What is extinction, and how does a species become extinct? To extinguish something it means to stop it from existing, like blowing out a candle flame. When a plant or animal species that once lived stops existing entirely, we say that that species has become extinct. Why do certain species of plants and animals sometimes become extinct? According to the theory of evolution, individuals of the same species show a range of variations. Some individuals have characteristics that are better suited to their environment, making them more likely to survive and reproduce, whilst others are less well adapted. These less well adapted individuals may eventually fail to reproduce and eventually their genes are removed from the population. If an entire species fails to adapt to changes in its environment or compete with other organisms for resources and its birth rate is lower than its death rate, then it will become extinct. It may surprise you to know that over 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. Typically, most organisms become extinct within 10 million years of their first appearance. Although some species have survived without much change for much longer than this, these long surviving organisms are sometimes called living fossils. The African Ardvark and the Himalayan Red Panda are two examples of such living fossils, as both have remained genetically unchanged for millions of years. From time to time, an event takes place on Earth which causes a mass extinction. These mass extinctions are identified by a significant and often devastating change in the number and variety of organisms alive at one time. The most famous mass extinction, called the KT extinction event, occurred about 65 million years ago and involved the extinction of the dinosaurs. The most devastating extinction event happened 251 million years ago and completely eradicated 96% of all known species. This was probably due to a comet or asteroid impact. Today, many species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. This is of great concern to biologists and ecologists. It is currently estimated that 50% of all living species will be extinct by the year 2100. But what can we do to slow down or halt the spiral of extinction? Stopping habitat destruction is a key starting point as well as becoming greener, lowering our carbon footprint and using sustainable products. We may be able to affect this and it's up to all of us to play our part.


Putin's awkward act showed his weakness, the Economist. After the ISIS terrorist attack in Moscow, which became a colossal failure of the Russian intelligence services and a slap in the face to Putin, the head of the Kremlin cowardly disappeared and reappeared almost a day later with a false statement in which he tried to ridiculously concoct blame for Ukraine. However, such behaviour is traditional for the Russian President, writes the British magazine The Economist. Putin is a man who likes victories, preferably staged managed ones. It is noted that last year, when Yevgeny Prigoshin and his band of mercenaries made their way to Moscow, Putin was initially nowhere to be seen, the magazine writes. So if he took a full 19 hours to conjure up a short TV performance to speak about the massive intelligence failure at Croker's City Hall in Moscow, he was falling into a familiar pattern. The address itself gave little away and appeared to serve as a hedge. Putin claimed ludicrously that Ukraine had opened a border window to the terrorists as they tried to escape Russia in their white Renault symbol. But the Russian President stopped short of directly attributing responsibility to Ukraine for the attack and said nothing about the Islamic State Group that said it had carried it out. Part of Putin's reluctance to go all in on blaming Ukraine might reflect a worry that the American government is sitting on intelligence that could undermine such a claim. That might be embarrassment at his security agency's failure to act on American warnings on March the 7th of an imminent attack. Indeed, just three days before the assault, Putin had brushed off that intelligence as blackmail. Such a hubristic blunder would have consequences in a country where power can be held to account. Russia is not such a country. The attack nevertheless represents a blow to the reputation of Putin and the security services on which he depends. The manner of the assault, in which at least 137 people lost their lives, will not soon be forgotten. There are many questions over the inept security at the Glitzy venue, which is in an entertainment park in Moscow's northwest suburbs. It is unclear why local police failed to respond quickly. A producer of a show held at Croker City Hall 10 days before the attack noted that 200 security guards were present that night. British Defence Minister ridicules Russia. It hides ships in ports, but they sink even there. Russia continues its large-scale military aggression against Ukraine and suffers significant losses. In particular, the Black Sea Fleet has lost its functional activity, states UK Defence Secretary Grant Shaps. This is how the British official reacted to defeat of two Russian large landing ships Yaml and Ozov by the Ukrainian Defence Forces in occupied Crimea. The defence continued illegal occupation of Ukraine is exacting a massive cost on Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which is now functionally inactive. The British Defence Secretary said in a statement. He noted that the Russian fleet has been sailing the Black Sea since 1783, but now it is forced to constrain its fleet to a port. And even there, Putin's ships are sinking, Shaps concluded. On March 24, the Strategic Communications Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Defence Forces had struck at Russian occupiers' facilities in Sevastopol. Two Russian landing ships and the communications centre were destroyed. Thus, the Ukrainian military attacked the large landing ships Yaml and Ozov. They also hit the communications centre of the Russian occupation forces and several infrastructure facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol. There were explosions in the occupied Crimea, particularly in Sevastopol. The network wrote about the alleged work of air defence and the occupiers blocked the Crimean Bridge. According to residents, a fire broke out in the Kossacha Bay in Sevastopol. Ossint analysts also noted that a large communication hub of the Russian Black Sea Fleet could have been hit in Sevastopol. On the night of March 5, a special unit of the Defence Intelligence Group 13 near the Kursh Strait attacked the Black Sea Fleet patrol ship Sergei Kotov. As a result of the attack by Magura V-5 maritime drones, the ship was eliminated. This is the third Russian Black Sea Fleet vessel to sink in the last five weeks. Following a series of significant losses of Russian ships in the Black Sea, on March 10, Russian Navy Chief Admiral Nikolay Evmenov was dismissed and replaced by Northern Fleet Commander Admiral Alexander Moiseev. In February, Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, was dismissed due to losses. Of course, it's mine.


Recorded Books presents a Griot Audio Production, Blood Colony, by Tanana Reeve Dew. This unabridged recording is narrated by Patricia R. Floyd. This book is copyrighted 2008 by Tanana Reeve Dew. This recording is copyrighted 2009 by Recorded Books, producer and publisher of Griot Audio, celebrating the best in contemporary African-American fiction and non-fiction. And now, Blood Colony. From the Coptic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas.   From Phoenix, gotta fly. Don't wanna die for a while, I think I'll fly for a while. From Sherwin Newland, how we die. Renewal requires that death preceded so that the weary may be replaced by the vigorous. To thwart it is the first step toward thwarting the continuation of exactly that which we tried to preserve, which is, after all, the order and system of our universe. 2005. After three days of waiting, Stefan was told he could see his old friend. The wait had not been unexpected, but he was anxious. Stefan had delayed this visit for decades, and he cursed himself when he realized he might be too late. He might never see Lolek again. It was all he could do to restrain himself from running across the polished marble floors. You have five minutes, said the white-haired caretaker who met him in the Regal Hall.  Most men were mice, of course, but few looked the part so convincingly. Is he awake? Sometimes they yes, sometimes no. He had almost waited too long then. Now he had only chance on his side. Or prayer, perhaps. That thought made Stefan smile. But sadly, when it came to matters of life and death, he had learned that prayer was chance of the risk... Sample complete. Ready to continue?


So let me get it, you say. Can I trust the narcissist? Or I shouldn't trust the narcissist. What is it that you are saying? It's not clear. Sometimes you say that the narcissist never lies. He never future fakes. He never gaslights. And at other times you espouse the policy of no contact.  How come? How can we reconcile these two conflicting messages? Cognitive distortion, shared fantasy, a lack of empathy, no external objects, no emotions, and training projective identification. How can you trust someone like this? How do you ever know if he is being fake or being authentic, if he is being false or if he is being real or true to himself? Can you trust the narcissist? The surprising answer is sometimes you can. It depends. So you ask impatiently, what is finally your advice? My advice is to never trust the narcissist. Let me put the two together. Sometimes you can trust the narcissist, but you are well advised to never trust the narcissist. And that is because you are not qualified to tell the different, the distinctions and differences and subtleties of narcissistic personality disorder. It's a very, very shape-shifting kind of mental illness with shades and nooks and crannies that you will never ever visit. You can't wrap your mind around the narcissist. You can't make sense of his or her world and motivations and attitudes and intentionality. So better not try. Still, for the sake of completing the picture, whether to trust the narcissist or not depends on what I call locus of grandiosity. What is the narcissist proud of? His arrogance and haughtiness and sense of superiority. What do they rely on? What's the foundation? The narcissist's grandiosity, to remind you, is a cognitive distortion. It's an impairment of reality testing. It's a way to avoid reality, to compensate for an innate sense of inadequacy, unworthiness and imperfection. So grandiosity is not about reality. It's about the narcissist's psychological needs. It's a constellation of introjects, of internal voices. Grandiosity is a form of inner speech. In many ways, grandiosity resembles what passes in other people for conscience, where other mentally healthy, normal people have a conscience. The narcissist has his grandiosity. The narcissist's grandiosity affords him, provides him with self-regulation as well as impulse control and behavioral control. But all this is subject to a cognitively distorted, reality-divorced, counterfactual, inflated, fantastic narrative of self-perception and self-image as godlike and immune to the consequences of his or her actions. This is the internal landscape of the narcissist. The narcissist is emotionally invested, affected, emotionally invested in upholding his or her grandiosity. The narcissist has a story about himself, a narrative about herself, and the narcissist would do anything not to deviate or divert from this narrative, because this would cause self-injury, narcissistic self-injury, or even self-motification. To avoid this, not to experience direct contact with a reservoir or repository of shame in himself, the narcissist always closely adheres, adheres and obeys the story that he has concocted about himself, the narrative that she has come up with to describe herself to herself and to others. This is known as grandiosity. So if the narcissist's fantastic inflated self-image is about his or her trustworthiness, honesty, reliability, truthfulness, morality, altruism, giving contributions to the community, if this is what the narcissist is proud of, these things are what the narcissist is proud of. If they are the underpinnings of his sense of superiority, he says, no one is as honest as I am. No one is as moral as I am. No one is as giving as I am. I am unique in my trustworthiness. I can be fully trusted. I am so truthful that I sometimes sacrifice my own interest and self-sacrificial. I am the epitome in the quintessence and the ramification of morality. I contribute to my community. I love. I'm compassionate. I'm attentive. I am empathic. If the narcissist, I'm a savior, I'm a fixer, I'm a healer, never mind. If the narcissist's grandiosity emanates from these self-convictions, the narcissist would never deviate from them. And in this case, you can trust the narcissist. This is a pro-social communal narcissist and you can trust him. If his grandiosity is based on the fact that, for example, he is honest, then he would really never lie because to lie would injure him narcissistically, would undermine his grandiosity. If his grandiosity is based on the fact in his eyes that he is a great giver, a charitable, altruistic person, he would behave this way. If his grandiosity relies on the fact that he always gets things right, then he's bound to go deeper into research, find out all the facts and give you good advice and good tips or good professional service. So, narcissists can be trusted, but it depends very crucially on their grandiosity, the locus of the grandiosity, the type, the variety, the flavor of the grandiosity. And here comes the complication. Here is where things get complicated because you never know if the narcissist's speech acts if the things he says, his utterances, you never know if they are meant to reflect his grandiosity or they are meant to manipulate you or they are the outcome of a cognitive distortion. Let me explain this. It's a bit complicated even to explain. The narcissist, like each and every other human being, makes statements about himself. He self reports. We have no access to other people's minds. We have to rely on what they are saying and we have to rely on what they are saying about themselves as well. So if someone comes to you and says I'm sad, you just have to believe them, although there is a possibility that they are lying or that they are being manipulated. It's the same with the narcissist. All you have to go on is what the narcissist says about himself. If he keeps saying I am moral, I'm truthful, I'm honest, I'm altruistic, I'm giving, I'm reliable, I'm trustworthy. If he keeps saying this, it may be the way that he perceives himself. It may be a reflection and echo of his grandiosity, his inflated fantastic self image, but it could equally be an attempt to manipulate you, an attempt to provide you with the wrong information so that your decisions are ill-informed and tilt in the favor of the narcissist's self-interest. So it could be a manipulative strategy. The third possibility is that the narcissist actually believes these things because they constitute a part of, for example, the shared fantasy. Narcissists do not lie, they do not fake, I'm sorry, they do not future fake, but narcissists do confabulate, they try to bridge memory gaps. Narcissists do engage in fantasy, and fantasy is the opposite of reality. Narcissists do coerce you into the fantasy, they do try to convince you that the fantasy is real and reality is wrong. Reality is untruthful. So they try to coerce you and if you resist, they punish you. So when the narcissist says I'm honest, you can trust me, I'm honest, I never lie. Or when the narcissist says I'm a giver, don't worry about it, I'm going to take care of you. Or when the narcissist tells you I love you, I love you like I've never loved before. Or when the narcissist tells you I'm a moral person, I would never commit a crime, I would never go against the law, I would never break the law, I'd never go against society. And so when the narcissist makes these statements, there are three possibilities. Either these statements are real, this is the seat of the narcissist's grandiosity, and he would really adhere to these perceptions and these tenets of behavior and he would never break them. He would comply with his own self-image and self-perception. Possibility number one. Possibility number two is bullshitting you in order to manipulate you to do his bidding. And possibility number three, he really believes these things because they constitute an integral part, not only of his self-image and self-perception, but of the shared fantasy that he's trying to sell you on, he's trying to coerce you into. So because of this uncertainty, because there's no way to tell, my recommendation is to never trust the narcissist. Never trust the narcissist, not because the narcissist can never be trusted. The narcissist can be trusted sometimes. Don't trust the narcissist, never trust the narcissist, not because the narcissist lies or gaslights. No, but because the narcissist believes his own lies and confabulations. The narcissist gaslights himself first and foremost. The narcissist self-deceives long before he deceives you. You can't play this game. You're not good at it. And there's no way to decipher and decode and deconstruct the narcissist's statements about himself. The narcissist's self-reporting is suspect because the narcissist himself doesn't have full, unmitigated, healthy, normal access to his own emotional and cognitive landscape. The narcissist is the first one who should never trust himself and you should follow this good example. The narcissist's great deception is not gaslighting or future faking or even outright lying. Narcissists believe their own fantasies, their own confabulations. They staunchly defend the veracity and truthfulness of everything they are saying, not because they are deceptive, not even because they are malevolent, but because they are deluded. They're sick. They can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. They've lost this capacity in early childhood.  But still I'm saying that the narcissist is the most deceptive being ever. How come? Doesn't deception involve premeditation, deliberateness, goal orientation, doesn't deceiving people? It involves a plan, some strategy, not in the case of the narcissist.  That he is able to comprehend the essence of being human, the quiddity of humanness. That his dynamics are indistinguishable from the dynamics of other people, normal people, healthy people. This is the great deception. This is the misleading message. This is the false advertising of the narcissist. Look at me. I have two eyes and two ears and two hands and two legs and therefore I'm exactly like you. Rest assured. I know how you feel. I understand what it is to be you. I'm one of you and yet the narcissist is not. The narcissist is a half-baked human, not full-fledged, a form of artificial intelligence, an alien. Choose any epithet and any label that suits you. The narcissist is a shell wrapped around an empty schizoid core.  Anyone unfortunate enough to enter the narcissist's ambit and remit, the narcissist is a piece of simulation, sophisticated mimicry, emulation elevated to an art form. It is an absence pretending to be a presence, avoid claiming to be meta. And so this is how the narcissist lies to you. This is how the narcissist gaslights you. And this is why the narcissist's future fakes, not like the psychopath. It's not deliberate. It's not cunning. It's not skimming. It's just who the narcissist is. His very essence, his very existence is the big life. As children, we learn how to be men and women, grow up to be husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, lovers and abusers. These are all roles. We imitate and emulate role models such as parental figures, influential peers and role models on mass media and social media. This way, we grow up and we become these roles. They are integrated into our identities, inseparable from our substance, our essence and quiddity who we truly are. The narcissist is none of these things and can never be. The narcissist grew up in a dysfunctional household where the parental figures were absent or selfish or depressed or instrumentalizing or parentifying or abusive in more than one way. The narcissist had no one to imitate, could emulate no one safely and was always felt rejected, abused, humiliated. In this traumatic childhood environment, the narcissist grew up with a disrupted identity. It is called identity diffusion, later on in life identity disturbance. The narcissist doesn't have a core identity and this applies to borderline personality disorder as well. So what to do?   You're supposed to be a role model to others, I don't know, a coach, a therapist. What to do? Narcissists imitate and emulate in a way that is a caricature. They become grotesque simulations of the real thing. And this is because it's all external appearances.  In short, it's all a fantasy. There's no substance there. If you pierce the shell, there's only emptiness. Narcissism is about absence. It's not about presence and not about existence. So how can the narcissist be a real man? The answer is he can never be a real man. He is a macho caricature of a man. How can the narcissist be a real woman? The answer is, of course, she can never be a woman. She is a grotesque caricature of a histrionic woman. How can the narcissist be a healer, or a savior, or a coach, or a therapist, or a psychologist, or a medical doctor, or any member of the helping professions? The answer is he can never be truly helpful, truly supportive. He can never provide Saccor. Saccor is out of his repertory. What the narcissist does, he goes through the motions. He's like a programmed robot, an artificial intelligence, gun or eye, and out of control. The narcissist doesn't even bother or can't be bothered with maintaining consistency, long-term consistency in his behaviors and cognitions and emotions. He has no memories. He's dissociative. Therefore, narcissists have no core, stable core identity. And without a core identity, who are you? Who are you?  I'm a rude, ill-mannered, abrasive and contemptuous person, but I could easily fake being nice and pleasant and smiling and even to some extent empathic and possessed of emotions. So what is better? Is it better to be a fake, pleasant person or a rude, authentic self? Depends who you ask. Sigmund Freud, for example, advocated faking. He coined a word, sublimation, to describe the conversion of instincts and urges and drives which are socially unacceptable, antisocial, asocial and socially harmful. Conversion of these instincts and drives and urges into socially acceptable activities. Sublimation. Freud was very big on sublimation. He thought we should all fake for the sake of maintaining a coherent, cohesive, functioning society.  In short, don't be too vaknin. So that's if you ask scholars over the last 100 years, they all advocate essentially conformity, fitting in by, if necessary, feigning social qualities such as empathy, succor, support, healthfulness, attentiveness, compassion. Nature begs to differ. Nature is a lot more ambivalent about fakery. You see, in nature, animals fake. This is known as mimicry, and there's a whole video dedicated to it on my endless YouTube channel. But mimicry in nature has to do with predatory practices. Predators fake.  On the other side of the equation, the prey fakes being predators. The prey pretends to be a predator or pretends to be an appetizing. It's all about predation.  It's all about jungle. It's a jungle out there. So faking in nature is not a good practice. It heralds, it's a harbinger of hunting and dying. But in human society, the glue that holds all of us together is etiquette, manners, pretensions, fakes, white lies, omissions, purposeful omissions. People who are abrasive, rude, consummations, defiant, hateful, contemptuous, people who humiliate and shame others, scorn them and belittle them, people who fail to collaborate in teams with other people. These kind of people are shunned. They're relegated to the outer oblivion, they're ostracized, they're punished even by the legal system. They end badly. Society punishes those who refuse to conform by play acting. You're not nice? It's okay. Keep it to yourself. Play nice, be pleasant, act collaborative, listen to other people, help other people, heal other people, save other people. These are the social edicts. And if you don't comply with them, society will follow you like a ton of bricks and you will pay the price. Self-awareness is knowing who you are. It is not the same as authenticity.  And yet, in conditions of fear and terror and uncertainty, it is very difficult to be authentic. Fear precludes authenticity and so does pervasive uncertainty. We are in the world where there is a war between the genders, between straight and LGBTQ, between minorities and majorities, between self-proclaimed victims and their putative abusers. So what to do? Stay at home. Stay celibate. Stay single. Do not expose yourself to this crossfire. The world is not safe right now. It is time, actually, to be both self-aware and authentic and self-sufficient. It is time to stand back and review your priorities and your necessities and your needs, and then to make a decision as to which level of risk you are ready to assume. Because today, to engage with other people is to risk your freedom, and very often, your very life. Narcissists and psychopaths make use of two techniques of mind control. The psychopath leverages these techniques knowingly, deliberately, intentionally, his goal-oriented. The narcissist uses these techniques unconsciously. That's just the way he is. That's how he operates. And so these techniques are entraining and projective identification. I've discussed in training in many videos on my YouTube channel to summarize. And training is the repetition of musical notes or words in a way that synchronizes the brainwaves of the listener with the brainwaves of the emitter of the signal. So when the abuser verbally abuses his victim, when he repeats the same refrains, the same phrases, the same words, the same exhortations, the same criticisms, the same threats, this constitutes entraining because it synchronizes the victim's brainwaves with the abuser's brainwaves, rendering them a hive mind, a single mind, the ultimate in mind control. The second mechanism is a lot more complicated and a lot more nuanced and a lot more difficult to explain. It's known as projective identification. And the problem in projective identification is the identification part of it. The victim identifies herself with the narcissist's projected parts. Now let's first explain projection.   You say, I'm not weak, he's weak. I'm not abusive, she is being abusive. That is projection. Now projective identification involves projection. The narcissist projects the traits and emotions that he rejects in himself or herself and misattributes these traits and emotions to the victim. Now of course whenever I say he, it's a she, half of all narcissists are women. And then the projection having been completed, the victim becomes the parts that the narcissist had rejected. The narcissist misattributes traits and behaviors to the victim and the victim owns them. He identifies with them. He accepts them as his own. The victim becomes what the narcissist wants him to become. The victim becomes the part of the narcissist that the narcissist had rejected. The traits and emotions and cognitions that the narcissist is ashamed of, that the narcissist rejects, that the narcissist renounces. These parts are owned by the victim. The victim is molded by the narcissist's projection, hence the word identification. And then the victim begins to behave accordingly. He begins to conform to the parts of the narcissist that had been projected onto her. The victim becomes the shadow of the narcissist. The rejected parts of the narcissist. The traits and behaviors and emotions and cognitions that the narcissist cannot countenance now become the victims. And so projectile identification is a defense mechanism of the narcissist. But it ends up modifying the victim's behavior. The victim becomes an extension of the part of the narcissist which the narcissist disowns, denies, represses, rejects, hates and is ashamed of. Consequently, of course, the narcissist rejects, renounces and hates the victim because she now represents the part of him that he wouldn't like to acknowledge. She's a constant reminder of who the narcissist truly is and her behaviors having been modified by the narcissist validate and conform the narcissist's expectations of the victim. But at the same time, constantly trigger the narcissist by reminding him who he really is. Self-awareness is knowing who you are. It is not the same as authenticity.  And yet, in conditions of fear and terror and uncertainty, it is very difficult to be authentic. Fear precludes authenticity and so does pervasive uncertainty. We are in the world where there is a war between the genders, between straight and LGBTQ, between minorities and majorities, between self-proclaimed victims and their putative abusers. So what to do?  Do not expose yourself to this crossfire. The world is not safe right now. It is time, actually, to be both self-aware and authentic and self-sufficient. It is time to stand back and review your priorities and your necessities and your needs. And then to make a decision as to which level of risk you are ready to assume. Because today to engage with other people is to risk your freedom and, very often, your very life.


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. So this week, the Fort Report visited the Cool Library to meet up with a very special guest about the summer reading program. Last to comment, X, Y, and P, Z, D, and the sun goes down on the coconut tree. I'm here to read where it's a cool library out here on the southeast side of town and we're reading books. I think it's crucial that the kids keep their reading skills out. When we have the Mayor's Summer Reading Challenge going on, the more they read, the better their chances to win prizes at the end of the summer. It's just crucial that we keep their skills up for the academic year. Besides, it's just flat fun to come read to them. And how many of you have been reading? Everybody needs to read a little and then you'll be ready for school. Get a library card and come to the library. Get somebody to, if their kids are too little to read, then parents or older siblings need to read to them. And those who can't read learn a lot just from the pictures. But all the kids can read something and enjoy. It's the backbone of everything they'll do is learning to read. All their academic years, their job, everything. Besides, it's just tons of fun. You can learn all about the world and travel away in your imagination when you read good books. And don't forget, the Mayor's Summer Reading Challenge's grand celebration is at 1pm on August 12th at the Central Library downtown. You can enjoy face painting, live music, crafts, storytelling and refreshments. Grand Prize drawings will be held with a special guest. It's free and open to everyone. For more information, call<PHONE_NUMBER> or visit www.fortworthlibrary.org.


Nigeria may be contended with issues of moral uprightness in all facets of the society, but success can still be attained through hard work and high ethical standards. Now these was the message the young Nigerians, particularly the girl child, are the presentation of a book, Winning Without Compromise, which was launched in Abuja. Victoria Anna is a young and intellectually gifted author who expressed her thought on issues of great national importance through writing. The author of three books is challenging the moral uprightness of women by assuring them that they can still attain success in life through hard work without compromising their dignity and integrity. So this book is a passion project of mine that I have done for young girls globally to let them know that even though we live in a generation where there's so much sell-outs, there's a lot of compromise, people do all kinds of untoward stuff just to gain some level of success, I want them to know that they can win, they can thrive, they can take up space without devaluing themselves morally, spiritually, doing things that are not in sync with what they represent, their virtues, their principles. I don't want girls to be so concerned about success, the rush to want to succeed, to want to achieve things. I want them to be grounded, I want them to stay true to their values, their principles and go about things the right way. Invited guests proliferate on the writer with many of them saying that the book, the institutionalized due to its messages of hope for young Nigerian girls. This material is a must-read for every young girl that wants to grow to make a big difference in this country. I personally would want to recommend that this book becomes an institutional book. School systems, school system leaders, educational instructors, members of national assembly who represent different constituencies should see this book as a tool that they can use to reach out to young girls in the communities like never before. Excited that we are right now, a lot of people are doing the wrong things to get the right things and that is a major problem. That's why you see people are becoming selfish, greedy, envious and when you look at the sum of everything you know that these feelings trigger people to steal, to lie, to compromise on their morals but with this book it just teaches us that you can still be a winner, you can still get your life going on without compromising. I found her very dedicated and passionate so when she wrote the book I mean we were to also debate the title especially in a country like Nigeria where you're saying is it possible to win without compromising and she's you know laid out examples using her own life as a compass, it's a good move of course, see more women playing their role beyond just the stereotypical things that I think women are but we're all here because of a woman and that is fantastic in itself.


So I have a video that guides you through all the settings for setting up PF sense in AJ mode Which is actually what we have here And I wanted to do it this time because I did it with some virtual lab ones I had set up this time I want to do with some physical ones and point out that even the SG 3100 or the SG 1100 can do full HA now I was going to originally do it with this one I just didn't happen to have two of them as soon as we get them in stock. They seem to sell People we put a lot of these in you know people want us to configure them things like that But I did have a pair of 3100 So I wanted to talk about the physical layer of how to set this up and like I said This is supported on all the neck eight switches. It doesn't matter which ones you buy Frequently when you're doing HA Outside of the lab.  They wanted PF sense HA Seen the video follows video and we then finished up the details to get a whole lot of VLANs and everything set up So it can work inside of the data center in the rack and it's a great System how this works. Well, let's talk a little bit the physical setup that we have here So we have my laptop that's going to be plugged in behind the firewall we have the Unifi Sorry ubiquity edge switch 10x right here. It's not configured anything more than just default It doesn't need special configuration to make HA work. It's just that you do need this set up over here We have port one going to port one on the unifi edge which 10x port one going to port two on the unifi 10x They have to go to a common switch now I actually this is my laptop here with this thin black cable I plugged it into the edge switch because that would be proper fail over I could use the switch on these the problem is if I use the bottom switch and a bottom switch were to fail I would then lose access if you're using the bottom one than the top switch fails I would still have access so ideally you want both of these over here They also need to communicate with each other because they have to know if the other one still exists So that's an important aspect. This is all the LAN side right here So this is using the four port switch on these netgate sg-3100s for the LAN side We reuse the opt port so the opt port normally which may be used for like a way and two or whatever you want to use It for we have this set up as sink And then here are the two wan ports and the two wan ports are set up so that they feed right from this Completely basic just open it grab one out of the box net gear dumb switch This black cable feeds them now They also need to be in a switch for this configuration either at the back end or we're pretending our service provider only gives us one Cable so we have to put a switch in because this one cable feeds me the IP addresses that we need For this so it's multiple IPs coming across one cable You don't need anything special like I said I want to point out that you don't need to manage switch for actually any of this I just put one on the LAN side because it made more sense now I do have a Map I'm going to show you here right now So the way I can show you the physical layout here the layout and how it's set up inside of Like you know mapped out here. This is another way to look at it And this is actually from that same video I did before where we talked about having the sink port being a dedicated port between them or that you know whatever interface you want to dedicate to it and That keeps the firewalls in sync with each other That's a very important aspect refer back to the video to keep this video shorter I'm not going to go in depth on each one watch another video if you want more in depth on how to sync works But these are all the settings. We have the master at 69.94 on the way on on the LAN side 192 168 12 LAN side here dot three 69 81 but the VIP the shared IP address 192 I'm sorry 172 1669 20 and inside on the LAN side 192 168 11 So pretty basic setup that we have here and what I wanted to do is show the fail-over in action Show it actually working and show what IP address my computer has and how I can still ping both those switches So we're going to set up a series of pings to make this work So let me close all the windows that I have open and we'll jump into looking at the config a little bit more in depth All right We'll start here at the edge switch so you can kind of see what's going on So ports one two and three are occupied, but when we go over here like saying just you know It's all default everything's just kind of the out-of-the-box Configuration I just happen to have the edge which that's what I'm using it So it is better to have though on the LAN side if you're ever going to create VLANs a managed switch because you need to manage Switch to properly handle the VLANs different video for that So here is the secondary one secondary pf sense We can see all the IP address assignments and this one is at dot three and if we look at its cart failover status It's in backup mode So as long as it can see both of these it's going to be in backup mode And then we'll look at this one here. We just set the theme to dark on this to kind of distinguish between them. So one seven two sixteen ninety four one nine two one six eight one two the sink port here And if we go over here to status and we look at cart failover this one's in master modes So let's talk about the physical layer a little bit by looking at the pings So at the top you see me ping in one dot one So I'm banging away at that one then we have the master at one dot two and then we have one I two one six eight One dot three as a secondary one and now we're going to unplug one of these and show what happens. So Because these share that VIP address of one nine two one six eight one one That's what I'm pinging right now. So when I reach over in a plug I'm gonna get rid of so the main one is the top one So we're going to take out the main which will force the system into failover mode So we'll take this and just unplug the port now And we'll switch real quick over to here And we can see it stopped pinging on the two But three can keep pinging and by the way that quick without missing a beat, you know In I'll even plug it back in to show you here The failover was instantaneous This is why the sync port was so important because it's constantly syncing all the connections and it says all right And as soon as it realizes that the other one is gone The master is not in control of the network anymore it immediately takes that shared IP and drops it so you've watched it in real time and I know it's gonna be small, but you can watch me plug it back in and watch things come back up So actually we'll actually do this too So this one's gonna fail because it's not there this one will refresh the page because it's master But by the way, please note It's only doing master on the one I two one six eight one one because I didn't unplug the master from The other switch right here. So if you look at the other switch, this is the WAN feed So actually we'll go ahead and this goes into master to when I won't plug that one too. So I'll hold it here I'll pull this real quick and we'll just refresh the page Right refresh and you can see it's instantly master and we'll here hopefully hear that click. It's back in refresh the page It's gonna take it does take a second to go back, but the fail over is Immediately it says okay hurry up and do this it waits a few seconds further for it to establish it back and the same thing over here We're not paying still you can see a destination unreachable the pings are still going and you should hear the click It'll take a second because it's got a link established and get the same thing again So we're gonna be a second before that works, but please note We're not missing a beat on the main fit just like we want so, you know as far as the users go There's nothing going on. I'll take a second. I'll refresh the page here And it's probably just the edge switch waiting so actually refresh the page in the edge switch Okay, it sees everything. I start and see some data go across Refresh this page again. It's now in backup mode. Just took a second for the port to sync but back to our Council over here Here we are at the top Dot one never misses a beat and this is the important part now These don't work as a load balance. These are working completely as independent Of each other in terms of the secondary is doing nothing right now So it's basically like a hot spare warm backup. However, you want to phrase that but the main is doing everything That's why I took it out of the main. You'll notice nothing if you go and switch it away from the Backup one because the the backup one is it fails. It doesn't do anything. It's not handling It only is ready to handle and keeping everything aligned keeping all the states working keeping Everything ready in case the master one fails. So it stays in backup mode. This is different It's not like trying to share the bandwidth between them or anything like that. It's just in a backup mode But that's it. That's how the physical layer works for this. It's really quick that you know quick click done You now have Watched it fail over watched it go right back in place and it's that fast for the failover And covering in the physical layer. I think is a little bit more interesting That's why I did this but if you want to know how all this gets configured a matter of fact One of my staff members who had not done an h8 config I had him watch my video and he built this off the video and I had to change nothing So I was really happy you got it working right out of the box as I like I like when my videos get validated I tried my best to make sure they're completely accurate But then my staff sometimes will go through them and they verified absolutely every step was followed and everything worked Exactly as it did in a video and once again, you can do this with some 31 hundreds if you've got by a pair of these net gate 1,100 you can do it. 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For leadership, called X. Produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. He is the man who crosses the ocean as readily as you and I cross town. He is the man who travels today as you and I will travel tomorrow. He is the man who fights today's war in his unique fashion so that tomorrow's peace will make the world a neighborhood for all of us. He is the man called X. Mr. X takes us to India, land of jeweled Maharajas and beautiful princesses. But as the story opens, Mr. X is not yet within earshot of softly tinkling temple bells. For the moment, he's traveling down New York's great white way. And the lady sharing the cab with him is not an Indian princess but Miss Nancy Bessington, anxious to arrive on time for the opening of a new musical comedy. Driver, I want to go up to the Gotham Tower, corner 45th Street. Okay. Well, Tim, that's miles away from the theater. What are you up to? Donny, I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone to get rid of this barney old field and to deliver a letter. Letter? Are you by any chance working for the post office department? No, dear, but there's a department in Washington that'll be plenary interested in it. Washington? And you whispered that in my ear ten minutes before Curtin Town. Oh, I was going to tell you. But this fellow's driving, all I could think of was the police department. On the 24th floor, Countile's celebrated your right down the hall. Just push the button, it's automatic. Come on, Nancy. Okay. Now this whole affair won't take a three-minute suite. All I have to do is to deliver the letter to a certain Amar Pahalani. Who? Well, he's the representative of an East Indian Maharaja who's been here negotiating some deal or other. Well, what then the letter can? I think it's a contract. Oh. The boys didn't choose to tell me and I didn't choose to ask because I didn't want to be dragged into the matter. Here, let me push the button for the elevator. You better push it again. It's not... Oh, here it comes. Stand aside, dear. The door's sliding open. There's someone in here. Someone was in there. This man's dead. Well, look. Look at his turban, all covered with blood. Don't touch him. Wait. His eyes are flickering open. He's trying to speak. Mr. Pahalani? Pahalani? Are you Amar Pahalani? He's trying to... He nodded. Mr. Pahalani. I'm Kenneth Thurston. I'm Mr. X. I bought you a letter. A contract that must be delivered. His lips are moving. He's trying to say something. Yes, just let me. Let me bend closer. Sorry. Can you whisper, Mr. Pahalani? Who is to get the letter? Here. Maharaja. Is that what you're saying? Maharaja. Yeah, in the bubble. Someone's pushed the button upstairs. Let's get out of here quick. And stand away from the door. It's closing. Now to get downstairs fast. And then I want a taxi that can fly. Ken, how in the world can you think of going to the theater now? Theater? Honey, I'm going to India. Oh! Thurston. About to land, sir. Ah, wonderful city, isn't it, Stuart? Those golden roofs shining in the sun. All those graceful domes and spires. Gosh. Look out the other window, sir. See? That's the Maharaja's palace. That's like a walled city in itself. Yes, sir. Look at that huge tower. I wonder what the palace looks like on the inside. Inside? Well, often wonder too, sir. Well, I'll tell you all about it on my way back. You might find that rather difficult, sir. No foreigner has ever left that palace alive. Egon Zulsner, are you chasing me again? I'm digging a mystery. Oh, Egon. Egon, either one. It's like being chased by the devil. It's fantastic that we should meet here in India. Not as fantastic as your costume. Remember your physique, parading around in a loincloth? Mr. Axe, I'm a yogi. Or a yogi, is it? A yogi of great powers. I know the language of animals. I can foretell the future. I can transport you magically to any distant part. Then you're just the man I want. Transport me to the Maharaja's palace. Oh. Well, Mr. Axe, there are limits into my power. Do you think your powers will increase if I gave you 50 rupees? Oh, yes. I already feel much stronger. For 100 rupees, I'll take you to the Maharaja's prime minister. He will be very happy to arrange an interview with the Maharaja. How do you know he'll be happy to arrange it? Didn't I see I can see the future? And I can still see your purse. It'll take your hand out of my pocket. I'm sorry. You're not going to steal that letter, say, Egon? First, please have a seat. Thank you. I will permit me to finish. I'm delighted to see you in my capacity as a private individual. But as the Maharaja's prime minister, I am in pain to inform you which will not be granted permission to stay. Suppose I tell you that I was sent by Amar Pahalani. And may I inquire who Amar Pahalani is? Was. He died in New York. Murdered while on a mission for the Maharaja. As you well know. But I do not know. At no time did his Highness the Maharaja send any emissary to the United States. Well, surely Washington wouldn't have received him as an accredited representative. I am as mystified as you are, Mr. Thurston. But look at this envelope. It contains certain papers which must be delivered to his Highness. I know of no papers, Mr. Thurston. Is it possible that you are the victim of a practical joke? Amar Pahalani must have had quite a sense of humor to let himself be murdered for a laugh. I agree with you. Oh, it's baffling. Write me the solution when you get home. Because you are taking the evening plane back to America. Mr. Prime Minister, I still request that you get me into the palace. You are asking the impossible. I won't attempt miracles. No, that would probably call for a yogi with magic powers. Mr. X, don't ask him. He's a charlatan. About time you showed up. Say, go on. I almost couldn't come, Mr. X. You see, this is my awful ride on a board, studded with nails. I'm kind of on pins and needles myself. Now, did you arrange to get me into the palace? Wait.  Not too close to the snake page. Pretend to be watching him while I whisper to him. Now listen carefully, Mr. X. Tonight I will take you to the palace. They gone? How? When? I'm not even asking how much. I see small, only a thousand rupees. Meet me at midnight by the bebbling brook under the palace walls. Midnight, bebbling brook. You shall get your thousand rupees. Thanks, they gone. And I don't need to add, may you grow rich. Do those temple bells always go off at midnight? Yes, they ring for the source of those who enter this palace grounds and have never seen again. Charming custom. Yes. Well, lead the way. Here, Mr. X. Up these steps. There are guards about and a few tigers on the loose. Fine thing. These stairs seem endless. Yes, we are going up into the tower. Here is the balcony from which they throw down the bodies. The bodies of unexpected visitors, I suppose. Yes. Now climb through after me. This is the window of the thousand jewels. They gone. Is it cricket to sneak into the Maharaja's room like this? Are you in? Jump down. This is not the Maharaja's room, Mr. X. Then where am I, Zego? Look, I insist on seeing the Maharaja. Won't I do? Huh? Instead? Who are you? So fragile in your shimmering veils. I am the princess, Radhanita, the Maharaja's niece.  It's an exclusive chamber. Too bad that I can't stay and admire the sight. Mr. X, maybe I did wrong to bring you into the Zenana, the women's quarters. Man to man, Zego. I don't object at all. Thank you. The princess will undoubtedly lead me to the Maharaja. No, you must not see him. That is why I sent for you. My uncle is a cruel, evil man. He'll believe us. Sit outside on my doorstep. I obey, O princess. Goodbye, Mr. X. Good night, and may you grow happy and quiet. Sit by me, Mr. X. Are these cushions? Silken cushions. Fragrant but jasmine. Huh? I'm signaling my musicians. They will play so that our conversation may not be overhead. You will find betel nuts and sweetenings on that golden trail. A peach for the wine? A jug of wine and vile. No, no, I better keep my head clear for the interview with the Maharaja. Why do you keep insisting on that?  I love you for that, but why are you so concerned about a stranger like me? Because you are not a stranger. Press my hand like that again and I'll begin to agree with you. You're not a stranger. Because we knew someone had come. Amar Pahalani. Well, I'm glad to hear someone came Pahalani for a friend. The prime minister denied that the man ever existed. The prime minister was not aware that Amar went to the United States. The prime minister doesn't keep up with things. Very sloppy of him, not to keep track of the Maharaja's emissaries. But he was not the Maharaja's emissaries. I sent him to your country, Mr. X. You? To raise money. Much money. Don't tell me you're broke, Princess. My, you're your lovely arms, aren't you? They glisten with emeralds and rubies. It takes limitless money to overthrow the Maharaja. Am I to understand that you and the late Mr. Pahalani had serious thoughts of deposing the Maharaja? Yes. And to kill him. Just as he killed my father. With his own hands to gain the throne. Oh, when those stories about the Maharaja's cruelty aren't just publicity. Then may the truth be told that my father didn't die of malaria? Malaria is quite a nuisance around here, isn't it? Wonder if I'm allergic. I would a thousand times rather have you die of malaria than be strangled by the Maharaja. You are concerned, Princess.  In spite of Pahalani's dying request. Perhaps you misunderstood him. Perhaps he said Rana Nika, not Maharaja. Perhaps. His English was far from perfect. Whereas your lips speak a universal language. Forgive me the letter. You will not find me ungrateful? Ah, paradise, you know. Oh, no, don't kiss me again. Press the letter. Rana Nika, why change the subject? Because I must get that letter before the Maharaja arrives. Let him arrive. I welcome his arrival. Your kisses have made me as bold as a lion. Keep your voice down. Are you deliberately trying to get him to come in here? Yes, deliberately and cold-buttily. Please.  Letting you face danger alone? Sounds for a while. Yes, I'm in a fever of indignation. Fever. Fever. Oh, Rana Nika, feel my head. I'm kicking up a temperature. Give me the letter. I'm ill. Give me the letter and go. Go. In my condition, my knees are giving way. Let me just lie here on the couch. No.  Malaria. Tell him to be malaria. No, no. Oh, am I? My teeth are chattering. Please, please, no. Oh. Oh. Yogi. Yogi, come in here. Yogi's happy that you're this poor little princess. Mr. X is either play hacking or he's ill with malaria. I can cure sickness of the soul, but for the body, I would need quinine. You mustn't mention quinine. Only the court physician has that and he would betray us. I'm chilled. Cover me. Just cover him. I hear you, Mr. X. I'm putting rocks on you. Malaria. No. Yogi, we've got to get him out of here. But first you must help me search for that letter. They're gone. Is that you? Yes. Put blankets on me. Fine. More. More. Cover me with your jacket. But, Mr. X, if I give you my jacket, then I will freeze in this loincloth. Don't put your jacket on him, Yogi. Anything to keep him quiet while we search him. Well, here is my coat, Mr. X. Feel warmer now. Put on the light, Yogi. No one must know that I'm still awake. But, princess, I always find it difficult to pick pockets in the dark. The gong. Oh. Yogi, that's a signal. The mahogajas have left his chambers. Seven help us to be under this tower. I'll glow out the light in a minute if I can ever catch my breath. I must wait here in the dark, Yogi. With a mirror. I hear her. Oh, I can forward to the future, and it's not very promising. I'm sorry he ever came here. I'm afraid. Oh, my beloved. Fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears. Poetry. He is delirious. Searching. This can mean death. Dust unto dust, and unto dust to lie. So why song, song, song singer and song vendor? Continue with the second act of tonight's exploit to the man called X starring Mr. Herbert Marshall. The first a word from the men and women of Lockheed. Ladies and gentlemen, the Lockheed constellation is the largest, fastest, highest-flying land transport in use today. Certainly this is an interesting statement. Yet again tonight we have Lockheed wish to point out what these points of superiority, largest, fastest, highest-flying mean to you the airline passenger. Now the ability to carry heavy loads for great distances at high speed is a direct result of power and design. And these factors, power and design built into the Lockheed constellation provide such things as safety and comfort and economy. The constellation can fly high over the highest mountain ranges and high above storms and disturbing air currents. It can land and take off from any standard airport. And this is important. It can maintain altitude and even climb on any two of its four powerful engines. Furthermore on flights of the shortest 100 miles the Lockheed constellation has been found to operate more efficiently than the ordinary two-engine transport you fly in today. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, safety-wise and comfort-wise and economy-wise the Lockheed constellation is setting brand new standards in air transportation. Today it serves the army air forces. Tomorrow it will serve you bringing the airport in your town closer and ever closer to other cities and towns in America and to lands beyond the horizon. So again we say remember the name, the Lockheed constellation another example of Lockheed leadership. We return to tonight's exploit to the man called ex-starring Herbert Marshall to find him in the scented boudoir of an Indian princess. He had come to this mysterious principality of India to deliver a letter to the ruling Maharaja. But now Mr. X is suffering from an attack of malaria and the princess is trying to steal the letter from his pocket while Gongs announced the approach of the Maharaja. Yogi, the gongs sound in the tower now. The Maharaja is coming up the stairs. I've looked through all the pockets of Mr. X. I can't find the letter. Wait, I will do outside the curtains. Let the moon shine in. The unrising moon looks for us again. How after would she wax and wave? No letter. I am ready to give up and magically transport myself a safe distance from here. Wait, Yogi, before you leave. I must give you a note to take to the prime minister. I will write it here in the moonlight. Wait. While Mr. X's pockets are so convenient I might as well collect my small few of a thousand rupees. Take the cash and let the credit go nor heed the rumble of the distant drum. Here is the note. The prime minister will know what to do when he gets it. Before I go, I must get back the jackets that I put on Mr. X. They're flowing close. Looks too informal. Here. Now. You got your jacket on? Yes. Then go. Behind that tapestry you will find a secret door. What? A dark passage. What is this strange smell? It's not so clear. He will get used to the smell. Goodbye, Yogi. Goodbye. Goodbye.  What am I to do with him? Make the most of the time we may yet spend before we too into the dust of sand. I'm opening it. That voice is in here. Chamberlain, bring your light. Here is the lamp, Your Highness. Hold it higher. Aha. A man. And it's true, Uncle. I struggled. I fought him. Yes. Fought him with sweet meats and betel nuts. Fought me with soft blandishments. To keep him from disturbing Your Highness's slumber. Nonsense. She knows very well that I have insomnia. Rise, sir. Who are you? I'm the man called X. An amateur leather carrier. Don't listen to him. He has no leather. Of course he hasn't thought, Annika. I was not born yesterday. Highness, does the name Amar Pahalani mean anything to you? Yes. Yes, it means a million rupees. It means a missing contract for the sale of 10,000 pounds of Chincona bark. Then the deal involves Chincona bark. Precious Chincona for which quinine is made. Yes. Tell me. Have you really got Amar's letter? He hasn't. He hasn't. In good time, Radhanika. Mr. X, do not try my patience. I'm forced to, Your Highness. The letter, or into interference with the mail, is not on me. Lost? Not if we hurry. Where to? To the always hospitable home of His Excellency the Prime Minister. That's where the letter is. It's a lie. Don't go with him. I seldom lie, Princess. Though occasionally I exaggerate things like malaria symptoms. Why don't you, um, slip something over your, uh, your shimmering veils and come along with us? Do so, Radhanika.  No, no, no. I can't. It's time to escape through the window. Window of a thousand jewels. I caught her. Let me go. I'm carrying you to Yon Jasmine Scented Cushion. Hurry, Mr. X, the Prime Minister retires early. I hope you'll retire permanently. Coming, Your Highness. Just let me cover Radhanika with a rug when I tore a chunk out of her shimmering veil. There. Servant, where is your worthy master, that scoundrel? Why? His Excellency is out. Out? Now what excuse will you find, Mr. X? The letter is coming by carrier pigeon. And that means you, Zegong, get out from under that table. Mr. X, this is my hour for making myself invisible. Stand up like a man and pick your pocket. My own pocket is highly unprofessional. Then I'll have to do it for you, Zegong. Oh, no, please. I'll have to look in your other pocket. Don't act so kittenish. Ah, here it is. Your Highness, I have the honour of handing you the letter. Ah, my Pahalani's letter. Sealed with his own ring. Now, let me open it. I had a fortune in my pocket and I didn't know it. What kind of a yogi am I? As one miracle man to another, Zegong, I switched the letter from my pocket to yours when you covered me with your jacket. Yes, yes, the contract is in order. Look, sealed, signed. And delivered, finally. And so will the Chincona bar be delivered to my country. With most fine iron in the hands of the Jepps, this will be vital to our men in the Pacific. What? Mr. Rex, an explosion. Yes, look out the window, please. The Chincona warehouses. Blown out. Let's hurry there. That's the one that's about visiting Prime and the Prime Minister. Everything is getting clearer and clearer. Clearly, there'll be those clouds of smoke. Zegong, where there's smoke, there's fire. Highness, Highness of Calamity. The warehouse is in ashes. The Prime Minister is directing the race to you, Highness. First of all, fellow. Burn the candle at both ends. You'll do nine. Send the Prime Minister here. He's already coming.  Highness, Mr. X, my friends, you must dry your tears. This tragedy was written in the Book of Fate. Are you sure it wasn't written in the note which the Prince has sent you? It was, Mr. X. I've pegged at the North a little. Maharaja Sahib, do not listen to the yogi. He's probably in a trance. What mortal man can tell why and how Chincona barks bird? My nose can tell. And it's not Chincona that's burning. This smoke doesn't smell of quinine. Your Highness, you trust the nose of this foreigners? No, Mr. Prime Minister. These warehouses were empty. Systematically looted by you and the Princess. And the barks stored elsewhere for eventual sale to Japan. Your Highness, I can explain it. Explain the murder of Amapahalani by your spies. Explain in your next existence.  May you grow dead. Maybe I killed him too impulsively. Now I shall never discover where the Chincona is stored. Visit the lovely Radhanika. Ask her doors fired up twice this tapestry. Open a hidden door to a secret passage. But don't suffocate, Your Highness. I nearly choke to death. Yogi breath control not with ten. Yes, the Chincona barks smell to high heavens, they gar. But not worse than Radhanika's silken cushions.  The cushions will be buried in the same grave with Radhanika. Poor Radhanika. I hope your Highness will give her a state burial. It's most unlikely that I shall meet her in another existence. Yon rising moon that looks for us again. How after after will she wax and wane? How after after rising look for us through that same garden and for one in vain? Now, Mr. Herbert Marshall returns to tell you about next week's exploit of the man called X. Here is an announcement from Lockheed. Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, Sunday, October 1st, marks another important milestone in the history of air transportation. Tomorrow, a Lockheed load star flying the colors of national airlines takes off from the Jacksonville, Florida airport and flies the first national airline schedule to New York City. Other Lockheed load stars will follow on regular schedules to establish the fastest airline service up and down the Atlantic seaboard. Lockheed, congratulate national airlines on the inauguration of this new service. A progressive step that is typical of many other United States airlines. Most of them started small and with the support of air-minded Americans extended and expanded until today our nation is a vast network of integrated air systems. Yes, the nation's airlines have established a progress record unmatched by any other American industry. And this is only the beginning. Tomorrow, after victory, new planes and new routes will make the entire world part of the airline network, a system that you and every American can enjoy. Now a word from our star, Herbert Marshall. Next week you'll find me high among the peaks of the eternal Alps in Switzerland where a simple toy music box leads to adventure, romance, and even danger. Ford is a beautiful blonde involved who also proves to be a beautiful shot with a high-powered rifle. So join us, won't you, when next I return? As the man called it. Lockheed Aircraft. Tonight's exploit was written by Francis Farago. Original music was composed and conducted by Felix Mills. The entire production was under the direction of Jack Johnstone. Mr. Marshall's appearance is through courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor, producers of the Technicolor Picture Kids' Met. The men and women of Lockheed invite you to join Mr. X again next Saturday. Same time, same station. Come back entire speaking. This is the Blue Network.


Old or young, big or small, animal or human, every living creature has a genome. It's a collection of tightly packed bundles of DNA. Those bundles, called chromosomes, contain thousands of genes that carry the information needed to make and maintain all of our body's cells. Think of it as a master instruction manual. Now, at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are looking deep within this manual to unravel the mysteries of human health. They've embarked on a groundbreaking new study called ClinSeq that may very well change the future of modern medicine, and ordinary people are helping to make it happen. 52-year-old Jonathan Graham is one of the volunteers who's agreed to have his gene sequenced. He saw the project advertised in a local newspaper and decided to come in and roll up his sleeves to help. He sees it as a unique opportunity to further science and to gain some invaluable insight into his own health. Well, genetic information is always something that you don't get in a physical.  They give you a cursory examination and let you know, yeah, you do have a heart rate. It's not too high. They may do your blood cholesterol, but this seemed like an opportunity to get a little bit more detailed information, more of a workup, something almost like an executive physical. Right now, the ClinSeq project is using genetic information to zero in on heart disease. Dr. Les Beeseker is the principal investigator for the project. Heart disease is an important medical problem, and it's a good model for starting with, although ultimately we're interested in looking at all genes and all conditions in these patients. But heart disease has many of the attributes that we're looking for, such as high heritability, plenty of medical interventions that one can implement to deal with conditions in a patient. So over the next two years, the ClinSeq research team hopes to enroll a thousand people and scan their genomes for warning signs of coronary artery disease. We can take a set of subjects, human subjects, bring them into a research facility, acquire a data set that includes every gene in their genome, and use that to ask questions that are specific and powerful as to how we can change that person's individual risk for developing a disease over time. The researchers will look specifically at genes they know are linked to heart disease, plus some they suspect might be involved. The volunteers can be healthy or have known risk factors for heart disease. It makes a lot of sense that we're doing a thousand references. Dr. Eric Green heads the high-tech sequencing lab where the work is being done. We are as much interested in looking at variants that perhaps give you a very healthy disposition as we are in looking at variants that give a not as healthy characteristic, and we're going to be studying both. Take Jonathan. He runs his own landscape design firm. He eats right, stays active and likes to think he's in pretty good shape, but he admits you never know. Heart troubles run in Jonathan's family, and he wants to find out more about his risk. He gets some information in exchange for being willing to provide genetic information, family medical background, be poked and prodded. They give you feedback on your current and possibly future conditions, which sound like a win-win. The project is open to men and women of all races and from all walks of life, but participants need to be between 45 and 65 years of age and have a primary care physician. They also should not have smoked for at least the past year. Of course, a real desire to learn about your genetic makeup will also come in handy since the study may last a decade or more. These are individuals that we plan to follow for many years, with the idea that when the technology is ready, and I think that may not be that far away, we may sequence the entire genome of all of these individuals and probably continue to bring them back to the clinical center to be able to do subsequent clinical studies of them. If you're selected for this study, here's what you can expect. First, you'll be asked to make an initial visit to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland to undergo a series of simple tests and evaluations. We get a snapshot of the current state of that person's heart health, if you will, and we can use that as the starting point, but only as the starting point to begin to dissect their long-term risk of having heart disease. That snapshot will include an echocardiogram and electrocardiogram, both painless ways of peering at the inner workings of your heart. You would also have a type of x-ray called a CAT scan, taken of your coronary arteries. In most patients who have heart disease, the thickening of the arteries that is atherosclerosis is accompanied by the deposit of calcium flecks within those blood vessels, and x-rays are very good at seeing those calcium flecks. Well, not as dramatic as the scans, one key part of the process will be drawing a small amount of your blood. From those blood samples, researchers will purify DNA and send it to the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center. Sequencing is a complicated process, and the precious samples will change hands many times. Technicians like Cassandra Montemayor prepare the DNA, so researchers can get the information they're looking for out of it. The process starts here with the genomic DNA, and then we actually end up passing it to production, who then passes it to the sequencers. Initially, the team will be looking to sequence between 200 and 400 genes that may be involved in coronary artery disease. They're hunting for important variants or genomic changes that may mean someone's at increased risk. There's probably a handful of variants I could specifically look at that might give some insights about predispositions to specific diseases or some likelihood of certain kinds of disorders such as cancer. Making sense of it all is no easy task. Genetic scientists here will need to search hard to find those all-important telltale genomic changes. We're looking for our dramatic changes or severe changes in the genes and the DNA that will cause the person to have a high likelihood of developing a disease. This will be one of the first studies in which DNA sequencing results will be communicated back to individual patients, provided, of course, that the researchers have a strong measure of confidence in what the data reveals. Most genetic and genomic research, especially large-scale genetic and genomic research, isolates the patient volunteers, the subjects of the studies, from the individual outcome of the study. We want to break with that. We want the subjects involved in the study from beginning to end. So what are the benefits of being involved? There are many. You'll be tested free of charge for diabetes and high cholesterol. You'll also receive free of charge a CAT scan that could reveal signs of coronary artery disease. But above all, you may get information that is critical to your long-term health and the health of your entire family. People are generally very enthusiastic about participating in the CLIN6 study. I think that they understand that this is a very novel and cutting-edge study and they are excited to be part of a project of this nature.  Flavia Fosio is the genetic counselor for the CLIN6 project. It's her job to make sure participants understand what's happening. She also works with them to develop their family's health history. The family history may actually provide a context, a framework for what we find in this people's genes. So when I've revealed their family histories with them, I'm looking for patterns. I'm trying to see if there is a condition that may look like it's running in the family. Are there any drawbacks to taking part? There are only minor risks associated with undergoing these tests. Some people experience slight pain or minor bruising when they have blood drawn. There's a small amount of radiation exposure during the CAT scan and in some cases scans may produce results that are hard to interpret. But perhaps more significantly, there is also the possibility of an emotional or psychological toll depending on what the research uncovers. People vary enormously in their view of how much they want to know about their genes and in reality how much they really want to know about what that might be telling them about their future. The little yellow line is just looking at how your heart's contracting over time. For Jonathan Graham, there are no doubts. He says he's thrilled to be a volunteer because ultimately he may be able to keep himself and his children healthy. If I become identified as possessing potentially something that could be a risk factor for a future condition, they get a heads up. They get a genetic heads up saying you need to be aware of it, you need to be tested to see if you have it as well and then take the appropriate steps to head off any potential complications. And ultimately, it's not just you and your own family who may be helped. In the end, this groundbreaking study may offer new hope to millions of people at risk for heart disease and help all of us to lead longer, healthier lives. And the entire premise of personalized medicine is that we can take that information and implement strategies to reduce their individual risk over time. So we've been talking for years about how the Genome Project is going to revolutionize medicine and allow personalized health care. And what ClinSeq is about is making that a reality. If you want to find out more about the ClinSeq project or to see if you're eligible, visit our website, genome.gov slash ClinSeq.


Well, hello and welcome to Jonathan from the Heart. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic, the two types of men that come on strong. One is good, one is bad. Two types of men that come on strong. Really quickly, if you're brand new to my YouTube channel, please hit the subscribe button, hit the bell so you can be notified of new videos. And if any time during this video the content resonates with you, please hit that like button so I can get seen in the YouTube algorithm. Lastly, these are my weekend videos I shoot out on my balcony. Very similar to the videos I shoot in my private group called Midlife Love Mastery. This is a group where you can have direct access to me on a regular basis and ask me questions in our group page. And I shoot individualized videos just for you. So check out the link below to the VIP group. It's only a few bucks a month. Anyway, let's talk about the two types of men that come on strong. So you know, it's interesting. I was watching a video from one of my contemporaries and he was talking how men are hunters and they're pursuers and that's their job to hunt and pursue. And what was interesting was he was talking about a seasoned relationship, how a man is supposed to be continually hunting and pursuing in the relationship. And I don't know what planet he lives on because I know most men, when they enter into a relationship, they nest into the relationship, they actually get kind of lazy. The last thing they do is hunt when someone's in a relationship. But certainly in the beginning stages, most of you have been heard or have been indoctrinated in the conversation that men love the hunt and men love the chase and men love to pursue. So with that narrative comes this idea of coming on too strong in the pursuit phase, coming on too strong. Like he loved Bomb Me for example or he was just smothering me with attention and I wasn't as interested as him and then he came on so strong and then poof, he went away. Why would someone come on so strong and then poof, run away? Well, that's what I want to lean into today. Why would someone come on strong and then poof away? Because it's basically the there's two types of men that come on strong and then poof away and then there's a type of man that comes on strong if you will and he actually wants a fully committed relationship with you and that's what we're going to lean in today in this conversation. Because the reality is, is you ladies recognize the men who come on strong who are not commitment oriented and the men that are not going to go the distance and yet you probably either blindly or refused to see this happening because the reality is, is the beginning stages of dating is hyper focused on the chemistry phase of dating and not the real important values and lifestyle compatibility and emotional compatibility needed to actually build a juicy, delicious relationship with someone, juicy, delicious, healthy relationship with someone I should say. And so the types of men that come on strong that are going to poof away versus the type of man that'll come on strong and actually want to sustain a relationship with you basically looks like this. Okay, for the man who's, let's, okay, let's go back to that chemistry piece and I've experienced this so I know I've met women where I've, you know, we've connected with one another, there was mutual attraction. I mean, it was like we almost want to lip lock right away when we saw each other and it was literally driven by that chemical of, of dopamine, if you will, I truly believe it's a chemical of dopamine that's being released in the brain that says, I like this person, I like this person, I like this person and I just feel this need to want to get close, close, close, close, close. But it's coming from a place of physicality. In other words, it's coming from a place of lust.  But when these chemicals take over, it's like a magnet that makes you just want to just be with this person and I've been with women who have felt exactly the same way, like the physical connection was so strong, you just wanted to pounce each other. Now, I don't know if you've experienced that. I hope you have because it is kind of fun to have that experience at least once in your lifetime, sometimes many times. But ultimately what is causing that drive is the sexual piece.  Men and women alike, women do it. Women don't as much. Now, I should say they do it rarely. Women tend to bond through physical sex because from what I understand, oxytocin is released in the body that makes you bond to a man. So this is where it's different from men because we don't bond through the sexual piece in relationship and a little bit later I'll explain how we actually bond in relationship. I hope I remember because I can be a little flighty at times. By the way, true confession. I have a bit of dyslexia. I oftentimes mix up words in my head. I mix up words when I'm reading. So I do struggle with sometimes. So sometimes they say something and I mean it the other way. I hope you cut me some slack on this. I'm just a human doing my best to articulate what's inside my head and sometimes it comes out the other way. Okay, coming back to the sex piece. I know many of you have experienced this. Now, there's another type of guy that comes on ridiculously strong, but poof, he's going to be gone as well. He's going to be gone for a different reason though. He's going to be gone for a different reason. And this is the guy who's needy, dependent, and clingy. I'm going to repeat that. The guy who's needy, dependent, clingy. He's constantly reaching out to you.   And for whatever reason in his mind, he's possibly most likely an insecure guy. I've done this. I've done this myself. I've been in a position where I put someone on a pedestal. I was ultra needy. This is when I was going through a lot of trauma after my divorce and emotional trauma after my divorce. And I was ridiculously needy for a period of time.  And those are the two types of guys that come on strong and they're poof, they're God. The one that's either he's only been in it for the sex or the needy guy, which poof you're going to want to get rid of him. But now we're going to lean into the good type of guy that comes on strong that can potentially go the distance. And I got to be candid with you. I completely forgot what I was going to say before when I said I'll mention it later. Hopefully they'll come back to me. However, before we do really quickly today, I have an announcement for everyone. Today is my birthday, my birthday. At the time I'm shooting this. So folks, I've got a little oops. Here, look at this. If I can get this lit. Oh my gosh. I'm going to give myself a birthday wish. Can you guys guess what I'm going to wish for myself? I'm going to have a little bite. Frosting. I'm going to celebrate my birthday. My cup today. My birthday so apropos for a Leo. I make the world go around. What do you do? My t-shirt today, the self love club. So this guy comes this type of guy that comes on strong. I think is the good one because I recognize this in myself. And this is the guy who actually is excited about you is excited about you. And there's and the thing about the guy who's excited about you, he's not necessarily driven by the lust piece. And he's not put you up on a pedestal. He's in a little bit of state of infatuation because he might feel like he's found the one. And I know I've been in this position before myself. In fact, during the pandemic, or at least in the height of the pandemic, I met a woman. We had a what I thought was a really great first date. And I was really excited about her would text her, you know, be demonstrative, be effusive. And we had a second date. And I was doing the same thing. I was just excited. I don't believe I was smothering her. And I say this, because I asked her on a third date. And she said, No, she wasn't interested in me. And my suspicion was that while I was excited about her, she really wasn't in a place to be in relationship. So the reality is, is I do believe that when a person is excited, they're going to make lots of effort, which is great, you want that. Ideally, it's with someone who's also in a good space to make effort as well. In other words, they're not hung up in some past relationship, which ladies, I've had this happen before, I've liked a woman on the date and I find out she's still hung up on her past relationship, where she has unresolved issues.  I've had women who have been gone through a lot of emotional trauma and they're just not in a space to be in a relationship. This has happened to me, the excited guy when I like someone. But ultimately, what I think is coming up here is a recognition that guess what, the dating process is a mess out there. There's no doubt about it. It's hard to figure all these out.  Text this, say this, do this. It's so effing confusing that makes it so hard to actually just lean into what you want most. And that is I truly believe in our heart of hearts. It starts with self-love. It starts with self-love. When I wrote my book, What the Heck Is Self-Love Anyway, A Journey of Personal Development, Self-Help, and Spiritual Work, it was to get to a place that no matter what happens on the journey of finding a life partner, I look at it this way. I look at it as a journey of finding a life partner. No matter where you're at on the journey, you're going to fully accept that no matter what happens, everything is going to be okay.  This is why today I want to recommend everybody reading. This is my birthday request from you to check out this book called The Surrender Experiment, The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. And why I want you to check this out, because full acceptance allows us to appreciate every aspect of the journey, whether someone is right for us or not. I not too long ago was briefly in a, I did a woman a couple of times, I really liked, I asked her out on third date, and she was interested in somebody else.  And then, you know, I went through bargaining in my head, all that kind of stuff, like we go through in a grief period when someone, it feels like almost an absolute loss, not like the way I lost my son Connor, but so darn close to that. And we try to bargain and we hope and all that kind of stuff.  Ultimately, no matter where the relationship goes, no matter whether it lasts two dates, two years, you know, 20 years, whatever it is, ultimately, I'm at least my invitation for everyone is to accept themselves at where they're at in their life right now. And I don't mean to be okay with it, but not to beat yourself up because this dating process is a mess. There's no doubt about it. This is why I'm still single folks. And what I mean to say is I'm making effort just like you. I put myself out on the dating apps. I email women. They email me. We sometimes talk on the phone. Sometimes it progresses to maybe a zoom call or a FaceTime. Maybe it progresses to an actual date. And a lot of times there isn't physical attraction. That's one of the main challenges in dating today, because people put a poor representation of themselves out there. I think that's one of the things that makes it difficult. And then ultimately where people are at in their journey, a lot of people are emotionally messed up. It makes it very difficult to find someone who's stable. I know you can feel very frustrated. And folks, I felt that way many a times. Fall off the horse seven times, get up eight times, ultimately have a choice. If you want a life partner in your life, it's going to require making effort. And yes, you're going to go through the guys who come on strong. They're only interested in sex. And sometimes the guys who are needy. And maybe every once in a while you might meet a guy who's in the same place as you, or maybe you're not in the same place as him. This is just part of the journey. Ultimately my request of everyone is to enjoy their journey because just like my birthday, I wish I could remember what I was trying to think of before, but just like my birthday for every one of you, my hope is you join the self love club because no matter where it goes in any of these relationships, ultimately the best relationship you have is the relationship with yourself. And that's the relationship I'd like you to most focus on. All right, that's my birthday request and my wish for all of you. If you'd like to accept my birthday request or wish, please post a comment below. If you liked any aspect of this video, please let me know your thoughts on it. I do my best to read everything even if you post a question. All right, I think this will be a good place to wrap up today. I hope you found value. And again, if you did hit that like button, we're going to wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm going to ask you to turn to someone, a teddy bear or pillow and give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye-bye now.