Asalamu alaikum jamaa, Balka and Kudazua. I would have continued in Hausa. For the few people here who don't speak Hausa at all, I'm very pleased to be here with you today. At this special summit on the girl child, girl child education, women empowerment and eradication of drug abuse in commemoration of the women's day 2022. I'm especially pleased to see that all the discussions have been conducted in Hausa. I'm very pleased to see that all the discussions have been conducted in Hausa. This is not elite women talking to each other. This is women talking to women. But this occasion has also helped me to find out amongst those I work with, those who do not speak Hausa well. So now I know those who speak Hausa well and those who do not. But let me emphasize just one point. The education of girls is important for every nation, every country. The poorest countries of the world are those who have low rates of education of women.  Nigeria has an almost equal number of men and women. If we do not intentionally educate women, it means that we are not educating half of our population. There is no way we can get out of poverty if half of our population is uneducated. And we also know that if a woman is educated, she's not likely to be poor. If you educate a woman, you educate the whole family. Because an educated woman will at least educate her children. But just listening to you today has been so inspiring and encouraging. And I'm so proud to be in the company of exceptional women walking exceptional women who are walking in the strides of Amizans like Sarawna Amina of Zaozo, Nana Asmao, Usmandam Fudyu, Landi Kuali and many others is also uplifting to see women and girls taking charge of their affairs and creating paths for the development of others. You deserve all the commendation for your sacrifices in providing support for your families and for one another in spite of the challenges you have faced in life. I'm amazed by some of the challenging journeys and experiences that have been shared today. Stories of selfless service, resilience, great generosity and hope, women overcoming major obstacles, every step of their path to success. And for me, the takeaway here is hope. We listened to Hajiah Habiba Lawal, a permanent secretary ecological project fund, who just narrated some of the difficulties she encountered along the way. Washi now has attained the highest ranking position any civil servant could attain. She even served at a time as the acting secretary to the government of the federation. In my office, the lady that you see here today Baal Kisu, who is here. She grew up in Minanata in Sokoto. She was married off at the age of 13 and had her first child at the age of 14. But today she is an associate professor of law. And she has been my advisor on legal affairs for the past six years. We are all inspired by your determination to rewrite history. To make the best use of the hand dealt to you in order to create meaningful lives. Using education as a tool. It's so important for us to bear in mind. That we must ensure that education is a tool. I'm also encouraged that with the experiences you have acquired you are now well equipped to champion the causes that will better the lives of others and ensure that women live productive lives in dignity where their potentials can be freely explored. The exceptional courage and determination exhibited by the champions who have shared their stories today should galvanize us all to action action in leveling the playing field and allowing talents to emerge action in eliminating barriers that hinder the progress of women action in ensuring gender equity and equality and social inclusion action in equipping girls and women and preparing them for a life of independence dogarodakai ensuring the preservation of their dignity and better the career Mutunchinsu I congratulate you all and I thank you for this honor as I also wish you a happy women's day Mata Imbahu Bagida I also thank all the organizers of this great event God bless you all


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Let's swing it, Brainerd. Invite today at the Preserve in Pequot Lakes. We'll start with Gavin Mets from the Warriors with the chip shot from the bunker. He'll land it on the green here. He'll end up finishing with a par on the hole. Let's go to the fifth. It's Bemidji's Jared Lolley on the fringe of the green here. He's just gonna miss the hole, but he'll tap it in for the par. No problem on the next stroke. But then the shot of the day for Mr. Gavin Mets. And check this out. Again, using the chip shot. You just have to take a look at this. Finds its way all the way to the cup. What a shot. All smiles for Gavin. That'll help the Brainerd win the meet with 301 points. Blake Shuler would be the medalist for Waconia with a 70.


Hello, hello, hello Hi there, can can you hear me is my audio good Nice I'll be doing PvP in a while. So just bear with me. It's a couple of checks Haven't played this account since this morning. So okay, let's finish strategy first before we go to ranked feel free to interact man can Talk to me during the stream. Yeah, I actually started just started this account like what around Around couple I think a month ago as well if I if I'm not mistaken. So It's actually just pretty much luck I actually got the I got see you in just by mere sheer luck It was actually about to quit this account Did were you able to get um see you in it as well? First nice So, how are you? How is she? What level is she in your account right now? I actually spent a lot in terms of the crafting So I'm actually going to Make her 106 at this point, but I'm ready. No spent with all of the other What do you call this all of the other? Currencies they have. Oh nice Nice, it's already a have read 110 so good. I'm still if you can see here. It's it's going to be 106 so pretty much happy with her. Um Yesterday, I was in bronze I just actually Went through silver because of her. So I'm actually right now at gold if you'll see later for ranked so I hope I do have You know, I do have luck on my side in terms of let's let's go to ranked So right now I'm at gold. So I'm not really sure if I could progress further than this one Competition is really really, you know tough in gold Let's do this man Yep, really need gears For me, I really have a hard time in terms of Terms of the gears that I have Because I don't have that much Good gears. So so far It's been a struggle as for me as well. By the way, man. Thank you for stopping by the stream. I really appreciate it I was actually wondering if anybody would show up I was not planning to announce this because I was trying it out for the first time So thank thank you man for dropping by I really really appreciate it So by the way, what's your what what what is your team right now in in PvP in in gauntlet? Is it is it the same as what I have now? Or you have a different variation for your team. Yeah. Yeah, anyway for for my free-to-play team This this is just also Just for fun Not really competitive Actually my goal for this team for my free-to-play account was just to reach gold. So that's it because again The rewards are better. So right now. I'm really contented with gold. I'm not I'm not really aiming to go up anyway Yeah, definitely mostly OP very very OP at this point I actually see her mowing down a lot of a lot of enemies Yeah Well for for for my account actually, I'm really happy I got her because again I was really struggling to have a Ranger. I don't have good Rangers actually my team right now for free-to-play. So When I got her I was actually not really I actually got her in less than Less than what that less than 10 single pulls if I can recall So Basically, I'm really happy to have her. She's has been a very big improvement to my team can't complain, you know By the way, man, where are you from? Where you based right now? Oh nice Actually a couple of friends there Also from the Philippines by the way, I'm from the Philippines. So Have a couple of friends there who are living there already for a couple of years already actually one of the streamers that I Actually has been my friend since I started with I don't know if you know him. It's dread He he and I actually used to cover Exos yours before By the way, how how many pulls did were were did you do for for saiyun? How many pull how many single pulls or multiples did you do? Well, same here man. I didn't have I don't have a Classified recruitment tickets anymore.  I'm sorry have to save up by the way It's actually not really easy to save in this game for for black Classified sorry classified recruit men contracts. That's the correct term Actually, I did I already pulled for I think it was now you've been it's bonnet banner. So I already had a Pity carried over to saiyun when I pulled for her. Um, I think I was already about 50 Then I did single pulls So I was able to get her in less than 10 that was very lucky. I really didn't expect it to happen So that is why I'm playing this again I was about to quit this free to play account because it was really frustrating moving up of What do you call this of? ranked PvP Yeah, um, actually, it's really also hard to save up those quartz weekly Usually I do save up quartz because of events, but if there are no events I usually can't save up for the weekly 2750 so It's really really hard to but but I guess the the pity system right now I do like it versus other games that I'm playing I'm actually currently playing Exo series as well So but this game has a better pity system in terms of the weakened characters and I think moving forward I'm no longer going to pull for any defender I'm actually going I'm looking for ASY or I'm actually hoping for a rerun of Yuna's banner Awakened Yuna because actually I was not able to summon for her and I actually Started this free to play account just right just right after her banner. Oh, by the way What what ship are you currently using is it still glip near or have you had the opportunity to get other ships? Yeah We'll do that next time We'll have a separate Session where and I could feature your account Um, you could actually chat with me over discord Check out Any description of any video that I have I have a discord there You can actually reach me there so that we could prepare ahead of time and we could set up your account And I could showcase your account during my streams, okay? Most probably I would be live Probably around this time or Probably tomorrow because right now it's a Saturday here, which is around 5 30 in the afternoon and I could also do live tomorrow, which is a Sunday for for us as well Are you currently having problems with your gear? So Your farming is actually a lot of you know, it would take you a lot of time Just to farm the right, you know, the right kind of gear great quiet the quantity of gear So at this point you really have to you know have to play your account as much as possible daily. Oh Yeah by now is are really really a Are really really hard to find both for your Set gear for your yeah for your set gears and for your stats and To be honest, I did spend a little bit a little bit for for binaries because I had to I had a lot of Tier six gears lying around That were really, you know, then he didn't really have the the right Kind of gear set that I wanted. So by the way Try to try to use binaries only on on tier six gears In the long run that would really save you, you know save you a lot of Resources because again in the future will be having more on tier six So if you can see most of the players in K already have tier six gears mostly tier six so Do use your binaries sparingly with what they call this with only Tier six gears and and not the not the gears that are only usable by a specific unit So those it will really depend if we really want to tinker with their special weapons But the usual the usual tier six gears that I'm talking about are one of the you know One of the gears that we're looking for usually our maze gears What else hummingbird so those are the most soft after that you should use your binaries on I Actually did a mistake before and using binaries with with tier five So right now I'm actually learning. I actually learned my lesson already So right now I'm not using them anymore for for for tier five Yeah, it would really be a grind For you to look for Or for for binaries Yeah, some of them if you if you don't use binaries on your tier six Mostly some of them you won't be able to use I'm sure You'll just have to be contented on farming for gear if you can't change them with binaries Yeah, say say with me It's just that sometimes farming frustrates me because I also don't get the no the kind of gears that I'm looking for Yep, correct 70 is actually good already so I actually have a Have a 70% CDR with my awakened Yuna For my main account that is Actually, most of most of the weakened Units that we have are really CDR hungry Most of them good match I'm try crafting more weapons. That's the only thing that you can remedy So while you're while you're what do you call this while you're Farming for gear Try crafting more weapons Well, actually right now One of my concerns is actually the same to you With my other account for some reason I have Three units there which have CDR gear for weapon and accessory, but no weapon. So We have kind of the same problem Yeah, well, that's RNG for you, man Really have to be patient about Gotcha because one thing I've learned playing gotcha over this years is that Patience is really really needed for this game or any other game with any gotcha system So whether it be summoning for a Hero or for gear if it's a gotcha system. Well as as you keep on it Usually you'll eventually get it but again, it will take a long time. So Depatient my friend. Yeah, I think I think pretty much sure on the mark with eight CDR sets because For eight you'll have Sure, you're going to if you're if you have gay you're gonna use it on her Most of the healers that we have you CDR as well Awakened you know, we can say you in who else Also Sigma uses CDR gear so It is going to be good to start So I forgot actually you also have mech Mech CDR gear that you need to farm Sorry, not mech soldier CDR gear But I'm sure that that you're saying eight sets of CDR is I think only for For counters, right? because for for what they call this for counters You use well for mech you actually need need one definitely for Sigma for soldier I think at least you need two actually eight is really good. It is really good so Just continue to build, you know build your arsenal for CDR gears Actually, I learned my lesson this regarded the other sets like The anti sets anti striker anti ranger. I'm actually disregarding most of them and anti defender as well Well based on my experience at some point you'll have to throw them away, but if you still lack lack the you know the appropriate gear to use like for example for my Elizabeth I still use them. I use I use I think anti supporter and Anti sniper for Elizabeth For my other for my other account So But eventually you'll you'll have to you'll have to replace them and take them out because I Rather you use attack. Let's see for Elizabeth. I'd rather use attack Than the anti gear sets It's much more, you know, it's much more all-around if you do if you bring attack Attack sets For those who are tuning in. Thank you guys for joining the stream. So feel free to Chat Whatever questions you might have there with regards to your own accounts and also any question about Um You know me you have any questions about my account as well. Feel free to write them down in the chat Well first in terms of in terms of them as placeholders well kind of kind of But eventually the anti gears definitely will will have a scarcer use Eventually because right now Just to give an idea. I'm actually having a problem with my Elizabeth already so I'm actually thinking of converting her gear into Into attack So that she would be more all-around But that would take time because I don't have much attack gears good attack gears right now I'm wanna wanna change your attack gears to tier six already if I do want to change her gears, so Just keep your just keep your anti Anti all anti gears. I'm just just the ones that you won't be using. I'm sure would be tower and Tower and Probably supporter or or ranger the rest you can actually still use Yep. Yep. Um Just keep usually in in danger close try to hold on to defender Anti defender anti striker and anti ranger Because so far what I've seen in danger close is Defenders Defenders and Rangers so try to keep some of defender ranger and Striker by the way for those who just joined the stream. I actually started the street to play at I think 2000 So actually Then climb already a couple of spots up to up to two four ten So far my I'm happy with with how my my my free-to-play PVP team is going as you can see there Now you've been worse Was annihilated Hopefully I could get to Round two eight to seven I'm at go three already. So I Would be shocked if I if I go to platinum with this team The only teams I think that I'll have a trouble with is Going to be teams that have two awakened units. So so far. I've handled them Kind of pretty much very okay.  I think I can use Another defender No surplus band so Gonna have to Be contented with what I have right now Yes, oh I thought I thought it's going to be game over, but he'll be still here Say oh you Who's the next one? No second rifles. What is this a sandwich too much defenders? Thanks, man. I'll have a more schedule stream Actually moving forward and by the way, this is my first stream. So I was actually nervous Starting this So I have a more, you know fixed schedule for you guys Probably starting next week. Actually what bothers me is actually I keep losing my mouse Thanks, man. Thanks first. Um, don't forget to chat me up in discord. Let's talk last two guys last two Hopefully I could go to 2,500 to end the stream. It's okay Welcome Vismarck. We'll have a more schedule stream next time probably have a weekly PVP Both for free to play and actually for my main account still having you know still having to Schedule More or less the stream Probably in the weekends for me Thanks, man. Thanks for dropping by By the way, Vismarck In some of my videos actually have a link there for discord I actually I'm not sure if it's in this live stream, but if you want to hit me up For a you know for a consultation in your account, please do not you know hesitate reach out to me through discord So you can join my server with that link. Okay? So last Last match guys. Thank you again for joining So I'm at I'm at 2.5. So that's an increase of 500 for this stream. So pretty much Pretty much happy with it. And I'm actually happier that you're here both of you and For the others who dropped by the stream as well. I guess I'm not ending this stream on a win So it's okay. I'm happy with it. Anyway, so Anyway guys Thank you so much Hey first. Um, yes, um add me to You may actually join discord and actually DM me Through my discord server. So Check out the descriptions. Um, I Don't know if I put it here in this chat But if you see any of my videos check out the description Um, I have a link there for discord server Um joined that server then DM me directly Will chat Okay, guys. So thank you very much for joining and It has been a you know good first live stream. Thank you guys and have a great day. Bye


Those of you who are feeling sleepy, you know who you are, I Invite you to get up and come closer to the front. That'll make me happy and perhaps make you less sleepy This is Shulamit, one of the newest members of the Wikimedia cuteness association She's from Johannesburg and she will be supervising this talk along with her colleagues Alkes the Wikidata moose and Kankunczyk the turtle. I want to offer you some thoughts on a different but related Tack From what we've heard so far what we've heard so hard about gender and women on Wikipedia I want to look outside to the feminist movement Overall in the real world and see what we can learn from the feminist movement in particularly in particular from the feminist actions not feminist theory That would Sustain and inform our work in our movement not just on gender issues What lessons can we learn from the feminists for knowledge equity and for our work in general? Yes, my name is Asaf. I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm a longtime Wikipedia volunteer at the foundation My current focus is working with emerging communities on capacity building I am also extremely blinded by this very brutal projection Okay, let's set some expectations. I am not an expert on feminism. This is not going to be comprehensive I'm sharing insights and inspirations I have found in the feminist movement that I think would be relevant for us You will notice that my slides are text heavy that is against common wisdom and that is in favor of Accessibility intelligibility for people whose native language is not English and for later upload to commons So bear with me those who like tiny slides with two words Okay So I'll start by recognizing my inspiration for this talk Professor Deborah road a distinguished scholar of law At Stanford University. She is the most cited legal scholar on legal ethics She's a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and she was awarded among many other awards the White House champion of change award Much of this talk is based on a brilliant article of hers called the no problem problem and Also the work of Anke Foss Hubbard Who is a red link on Wikipedia? She's an archivist and librarian She has worked extensively with the papers of the feminist Margaret Sanger and I offer you a quote from her The decisions of today will determine what's there tomorrow Something we I think sympathize with and understand as wikipedia So very briefly in case anyone wandered into this room Without knowing what feminism is Wikipedia says feminism is a range of political movements ideologies and social movements that share a common goal to define establish and achieve political economic personal and social Equality of sexes The word women is not in this definition. I want you to notice And I also want to share this quote by Gloria Steinem famous American feminist When she was asked to assess the impact of the women's movement on the world She thought for a moment and then said well, that's like being asked to describe the universe in three examples So the women's movement has had a tremendous impact on the world on society Not just in the West and so I think we have a lot to learn That movement has pursued many struggles and many aspects of lacking equality I will name just a few to exercise your Imagination in case you're mostly thinking about voting rights for example. Well, yes voting rights famously But also property and inheritance rights equal pay equal terms. That is equal treatment Equal employment opportunities equal access to education something that obviously resonates very much for us reproductive rights freedom from harassment and Recognition and representation in art and history these terms I have bolded. I hope have obvious relevance to our work and Even men's liberation. I again point this out in case some people think this is all good But largely about women. It isn't feminism is also men's liberation Okay, so I want to offer you three lessons that I see out of many things that we could learn from the feminist movement The first lesson is the problem is real and some people need convincing and Professor road suggests that a major issue is that most people believe the world is basically just Yes, there are deviances from justice, but basically it is just basically the world is set up in a way that works for most people Basically, the way things are is the way things should be it's a natural apparently tendency of humans to accept status quo to accept the world as they encounter it and To sustain this belief to to maintain this comfortable belief this comforting belief people are willing to alter their assessments of Of merit of what is good and bad and even to retroactively justify existing social arrangements so For example, we always hear that women are still not paid equally even in the West even in the US The figure of 70 cents for the dollar is often mentioned And then people instead of saying that is horrible and unjust and how are we even living in this society still? It's 2018 people try to find some things to to explain Excuse justify, you know, well women have children. They have pregnancies. Maybe they're promoted less I mean all kinds of things instead of sticking to the Upsetting conclusion that this is not just and this is not okay It's it's easier to just come up with some explanation that makes it. Oh, yeah. Well that explains it and So this is what professor road calls the no problem problem we have the problem that most people don't understand there is a problem and For many and maybe most I'm not sure I don't have the research to back that up for many Wikipedians the existence of systemic bias and the effective even if unintended exclusion of minorities and marginalized people and knowledge is either not a problem or Not their problem Not a problem or not their problem So people who say there is no problem no knowledge is marginalized. There's no people barred from editing etc etc I would divide them into two groups. The first and large group are the naive Right people who literally don't know don't see that there's a problem. They're not willfully Pretending there is no problem. They truly don't see there is a problem Probably because of a Narrowness of experience. They've never met anyone not like them. They've never traveled They've never seen how the rest of the world lives all kinds of reasons like that could get someone to have the natural naive assumption Everybody's like me. Everybody should have the same opportunities as me etc. So I can do it. Why can't anyone else? There is no problem But there is a small group who are willfully asserting there is no problem And those would be people who are actually invested and interested in the status quo Remaining and not changing at all whether because they have opinions bigoted opinions racist opinions sexist opinions And whether because I don't know they're Terrible people and like to see people Frustrated or suffer but that is definitely the minority. There is a very large group of people who are naive who need to be Taught who need to be shown that there is a problem and the naive people who think there is no problem could be shown These are the people we can convince Now then there's the people who say yes, there is a problem, but we have no responsibility to for for causing it That's just how it is. We didn't make the world. We didn't make the situation We didn't decide to discriminate against minorities or women or Or Have any responsibility to fix it even if we didn't cause it. Do we have any responsibility to fix it? Just as a quick example the people Opposing slavery in the United States in the 19th century the abolitionists they did not invent slavery, right? It was invented centuries before they did not bring the slaves from Africa Does that mean they do not did not have a responsibility to end it think about that So whether or not you're responsible for a problem is orthogonal is is not necessarily related to whether you have some Responsibility for fixing it and so you hear people saying yes, we are for inclusivity equity in principle But then you hear them dismiss one after another all the Practical proposals that could do something about it. Yes we have a gender participation problem on Wikipedia, but This idea won't work and this project is too expensive and we couldn't possibly do this So that's just how it is Not for us to solve and I would like to specifically call out for those of you who are English wikipedia's you may have encountered this acronym There's this shortcut for the the policy section that says wikipedia Does not exist to right great wrongs Right to correct great wrongs and that is indeed a guideline on wikipedia Meaning, you know if I don't know someone was wrongly convicted of murder and it's really unjust and and you know This person didn't do it don't come to wikipedia to fight for this person's innocence You know go to the courts appeal whatever wikipedia is not the place to correct any and all injustice And that is correct. That is that is a reasonable policy for wikipedia But I find I found in several discussions that people cite this policy for systemic issues When people bring up for example Minority participation or indigenous knowledge they say well, yeah It's it's kind of it kind of sucks that this knowledge isn't on wikipedia But wikipedia doesn't correct the world doesn't fix great wrongs, and I think that is a misapplication of that policy Hmm because this bias is is taking away from our neutrality wikipedia should be neutral. That means it should be unbiased Another Mechanism at work is the devaluation of difference so People minimize the actual difference in need or in ability or in approach or in meaning as A way of obstructing the achievement of genuine equity So one of the common ways we see this on the wiki is people repeating anyone can edit Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit What keeps women from editing, you know, maybe they just don't want to edit What keeps minorities from showing up and editing? Why don't we have more African editors? Where are they? This focus on formal rights right formally anyone from Africa has the same ability to edit as I do is Irrelevant that that is not the main cause that keeps a lot of Africans from editing But some people focus on that and say that's enough they have the potential ability to edit they have They can start an account. They can edit they can edit without an account. That's it that's all we need to do to enable African participation in Wikipedia or women or indigenous knowledge or any of the marginalized groups and I want to suggest to you And this is this middle bullet is a quote from professor road equality informal rights Masks the inequality in the actual daily experience of people for example their lack of access for example The language situation they're working in For example the existence of bigoted and and biased people on Wikipedia in positions of privilege Another inspiring idea is that demanding fairness Shouldn't automatically mean you have to accept all of status quo And that is often the demand we make we in Wikipedia make for people who come from the outside We say well first you play by our rules all of our rules and then maybe one day You'll get to change some of those rules But if we accept even theoretically that some of our existing rules some of the status quo is Not exactly perfectly where it should be Then it should be legitimate to question it to challenge it Politely not aggressively etc. Etc. You you you that doesn't mean yes ignore all rules ignore notability, etc Obviously, I'm not advocating for that. I hope it's obvious But I want you to notice that people having and this was said in some other sessions people from marginalized communities or with marginalized knowledge often have to Negotiate with their oppressor even if it's the unintended oppressor The the the body of volunteers representing the culture that has Marginalized their group or their knowledge they have to negotiate on their terms on the oppressor terms in order to even get a foot in The door to be able to begin To to have the conversation and of course even the wikipedia insistence on having our discussions on wiki Which has very good reasons right for archivability accountability diffs, etc. Etc. We all know why it's good to have discussions on wiki and not on Facebook, etc Itself of course excludes people who for whatever reason aren't able or willing to make the effort to do that And again that may be a price that we need to pay for the benefits that on wiki conversation gives us But but it does come with a cost another Tactic that the feminists encounter and that I think we encounter as well is denying the responsibility So yes, we have a problem, but it's elsewhere. It's not on our wiki. You know some wikis Discriminate but our wiki is kind of okay some wiki projects are really bigoted or Exclusive, but we welcome anyone Our events are okay. My edits are okay And that may be true your edits may be okay. You still have some responsibility About other people's edits. It's a community and we as we know we police our community ourselves Right. There is no chief editor to wikipedia. We are responsible for each other's actions We are responsible for each other's behaviors And we do take action against other people's edits or against other people's behaviors in certain cases and in other cases We choose not to take action Wikipedians in particular I have seen sometimes assigned responsibility elsewhere. So the marginalization is Because that's how the world is. It's because of governments. It's because of parents. It's because of religion And again, yes, these may all be involved But often that is the end of the sentence, you know, well, it's it's it's their religion or well That's that's the country they live in Period and so we're not gonna do anything about it But we might do something about it even if yes part of that Marginalization part of this situation part of this injustice has to do with a government or a religion or whatever It there may still be something for us to do Even more depressingly some marginalized people internalize the marginalization and they themselves deny there is a problem they internalize the the marginalized status and You hear this I hear this at least I travel a lot in the wikimedia world You hear people saying well, I'm I don't know if this belongs on wikipedia I don't know if I if I can contribute anything. I don't know if I'm educated enough I don't know if my English is good enough And Some existing editors some wikipedians Reinforce that they tell people yes, your English is not good enough even if it is Really not much worse than the average misspelling American Not all Americans have great English So this leads to a situation where it is difficult to to Demand to fight for or even to imagine having ever Something you have never had before like what would it look like if you could bring your knowledge onto wikipedia What would it look like if you didn't have to fear for your safety if you your username sounds like a woman's name What would it look like because for example to take the example of women and harassment online that was mentioned having porn sent to you Etc. That is a reality for women that many men literally don't realize could possibly be Lots of men insist. Yeah, it probably happens Sometimes they don't realize that in a room this size not a terribly big crowd We know statistically for a fact some people in this room have had this happen to them That's how common it is So People who live in that world women who live in the online world as it is today for example may have a hard time imagining Well, how could it stop? Why would it stop? Which leads to an enforcing of status quo Then there's blaming the victim of course if I can reject edits By somehow finding fault with the victim even sorry if I can reject marginalized knowledge By pointing that some of it was misspelled then that's very easy I point to the misspelling and I reject the whole thing even though if the topic was not Marginalized knowledge. I might have just corrected the misspelling and accepted it This sends a very strong message though As though the the spelling mistakes could not be corrected. The whole thing has to be rejected And and can further deepen the the victimhood This is a sentence I've actually seen on Wikipedia Reliable sources on African topics are a big problem, but Wikipedia can't be expected to solve it Yes, there is a problem not for us to solve can't be expected to solve it and alternatives solutions proposals projects some of us may propose are Rejected for being impractical too expensive, etc. I want to suggest to you the idea that an apparent Intractability right like the appearance of being able to make no progress on something is often simply resistance To having to review and possibly revise Your priorities if you are really invested in avoiding that review in avoiding that moment when you may need to realize you need to revise Your policies or to admit that what you've been doing up to now Was not okay in some way and that's a very powerful Psychological motivator to avoid that Then then you would be invested in creating the appearance that this is just unsolvable. There's just no no way to solve this And so you hear sentences like yeah, it's not fair, but that's just how it is The status quo is taken as a given. It's immutable But anything you ask that's up for negotiation And of course economic concerns. These are concerns that feminists have heard about the vote These are concerns. They've heard about property rights about access to education Etc. Etc. But when we say we can't afford something we are also saying we can't afford What it costs us we can't afford losing these contributions. We can't afford losing this knowledge. We can't afford Maintaining a monoculture Evidently we can't afford that because we can't afford your solution Lesson number two and this will be much briefer documentation matters Let's play a quick game Please name five classical music composers Bach Mozart What? Beethoven next Brahms Sorry, what? Arvo pert excellent Arvo pert. Yes five classical music composers now name one classical music composer who was a woman Thank you anyone else Clara Schumann very good. Very good. Why do we know about Clara Schumann? Because she was married to Robert Schumann Unfortunately So anyone else? Female classical music composers Yeah Yeah So here's some help Fanny Mendelssohn also from the Mendelssohn musical family Hildegard of Bingen And she's remembered I think mostly because of the religious significance But there were others Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi and quite a few women composed classical music from the Baroque onwards Why was this so hard? Why was this so hard? We have a whole room here. Why was this so hard? because Most of you Certainly, I was raised on a certain narrative of classical music where not a single woman was mentioned Is this because there were no female composers? No Why was that? Because the people who wrote that narrative the people who wrote the textbooks on the history of classical music Actively chose to ignore that and of course after you do that for several generations Later music historians literally don't know about the women Baroque musicians And they have to be rediscovered so I Hope that helped make the point. We all grew up on similar narratives. We could play this game on any any number of other Professions and there are other kinds of invisibilities when we say the discovery of America in the 15th century That is Rendering a lot of the world invisible the part of the world that knew and lived in America before the 15th century In the 18th century when Australia was first settled It was settled before then Even the word Americans meaning citizens of the United States of America renders some people invisible even the Appalachian the states that Americans like to use the states. There are other states the United Kingdom. There are other kingdoms But these are these are expressions of power and centrality that still remain in the English language and many more So the availability of sources as we know as wikipedia's influences and sometimes determines What gets told what gets counted and what gets included this is literally reflected in wikipedia norms Here I'd like to suggest you to introduce to you Mary Ritter Beard another important feminist who said without knowledge of women in history as actual history dead women are sheer ghosts to living women and to men and As Nintendo warned us Everything not saved will be lost It is Mary Beard who not not the Oxford Mary Beard Mary Ritter Beard the American Who warned us no documents no history? She worked hard to build the first the world center for women's archives Meant to collect a whole range of different women's archives She finally managed to found it in 1937, but had to shut it down in 1940 for lack of funding still She can continue to Encourage citizen archiving and collection of archives from remote places to centralize them and make them accessible Eventually she got recognition by establishment librarians who invited her to help them and advise them on the strength of their collections and Finally found a partner in Margaret Greerson of Smith College and founded the Historical collection of books by and about women later renamed the Sophia Smith collection to this day hosted by Smith College Ironically by the way Beard considered her own letters and manuscripts of little interest and did not preserve them Literally not a single letter of hers to her husband who was a famous historian himself Literally not one remains She warned that these archives would only succeed if faculty if professors Incorporated them in their teaching not just collecting the material But in the early days of that collection in the mid 20th century most faculty avoided using the collection and steered students away from it However today the Sophia Smith collection holds more than 700 different collections and over 3,000 linear meters of Collection that's that's one way to measure collections. I know it's weird for those of you not into libraries But more than three kilometers of shelves just imagine that okay three kilometers of shelves of material of And today it is considered a major source of reliable information the lesson I offer us is that yes lack of sources and to narrow definitions of reliable sources and Ability are hindering us today and should be reviewed and probably revised But at the same time one long-term strategy is to document to create more documentation as Beard and other women have done about women's history Indigenous knowledge needs to be documented better Marginalized groups ethnic groups minorities need to create more documentation, which will begin marginalized itself But in time will be recognized and end with some Improving standards of curation will eventually become the source that the collection that was saved and not lost And finally and with this I'll end the importance of of allies Versus opponents in the silent majority Dominating cultures and dominating norms usually have the force of numbers But those numbers don't come from active oppressors or members of the privileged elite But from the silent cooperation of the majority Most men have not certainly today do not conspire to oppress women most men merely put up with it Allies to marginalized groups would be the key to resist Such domination and to increase equity without allies. We wouldn't have the numbers We've heard about the importance of encouragement from previous speakers and the importance of invitation and Accommodation of difference Our wikis have as I said bigots sexist racist because they're a large group of humans and all large groups of humans have them But those are always a minority themselves bigotry succeeds only with a silent ascent of non-bigots only and So if you have privilege you should use it use your privilege By acting as allies acting not just having the right opinions We can help bring about equity Especially the more unequal a situation is the more important privileged allies are to making any progress So if you have privilege either real-world privilege like permanent access to the internet or money Or wiki privilege like not so much admin status simply Community status reputation experience with edits. I think is much more important Please use it and help us all not just the marginalized groups because helping marginalized knowledge and marginalized groups helps everyone I will You might say well you probably are a privileged wikipedia and right you've been around forever, etc Why don't you do it and the answer is I do and I try Even things like this just a few months ago. I tried to make and this is my last example. I realized we're running out of time I tried to make this small change to weak English wikipedia's Notability page and the change I wanted to make is to add to the sentence that said Availability of secondary sources covering the subject is a good test for notability Okay, the availability of sources itself is a good test for notability full stop. That's what it said I added it is a good test for notability if the subject's culture or country is Generally well covered in secondary literature Do you see the nuance I tried to add there if there's generally good coverage of this culture? And this person is not covered in that coverage then maybe it's a good test of notability But if the entire country or culture is badly covered in secondary sources Then the existence or non-existence of sources is not a good test of notability That's all this sentence says it doesn't say and therefore we should have an article about it It doesn't say that it just says it's this is not a good test in that case But I was reverted I Thought this is a perfectly reasonable Qualification to make to this I didn't set out to really revolutionize notability I just encountered that sentence and it rang false to me So I made this change boldly, you know as we do on Wikipedia. I was reverted. That's okay, too If you've been bold and you've been reverted you discuss So I went to the discussion page and I explained what I just said, right? I Explained and I said I think my change reflects this logic But other established editors Interpreted my proposed change as an attack on any limitation of notability Or that I proposed to accept all original research Which is simply not there in the text that I added but that is how they interpreted it and therefore said When a country or other context does not have a literature of reliable sources It's sad, but means that those topics are not notable by our standards period Or it doesn't matter why references are or not available only whether they are Period You can still see this on the talk page of the notability page on Wikipedia and my favorite for years The Wikimedia Foundation has been floating the idea of improving coverage of underrepresented cultures by allowing oral histories or other primary or unconventional sourcing it always goes down like the Hindenburg the Zeppelin Under assault by a battalion of flamethrower-wielding editors. I Don't know why that metaphor similarly was necessary But yeah, so this was welcomed Yeah, so with seven supporters of my change and ten against it status quo remained With more allies we can have the numbers. This was just a tiny example of Attempting a tiny change from a privileged position that could have worked Didn't as it turned out because people didn't show up. I encourage you to show up The sources I've used are these two Articles by these two scholars that I've mentioned. I will tweet the slides of course Thank you for listening. Please share this


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing while help me and my channel out tremendously. Also, make sure and check out the sponsor of this video, ToyHacks.com. Hi, I'm Bert the Stormtrooper and this is the Legacy Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime and I love this toy. But he's missing that Generation 2 look, that colorfulness that the original toy had. Hey, Bert! Hey Patriot Prime, where did you come from? It's the internet man, anything's possible. Here, put these ToyHacks.com decals on your Laser Optimus Prime. 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Now Sludge here was a early arrival from Amazon.com just in time for my birthday. Yes, today is my birthday. I am 49 years old and I still play with Transformers. That's awesome, I love it.  So real quick let's take a look at the packaging. We've got Sludge right there in Dino mode taking on the Shark Decoz. And I love that artwork. It is so cool. Transformers, Studio Series 86, Transformers the Movie, Dino Bot Sludge. Side of the box, a up close shot of that same picture. Back of the packaging, we've got Sludge in Robot Mode, Dinosaur Mode. And right here shows that you can use the insert as a backdrop for your display. This side we've got an even closer review of that artwork, Studio Series 86. So now without further ado, let's get my birthday gift all opened up and check him out. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Sludge all opened up and now the packaging, you'll see he does come with a sheet of instructions that as usual is very well illustrated and easy to follow. But man, I hate these instructions that just stretch out so long. I prefer the more booklet style.  And I love that, especially the paint applications. That looks so good. And then of course you've got Sludge himself. And man, let me tell you, this is a big Transformers figure just like the other Studio Series 86 Dinobots. This is what I want with a leader class figure, a big bulky, massive toy. And he looks awesome just like he did in the 1986 movie. Great head sculpt, great paint applications. I mean that's Sludge right there. He's got that perfect Sludge face. I love it. Paint applications. He's got a silver crest, silver face and blue eyes. You've got the Autobot insignia right there. And this little section right here also looks like the Generation 1 toy Diaclone Pilot canopy. But this does not open, so don't try to force it. Let me show you real quick. I'm going to kind of halfway transform him. It is screwed in. So I guess if you want to unscrew it and take it apart, you can do that. But don't try to force that open. He doesn't really have a lot of paint applications, some dark gray down here on the legs, some gold feet. And really that's about it. But man, the sculpted detail on this figure is awesome. And one of the things I am happy to report with my Sludge, I've been seeing a lot of posts on Facebook that he has really loose hips and knees. But mine, you've got a soft ratchet. Bring those hips up to a nice sitting position. And yeah, he's golden. And as you see, the knees are not floppy as well. I don't know if you can hear that. Soft ratchets for the knees. Soft ratchets for the hips. So I really lucked out with mine. Hopefully you will luck out with yours as well. Now as far as the rest of the articulation goes, the head is on a little hinge right here. So it can look up. But I believe the head itself is attached to a mushroom peg. It only rotates. It doesn't have any wiggle waggle whatsoever. So you have the hinge and 360 rotation. The arms here can go out. They can go in. They can do a complete 360 as well. And as you can hear, ratchets also in the shoulder joint. But if you try to do a 360, it is going to hit the wings here on the back. There is a bicep rotation. A nice deep bicep bend. Wrist rotation. Waist rotation. And of course you already saw the hips. Legs out. Legs in. Big deep knee bend. And ankle tilt. So he's got lots of articulation. And I love the fact that mine is nice and tight. I was really worried seeing some other posts on Facebook. You can take the blaster. Put that in his hand as such. And there you've got sludge all armed and ready for battle. Now I do wish he would at least have come with his sword. Since he didn't come with a crappy little extra figure like Grimlock at Slag. But it is what it is. And I'm sure some company, and I think some already have, will make a sword for him. So that's pretty much it for robot mode. I did want to show you the back of the figure real quick. He's got the big wings, just like the G1 figure. And the dinosaur head along the back. And he cleans up really good. There's no hollow bits, no waffling until you get down here to the feet. So a really, man, big old truck went by. So a really nice looking robot mode. So now let's get sludge transformed into his dinosaur mode. And I love this transformation. Go ahead and pop the weapon out of his hand. And you want to rotate the fists around to where they're facing up. Like so.  Do the same with the other side here. And now you're going to rotate at the bicep a 180. Do this for the other side. And just go ahead and rotate at the waist of 180 as well. Now you're going to take the chest right here. As I showed earlier, pull this down. Kind of get the legs out of the way. Fold the head into the chest.  You've got some tabs right here. Go ahead and tab that in. So you've got that going on. Take the chest section. Rotate it around like so. So you've got that mess. You're going to take the wings from the back. Bring these up. And you've got the front dinosaur legs here. Just bring these out. And they're going to tab in right there. So go ahead and bring that down. Tab in. You actually hear it pop into place. So there's the front of the dino. Go ahead and bring the legs together so you can take this chest section. Fold the chest section down like so. And then just bring the wings up and over forming the dinosaur body. They kind of collapse back in on themselves. Now for the legs and the tail section. This is wild. I love this transformation here. You're going to go ahead and move the tail sections here out of the way. I'm confused. Where is the... Okay, here at the top. This is a big figure to mess with. You're going to unpeg this section here from the leg and unfold and bring this out. So the legs just explode. Do this again on this leg. Right above the gold toe here. Bring this out. Fold that out. And bring that over. So you've got a heck of a mess down here. So now you're going to collapse the legs in and fold the toes down here toward the body. Always easier said than done when you're doing it on camera. Now once you get the legs folded up and under like that, go ahead and peg them together. You can see the pegs right here in the center. Get those peg together there. Now once you get that all tabbed together right there, you got the toes folded down like so. Bring the tail, little tail tip section around. Peg those together. Bring these up and over. So the gold section here is going to cover up the chest piece. Get those squeezed together. Get the top half squeezed together. Get this all cleaned up. And the toes or these gold section here is going to tab in here. Get this tab together.  You also want to make sure that the little tabs right here go in behind this section. The little holes and pegs will line up. Get your thumbnail in. Get those popped in. Chest popped together. Get this little gold section. I have transformed this guy so many times and on camera, nothing is fricking working. And now once you have everything tabbed in, there you have sludge in his dino mode. And I wish that this section here would tab in a little bit tighter, but doesn't look bad at all. Big ol' chunky tail right there. I love how the paint applications work with sludge. You've got the gold here for the dinosaur head and part of the neck. Then you've got the gray into silver into gold with the red down to the gray, black and then silver again for the tip of the tail. He looks great and so much like his Generation 1 toy counterpart. As you can see right here. Well, long time since I've transformed my original sludge figure. I do wish the tail could have been a little bit longer, but you know, it is what it is. It's got his Autobot logo right there on the head. Got the blue eyes. The mouth can open and close. And if you look inside, there is a blast effect port to which you can take a blast effect and attach there on the inside. Only certain ones are going to fit.  So yeah, I love the dino mode. It looks so cool, big and beefy. It does have a big gap right there though, but you don't really see it. Now one of the things that it strikes me funny, it may just be me, is the two gold sections right there. Looks like he's pretty well endowed. He's got some dino nuts, if you will. So you can take his blaster right here and he's got these two pegs on the side and these will match up to these little slots right there above his dino nuts. Just plug that in and they've got weapon storage. So now let's bring in one of his fellow Studio Series dino bots so we can take a look at them together in dino mode. So here he is, Studio Series Grimlock and yes, they look great together. So there you go guys, Studio Series 86 sludge in dino mode. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers Studio Series 86 sludge with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Generation 1 sludge, Power of the Primes sludge, Studio Series 86 slag, and Studio Series 86 Grimlock. Transformers Studio Series 86 sludge is another fantastic Studio Series dino bot edition. I love this figure, he's big, he's beefy, he's got loads of articulation and a very fun transformation, except when you're doing it on camera, and I love this guy. He was a very highly anticipated figure and man was he worth the wait. So now we just need Studio Series 86 to hurry up and release swoop and snarl. So there you go guys, Transformers Studio Series 86 sludge. So does a Transformers Studio Series 86 dino bot sludge belong in your collection? Absolutely, I love this figure. I love all of the Studio Series 86 dino bots, they are big, beefy, and just so much fun to play with and they look so good both in robot mode and dinosaur mode. My only real complaint with sludge right here is I wish he at least came with his sword, since he didn't come with a little extra crappy figure, they could have gave us the sword instead. But all in all, this is still a great figure, he cleans up so good, great articulation. He's just awesome, so yeah, you see a sludge on the shelf, pick him up, you are not going to be disappointed. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Also, if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships here on YouTube and I also have this new super thanks button. 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So, last but not least, we have Mr. Mdukar Kulukshu, who is the founding president of the Global Relations Forum, founding partner of Kanunum, chairman of the Croton Consultancy and a founder of a university and also a graduate of course six and course 14 at MIT. We have the floor. Thank you very much, Ambassador. Let me start, like everyone else, by thanking the organizers and Thierry de Montréal for really being persistent about this conference and making this happen. It's a very personal thing. I really, truly had missed being with friends, making new friends, the exchanges at dinners. This was fabulous. So thank you from the bottom of my heart that this was very much appreciated. It is, I mean, when I looked at the program, I liked the seeing the Middle East on the third day, although a very extended Middle East emphasis, still it's the third day. To me, that signified the Middle East crisis, the pressing nature of Middle East has been pushed back. The world has bigger fish to fry these days. That's always good. I mean, I felt comfortable with that choice. Usually, when we talk about the Middle East, myself included, we end up on a downbeat note. I remember the pre-COVID, my last presentation, was in Singapore on the Middle East, and I was going on about how the Asian miracle, economic miracle, was not applicable to the Middle East. That the Middle East is in a deadlock. It's not going to happen. So there's always this negative sentiment, negative analysis. When after the experience of COVID, when we start post-COVID with again the Middle East, I thought I really don't want to start with a negative message. So what I did, sort of with a clean palette, I wanted to look at the news headings about the Middle East for the last 12 months. I just literally went through them, read quite a bit, just the clippings. And I think there is something in the air. I mean, you look at the list, Libya in a much better position, where hopefully we'll have elections there. The IS and related radical terror seems to be under control. The Abraham Accords are historic. The Saudi-Iranian communication going on in Baghdad in Iraq, not Baghdad in Iraq, is critically important. Intra GCC rapprochement is very good. And then the Turkish UAE, Egypt, throwing, let's say, because we just heard the minister, it's going very slowly, but nevertheless, there is throwing. So you put all those together and there seems to be something in the air. Either it is my post-COVID or, you know, still we are in it, but coming to the end, they might deep desire to see something positive or there is something substantive. Then I came across Vitaly Nounkin's paper on the possibility of a third renaissance for the region, and I was further encouraged. So maybe there is something in the air. My usual analysis for the region is more or less like an unsoldable puzzle. The whole region, obviously, unfortunately rests on centuries-old rifts, fault lines, ethnic, sectarian, religious, and it's all over the place. It is at the sub-state level, state level, sub-regional level, regional, region-wide. It is just a fragmented, ethnically sectarian, fragmented community, fragmented geography. That's what it is. And when you start with that, my basic analysis, I won't go into the details of that, that makes it open to external power politics because you can play sides based on your interests, very vulnerable. Domestically, it opens the way for sectarian politics, sectarian government, and that creates state capture and that creates ineffective governments. So when you put external meddling plus ineffective governments, then international capital doesn't feel comfortable enough to flow here. So economically, you don't get much.  And it's such a puzzle that you have to solve all three at the same time, it seems, because it's not a linear problem, it's a complex, nonlinear problem, and there is no way of saying, okay, if I start here, I can just follow the whole thing and the whole thing will move to a better state. And that, of course, is a very bad, sort of very upsetting, downbeat analysis. On top of it, because of all the grievances that the populations have lived through, there was, and there probably still is some, impatience in the public about the solution. So you have a puzzle in your hand which requires multi, you have to solve three things at the same time or more, and you are under time pressure coming from the public. So it seems very difficult. But, again, said, starting from data of the last 12 months, there is something in the air. I did go back and try to reformulate my model to see how else we can think about this, the whole system. And what I think is happening, or at least what I will test over the coming months, is possibly this puzzle in our hands has been exposed to systemic shocks. Basically, we've shaken the puzzle and the pieces have changed place and they have been aligned in different ways. So it wasn't, I mean, we can necessarily solve it again linearly, but it is a different puzzle. It looks different. What were those shocks? I mean, we can just go through that. There is, obviously, we lived, everybody lived through COVID. So it's an across-the-board systemic shock. There is the debt accumulation on more or less every nation which conditions what is to come. There is the history, the memory, the tragic memory of Libya, Syria in our minds. There is the prospect of climate for all of us. So these are all systemic risks that we'll have to deal with. And I think these, sorry, systemic effects, systemic shocks to the system, I think these systemic shocks impact both the internal dynamics and the external dynamics, potentially in a positive way. Internally, I think what probably we will observe and we are observing, the societies of the region are, because we have been, you know, we've been all searching for the argument of win-win arguments in our societies, in these societies, rather than zero sum. I think these shocks have shown us not the win-win, the benefits of win-win, but the costs of lose-lose. So when you see that if you do not have an effective governance structure, you end up with a lose-lose scenario, the opposite of lose-lose is working together for a win-win structure. So I think it's in a rather perverse way. These shocks have indicated the possibility of a win-win path for the region. Two, I think sense of time has changed. The impatient publics may have more understanding for well-meaning governments. And I think there has been a drop to the governments themselves. And I think in the UAE we've been hearing from our hosts about how effectively the UAE has been managing these crises. So this is internally. Now externally, I'll go very fast. When I look at the external meddling and the potential for changes in that dynamic, I think, yes, we will have big-power rivalry, but this is in the region, it is penny-pinching, low-cost rivalry, because there is the debt problem. And every big-power is also concerned with its own issues, domestic issues. So there isn't all that much money from anyone to meddle in this region. So that I think is important. Then there is the tech competition and climate issue, bigger fish to fry. So the Middle East takes a backseat, a reprioritization downwards. There is talk of end-of-fossil fuel, which could again be a positive effect. But I think not so fast. I think this region still has a few decades to go with fossil fuels. But I think the technology competition controlling microchips and the precision equipment for microchips is a much more surgical way to compete rather than unsettling the whole energy system globally. So I think we will not see much of that. And then there is, of course, the subsiding terror. So all those effects, I think, cut across the big powers and suggest that we may be in for a period where there won't be as much meddling. What are the exceptions and sort of issues to watch? U.S., I think the Iranian issue, Mr. Eisenstadt has outlined it, the Iranian issue is an open wound and that can unsettle this whole thing. From the Russian perspective, I think Russia has become a stakeholder in the region and Russia wants stability in the region. I agree with Vitaliy Namkin. But I think there is always the risk of linking the Ukraine problem with the Middle East as was experienced before. I hope that doesn't happen. With China, we heard Mr. Rudd, I mean China is still sort of trying to change the balance. If China uses this region as an element in that shift of balance, that is something to watch out for. And in the EU, I mean I think EU as in totality doesn't sort of is not a very active actor, but the nation states are. And I see France and Mr. Macron in the region quite frequently, which is again very positive. As long as the nation states of Europe are conciliatory powers, I think that will be helpful, but there is a lot of baggage. So one needs to do it with care. Finally, just a few words on Turkey. Now, I'm not a diplomat, but I spent the best part of COVID lockdowns with two former undersecretaries to go to the depths of Turkish foreign policy, the philosophy of Turkish foreign policy. When the nation was established in 1923, it was very clear. Strategically, it was a nation building process. And it was very clear strategically that the nation needed to have peace with its neighbors and beyond so that we could focus on internal matters. And that is a cardinal rule that has been ingrained into the philosophy of the Republic for a long, long period. I mean, some of these basic tenets that come from Attaturk himself and where I think in the custody of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was do not meddle in the affairs of other nations. Be equidistant to Middle Eastern conflicts and affairs. That's very critical. That's really a cardinal rule again. And going beyond, don't give advice to anyone if they don't seek your advice. So these are fundamentals of Turkish foreign policy. How come, of course, I mean, many of you will think the Turkish foreign policy lately has been on a more activist strain, arguably. The possibility, the argument, the discussion we have back at home is two things are drawing us into the region. One, the PKK, YPG terror. This is very close to heart. And the second one is the refugee problem. Those two problems, could we handle them the last ten years with this dispassionate equidistance approach or did we have to make an exception, an aberration in our policy? That discussion is still going on. I don't know the answer. I think historically we'll look back and see which way it is. But the bottom line is, I think it is in the interest of Turkey. It is in the interest of the region. It is in the interest of the world for Turkey to be at equidistant from Middle Eastern conflicts. And to do that, we need to find fast solutions to the refugee problem and the YPG terror coming from the region. Once those two are resolved, I think Turkey will go back to it is traditional foreign policy philosophy of being equidistant from the region and contributing to a more positive regional future. So with that, I think there is something in the air. I don't know if this is the turning point, but I think there is a possibility. This is a new puzzle. Dialogues like this, conferences like this, this is where we have the opportunity to think about the new puzzle and hopefully put the pieces together. Thank you very much. What you mentioned about the onset of the Turkish Republic actually echoes very much with us in Iraq. We were engaged in an existential battle. And now we are engaged in a reconstruction process. The really interesting thing about the politics of Iraq right now and you've put your finger on an important point of tensions between communities. If you look at the political landscape in Iraq, the tensions or conflicts are not between communities. They're within political groupings within communities. And so the really interesting thing that I take out of this is that it is very possible, in fact, probable that we will have cross-cutting alliances that represent politics as it should be within a national framework. And with this I think we're actually quite optimistic looking to the elections I alluded to at the beginning of my intervention.


It's in our blood. It's in our DNA. I collect cars because they're rolling pieces of art. Well, it's the closest thing to a female that I could think of other than a female. These are wonderful cars and they are partners with us and we take them out to exercise and they exercise us. It's a joy.  This is a 1956 Mercury 2-door Monterey and I wrecked out here in 1993. I got hit from behind and drove me sideways into the wall, cracked my neck and ribs, so I said I think I'll quit driving. I love cars in general and we brought our car and I love just seeing all the interesting cars here. I haven't been here in years and when's the last time you've been here? This is my first time. This is some kind of high-rider Volkswagen.


Okay enough. I'll be taking questions at the end. Hi I'm Matt Rogers and today we'll be taking a look inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We'll be comparing the Netflix political drama House of Cards with real-life presidencies both past and present. Oh and by the way, spoiler warning. The White House. It's been home to every US president except the first to George Washington but since then there's been countless scandals and drama both public and behind closed doors. Some would say that most of these come from President Donald Trump who probably has some of the most similarities to ex-president Frank Underwood. Both are known for distracting the public while holding their political cards close to their chest. Both have been thoroughly investigated and both presidents decisions have allegedly been influenced by the president of Russia. Even in the news recently there's been a very close parallel drawn to the show. Data analytics company Cambridge Analytica was discovered to be harvesting over 50 million Facebook users using a personality quiz that collected their profile information. Mark Zuckerberg has said he is sorry for breaching the trust of Facebook users but fans of House of Cards may realize that two years before this the show had their Republican candidate Will Conway do the exact same thing with a search engine named Polyhop during his own campaign. Although he spun it to convince his voters that it was to help them help him to know what they really want and need to create a better America. Afterwards releasing all his personal data to the public just like Hillary Clinton did after an email scandal as an attempt to calm people's nerves. Now Frank and Claire aren't the only couple to both try and claim the chair in this Oval Office. The Clintons are also known for their political antics and share many similarities with the Underwoods. With Hillary being an overachieving first lady during Bill's presidency before seeking the presidency herself. Plus Hillary was cast aside for the role of Secretary of State just like Frank was in Episode 1. And both Frank and Bill met a similar end by being impeached under oath of presidency. Speaking of impeachment fictional President Garrett Walker and Barack Obama were both seen as presidents who were unable to manage an out of control Senate and Congress and were manipulated by their own cabinet and party. But the similarities aren't always loosely based on the past. Netflix's eerily specifically predicted events before they happen. For example in season 5 there is a gas attack in Syria which the Underwoods used to their political advantage. However after shooting wrapped for the season Syria in real life was hit by the worst gas attack in the country's history which is one of the many examples of the lines of fiction and reality becoming frighteningly blurred. So there you have it ladies and gentlemen the overdramatized look at Washington may not be as far fetched as it seems. As Frank says politics is no longer theater it's show business so let's put on the best show in town. This is Matt Rogers and that is all. I said that's all.


It's inspiring to see all you ambitious minds pushing for what really can be. Kazaraskom is an impact-driven town developer. Our group delivered 40,000 homes in government programs, in urban expansions, integrated towns. We're part of the Sawiris family, Oraskom conglomerate. We believe that all families should have the opportunity to own a home with dignity and a real asset to pass on to their children. We also believe that cities are not just engines of growth, they should be systems for well-being and ultimately happiness. Three very different examples. This is Hadam City, 400 hectares 20 kilometers west of Cairo. 12,000 affordable homes built, 40,000 residents, center left, an urban center, right, a very vibrant downtown for schools, retail, clinic, religious and sports facilities. Unit sizes between 38 to 60 square meters, selling prices between 25 to 40,000 euros per home, 50 megawatt station, more green areas than even luxury developments, and we create jobs in textile and recycling companies. The Sawiris family foundations also accompany our projects and in here 400 street children are safely housed and educated. The other town, Alguna, for perspective, this is four by nine kilometers. For perspective, that's everything in Manhattan below 110th Street. So all of Central Park, Upper West, Upper East, Midtown, all the way south. Half is developed and conceived by my chairman, Samisa Weiris. You see how we brought the sea into the desert. 25,000 permanent residents, 3 marinas, 4,000 villas and apartments, 2,000 affordable homes for low-income families, 400 retail outlets, 100 plus restaurants, campus of the Technical University of Berlin, four primary and high schools, a hotel school and even a branch of the Library of Alexandria. We got 20 hotels here, 3,000 rooms, hospital, airport, solar power plant, and Alguna won the United Nations Global Green Award. Now radically different, a passion project, our philanthropic arm, the Baraka slum in Dakar, Senegal, 1,600 people in absolute hardship, but urban slums often sit on incredibly valuable land and so we can eradicate slums at final net cost zero. How? On two-thirds of the land, we built free apartments for the slum residents. Along with a school, a kindergarten vocational training and shops for them to work in and no longer a slum, the remaining freed up one-third of land skyrockets in value and there we built and sell apartments and the profit recovers the 6.5 million that my chairman invested as a bridge. Final net cost zero and so now you do that again with the same money and ideally you raise funds to replicate the model. 1,600 people live in their new homes now. What? Thank you. Thank you. What next? And this is where all of you come in, right? The Dakar Peninsula, four million people pushing towards our land in red, 200 hectares, three kilometers coastline, one kilometer lake, pine forests, dunes, this is real, this is now, this is ready and a white canvas for your companies and for your support and for your ideas. So let's join forces to break with everything, all the old everything, right? So you want to build a better society and correct the wrong, then let's find the best people out there. Let's find the most brilliant ones in water, in power, in sewage, in waste, in education and in mobility and so yeah let's go and build a town. We start now the second I get off the stage here, I'm taking names who's in. Thank you.


Hey, hey, Tony Gassen's here. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of talks with Tony Actually got a email from one of my patrons from patreon. So thank you so much You put it in the subject and I happened to see it Aloha, I met a guy about a year ago and from jump We had sex at the time. I wanted a real relationship to blossom But now I know it didn't because I was operating from brokenness and didn't set a standard We stopped talking quickly because we weren't building how I expected Again, I'm pretty sure I played a huge role in that for not starting it right Over the last year until now. He's reached out tons of times It always I've always let it be known We're not having sex again and he said he was fine with that Based on how we didn't prosper in the past. I don't trust them. I think he's full of it and I've expressed this to him He's been really gracious with me even with me being difficult I've cut him off several times for not coming correct or the way I think he should with regard to certain things For example, he's asked me on a date and I ended up paying for part of it I'm fine with that to an extent because I make my own money But I feel like he asked he should have taken care of it That led me to think he was just trying to waste my time and get me back in bed.  I didn't ask questions I just blocked his number a few weeks later, which is today He found me on WhatsApp an app I use to communicate with business associates in other countries Unblocked his number and he asked why I blocked them I explained why and he said it was just a friend and said he wouldn't do it again He asked for the opportunity to get to know me all over again because the first time around was rushed with sex He asked that we become friends and he hopes that'll create a strong foundation for a friendship I mean for a relationship in the future He says he can see himself with me because I'm a good person But he knows I've been hurt before so he wants to build trust and friendship Why does he keep coming back? I know I'm being difficult and we haven't slept together in almost a year We've gone out and even talk on the phone often when he's not cut off But he keeps coming back trying to prove himself to me why based on our history Should I give him a shot if I do how do I move on? I don't want to keep being difficult, but I want it to be known I'm not with the mess Well, I'll tell you this Something Obviously happened in your life And you've gone through some things you've experienced some things. There's a lack of knowledge there There's a lack of self-worth there and some things have happened in your life And so you jumped in the bed with them you jumped in the bed with them And it's kind of a rule of thumb for any and every man To not take a woman serious who has sex with him right away.  Don't deal with her. She's not worth it. He said took me six months To sleep with my wife and that was his advice and that's kind of The just the general consensus that well a lot of times people don't like to hear that Because it's too real and so it's kind of women you're going into the barbershop You're going into the locker room and when you hear the truth that men say to one another you're like Oh, that's a double standard. Oh this and that but you know It is what it is and everyone has the right to set their own standard So if it's a double standard, that's because you allow a double standard which you could then say as a woman I'm not sleeping with a man fast and for man tries to sleep with me fast I'm cut him off. You could set that standard, but you know, we don't always and This right here happens.  He wasn't tired of you He wanted a friend with benefits at that time And so the number always tell the women is 11 by the 11th time that you slept with a man That's when you should know if it's real or not. If you are having sex before marriage I don't condone sex before marriage But if you're going to do it and the reason why I say I say 11 is because when you think about it It kind of goes gradually in stages to where you know things start to get a little spicier, you know And it changes missionary and then you know stuff starts to change But by the time you get to 11 you've you know Experimenting and you've done things a few different ways and that's a man kind of taking you through his Obstacle course or through his you know circus of you know Lovemaking to kind of gauge and see where you are in the bedroom And so after those 10 by that 11th time he pretty much has an idea Of where you stand in his life and how he factors in you know your sex life. And so With this right here. He wasn't done with you. You know, he was just getting started and then when you When you kind of cut them off it confused them because he's like Hold on like does this woman have standards or not? Like I'm confused like how do you sleep with me? Boom right from the start, but then you flip the script and you're like miss holier than thou You know miss I got to let you go because this isn't moving fast enough for me So now the guys kind of confused like what is this?  So really he's intrigued with you, but to be honest with you From the overall tone and the details that you gave me It sounds like you're an ego grab It sounds like he came back and he's reaching out to you for his ego And you said he's reached out to me tons of time. So tons of times could be Once every week for the whole year that y'all have you said over the last year So that could be 52 times you could be saying tons of time But tons of times really for a committed man would be every day and a man who's trying to win you And he knows you have access to his snapchat and his Instagram and all of that He's not gonna post another woman this abstract type of you know, whatever term you use this post of this other woman knowing that it's gonna raise questions and Kind of and then he says as a friend. So it's not like a cousin. You know, it's not a family member. So Men don't post women online unless he's trying to show that woman that you mean something to me And you mean enough that I'll share you Publicly because this girlfriends who haven't been posted, you know and been with a guy for a year two years So when a man takes him post a woman, he's sending a message to that woman He posted and so for him to do do that knowing that you can see it lets me know that he's playing games Because if a man really wants you He another woman won't even exist He'll try to downplay his relationship with his sister and his mother to make you feel like you are the only and the soul woman in his universe and so this guy is playing games and You have to be safe and sorry and then you also got to realize when you have sex in the beginning Like from the jump as you stated that is like building a mansion on the sand So to be with him and to continue to try to make this thing work, especially after a year hiatus You would be going back to the construction site and continuing to build a mansion on the sand with no foundation no firm foundation, you're literally just stacking right in the sand and You have not, you know got a foundation and rooted and grounded to where it can stand the test of time and so what will happen You have become intriguing you've become a test and so what will happen is He will continue to pursue you and If you are still single and you're still entertaining him because you block him and unblock them block them and unblock them Eventually you're gonna get weak and desperate because you're gonna say well nobody else has approached me I don't have anybody else. I'm not dating anybody else. This guy's still knocking on my door I might as well give in you give in then you're back in the bed now. He says boom. I got you That's what you get for trying to play me.   Good luck with that. I hope you can do it That's essentially what he's testing you to do So when a man comes back and he's serious and understand this He will go through every hoop he'll jump through fiery hoops And he will make you know without a shadow of a doubt that he wants you and that you're the only one And he's committed to getting you and nothing else in the world matters more to him This guy is hitting you up on his off-days on his downtime on his free time when the woman that he really wants is not available because she's working or Ignore them because some he did that's when he comes writing you with the hopes that he can keep you on the roster keep you on his practice squad You know in football you have a you have the active roster that they get the big checks And you have the practice squad who are expendable and being overworked and underpaid He wants to keep you on his practice squad Just to use you and abuse you because he's not going above and beyond to show you that you are the one and that he wants you So hey, that's my take on it Thank you so much for you know writing in to me if you are watching this and you have a question You can send it in to inbox at Tony Gaskins.com inbox at Tony Gaskins.com For those of you who are patrons like like this young lady. Thank you so much Make sure in your subject you put patron and I will see it and I will you know double check make sure you're not lying But thank you so much for the support. We will talk soon


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The members of the original company have been dead for over 35 years, and this is our cast this evening, which is as good as the cast in Grand Hotel. We think. Of course, what we think is entirely up to you. We have rehearsed faithfully for five minutes, and we'll present it to you immediately without the customary break in out of town. Now, here are some of the original criticisms when the play had its premier in 1890. Well, the Winsons father. Both of the soaring machines are always as fine a play as I've ever looked over a plan for that. I ain't go over and see it. Ed Sullivan, senior, go to the soaring machine there, we'll have you in stitches. That wasn't bad. I thought of that myself, please. George G. Nation. I saw the play, and as they say in church, to you. So now, ladies and gentlemen, we are reviving this play tonight for your pleasure. Remember the play, go to the soaring machine there. The boys will play 12th Street Glass. This is very appropriate. Get your ice cold down in the garage in the rail. Maintain the water by the glass. This way, that'll be strong and free on the ice. Now, ladies and gentlemen, for our dramatic offering, go for the soaring machine there. Churchman, music bed. That's supposed to be a soaring machine, folks. Glad we could use it for an automobile. I am getting sick and tired of this hard work. All I do is work, compile and play. The soaring machine is driving me mad. I'm going to say this, but I came to tell you that I must foreclose the moment.  You and I are going to drive aside on this cold, cold night. What a night. There you go. A little stronger on the wind, I like to say. What a night. I've waited long enough. I must have the money in 10 minutes to wait for our foreclose. Wait for our foreclose. Looks like we've closed it before. Remember, 10 minutes. Goodbye. Oh, I do. Poor old father. He would soon be homeless. Oh. It's 3 o'clock and daddy isn't home yet. Wait like a minute. Oh, pardon me. 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