Kim, we've made a lot of these videos now where you buy me, oh, I didn't count. This one's different, and it's fun because it has a theme. Tell me what rock. This is weird and wacky Zelda Tiers of the Kingdom accessories. I hate that game. I love it. Unlike the other videos where we kind of laugh and goof and gaff at everything that we open. This is like all presents for me, and I'm just gonna- You're more Simpson to this video. Yeah, yeah.  I'll open them with me. I get my Zelda knife. Let's open some gifts for this guy. Birthday to me. In box number one, is this actually what I- What is this? Is this my taxes? I don't- Oh, this is fan mail. Oh, that's why- This is fan mail. Yeah, I was gonna say, that felt a little bit weird. Oh. Oh. Oh. Hey. This is actually gonna look good on the wall. What the heck? Let's go look at that. Oh. You haven't played the game yet now. Do you know the significance here? Okay, let me tell you. Link always uses this sword to beat Ganon. Right. It's the most powerful sword. In Tales of the Kingdom, the very first thing you find is Ganon, in like the first cutscene. And Link gets his master sword, and he tries to hit him, and it just shatters. And this is all that's left.  Really good job for a 3D printer. I like the shiny- Yeah, the shiny gold. Some of it is obviously 3D printed, like around the heel. It's sanded really well. Oh, they did a great job. But, Kimberly... Oh. I actually have the best Zelda Nintendo Switch accessory for this video, and they just so happen to be sponsoring the video, but I swear to God, it is the only accessory that you will need. And I mean need. You guys know that I love my satisfied grip, and you might have noticed I upgraded recently to the Zen Grip Ronin, which is awesome. It has an improved design that allows you to access the kickstand. There are two slots for game cartridges, so you can take a couple of games with you on the go, but the best feature of all is it's completely dockable. But if that wasn't good enough, they decided to make it even better. This is the Mythic Edition Bundle, and inside here we have a certain game-inspired color scheme, the Mythic Edition Zen Grip. And everything is compatible here. The grip will work with the original Nintendo Switch, as well as the OLED, and if you don't want to grab a case right now, if you already got one, the grip will fit in any of the old cases too, if you already have a satisfied case. Whenever I play my Switch without a grip, it feels wrong now, but my hands always cramp up. But with the satisfied grip, it's super comfortable. It feels like I'm holding a PlayStation 5 controller, but like a really long one. I can't tell you how cool it's been to be able to switch between physical games on the go. I mean, all of the accessories in this video are awesome, but this one is built to last, worth the price, makes the Switch better. There'll be links down below if you want to grab one, or you can go to satisfied.com, but either way, use code beatemups and get 15% off one of these. As always, thank you, Satisfye, for sponsoring my videos. Cannot recommend it enough. Oh, even the case stands up, all right. Oh, okay, that's cute. It's a Zelda Pokemon cut. That's really cool. I know. This was at PAX. I actually have a photo of me standing next to this exact guy. All right, I'll go next. I feel like opening all this stuff, we need a buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh. Oh, we could. Beep-eep-eep-boo! Yo! It's like a Dragon Ball, but it's not. Do you know what this is? You need to play Zelda, man. I can't believe you have it pointed. I mean, I would kick-ass at Marbles with the... Yeah, I know, I mean... Not much I know.  Alright, that's a spirit orb from Zelda at it's sick. It's just sick. I did not expect it to be a stick-oak that I was at. You need to buy a slip cover for your dock that you can stick that to, because then... Well, I could also just commit. I think that's normal. I think you literally just stick this guy on the back, and then your dock is forever ruined. Well, not ruined. It makes it better, of course. That's why I bought it. But now I'm gonna have to be really careful and line this up. Call me Dr. Strange, because these surgical hands never shake. Was that a thing he said? Sound like something he would say. Well, I gotta place it real, like... You broke it? Oh, I broke it a little. Oh, dear. Oh, that's so shiny. Shiny! Look how shiny it is without the plastic. It does look better without the plastic. I broke a whole-ass piece off, but honestly, because of the design... Don't tell where it was. You can't tell. Just don't break it anymore. Yo, that's actually really nice, though. Oh, it's crooked. You could tilt it, just push... You think? A little, yeah. I broke it more. Pieces just keep coming off. I don't think I'm gonna get a redo. Oh, oh, I got a redo. Why are you laughing at me? That actually looks awesome. It looks like it's part of the dock, because it's the white one. Yeah, kinda love it. Really nice. Shame I broke it. Oh, could you give me a hand? Oh, God. Oh, don't worry. I've already got one. How did you see that coming? Because as soon as you said it, I knew it. No, you didn't know nothing. That's cool. It's very cool. What it means is it either is like a nice decorative piece. Well, I say that, but it's already broken. And I want to stress, I didn't break it. It was already broken. Uh-oh. Speaking of breaking stuff. Oh, here comes Simon. If you didn't want to do what it's intended to, you could put this tier in the middle, and it would just hold to that instead, and it's just a nice little piece. But as you can see, the 3D printer of it all broke it. And this guy was in like that. And then it's a holder for a pro control. That is awesome. I also kind of like that it's monochrome. It looks like stone, which is really nice. Oh. Well, that was fun while it lasted. When I opened up the signage. See what's in it. I would. I threw in a... Ooh, I wouldn't say what it is yet. That's so nice though. All right. This is all packing. All right. We'll pack the signage. That's what I bought. That's funny. Oh, is it a magnet? Oh, it can go in the fridge. I can't actually remember what it was that I... Oh, maybe that's the freezing. You want aggressive pets right now. I am working, young man. He's working too. Oh, whoa. Hold on a second. It's a freaking... What is it? It's on a shrine. The sculpt I'm most proud of along with some of my art and sticker form. Yo, this is honestly awesome. I ordered this, which was a goof in a gaff and got this. Thank you so much. That was Josh H from Poncho McGee. I also guess this cat butt is part of the video now. He has no dignity. No. Zero pride. None. And just want pets. So cute. Now, I'm usually not one for t-shirts. I don't like buying wacky, me-me t-shirts, but I saw this and my Twitch chat is going to love it too. It was a moment in the game that I had. Say hi to your friend for me. Oh, you can launch him out of the back. A rocket to a carot kid and made a carot kid. Yeah. Okay. Zach, just implement the sound effect for me, please. Yeah. It's just really cute. Uh-oh.  I thought it was really cute. Ah, I...  I'll leave links. Links. To everything down below if you guys want to grab any of this. I carefully cut around every edge and then went to open it and just destroyed the whole thing. A fan? Yeah. It was supposed to be more because this is what I bought. Yeah. I'm a little confused where the rest of the bike is. Well, there's a picture of it. Huh? Oh, no. I only bought one piece. I thought it was a set, but you have to buy the fan, the steering stick, and there's also a rocket, and you buy them all separately. But the picture is of the whole thing. Oh, it moves. That's actually sick. It actually works. That's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome.  I'm really bad at Etsy. Have you noticed this? I very often buy things while I'm on Etsy. You got to read the fine print on every listing. Here's your fine print. Teeth. This one speaks for itself, but someone made an actual tear from Tears of the Kingdom, and it's very good actually. I don't know how they made this. It's not 3D printed. Oh, it's resin. Oh. Oh. This is the moment you were waiting for. Yeah, you better give me that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You better give me that.  Is that good stuff? All right, what else you got? Because I got one more over here. I got a big one though. All right, let's do that one. He's waiting for you to finish with it so he can turn it into a house.  Well, it might. Apparently, this is just old stuffing. Don't jump inside me. Not yet. No. No. Let me get everything out first. Wait. Oh, whoa. I remember what this is. Well, that's good. Go for it, bud. You're going to fall. Put some paper in there to pad. All the way to the floor. Yeah, pad it a little with some paper because he's going to go straight down. Put it over there so he can get in there. All right. Brand over some bubble wrap. It's over there. Whoa, dude. This is massive. You could do a lot with the sound bites from any video where I open anything. What is it? Oh, Kimberly. You remember when you were playing Tears of the Kingdom? Oh, yeah. I sure do. And you would go to one of the big towers that reach towards the sky. I want to get it all out of the fricking bowl. You good? When you wanted to map the game, you would go to the tower. Link would attach this to him and he would shoot out into the sky and this rope would follow him. And then when he was in the sky, he would map everything on his tablet. But what's even cooler than this being that is that it's actually a working dock. So this plugs in here. I think she messaged me and she was like, do you want to be able to use it with the dock? Whatever's easier, I think I said. Whatever's easier. She said good. Oh, thank God for that. There is an option, I believe, to plug it into your... And then this to the power outlet. So this right here is the dock. And then, yeah, you plug it in and you charge your switch with the Sheikah technology. Help. It's really cool. That's so awesome. Also massive. They're not expected to be that big. My guy here is bigger than the other guy. I'm just making soundbites. I assume that's what... Yeah. One last thing. Oh. Are you ready for an art project or a puzzle, I should say, I guess? Hopefully the art side of it's already been done. Well, the reveal... will take longer. Oh, that's not... Oh, wait. Oh, this isn't... Not right? It's right. I've been looking forward to this, too. Don't get me wrong. This just wasn't the big piece to resistance that I was building up. Oh, that's because they haven't sent it yet. So what is this? Okay, so this guy messaged me and said I watched your YouTube channel and Nintendo podcast. Is it okay if I send you an upgraded version of the dock and stand that I purchased so you wanted to send me a better version? No additional charge. I'm an electronics engineer who loves to design and 3D print. So these bomb arms are not part of what I bought because obviously they're Mario, which is a stinky baby game. Right. But they have magnets and they hold Switch games and SD cards. This is part of what I ordered. It is a really awesome Zonai chest from Zelda. There's also a red one. I love the glitter. I've never seen it. Yeah, the glitter looks really cool. But these are such nice quality. And they're like soft clothes somehow. Makes a really nice chomping sound. Again, you can fit all your games in there and some SD cards. Thank you. Oh, he sent so many fun little things. So here's a Yoshi egg and I'm assuming same thing as the bombs. Donkey Kong barrels. Oh, my God. This guy rocks. I am glad this was left to last. This is the big special at the end. I just didn't realize. That is so cute. These are just straight barrels. You could put whatever you want in them, it looks like. And then the initial, the KT and WA. They also look fantastic. They look great. And then this, I'm not really sure quite yet what it does because the version I bought didn't have buttons and power. If I figure it out and hopefully I will, I'll let you know. So it turns out I was doing a couple of things wrong. You can't just plug it in with any old USB-C cord. You actually needed the official Nintendo Switch charge cord and then it lit up like the fourth of July. Well, it lit up once the lights were turned off because it's also light sensitive, which you can override, but that's how it was set to out of the box. It looks really cool now. I love it a lot. I think all of it's really cool. These are. Those are amazing. These are phenomenal. He's really talented. I love you. What did you say? I just got to whisper it to you. Hi, everybody. If you liked the video, like, comment, subscribe, all the normal stuff. And I'll have more videos coming soon. I'll try and do a 90s accessories. I want to do a 90s one. Hey, if you guys have any suggestions for weird 90s Nintendo toys and accessories we should buy, leave them down below or send them to me on X. Okay, bye.


I would recommend that you start with fundamental skills. I'm going to give you a few drills that are easy to get started with. They'll help you build a little bit of confidence on the bowl. Number one is footwork drills. So you've all seen this a hundred times, but start here, build confidence using both feet. Next, I would move into a little more advanced. These are still drills that I do all the time. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever. But through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. And in reality, a lot of advanced players that get away from fundamentals or they think they're too good for fundamentals and they're really missing out on some valuable development. Their technical skills could be a lot better if they didn't think that they needed complex advanced drills. Do the basics, do them very well. So coming back to footwork, doing some of these inside-outside touches, bending knees, getting low to the ground, working with both feet. So let's talk about that for a second. Don't wait until you've played 10 years to start working on your weak foot. Work on both feet. Use both feet from the very beginning. You will thank yourself that you did this. And whatever point in your career that you're at right now, adopt the mentality. If I do 10 shots with my right, I'm going to do 10 shots with my left. So fundamentals, what do we do with footwork? Next I would do is some dribbling drills. Basic turning, dribbling with the ball, turning, focus on getting low to the ground. Nice touches. Outside of the foot, outside of the foot. That's where I would start. And again, with both feet, focusing on the touches, but also moving out of the body. And everyone makes mistakes. If you do, especially as a beginner, just go again. Okay, but getting low to the ground. Inside touches, outside, focusing on turning, inside and outside of the foot. The next soccer drill I would have you practice is juggling. So obviously this is the goal. Nice, comfortable, confident juggling. But realistically, if you just started, that is a struggle. So what you want to do is start kick and catch. Focus on getting good backspin on the ball. Focus on getting a nice, strong touch. Probably struggling to get enough power on the ball. It's probably dying down here. So in the beginning, it's better for you to have a touch that's way too heavy than a touch that's not strong enough. So focus on flexing that foot, curling your toes, getting under the ball, creating good backspin on the ball. You don't want it to go to the side. You don't want it to go forward. If anything, have it come into yourself so at least you can control it. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy. Okay, but start with the kick and catch. Once you're comfortable in that, you developed confidence in actually flexing your foot and getting a good, strong touch. You can do a double. You can do a left-right or a right-left. But then you want to move into actually juggling, trying to keep the ball up as many times as you can. And maybe today, your record is four. But that's where you start. Tomorrow, you want to make it five.   So don't get frustrated if you make a mistake. I know it can be very frustrating as a beginner when you see other people juggling the ball and it looks so easy for them. But realistically, you don't deserve to have those skills yet because you haven't put in the time. They have. But you will get the skills. Just put in the practice. If you make mistakes, don't get frustrated. Just pick the ball up again. Go again. Think about what you're doing wrong, what you can do better next time. The next fundamental skill that you need to practice as a beginner is ball striking. So ball striking can be shooting. And it can also mean passing. You need to practice both. And you need to practice with both feet from the beginning. Now, getting a ball and shooting it into a net is fantastic. But I want to show you a better way to practice as a beginner. Shooting into a net, it feels really good. Sounds good, feels good. And it's been practiced quite as a beginner, as any player realistically. The way you're going to improve faster is with more repetitions. Obviously, you have to analyze those repetitions. But if I can pick a ball against a wall, it passes it back to me. Every time I'm practicing on the field, if I have one ball, I kick it in the net, then I run and go again, then I run back, and then I go again to take another shot. You're getting two shots in the time that you would get 20 shots with a wall. So I really recommend practicing with a wall. For practicing shooting, serve there. Serve basic technique. Take your touch. Focus on making good contact. You're not trying to feel it. As a beginner, you're not trying to blast the ball as hard as you can. What you're focusing on is good technique. So focus on the mix, push contact. Don't worry about it being too hard. Just hit the wall. Hit the spot so that you can get your accuracy in the beginning. And ride right, don't point too much that way. Practicing against a wall like that is a great way to improve your skills. So shooting is one, you can practice passing the ball. Okay, play with touch. Best friend when you want to get better as a beginner. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.


Hello, good morning, good evening, hi, check. Hello, does this work? So this is, nobody is it on or off? Hello, hi. How are you people, should we start? So it's really strange to be speaking to a mic that doesn't make any sound, but I'm told this is for the recording. Alright, so our speaker today is Nakul Shanay. Nakul is a magician. They're going to learn what that means. Now, the funny thing is, like, my first meeting with Nakul was more than 10 years ago. I think it was somewhere around 2001 or 2002. It was really long back. We had met on this blogging site called LiveJournal. And the first time we met, Nakul had this really strange profile picture. So I couldn't even tell if he was a real person or not. But the first time we met, he told me about some guy named Habermas. And looking at his, this is who the heck is Habermas. And he said, he defined this thing called the public sphere.  You know, I mean, you're talking about a ball that's in public or what? And so Nakul gave me this really long dump about this theory of society of public sphere and how you can communicate in public with other people in the public, form public opinions, how the notion of a public works in the first place.  But as a writer for a magazine, my idea of doing this was you write, somebody reads, and that's about it. And what Nakul did at that point was set me off on a path that looked not as writing and reading, but as community saying, what are you doing that influences people's opinions that gets them together to talk to each other, build communities and so on. And since then that sort of been the path I took that ended up, you know, building communities with Parkam Bangalore, with Hasgeek and with various internet movements now. And so I have to really credit Nakul for setting me off on that path by giving me the little bit of theory that I needed to say, okay, this is not some random thing. I'm thinking of it's something that has been discussed and debated over decades. You know, building on work that has been built up over centuries. Okay, so Nakul, thanks for that. And thank you. Thanks, Kiran. That was like much more than the intro I expected to even claim a small part of the wonderful things you guys are doing is this phenomenal. So thank you. Hi, everybody. I'm Nakul, Nakul Shinoy. I now live in Bangalore. And this idea also needs to be credited of me coming on as part of this wonderful session of Hasgeek, The Open House. Recently I believe it was Prem Panikkar that went after Zainab and said, why don't you get Nakul to do a series on magic. And it's relevant. It's connects to different things that we go through because most of us look at magic. Most of us look at magic mostly as birthday entertainment, right? Where the kids are put thankfully along with the magician and adults can run away, right? For their peace. So, and since if we said, okay, we're going to do a series on magic and the theory of magic and how to appreciate magic, we thought it might not interest too many people.  With all these things of Internet of Things, enchanted objects and things like that. So that's where this idea comes from for magic and technology. So I'm going to run you through, it's a geek conference, right? I'm going to run you through some slides and I'm going to try and tell you how I look at magic and how magic exists and then we would perhaps have some questions towards the end and hopefully enough interest that we actually have a second part to the series, right? So like all things are normal, we go to the God, right? To find out what is magic and so when you, because as magicians, we forget this. As magicians, most of the times the problem is that we come into magic because let me tell you why I came into magic. As a very small kid, I went to a magic show and I guess it was in my school. I don't quite remember where and this magician came on stage. He came on and he showed that he had one, two, three, four, five and six cards. And from those six cards, he sort of showed those like this and then he took one, he took two, he took three, threw them off and after a moment he showed that he still had one, two, three, four, five and six cards. I clapped. I love the stunned silence but I clapped. And it didn't stop there. He just showed that he still had one, two, three, four, five, six cards and from those six cards, many number of times he took one, two, three cards threw them away, still showed that he had one, two, three, four, five and six cards. Yeah, that's okay. It's a long story because the magician did this multiple times. I went up to him afterwards, tried to learn it from him but you know I never learned that magic so even now I don't know it so I can't really show that to you. I love you, I love you really. So, but as magicians once we come into magic we sort of forget why we are in magic because at some point when we come into it you looking at it not as tricks, not as secrets, not as other things you're looking at this as something very, very powerful that you can learn and make real things happen, right? So this is spot on. It says the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces having or apparently having supernatural powers. Wonderful and exciting because if it's not wonderful and exciting it's not magic, right? It's a set of puzzles, it's a set of perhaps mysteries for people to solve and primarily when you think magic, Merlin comes to mind because Merlin has existed in our fantasy in almost every spin-off of magical stories and fables you have Merlin or an equivalent to Merlin, right? I just watched Star Wars yesterday so yeah, so the Yoda or whatever, right? For most of us, this is the quintessential image of a magician. This was Dante. Dante was in the early 1900s and sort of was this image that anybody looked at him he's like this, right? Any day you meet him on the streets and stuff he's walking with his wand and things like that and so you look at him and goes, it must be a magician, right? We had something like this from India too. This is the newer version of it, right? He's 70 by the way, right now, so newer version, this is Junior but generally I couldn't find a sort of a hirer's image for a piece of Sarkar himself so I went with Junior, he's a phenomenal person too but Sarkar was who took Indian magic to the world and became along with the other like Dante the greatest magicians of the world tag was claimed by him from India, right? So these are different imagery of magic. We all have these various imageries of magic but primarily for me, why I got into magic was Mandrake. How many of you here know Mandrake? My generation right there, you know Habermas and all that, right? So Mandrake was created by the same guy that created Phantom, yeah? And Mandrake is the first superhero of the world. He's the first crime-fighting superhero of the world, predate Superman, Batman and all those other guys that came later. He had powers. He could sort of stand there, do this and make people see what he wanted them to see. He had hypnotic powers, he had a cube, perhaps very similar to the Marvel, the cube, right? Because he could use that cube to increase his powers and communicate not just within the Earth but across galaxies, okay? Most of our imagination or our expectation of the word magic like it or not comes from popular fiction, right? Mom's magician, the wonderful works of Enid Blyton that's just one of the covers and she's written so many books which enchant children into believing that if you sit on a chair it's going to take you wherever you want, right? A wishing chair and things like that. The series by Homburg and the wonderful series by 2D Canavan are some of the recent ones. If nothing, we at least know this, right? So this would connect to at least the current generation in a sense. Even that is I think 10 years old now, right? Or how much? 20 years? 20 years. I'm too old, yeah, sorry. So, yeah, Harry Potter came from books, went on to the movies. So again, the imagery of magic, of how we see magic happen. And if not that, me, right? I kept this for a reason today, right? So that I look like Dr. Strange. So yeah, Dr. Strange, again, created much after Mandrake or Zatara for that matter. But then Zatara is a Mandrake equivalent that comes from the DC side. Zatara is more famous for given reasons. And Dr. Strange is the Marvel equivalent of it. And there's a lot of parallels between the stories or the powers and other things that you see between these characters and how all this helps people believe in it. But now let me take you a little back into what magic really is. A recent book that was released by Tas Chin, I think came out in the mid-2000s, 2006, 2007, was called Magic. And it chronicles magic from 1400s to 1950s. It's a fantastic book, it's like this big, it's 8 kilos. I know because I had to carry it as an luggage from the US because that was the only way I could carry it without paying. Because it's a book, right? You can carry a book in your hand, you're not charged for it. So somebody at the gate said, why is your bag so heavy? I have a book in it. He said, take it in the hand. I said, awesome. 8 kilos. Yeah, okay. But it's brilliant because it chronicles magic from the 1400s. So that's like 600 years of history of magic, huge pictures, lithographs, and wonderful articles in it by Ricky Jay, Jim Steinmeier, and others who are famous in the magic community and much of the US. But magic doesn't date there. Because when you say 1400s, it actually is 1400s because this painting by Bosch called The Conjurer is estimated to have been drawn around 1475 to 1480. And if you sort of see, it shows you what is the classic of magic, the cups and balls. In one of the future sessions, we will sort of get into breaking down some of these effects and try to understand, I'm not here to teach you the secrets of magic, right? But primarily break this down and understand why these are classics and why we should appreciate them slightly more, not just from the enjoyment point, but also in terms of the effort that's required to perform some of this. Very interesting. Magicians have always been linked to pickpockets and other things because every time in India, we must have this generation slightly difficult, but when I was small, I was going to say young, there used to be these street magicians that used to come back in Odupi. On one of these street sides, road sides, they would start sitting down on the street and start performing, right? And then people would sort of, and we would also all go and start trying to see what they were doing, they would perform for like half an hour, the point was to hustle in a sense, right?  Indian traditional magic is very, what's called bizarre magic or gory in a sense.  It's all on the ground, it's an open ground, so there's no concept of a trap door and stage and things like that, no lighting, the sun is the lighting, right? And people all around it, standing all around, completely around, looking at this guy from a vantage point, which is why Indian traditional magic is so far superior to whatever we now do because what we do is pretty much western magic because we are on a stage, Indian magic doesn't quite transcend or translate to the stage. So the cups and balls has its own Indian version, which we will get to in a bit, but yeah, so this is just putting dates on it, 1475, but that's not sort of... So okay, so the first book on magic, the first book on magic was Discovery of Witchcraft, this was 1584 by Reginald Scott. I have reprints of these, right? I mean they've recently reproduced this or almost looking like the originals, very nice. And you go through this, this is the first book on magic and look at it, it is exposing magic. The first published book on magic for the public essentially tells people there is no such thing as magic. Why? Because the book was written to expose the so-called warlocks and witches and sorcerers and psychics and mediums, which we still are fighting now, right? After 600 years. That was the whole intent of this. This is not just in the US, if you sort of looked at the German side of things, they also had their own book in 1798 called the Natural Magic Book, which showed you how to put an arrow through your head, you can sort of see how it's done at the top, a sword through the stomach, we've all done this back in school and other things, right? Where you have sort of something, theater guys would mostly have used some things, but again, I feel it's extremely sad that some of the first books on magic essentially told people, there's no such thing as magic. But let's go back some more because we are still talking 1400s. Let's go back to 2500 BC to the tomb of Benihassen where you see this imagery in that tomb. 2500 years back, we are in 2000 AD right now. That's 4500 years back where this effect or this imagery is largely looked on as a depiction of cups and balls, okay? There are others who say this is making bread. So there's both perspectives to it, okay? But if we actually go even further back, we go about 5000 years back and we go to the 18th to 16th century, there was something called the West Carpapiras which is actually the first published book or collection of handwritten literature which writes and you can sort of do a search for this, Dedi, the magician's name was Dedi. He performed in the court of Cheops, the pharaoh who built the pyramids, right? So there is a complete, these imagery are new clearly, people have drawn this out now, but there is a detailed account of the performance of Dedi in the court of Cheops. One of the effects, let me sort of tell you, so it describes this. Dedi came to the court, everybody was watching him and he had a duck with him. So he brought the duck and the duck was walking around, he catches the duck and he sort of brings the head off the duck.  Okay, and a lot of other effects are in detail written under, called Tales of Magicians. Again, 5,000 years back, so pretty, pretty fascinating. India, we had our own contribution. So this is your traditional Indian street magicians. This imagery is from 1888, called the celebrated mango tree trick. Anybody here have seen the Indian mango tree? Yes, yes. So I had the occasion and there are still very few, perhaps a handful of performers in India, street performers in India who actually do this and do this very, very well, because the setting is the same as I said, they do it in open ground, you are all around them, nothing for them to hide and stuff. So they sort of start with a seed and so they take you through the whole process of seed to tree to the mango fruit in a matter of 20, 25 minutes.  It's not like stuck by glue or something and people say, no, it is real and then they take it off and give and the guy goes back with a real mango. The last time I saw this was in Trivandrum at All India Magic Get Together and it was not the mango season and I'm like, so, I mean the planning, I'm not saying he produced it from somewhere because magic can't create something, right? While we do show you that we break the laws of physics, we are using other laws of physics or geometry or some other law to create that illusion for you, right? Oh by the way, when I say illusion, when you are mass hypnotized? No, illusion means it's an illusion for us, it's an industry terminology. If you see somebody cut on stage and half they are being cut in half on stage. Now how, that's a different topic, right? But it is not a lot of people walk up later and sort of say, so that was hypnosis. No, okay. So, but coming back to this effect this is the basket trick I was talking about earlier. The terminology of Indian magic itself, all the foreign magic are referred to as magic. All Indian effects are referred to as trick, the mango tree trick, the Indian basket trick, the great Indian rope trick. The great Indian rope trick was a construct that is a session by itself was a legend came out because of the original fake news, okay? A friend of mine, Dr. Peter Lamont did his very nice book called The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick where he actually traces back the genealogy of the Indian Rope Trick and finally leads to a 1940 newspaper, a gadget in New York that published this story about this guy coming to India and watching it. It was just make-believe. But it went viral. It was the first instant of something going viral. It went so viral that every book, every magazine newspaper at that time carried it. And when they later put a rejoinder saying this was not true, nobody bothered. Right? And what did it do? It had magicians from across the west coming to India saying, I want to see the Indian Rope Trick and the Indian magicians go, yeah, yeah, I can show. What is that? We will show. Give us some time. And so this was one of the performances of the Indian Rope Trick by the great Karachi. He was an Australian. Nothing to do with India. But then it helped because this imagery that people had in their minds which was you have a rope, a rope stand straight, a child is called. The child climbs up and disappears into the clouds. Jack and the beanstalk. And then you go and say, call him. Come, come, he doesn't want to come down. So the magician now takes a sword and walks up. And then there's some noise and then limbs fall down from the clouds. The magician comes back, picks all that, puts it in that box you saw earlier. Yeah? And so here's the box. Yeah, yeah, this box. So he puts all those things into that box and opens the box and the kid walks out again and claps and the ropes fall down. Right? So this was the description of the effect in that gadget. And in 2000, yeah, 2000, Udupi, where I am from had an international magic convention where a Delhi magician, a Delhi street magician called Isha Muddin performed the Indian rope trick. People like Richard Wiseman, Dr. Peter Lamont came down. They were good friends by then. To watch this and chronicle it, of course, the kid just climbed up and came back down and the rope collapsed. That's about it, right? But still, to do it in pretty much closer to the real story as rather the fake story that had appeared was a great achievement for magic. So, yeah. So that's the Indian rope trick. Now, why am I telling all this? It all links back to the wonderful quote by Arthur C. Clarke, a very good magician himself who said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A most often used quote, the third law and pretty much, you know, has been written about, has been said to be untrue. That's not what he meant, etc. But for now, let's use it as its face value and look at any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Now, look at all that the stories we talked about. At some level, every magician from DiDi to Karachi, to the unnamed Indian performers who went in front of people and performed what they did were using science or technology of the day in unique ways in ways where people who were scientists would not relate back to it and sort of would see it as being paranormal or supernatural. Exhibit A. We're talking of automatons now. A.I. The first A.I. was in 1770s. This is called the Great Turk. The Great Turk made its first appearance in 1770. It lived on for almost 100 years and it was this box which had a mannequin the mannequin mode. I have seen a later version of this in one of the magic museums and these were the workings of it that you could sort of see through so that like you see the box they show the box, they close the box and now you sit against Deep Blue came much later you sit against this machine and the machine starts playing chess and the machine defeated everybody it played with so much so that at that time Napoleon himself played it and Napoleon the story goes tried to cheat. The third time he cheated it just swapped all the pawns away. Of course as you can sort of see from the courtesy the Turk has opposed chess playing Robert was a hoax that started an early trend blah blah blah right but this is the point that magicians have always found ways of creating things, of trying to show that technology exists when it does not or to use technology in ways that people can't quite fathom or explain. Eugene Robert Houdan considered as the father of modern magic most of modern magic you see which is the stage based thing where you know magician is wearing a suit hat or not today because was him he was the first stage modern stage magician he created something called the enchanted orange tree see it's not orange tree trick the enchanted orange tree it was a mechanical version of exactly doing what the Indian street performers were doing which was the mango tree trick and here he was essentially he had this he had a box from which a plant would grow and from that plant you would sort of see flowers blooming and then you would see orange and sort of you could pluck the orange right nobody could eat it that's different but till that point and then you had these flying silk sort of a handkerchief that would be flown by butterflies you had various kind of things now what was fantastic was he was a brilliant clock worker so most of the magic he did had a relation to clock work watch watchmaker right so a lot of this was robots in that sense right not powered by electricity but by clanks and levers and things like that so this is called a light and heavy chest so in 1850s again once he had sort of retired from stage performance he was requested by the king of France or something like that to actually make a trip to the Middle East because they were just sort of making the western civilization was making inroads into the Middle East and so they sent Prabhupadaan to make the people there believe that western civilization is far far advanced and our skills and magic etc is far advanced so what he did was this he called all the all the chieftains all the tribe leaders and the strongest men of the tribe and he had this small trunk with him that he brought and kept it down to the person and he asked him to pick it up the person was able to easily pick it up he said keep it down again and he said now look at me and I am going to strip you of all your powers now pick it up and now what you are seeing is that scene no matter what he could do he could not pick up that same light box that was there the back story electromagnets had made their appearance in the western civilization so that was used so intelligently and used to create this wonderful illusion of a box or rather a person being stripped of his powers of all his strength and the concept of my god better than your god my society better than your society right that scene is sort of immortalized in this movie the illusionist there is one also there is this other scene where he takes the sword and he puts it on the stage and he walks off and he asks the prince to come and lift it and for all the life of the prince he can't move that sword and in the movie they actually show that somebody is operating a crank which operates a electromagnet I love the illusionist because the most of the magic that they show is actually performable and it's such a brilliant way of denoting what magic can do and the wonderful thing that a magician thinks four steps ahead for people who have not seen the movie I just sort of spoiled it for you and so magicians have always been fascinated with dreams magicians have been fascinated with breaking every rule that we believe in sort of breaking the laws of science one of the classic I mean copper field himself has done immense effects like walking through the great wall of china and things like that but what really got him world acclaimed was flying because he was the first human in that sense a magician of course to literally fly without seemingly with any kind of support he would literally get somebody from the audience hold them and then float around the stage I had the occasion of watching it it's unbelievable it's like even as a magician even if you sort of understand what are the philosophies and what are the tricks you can use it's still like you want to believe when you watch something like this you want to believe that magic is real you can watch it on youtube so you just go on and search David copper field flying you will get to watch that dynamo is walking on water the Thames river it's classic by the way right now I think Patanjali or somebody is posting some videos like this sorry no who was that so we are right now I am digressing but we are sort of having people blindfold themselves and be able to read probably a recent thing was that you do yoga and you can sort of levitate on water right so we are like yeah right watch this video and then we can talk so yeah but again this brings to life one of the greatest imagery that is in all our epics we had in all epics people walking on the sea or river or water whatever that is and that's what the magician is making come true oh by the way today morning I saw just now I saw this video of the Ram se too it's sort of going viral again for whatever reason and my comment was hey great place to go and perform that effect because if that is there just about the site I can you know possibly but again it's about breaking rules because Blaine performed wonderful effects of standing on a pillow and then sitting in a box not eating for 48 days and things like that but this recent thing that he did was a bullet catch which has been performed so many times in the past the larger there was a magician called Chang Ling Soo who died on stage performing this his real name was David Williams son I might get the second name wrong but he performed this recently where he took technology to such a level where he is essentially saying see you can see that's in the mouth aimed at the mouth you are sort of seeing the bullet or the light of the bullet and things like that and and the back story is that he almost killed himself performing this so but but again like that's what magicians want to do they want to break rules of science by using other modes of science and nothing better than Michael Jackson to me one of the greatest magicians we have had telling us why he loves to create magic to put something together that's so unusual so unexpected that it blows people's heads off something ahead of the times five steps ahead of what people are thinking think back to the illusionist so this is a friend of mine Derek Delgaudio he is right now performing a show in New York I think this was supposed to be the last week I am not sure because if the show was supposed to be a two week show it's gone on for six months now and the show is produced by Neil Patrick Harris directed by Frank Oz Yoda but why I put this was this it says wonder is a rare commodity these days beautiful tender astonishing why is wonder so rare today because I recently not so recently but five years back was performing an event for SAP in Bombay and I just finished my act and stepped off the guy sitting in the front seat and Israeli walked up to me said wonderful show I said thank you he said no no no I mean it wonderful because I just checked you out and I couldn't find out how you did what you did guys I am not talking five minutes later I am not talking ten minutes later I have just taken one step off the stage so person I am not sure if she is already googling me but essentially that is how our audiences are today you see something earlier you would go back think over it ponder about it you now go to google or generally and type how this was done and you like it or not hopefully not you get to see some version of how that can be performed that is why wonder is not there and so what Derek did is one of the finest performers and what Derek did essentially is create this very intimate show where everything is so unexplainable at the end of the show you really go back saying was I even at the show did that even happen and in today's age so why am I again talking about all this because we are in a age where magic is all around us this was the or rather is the chimera wand the chimera wand is a universal remote of sorts it's shaped like a magic wand you can program it to I think 30 when it launched to about 30 different devices you could set up your own gestures you could be Harry Potter and go chain channel now right that's there it's available for anybody who wants to spend 60 dollars or 80 I don't remember but and then we are talking of everything being controlled with either small gadgets on us or even not kinetics and other things where everything is either the TV interacts with us much more and we interact with it so this is what our audiences are getting used to gesture I don't want to watch this channel do this it shifts over to another channel is a very simple example but again this is what an audience is people are people are experiencing day in and day out especially with you guys it's much more than that to work with technology so your expectation of what or your knowledge of what technology can do or your expectation of what technology can do is is much much higher which is why I love it's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic it is that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is let me try and explain this quote recently saw a video that went viral of a drone a drone that the person stood and controlled with gestures I'm sure everybody has seen it he did this it went wherever he went it followed him and things like that now these are things that exist and these are things that exist that are known in the public domain so the moment I as an individual know that something like this exists my expectation of what kind of technological acts are possible is much more than that so it doesn't really matter whether that technology exists or not because if I stand here now and I wake that person up and I say hey hi stand up I'm gonna read your mind and I read the mind you most probably gonna get an answer that says okay you google me right if or if I ask somebody to say write something or read something it's most probably gonna be like yeah wifi bluetooth technologies exist so I know you got whatever I you know so it becomes pretty difficult so I mean my recent example for this is imagine somebody comes on stage levitates turns around or I right now turn around and vanish half of you are gonna go and say hey where did you get the 3D projection from right so that's now it's not about whether 3D projection is at that level today but we know 3D projection is available and so that must be 3D projection come on we had our prime minister appearing everywhere right so surely it's possible right now we are wearing at least two or three of these devices on us right and this is what we are used to with us or people around us and we know the capabilities of these devices and so as a performer as a magician it is not anymore enough to think of using technology before others can use it like the electromagnet and things like that that's out and it's also not enough to use technology in unique weird ways that perhaps still mystify and astound people because people's expectations are way different and so whatever we do it sort of goes to people have their own meanings or reasons why that magic happen so all in all it makes an interesting age to be performing magic as is the true with most performing arts today right I'm really thankful that so many people turned up for this here in person and I'm hoping some more are watching but it's very difficult nowadays to actually step out and go to a place to watch an event whether it's paid free whatever that is because it's so much easier to open our phones and look at world class world's best content right there it's not about just watching anything it's now I might be the best in the area or I might be the best in the country or I might be the best available at that point in time which is good till very recently but now not anymore because you can on your laptops or on the TVs or on the fire sticks or whatever that is perhaps holographic projections watch any act that you want so it makes it all the more challenging to sort of perform show something so it brings this whole question of where is magic headed because magic has like I said at a various to a great extent as you saw in the slides been ahead of technology then there was a phase where magicians just started using technology in unique ways mixing two or three things and trying to sort of show that hey we are different but now this whole thing of how are we going to even look at how do we entertain somebody and mistify them at the same time so that's my last slide so I thought I don't have an answer for that yet but I thought if I was trying to do that and for today because it's a it's a tech crowd I would really go completely basic I would perhaps go perhaps not 5000 years but sort of as back as I can to try and to try and do something which clearly cannot have any technological connects and so can only have real magical connects yeah can I ask you to join me I'm not cool that was not planned today so don't worry I didn't find I asked them about the tables the tables wouldn't support otherwise I would have done that I'm kidding sit down so I'm going to give you an experience that you have never experienced before okay perhaps that's what I was yeah so if you can just switch that off for a moment that's already an experience he's never gone through before because he's sitting down in front of a bunch of people with light a projector light being shot at him no doesn't work okay okay so I need yes so I have two ticks choose one what's your name Frithyraj do you want to change your mind sure that's the one you want you can change your mind if you want okay I told you Prithviraj that I'm going to give you an experience you've never had before I think I just did because I walked up to you with a fancy looking box which normally holds a 4GB drive opened it and offered a set of two ticks so you can choose one you did then I upped it by asking you to change your mind has anybody ever done this to you I deliver what I promise guys now I am going to up that by one an experience you've never ever had before sign the toothpick so that if you know where this is headed so if you ever sign sign it okay so if you ever see that again you would remember it or you would recognize it to some extent you want to change your mind with some other toothpick at this point so again have you ever taken a toothpick and signed it no we'll up that can I take that for a minute I'm just going to place that there can I ask you to hold your hands out like this and what I want you to do is slightly apart the hands perfect I am going to take your signed toothpick and I'm going to keep it inside like that hold on to it so that in a moment I can give that to you like this feel through it can you feel it just hold it with two hands like that have you ever done this before break it sure yes thank you have you ever broken a toothpick in this manner okay good because then my whole idea would fall flat hold onto your hand like this keep your other hand on top like this now I actually should have worn this I forgot I meant to change that's okay are you a doctor strange fan works works right works so do you know what this is some pendant it's the eye of Agamotto the eye of Agamotto helps change change time if you hold your hand like this I'm going to try turning back time I don't know if you notice but I kept track exactly of when you broke the toothpick now I'm going to this is tricky because if I turn back time too much then the toothpick won't be signed I think that would work thank you very much I'm sure you had an experience that you never ever had before right thank you very much guys okay okay hard audience let's sort of take this hand hold it hold it here like this together now here's the thing if I managed to get into my doctor strange guys and turn back time to that specific moment where it was before he broke the toothpick it would be intact if it was slightly later it would still be broken you get that right or if it goes slightly more back it would not be signed you can now take that back frame it thank you very much thank you so yeah guys that's what I had for you today but thank you very much question is after my last slide no it's already projected there so it doesn't matter so yeah the last slide basically just says keep calm and make magic so thanks a lot it was a pleasure talking to you running you through what I see as as interesting snippets of the history of magic and we will sort of keep going forward with some more interesting aspects of the different types of magic and theories of magic and things like that but yeah thanks for being such a awesome audience and for enjoying it thank you very much and thank you for everybody watching thank you yes how sorry next talk yeah quick answers I can give now yes quick answer I am a believer not at him I am a believer in aspects of the supernatural and I am a believer in the concept of the creator and god and things like that but till now everybody I have met or have come very close to meeting have turned out to be fake so I am on the lookout for finally meeting somebody who I clearly say I will become your follower right but I have had very close contact with both the ashrams that are around Bangalore recently where I essentially said that I will come in if what you do is I see as real I am going to proclaim that it is real but if not I am going to go out and tell people exactly how you pull whatever it is from where it is you mean ok no I concentrated specifically with the stage magic and completely kept away as much as possible from religious and even fantasy for that matter only initially while I sort of touched upon the harry potters and others of the world I did not get into that that thread thanks you were wonderful then yes so one of the key the advice was that one of them was really good at show magic so how important do you think show magic is how do you cultivate your skills in that aspect to me magic is 5% secrets 95% presentation yes that 5% is very important it's like saying if I don't know the ABC of code I won't be able to do anything after that right so it's like that if that 5% if I don't know the basics of swimming I am going to sink no matter what presentation I do around it right so people are going to catch me they would know what I did and things like that and if as you know I have a book out called the smart course in magic and if you are trying to plug that book but which is always good but if you just see what I did with him would be one of the most basic effects in magic but I believe the presentation I put onto it brought it to a level of miracle so there is no such thing as a bad magic or a basic magic there are of course easy magic as easy in terms of easy in reach easy in learning or when you get to learn it as a young kid perhaps you get to learn it but I completely think that what takes you where you are in magic is completely the presentation which was sort of the message of prestige and illusionist is all about that this guy is a brilliant brilliant performer what is being mentioned oh yeah I realize that when the illusionist slide came up and I just sort of slipped my mind I had meant to put the slide in but yeah those are two wonderful movies of course after that you have had now you see me that has come up which also looks at various elements of magic like they have a mentalist I in my shows play a mentalist in certain ways in life I'm a mentalist not so much a magician anymore but yeah but that whole thing of to me that's what I was actually hinting at when I was saying I like the prestige I like the illusionist better I forgot to say prestige at that point because to me the prestige went completely into fantasy and sci-fi at a certain point of the movie with the illusionist you think throughout his fantasy but then comes back being no this guy was absolutely doing chess play the magician I seem to have missed that so tweet at me once you find out I have not seen either of them so I I don't know


I am Staff Sergeant Tanner with 1-6-8-A-R and I'm the Sniper Section Leader. Today we are conducting Table 5 and Table 6 qualification for our snipers. The qualification is 10 different targets with 10 different positions. Each of the shooters, they will be working in a two-man shooter-shooter team. They move up to the shooting platform, whether it's going to be in the prone position, a kneeling position within a barrier position, or on a pitch platform which replicates shooting from a rooftop. They will have 20 to 40 seconds depending on the target range and the difficulty of the platform to engage a target at an unknown or known distance. It's important for us to understand our capabilities at multiple ranges, as well as known distance, unknown distance, different teammates that you work with, as well as different weapon platforms that you can utilize, and your downfalls on each platform, as well as every weapon system. This helps us really determine where our downfalls are and where we need to improve so that by the next time we do these qualifications, we can really train on these things and be able to understand our capabilities and brief these capabilities to the battalion commander and RS3 so they can utilize us properly.


There's also in the United States very little residue of earlier European structures or an authentic conservative tradition. We don't really have conservatives in the United States. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but they're mostly radical statists who combine support for an extremely powerful, intrusive state with coercive social norms, something that a genuine conservative would certainly wince at. The lack of a conservative tradition in the United States maybe, in fact, probably is part of the reason for the weakness, the relative weakness of the social contract and of support systems by comparative standards. These typically had their roots in pre-capitalist institutions, and they don't exist much here. They didn't have them.


The joyful cries of children can be a rarer sound during military training exercises, but shouts of excitement filled the air as local students joined U.S. and Polish soldiers in a display of military weapons systems, field gear, and different tactical vehicles. The children visited Drowsko-Pomorskie training area in northern Poland, while the U.S. is conducting unscheduled exercises with Allied forces in the region. The U.S. and Polish soldiers let the children don field gear such as Kevlar helmets and bulletproof vests and hold different weapons including M4 rifles and sniper rifles. Staff Sergeant Donald Harris from the 173rd Airborne Brigade was thrilled with the day's events. Today we have teamed up with our Polish counterparts to kind of throw a family children's day event. We have a stat display of the weapons and vehicles that each of the armies has and gives the kids a chance to come out and see them and get some hands on and just have a fun day. The U.S. and Polish soldiers have been partnering together for the past four weeks as part of a series of Land Forces U.S. exercises with its allies, exchanging skills and demonstrating commitment to its NATO partners. For the 382nd Public Affairs Detachment, I'm Army Sergeant Adrienne Brooks.


Launched a special event I would like to thank you, Mr. President, friend of Israel, for honoring us with your presence during those hard days to speak in front of the lawmakers and ministers here in Israel. As parliament speaker of the State of Israel, I would like to show our sympathy with the Ukrainian people being attacked at their home and to send from here in Jerusalem our capital condolences to the families of victims and those who were hurt during the war. As I've said during my conversation with the Ukrainian parliament speaker, the Russian assault on Ukraine is a violent violation of world order and we need to do whatever we can to bring a speedy end to the war. I am full of hope that mediation efforts between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other global figures will bring about an end to the tragedy the Ukrainian people is undergoing. My friend, your Honorary President Zelensky, please take the podium. Thank you very much, Mr. Parliament Speaker, Mr. Prime Minister Bennett. I thank you very much for your support. Thank you very much to all the lawmakers, dignitaries, the Israeli people as a whole. Ukrainian, Jewish Ukrainian communities have always been profoundly intertwined. We will always continue to live one next to the other and we will feel together joy and pain and this is why I would like to remind you all the words of a Ukrainian that you all know very well, the words of Golden Mayor that I am sure that many Ukrainians are also familiar with those words and I'm sure there are those in Russia who are well familiar with us. We would like to live but our neighbors want to see us dead. It doesn't give us much room for compromise. I don't need to convince you that indeed the history of our nation is intertwined. Jews and Ukrainians in the past and even during those terrible times. We're in different countries in different conditions completely but the threat we are facing is one. For you and for us, total destruction of the nation, of the state, of the culture and even of the name Ukraine, Israel, I would like you to feel all of this. I would like you to think about this date, March 20th, the February 24th, the beginning of the war, the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24th. This day will be remembered in global history, is remembered as a tragedy for Ukrainians, for Jews, for the entire world. Same day, back in the 1920s, the Nazi Party was founded, a party that killed millions, that destroyed entire nations, that tried to commit genocide. 102 years afterwards, on the same day on February 24th, the order to invade Ukraine was given to the Russian military. And thousands of people have already been killed, millions have been displaced from their homes. They became refugees, moved to neighboring countries, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, the Czech Republic and dozens of other countries. Our nation is now fleeing, looking for security, looking to stay in the world in peace. Similarly to what you have sought in the past, the invasion of Russia to Ukraine is not just a military operation, as Moscow is presenting it. We're talking about a full-fledged war, an unjustified one that is aimed to terminate our culture, our nation, our people, our children, everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainian, everything that the Russian military is now maliciously destroying and the entire world is looking, is watching. And this is why I can make this comparison between your history to our survivability now, the World War II and what's going on now. Listen to what the Kremlin is saying. They're using the same terminology of the Nazi Party. This is a tragedy. When they sought to destroy all of Europe, they didn't want to leave anything, any one of you, and now from us. They called it the final solution to the Jewish question you must remember. I'm sure you do. You will never forget it, but listen to what they're saying now in Moscow. They're using the same or the same terminology, the final solution, but now it is directed at us. They're openly saying that in Moscow. You can see it on official sites, their exact quotes in the media, Russian media. This is what is being explicitly said in Moscow without the war against Ukraine. They couldn't, they allegedly couldn't secure their own safety. It's similar to what I've been saying. Eight years ago, the Israeli nation, you've seen how Russian missiles targeted Kiev. You know this location. You know that this is a memorial site to the victims of the Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery was hit by Russian missiles and also in the city of Uman, a city where tens of thousands of Israelis are visiting every year. The grave of Rabbi Nachman. What will be left of our cities in Ukraine after this terrible war? I'm sure that you share and feel our pain, but can you explain why until this point in time, we're still urging countries around the world to look for help. We're reaching out to you and looking for help, even visas, entry visas. What is it, indifference or sitting on the fence? I'm leaving this open question to you to answer. I would like to say clearly, indifference kills. Calculations of interests kill. You can navigate between interests, but not between good or bad. In Israel, you know very well, the iron dome anti missile system, your system is the best in the world. We know that you know how to defend your interests and also to help Ukraine, to defend the Ukrainians, to defend the Jews in Ukraine. One can wonder why we cannot get ammunition from you, why Israel did not impose serious sanctions against Russia. Why there is no pressure on Russian businesses. You're the ones who need to answer these questions and then live with the answers you're providing. The Ukrainians made their choice 80 years ago. We saved Jews, and this is why the Israeli people now need to choose to make a similar decision. Thank you very much, Mr. President, for honoring us with your presence. And articulating your short remarks. This is how friends behave. I pray for ceasefire. I genuinely do hope that in the first opportunity possible, we'll be able to officially welcome you to a visit here in Jerusalem in the Israeli parliament. Ministers, lawmakers, thank you very much for your participation. Goodbye from Jerusalem. Israeli Speaker of Parliament, Nikki Levy thanking the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky making his historic virtual address to the Israeli parliament via Zoom, making an impassioned appeal in his trademark t-shirt. You can see it on your screen right now at the same time. That speech has been broadcast live at Habima Square. You can see it on your screen right now. Crowds of supporters showing their solidarity there in Tel Aviv, but to unpack exactly what we've just heard with me in studio. Danny Ayalon, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and Chairman of Silver Road Capital, and Dan Perry, International Affairs Analyst, the former Europe Editor of Associated Press. So Ambassador, I'm going to start with you because moments before we heard that speech, you mentioned Golda Meir. You said it's very likely comparisons would be drawn, break down what stood out for you with this impassioned appeal to Israel to do more. Well, I would say he used every, I don't want to say every trick in the book because he's really in such a dire situation, but he certainly tried to really play on the very inner chords of the Israeli psyche, not just by mentioning Golda Meir, but also mentioning the history and the common history and comparing the Israeli and the Jewish history to the Ukrainians. So this was the morality issue that we discussed before here. And then there was the practicality. He didn't mean words about, you know, it will be on your conscience based on your decision. It is your decision to make. And if you're sitting on the fence, if you are not, you know, going all the way in for the Ukraine, that means you're helping the killing of people, sitting on the fence helping killing people. And then he mentioned very specifically Iron Dome, that he would like to have Iron Dome. Same thing he did with Biden and the Americans when he asked Biden to supply them planes and also to enforce and no fly zone. Of course, Biden did not answer directly to this request. I don't think the Israelis will do the same. I think they will also equivocate here. Dan, I'm going to come to you very shortly for your insights. But first, that solidarity demonstration taking place in Tel Aviv, thousands taking a stand under the banner Israel stand with Ukraine. Our correspondent Pierre Kloshendler is there in Tel Aviv at Abima Square. Pierre, we can see the blue and yellow flags in full display. Talk us through the reaction when President Vladimir Zelensky was speaking just moments ago. People just listened and they applauded the speech because I think that they were caught by very strong emotions actually. When the President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the need for maybe supplying Ukraine with the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the people applauded and cheered the Ukrainian President. But there was also a very note of a very strong note of sadness in the crowd amidst the crowd because you could see President Volodymyr Zelensky in some sort of bunker in Kiev looking tired, looking actually exhausted and in some sort of military t-shirt. And the people here understand that this is an embattled President representing an embattled people. They drew a comparison with Nazis and are not sure that every Israeli will buy into that because the situation is different. But on the other hand, when Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about the mediation effort by the Israeli President, by the Israeli Prime Minister, sorry, there was some note of skepticism in Zelensky's speech because he said you cannot mediate between good and evil. And this is basically the equation in this rally, the fight against evil, the need to protect the good, the mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Khudai spoke in those terms, Zelensky spoke in those terms, the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel also spoke in those terms. And there is another element in this battle for public opinion at this moment just here as President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke in this forum in front of Israeli legislators but also in front of the Israeli public. The Supreme Court of Israel is delving onto the thorny issue of whom to allow inside Israel after an appeal presented by a lawyer who represents the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel. And the debates are being carried live at the same time. So there is a, sorry, a legal battle on one hand and a battle for public opinion. And these two battles here in Israel are coalescing at this moment. Benita. Talking of public opinion, Pierre, you've been speaking to people there on the ground for the last few hours in the buildup to the speech. Give us an idea of the sentiment there. Why are people coming out in their numbers? What are they saying to you? There is extreme sadness and extreme worry because many of the people that are here are from the former Soviet Union. Some of them are from Ukraine. And they all feel a sense of urgency, of emergency, that there is a real tragedy in foiling in Ukraine. And people are even more radical than President Volodymyr Zelensky, because they don't only mention defensive equipment such as the Iron Dome or guns. They also want helmets. They want flag jackets to protect the Ukrainian soldiers. They want a no-fly zone. And this appeal is sheer, but it also echoes, appeals that we've seen in various capitals in Western countries. So you have basically the same kind of mood in this crowd, a lot of blue and yellow flags, and a lot of glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes of Ukraine. You know this famous slogan, Slava Ukraini, Geroam Ukraini. And this is what you hear here, trying to cheer up the very, very sad mood, actually. Correspondent Pierre Klosschenkler, who's been covering this invasion from Kiev in recent weeks now, live for us in Tel Aviv at Abima Square. Thank you so much, Pierre, for that update. Well, breaking news now just in from East Jerusalem reports that two policemen have been injured in a stabbing attack, one of them moderately the other lightly after being stabbed in the back. The one attacker then fled on foot. A search is underway at the moment. The officers have been treated on the scene. This is the second stabbing attack in East Jerusalem in two days and the fifth since the beginning of the month. We will bring you more.


Carlos Elcores vs. Jahnland Strouf is a final for the Madrid Open for the men for 2023. And both guys have been very impressive to get to the final stage. Strouf started the tournament off as a lucky loser and take on Senegal in the first round. This is no problem for Strouf getting to in straight set 6-3-6-1. In the second round he'd take on Shelton the 30 second seed and he'd have to fight back from a set down. Getting through in 3-4-6-7-6-7-5. In the third round he'd take on Lyovic who was coming off 3 top 10 wins in the last couple of weeks. And again after dropping the first set he would have to fight back to win 6-7-6-3-6-3. In the fourth round he'd take on Cashion and this was a grind getting through in a long three set up. 7-6-6-7-6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals Strouf would take on the number four seed sitting pass. Strouf would battle to win in 3-7-6-5-7-6-3 to advance to a semi-final. In the semi-finals Strouf would take on the qualifier Aslan Karatsev. And after dropping the first set Strouf would come back to win 4-6-6-3-6-4 to become the first lucky loser to make it to a Masters 1000 final. Elkras started the tournament off as a number one seed and would get a buy in the first round. In the second round he'd take on Russovori and after being down a set he'd have to fight back to win 2-6-6-4-6-2. In the third round he'd take on the 26 seed Dmitrov. This was no problem for Elkras getting through in straight sets 6-2-7-5. In the fourth round he'd take on the 13 seeds Varev the man that he beat in last year's final. And this result was the same if not better with Elkras demolishing Varev 6-1-6-2 to get to another Madrid quarter-final. In the quarter-finals Elkras would take on the number 10 seed Hashinov. Elkras would get through in straights 6-4-7-5 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals Elkras would take on the number 17 seed Chorich the man that he'd never faced before. And this proved to be too easy for Elkras getting through in straight sets 6-4-6-3 on his birthday to make it to the final. These two guys have played twice before both the Grand Slams with the record split at 1-1 and Strouf having won their only clay court match at the French Open in 2021 in straight sets. Having the shot quality scores from Tennis Insights on the serve they're neck and neck at a 7.6 for their 52 week average. But Elkras has the lead in the returns at a 6.7 compared to Strouf 6.6. The forehand is also Elkras' favourite with an 8.1 compared to the 7.7 of Strouf and the backhand as well 7.6 for Elkras and a 7.1 for Strouf. So Strouf's going to win this one he's going to really have to rely on the serve and he's really going to have to pick it up on the ground strokes when the rally gets underway. And the shot quality is calculated in real time by analysing each shot's speed, spin, depth, width and the impact it has on the opponent. This is a new way of analysing matches brought to you by Tennis Insights. If you want to check out more you can go check them out on Twitter, link down in the description. This is going to be a very fun final and of course Elkras is having a great week. I reckon Elkras is going to win this one but I think it's going to be a close straight set. So I reckon Elkras will get the win, go back to back in Madrid. Just made me based on his experience but I reckon Strouf's going to test him early on in this match. His big hitting is going to worry Elkras but I think Elkras is good enough to get the win. Let me know down in the comments below who's going to win Madrid for this year.


This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box is stock number 1-2-3-7-1-Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6-liter V8 engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, it has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires and this truck is 100% ready to go. Summit White is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. We're going to go inside, outside, start it up, listen to the engine. And if you like the way we do the videos here in the upper right hand part of the screen, there's a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can watch videos of the new and used inventory we do each and every day, and all the videos we've done in the past as well. This one comes with the chromed alloy rims, no major scuffs or scrapes or corrosion on there. And it has brand new Lofen X-Fit AT tires. These are LT 265 70 R18s and they have all the tread left. They still have the little wear knobs on there. Frame and underbody is an exceptionally clean condition. This is a one owner clean title history out of New Mexico. Front fender is in excellent shape. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. Comes with factory fog lights. The front bumper is in great shape as well. No major dents or dings on there. You get the chrome trimmed grille and the LED running lights and projector style headlamps. The hood is in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender is in very nice condition as well. Passengers side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck. You can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. Before you even get here, so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. And you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, liked the video, and that it helped you make a decision and that Brett sent you. Back tires are brand new as well and once again there is that new Mexico frame. No corrosion on there. And it's like that all the way underneath. 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And for full disclosure this back room is in excellent condition as well. Driver side doors look really good. It does come with the telescopic tow mirrors. They have built in directional signals and LED side lights. They telescope out like so. They also fold in like that. Inside the SLE 1 package gives you the tan cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on the seats. They are in really nice shape. Does come with factory all weather formats. Auto headlamps, tilt, telescopic steering wheel. Turned out four wheel drive and your factory brake controller is right there. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. We'll hop inside. Take a look at the miles in the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this truck has 47,929 miles. You do get a compass display. This one does have the digital speedometer and everything on it. There's your digital speedometer. Instrument cluster is nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right and cruise controls on the left. And you do get audio controls on the back of that steering wheel. Six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Has the GMC IntelliLink system, AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And you can see it does have the factory navigation. There's your Sirius XM capabilities there. CD player down here. And this one does have the projection where you can project your cell phone to the screen. The Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. You've got a different navigation system or you just want to listen to music or media through the radio. You can do that with that system there. Pretty cool.  That's your cargo lamps. That's how you turn on the LED side lights and the LED bed lighting. And then down here there's a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Kind of hard to see. But it is down there. There it is. Do you get a 12 volt power point there as well? Passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. The headliner is in excellent shape as well. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. Smells very clean inside. Up here you get map lights, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems. Power sliding rear window button. And on-star and SOS capabilities in that rear view mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up for extra storage. You get a storage bin back here. You also get a case for, I believe, that's fifth wheel and loose neck stuff. All-weather floor mats back here. Carpentines in nice shape. And this truck does have side curtain airbags. 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So I'm here with a safe deposit box, probably a safe deposit box lock or some kind of bank lock given to me by Bosnian Bill. I'll show you the keys. This is made by EGLE, or at least the keys are, pretty standard looking safe deposit keys. It's still a lot of company and the serial number written there. Lock itself doesn't have any markings on the face, it does have the same serial number on the back. Probably will try to pick this but I'd like to see what's going on inside first and this to my series of bank lock informational videos so let's see if we can't get this gutted a little bit here so. So there's the cover plate coming off, you can see that it's made of two pieces of metal brass here, I assume steel or aluminum or something feels like steel and that's a press fit in there. Now we see the lock, here's the bolt, here's the keyway which also serves as the actuator for the bolt so this tells me now immediately that if I want to tension this guy I just have to tension this part, some of them there's a bit of the key that does the tensioning so this should just lift out, there we go and there's a little ring on it, you can see that, it does pop off but that acts kind of like a little bearing or spacer down in that bottom part, it's nice because that ends up flush so you can put it back together more easily. The bolt is just a bar of brass with, there's the stump right there, doesn't seem to have any little teeth in it, it's just something you see. Then there's this little spacer here and depending on how the lock is mounted that may act as like a bearing surface for it because otherwise you just have these sharp edges here that it would ride on. So let's lift that out and set that aside and we have our levers now, let's turn this this way. So the first thing we see is that these are not the typical levers that we see in a lever lock, these are horizontal or sliding levers as opposed to ones that rotate on a pivot so they move like this up and down in there as the key presses on them and of course you have to get all of the gates aligned such that the stump can slide through one way or the other. The design is also such that you need the key to lock it and unlock it, you can tell that because the stump will obviously get caught over here. Maybe a design feature such that you can, I bet you can install this with the bolt here or the bolt here. So depending on how this mounts on the bank door or block store or whatever it happens to be, it probably lets it be reversible and they probably get a pattern on that. The other thing that tells me that that might be the case is that you can see a notch here and here and here and here, these are your false gates. They normally don't put false gates on the unlocked side, so when it's unlocked you don't really care about someone picking it back into locks, right? So let's just take a look at these levers, see if there's anything exciting going on here. Looks pretty good. Okay, so lever one, these are nice because they don't bind up on the pivot. Also see these are reasonably thick, just nice solid brass, looks like it has brass springs as well. There's three, four and number five and that's all the parts in there and on the little box. All right, now let's look at the back of one of these guys, I'm just curious. So it does not appear that there's any kind of relief cut on them, sometimes you'll see a little relief cut kind of like this that's on the bolt and I think that's to either reduce friction or make it harder to decode by looking at it. So we're back with the lock reassembled and all the levers in their correct places. When we turn the key, what we're looking for is for these gates in here to all line up so that they stump on the bolt, which is this little bit here, that that can pass through. So what I'm going to try to do is do this without blocking your view too much and the trick is that I don't have anything to keep everybody aligned, so there we go. So you can see in this position, in this position, oops, the levers are all lined, there's a nice slot right through there and so the bolt would be able to pass. So another thing I noticed about this thing is that if you remember there was this little bearing plate and when we got the lock it was in this position here, but this definitely is there to prevent the bolt from binding on these little sharp metal edges of the lock body. So we put that in like that because of course the key is going to be pressing up on this so it wants to be able to slide on that surface as the key. One other note that I thought was interesting about this particular lock, all the other locks we've seen have some kind of little window on them, presumably to aid in either bypassing the lock or picking the lock or accommodating it. In this case the bolt is in front of the levers so having a hole here wouldn't really do much for you, you would just see the little actuator hitting into the bolt and having a hole in the back would be no good at all because this thing is mounted to the door of a safer bolt or something like that so it does not have any of that feature and then the other little sort of interesting thing is that the bottom of that actuator is actually visible down here, I don't know why necessarily they did that but as you turn the key, as you turn the key that actuator moves that way and then comes around. Now this may be a key, maybe for key retention, maybe there's a little pin that goes in here and keeps you from rotating this all the way back around so that you could take the key out and that would allow you to make it one side or the other. I thought that was kind of neat, I haven't seen that in the future before either. So one last look at it with the key comes out, again there may be some key retention, additional key retention gizmo when this thing is mounted but that's all we have for now. So anyhow an eagle, I wrote what I assume is an eagle because the key says eagle. A lot of company made the USA safe deposit or bank or other high security type application lock gutted and we learned a few things about it. Anyhow, this is Alex. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven't done so already and as always have fun and please keep it legal. Cheers!