either in bash like a shell command that we do or piping things into a netcat connection or running these through SSH and SSH pass etc or get flag in Python So we'll mark this as complete and We are all done But that's a good practice that I really like and I try to encourage is Documenting your solutions if not in a get flag script Just make a small note solution dot text how you did it If you can write a get flag script if you can automate it in some way I do encourage doing that just so you can okay see the steps and like actually execute them So your flag is returned back to you. Cool. Thank you guys so much for watching Hope you enjoyed this. Hope you're enjoying the series. 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I don't even know which version this is. Hi, muck, guys. Hey guys, I'm back. So I came back home yesterday and I decided to review, oddly enough, the show that I watched while I was in hospital, which was Amazon's Jack Ryan. First off, I've actually had Amazon Prime for years now, but I keep forgetting that there is a whole streaming service thing. I even worked on a show that is made by Amazon and I still haven't even watched it. I thought I'd give this a try. I've been very impressed with John Krasinski and I had finished the office a few months prior, actually watched it for the first time in its entirety. I actually really got introduced to John after his whole office thing. My first, I think the first time I ever saw him, oddly enough, it was in 13 hours. The secret soldiers have been gauzy. So that's obviously a different thing for me. So watching him as Jack Ryan, I have to admit this is actually probably one of the better castings in a while. I still find it very odd how many times the character Jack Ryan has been reinterpreted. Five different actors in a series of films and television shows that have spanned over almost 30 years. So it's pretty impressive to see how much this character has been reinterpreted considering he's supposed to be just a CIA analyst. Now obviously they've added a little bit of action to the character. I haven't read all of Tom Clancy's novels. I have actually, I'm in the middle of reading some of all fears right now. In terms of how well the character has been represented, I still feel that Harrison Ford's character was the best interpretation of this character. Alec Baldwin's wasn't bad in Hunt for Red October. Ben Affleck's was all right, but to be honest, I don't even remember that movie as much and there was a nuke that went off in it. I didn't even bother seeing Chris Pine's version because that was just like, yeah, they just forgot about the whole CIA analyst thing. Yeah, we're just gonna make him a secret agent instead. So I didn't even bother. As for this show with John, I feel this is a different unique story. I don't know if it has anything to do with any of his novels, but I thought it was kind of an interesting view into this character. It's probably the most in-depth into the Jack Ryan character we've ever gotten in terms of his past, his history with the military and what makes him who he is.  He is a smart analyst. He is a former Marine, so it explains somehow how he's pretty good in gunfights, admittedly a bit too good in my opinion at certain points. I don't know, I think it's that kind of liver die attitude that is established well with his whole PDSD thing. As for the guy who is not playing James Earl Jones, it's his character. He's actually not too bad.  I admit, while the show was shot decently, it was a cool portrayal of the character, admittedly I was kind of bored and I wasn't hostile at all. And nothing to do, so that kind of says a little bit. There were some cool ideas, there were some cool events that in fact, really are retrospective of what is happening currently and in just the past few years. Admittedly they're also trying to be as close to Tom Clancy in terms of what he was as a novel writer. He wrote some pretty cool, interesting stories, but he also had a hell of a lot of military knowledge because he just researched this. They do drop tidbits of this throughout the show. There are little things here and there that are like, hey, yeah, remember, we're military. Like this is a military thing you wouldn't know. This is a military thing you wouldn't know. Kind of did enjoy that aspect of it too, but, and this might've been affected by the drugs. I actually don't really remember much of the show. It's unfortunate considering the villain starts off as a, you understand his plight and then he just goes straight over to being a super bad guy. Didn't enjoy that aspect too much. The gunfights in this show were actually pretty brutal. There were some very chaotic sort of scenes and it really kind of made this realistic sort of atmosphere to them. And I'm surprised it got a second season because when I finished it, I was like, I don't see that being renewed. But apparently it had been renewed even before the first season had premiered. So maybe the second one will be a lot better. I see that's going to South America. So maybe they will kind of take on the clear and present danger story or they're just gonna go with one of their own stories again. In the end, I'm gonna give Jack Ryan a four out of seven. It's an enjoyable show as well put together. I'll give it that. I just didn't remember much of it, but that could be equated to all the pain meds I was on. Anyways guys, I hope you enjoyed this review. 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