Hello and welcome to the International Daily Naughty By People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Thousands demand repeal of UK policing bill after crackdown on Sarah Everard protests. Bank employees go on strike in India against the government's privatisation plan. UN report revealed 65% increase in demolition of Palestinian homes by Israel. And protests continue in France as Senate debates widely denounce global security bill. For our first story, we go to the UK where protests in the city of London continued for the fourth consecutive day on March 16th. Protesters had first gathered on March 13th to hold a protest and vigil for a 33-year-old woman. Sarah Everard had disappeared on March 3rd while she was walking home. Her body was then discovered in the Kent-Woodland area last week. A metropolitan police officer has been charged with a kidnapping and murder. Thousands of people have gathered every day since Saturday to protest against police and gender-based violence across the UK. Outrage grew following reports of police repression against protesters in Clapham Common on March 13th. Police were seen manhandling and grabbing women, pinning women to the ground and making arrests. Protesters are also demanding the repeat of the contentious policing bill introduced by the Conservative government. The police crime, sentencing and courts bill will give the police broader powers to crack down on protests. This includes limits on the duration of protests and other arbitrary measures including noise limits. Activist groups including Sisters Uncut in All Black Lives UK have repeatedly pointed to the failure of the police to protect women and oppressed communities from harm. Moreover, police officers themselves have engaged in violence against these communities. Expanding police power under this bill will place marginalized people in communities at further risk. Activists argue. Amid the protests, the bill passed its second reading in the UK Parliament on March 16th, which a majority of 359 to 263 votes. It will now be sent to a committee stage for a detailed examination. In our next story, over a million employees from India's backing sector observed a national strike on March 15th and 16th. The strike was called to oppose the union government's plan to privatize public sector banks. The right-wing BJP-led government is proposing the privatization of two banks as part of a broader disinvestment plan. Several protest marches were held in major cities including the capital of Delhi on Monday and Tuesday. Thousands of people from progressive groups, farmers groups and student and women's unions also joined in solidarity. The strike was also supported by the major left parties in India. The call to strike was issued by the United Forum for Bank Unions. This is constituted by the various organizations including the All India Bank Employees Association and the Bank Employees Confederation of India among others. Unions have stated that privatization will impact the working conditions of employees. It might also cause difficulties of access to poor and marginalized people living in remote areas. March 15th was observed as Anti-Privatization and Anti-Corporatization Day. The call was given by trend trade unions as well as the United Group of Farmers. The central trade unions reported that protests were carried out in over 100,000 locations across the country. A strike in the four general insurance companies would be held on March 17th. A one-day strike will also be held by the employees of the Life Insurance Corporation on March 18th. In our next story, the demolition of Palestinian homes by Israeli forces increased by 65 percent in 2021. The first two months of 2021 reported the highest number of demolitions since UN records were first prepared in 2009. These findings were prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian territories on March 16th. At least 305 Palestinians, including 172 children, lost their homes and were displaced in February alone. Over 435 people have lost their livelihoods as a result of the Israeli-led demolitions. Israeli authorities often claim violations of rules or lack of permits to justify the demolitions. Palestinians in the UN have stated that the authorities also discriminate against Palestinians while issuing housing permits forcing some to wait for many years. Sea's land is often used to build illegal Israeli settler outposts. Israel has been conducting these demolitions in the occupied West Bank in East Jerusalem since 1967. As per the Oslo Accords of 1993 to 1995, it is total control of over 60 percent of the West Bank known as Area C. There are more than 300,000 Palestinians residing in this area. Authorities have seized their land without prior notice and over 90 percent of the cases. The UN report also stated that Israeli officials target houses provided to Palestinians by humanitarian organizations. Residents carried out 93 such demolitions so far in 2021 as compared to a total of 157 in 2020. Three Palestinian caravans were also destroyed in the village on March 16th. Palestinian land was also seized in Masafariyata which lies south of the West Bank on the same day. For our final story, we go to France where protests against a global security bill continued on March 16th. The legislation has been widely condemned as it will expand police powers including surveillance while reducing accountability. Here is a video feature on the current developments surrounding the bill. This year they issued this national scheme of a maintain of order who gives policemen a lot of power, a lot of advantage to take over journalists, but it's true that since November 2018 and during all the year 2019, we have had a lot of aggressions of policemen against journalists that our union have shown with EFJ, European Federation of Journalists, on the platform for the protection of journalists at the Council of Europe. We see in 2018 that France has grown up in the position of countries where the relationship between police and journalists is not going well and in 2020 this has continued and this law is again another step in this, how you said, security state, a police state where police has a lot more power. We also say in France it's kind of minority report state. It looks like the movie minority report. They want to have the power of the decision, the power of broadcast the visual narrative and that's not fair and that's not human rights. That's all your time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then keep watching People's Dispatch.


I'm going to save the craziest, weirdest item for last, so stay tuned for that. So, remember the Ralph Lauren shirt that I got at the garage sale? It is washed and clean and ready to be listed and it's still hanging there to be listed. Anyway, let's go into what I bought on what not. I bought this from Cappdell & Thrifty and it was a bunch of really interesting this and that items that are vintage.  Well, I decided that I was going to buy stuff and I was going to do an unboxing and we are going to see what I got. I will have to look up what I paid for everything because I did not print that out. So we will either talk about those numbers at the end of the video or I will pop up a screenshot or something and then I'm also going to show you how I listed everything with a screenshot. So there is one brand of these that goes for big money. I can't think of what it is right now, but this is not it. However, this I want to say she started most of the items out at $2. So I'm guessing I paid $2 for this and it's new old stock. So I figure I can make some money on that for sure. So pretty cool item, definitely vintage, definitely my style. So let's open this. That's item number one and I'm going to reuse this box. You got to love it when you get boxes you can reuse, right? Okay, let's get this open and I'll have to try to remember. I don't even remember everything I got, but so this is her number to keep track of what I purchased. But the reason I bought this is because look at this bling and I think this is like an old perfume thing, but she did say that the pump thing was missing or something. I don't really know how this works. It says hand cut and it has information on here. So I need to do some research on this, but I just thought it was really beautiful. I don't know if it's valuable or not, but we'll find out. The next item I got is, oh, it's a little owl. Uh-oh. Oh, that came right off. Look how cute it is. Look how cute. So I'm not sure if I'm going to keep that or sell it because I kind of love it. It's so cute, isn't it? But it's glass. Isn't it beautiful? Ooh. All right. So that is that. I'm going to save the craziest, weirdest item for last. So stay tuned for that. But her whole show was jam packed with, um, she didn't know what she was pulling out of the box. Kind of like I do on my what not shows. I just kind of grab things, you know, and sell them. And if you guys are not on what not, you can use my referral link down below to get $15 to shop. And um, that's in the description. So make sure you follow Catfeel and Thrifty and I am Bola Buddies over there. So this is an old coin, oh, golly, it's a, it says genuine leather right there. And it's an old coin thing. So I just thought it was cute and cool and the price was right. So I went ahead and grabbed it. So once you hit $8.35 on her show, shipping is free after that. So that also plays into a factor. I love when I hit free shipping, I have a tendency to buy more when I hit free shipping. But look at this belt buckle. How cool is that? And it says something, it says solid copper and it says nickel silver. So nickel silver and solid copper. So I'm going to have to look that up. But it's a, I'm going to say it's probably vintage, handmade maybe. How cool is that? I love it. So let's see what else we got. But I thought this would make for a super fun video. And if you guys want to sell on what not, I also have a referral link down below that will tell what not that I referred you. So you can check that out. And a lot of times people get accepted quicker if they use someone's referral link. So feel free to check that out. And I love selling on what not, but I also love buying and sourcing on what not. So check out the app if you have not already whether to buy or sell. All right. So I like these old, these stickers come off really easy. I like these old, I think it's a compact. How do I open it? Oh yeah, it's an old compact by Yardly. And I have heard of the brand Yardly before. So definitely picked that up. Yardly can be a bolo. I don't know if this one is, but we're going to look it up. All right, let's get this open. I'm trying to remember everything I bought. It's entertaining. Oh, I remember what this is. This is really cool. She had the coolest stuff. And most of her items, I think she started at $2. Okay, I kind of ruined it. Can you guess what this is? It's an address book. What? It's an address book. How cool is that? That is rad. Love it. Love it. Love it. Okay. We're still going here. I love this also. Such cool items. These are the type of things that I love to list. I think this is probably some sort of stone. There's no markings on it. And it opens up into a box. So it's just like a trinket box, but isn't it pretty? Does need clean there. So, but yeah, just a cool old trinket box. All right, the next item I bought this for my, I'm going to do a demo video on my reseller testing Bolo products channel. That's one of the reasons I bought it. And also I just thought it was unique and I had, maybe I've seen one before. I'm not sure, but check this out. I'm guessing somebody has hand made this and they peck. You pull on it and it pecks. This guy's stuck. These two guys don't want to peck. Why aren't they pecking? Peck. Peck already. So anyway, it's just like a toy that somebody has handcrafted. And I thought it was really cute, but there's actually corn. Isn't that funny? So I bought this. Maybe it only, maybe only two. Let's see. Why isn't this guy working? I don't know. Maybe the head. Well, two of them work. So I don't know if this will be a big seller, but I figured I could at least do a fun video on my channel. Now the next item I paid up for, because Seem So Vintage was there bidding against me. And there was another item that I got into a bidding war with Farm Girl Scavenger Noel and Seem So Vintage. We were all bidding against each other and Noel won Farm Girl Scavenger Noel won. And she has it listed for $500. So I'll have to show that to you guys. But here is the one that Seem So Vintage and I were battling it out for. They are door knob things. And I have sold these in the past. So typically these come in a kit and this one is kind of unglued a little bit, which is probably pretty normal for something this old. These are actually in pretty nice condition. But they're felt and they come out of a craft kit and even already made, they can be a Bolo. Now I have not looked these up, but I was willing to pay up a little bit for these because they were in such beautiful condition. So you got Santa in a hot air balloon and then the other Santa. And they had the bling, the sequins. They spent a lot of time on those. Now the weirdest thing I bought and if you're not following Farm Girl Scavenger Noel, definitely follow her on YouTube. Check out Seem So Vintage and Farm Girl Scavenger Noel also on what not. I will link them down below. And Catfeel and Thrifty of course. But this is the weirdest thing I bought that day. And I bought it because weird cells and I'm getting it out of the saran wrap. See? Are you wondering what it is? Farm Girl Scavenger Noel, she always sells weird stuff and she always says weird cells. Well, I know that also. So when I saw this, I'm like, you know what? It's weird. I'm definitely going to buy it and I'm going to see if I can sell it. Now, is it going to sell fast? Probably not. I mean, maybe. I don't know. I'm going to have to figure out some key words. So if you guys have any tips for me down in the comments, definitely give me your keywords for this item. All right. Here we go. You guys, this is a masterpiece. Are you ready for this? Oh my goodness. Are you ready? Here it comes. What is that? Pantyhose people. They are pantyhose people. Are you kidding me? What is even happening here? So there's the back and there's the front. So not only did I buy it from Cat Feel and Thrifty, but Cat Feel and Thrifty bought it thinking somebody would buy it.  Yours truly. I have no idea. I think these are nylons or pantyhose and here's the little baby up here and mama looks mad and daddy looks, he looks kind of happy. I don't know. I'm not really sure what's going on here. What do you guys think about this? Would you have bought it or left it behind? Let me know down in the comments. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching. This was my what not haul. Oh my goodness. I just found daddy's glasses. Everything was poking me. I think these go on daddy. Yes, they do. They were poking me. I'm like, what's poking me? So daddy has glasses. There we go. Oh my goodness. Do you love it? Are you guys all going to race to my eBay store to buy it? I'm going to price it. Hi friends. All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here. Check out the people in the description and give them a follow over on what not. Don't forget to grab my referral link and get your $15 to shop. Yes, you can source on what not. I bought some different fun things that I thought would be educational. Some of them. I don't know if they're going to be a good seller or not. We're going to find out together. But yeah, I thought it would be a fun video. Thank you so much for being here and thanks for watching.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a harky hyosilver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful mass griter of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse silver. The lone ranger rides again. Jeff Hope, the deadliest man with a six-gun ever known in La Colina, listened tensely as footsteps approached. Roused from a light sleep by their sound, his instinctive reaction had been to strike a gunfighting stance, legs well apart, knees slightly bent, the fingers of his right hand curled and closed, gripping not the comforting butt of his favorite 44, but a cell bar in the county jail. For the first time in his young, stormy life, Jeff was a prisoner. His tension gave way to a surge of bitter anger. Then the friendly, moustached face of Sheriff Shell Harper appeared outside the grating and he managed to grin. Howdy, Sheriff. How's the weather tonight? Collable Jeff, you doing all right? Well, it gets mighty lonesome back here. Well, you'll soon have company. Less than 90 mason closes up his crooked gambling den and leaves town. I'll give him till tonight to pack his grip sack. Oh, I come. I don't calculate let any poor cats like him stay in La Colina. Well, I gotta hold you in jail. You sure head up about me being in charge with murder? Well, I shouldn't have be, son. All you did was plug that no good Bill Hazen, but dirty in the name of a decent girl. I gave him a chance to apologize for insulting Clara Wells. He wouldn't take it. He went for his gun, so I had to... Oh, the town ought to be plumb, proud of you. Seems it used to be when you was my deputy. And had to protect the people from border alhoots. Times have changed, Sheriff. Well, La Colina's ruined. It's full of gunshies, and such like.  They aim to civilize us Texans, they say. Yep. Stop our gunplay. That's why the fellas in the courthouse won't let me drop this key, Sheriff. Me being jail is going to hit my more hard. More's been poorly. I'll come back here to talk about that. You see, Jeff, I... See what? I ran into Old Dark Wells and Miss Clara better go. She's a dead's driver, you know. They'd been on a call to your ranch. A call? Your more's been taken mighty bad. Oh, no. She wants to see you before... Well, before it's too late. Sheriff, I've got to go to her. Can't we fix up a bond or something? You can't get Dale in a murder case. But if you promise... I'll promise. I'll be back in a day or two if you let me go. You know I don't lie or break my word. I know, son. So I'm unlocking your cell. Now go out the back, we can ride in the room there. She's saddled and waiting. Just try not to be seen, because I'm sticking my badge on this play. Here's my hand, Sheriff. Now if I move, it's pronto. How do you want me to go? Sheriff? I want him to... You're covered. Don't move a muscle. You pussy-footin' tinhorn. You snuck up on me. I was coming in to talk peace when you let Jeff go. Now I'm top, ma'am. Maybe you can get me thrown out of office. But before I lose my badge, you'll be out of business. So that's how you want to play it. I'm still the law. And you're too yellow to reshoot me. Not when a set-up's like it is. I can plug you in and let Jeff take the blame. Why you...  He knelt at her bedside in a closed room for some time, while Clara waited beyond the door. Presently, the doctor came. Oh, Dad. Yes, Clara? I'm glad you're here. Jeff's in the other room with his mother. Here he comes now. Jeff, I... Oh, Jeff. I... I'm sorry. I guess I needn't tell you, Clara. It's all over. I'm glad you could be here with her, Jeff. The sheriff let me out to come home. I see. Just before she died, Mo asked me to promise I'd never kill anyone. She smiled when I gave her my word. Her face is still smiling. It's good that your mother will never know. Know what? You said the sheriff had let you out. Yeah. The sheriff let me go on the word that I'd come back.  Kill Sheriff Harper? You mean he's dead? He was shot to death tonight. Some stray Indian heard the gunfire and gave the alarm. That happened after I left. It had to. Jeff, when I got there, a cigarette was still smoldering in your open cell. That sheriff's horse is outside now. He learned it to me, Doc. He was my best friend. I don't suppose you meant to kill him. You were desperate to see your mother and tussled with him. Maybe the gun went off accidentally. Dad, what are you saying? Jeff isn't armed. He's had plenty of chance to get rid of the gun. So you see? I see plenty, Doc. I see I'm good as hung right now. Under state law, the county coroner becomes acting sheriff when a sheriff dies. I'm coroner, Jeff. I'll have to arrest you. It's all right, Doc. I was going back to jail anyhow. Well, you can't go back to La Colina now. You'd be lynched. Even the native Texans have turned against you. You've got to make a run for it. No, Clara. Boy, I'm just an old sawbones who doesn't carry a gun. If you don't want to stay arrested, I can't do much about it. What chance did I have against the posses that'll be writing? Jeff, if you won't do anything for your own sake or mine, think of your mother. I am thinking. You'll shame the memory of a good woman if you let yourself be mobbed for something you didn't do. Yeah. Yeah, that's so. Doc, I'm going. Yes. Goodbye, Clara. Goodbye, Mark. As Jeff Hope stumbled from the ranch house stunned by his misfortunes, Tonto had been waiting outside the door, emerged from the shadows, stepping behind the fugitive. The Indian thrust a gun against his back. You keep going, huh? Jeff. What is this? Who are you? Me, Tonto. Me here shooting in jail. Trail you here. You must be the Indian doc mentioned. I reckon you've been spying on me, but it don't matter. It mattered plenty. Maybe me saved you. You mean you're not a tracker for a possie? Me alone. Not know if you kill Sheriff, but one thing, plenty sure, you'll not get fair trial if you get caught. Oh, are you taking me? To friend's camp. You get on horse front. All right. Follow me. Posse, come now.  Deep in the labyrinth of flesh-taring vegetation, they pulled up beside the embers of a campfire. Go, go, go, go. We get on here, Jeff. Stick, Scout. Easy, boy. Kimusabe. Jeff Hope in bad trouble. See, mister, is that just a shadow? Where are you wearing a mask? It's a mask. We needn't go into that now. Tell me, what's happened? Sorry, mister. Of course you don't believe it. Jeff, I have enough faith in your story to help you all I can. It's going to be mighty hard to find the hombre who did the shooting. Yes, that's true. A veteran lawman like Sheriff Harper was bound to have hundreds of enemies. Anyone of whom might have murdered him. Any jail, a lot of crooks in his time. But you were the only prisoner in the jail today. That's right. There weren't even any sleepers in the bum's roost. Sleepers? Yeah. The sheriff was big hurt. He fixed up a room off the cell block where tramps could bed down without being locked in. Oh, that's interesting. Tato, are you sure that no one left for the front door after the shooting? Me sure. Maybe the killer lives right in La Calina. He does? We'll draw him out. What do you mean? This is my plan. We'll cover Tato with a ragged blanket and send him into town tomorrow morning.  Go to the jail and speak to Dr. Wells. He has the authority to let you sleep there. Oh, while you're in the jail, we'll...  Hylo had a worried look as he said, Boss, you told me you pulled a perfect job in the jail. Well, wasn't it? No one saw me and the law's barking up their own tree. The commissioners have posted a $5,000 reward for Jeff Hope. It's being talked around as an Indian witness. An Indian? Yeah. A stray who's staying in a bum's roost at the jail. Confunded I never thought of that. I didn't look in there. That's Indian. Don't talk English. Doc Wells is sent for an army scout who knows all the lingos. It'll take a couple of days for him to get here. What are you figuring to do?  The Lone Ranger was ready to spring his trap. He and Jeff crouched in a dark passage behind the jail, while Tuttle waited just inside the unlocked door of the vagrant's room. As hours passed uneventfully, the mask man repeated his instructions to Jeff. Don't hesitate to use that gun I gave you. But shoot only the wound. Hi, Savvy. I'll cover the door. You cut off anyone who breaks away and tries to climb the fence. What is it? Hold it, you two. You're covered. I'll hold them off. Go on inside. Stop, I said. You fellas, drop guns. It's a trap. Shoot your way out. We've got them cornered. After them, Tuttle. Yes, get to the fence. Head them off. Here you are. Let's get back. You may not see them crooks and shadows. Don't shoot. Jeff's ahead of us. Then shoot at us. Open the fence. I'll push you. Now get in the way. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. All to continue our story. In an effort to learn who killed Sheriff Harper, the Lone Ranger had staked out the La Colina Jail using Tonto as a lure. Caught that night in the trap, Arnie Mason, a crooked gambler and one of his hirelings had fought their way to a fence guarded by Jeff Hope. Running to Jeff's aid, the masked man shot it. Use your guns. Soon he'll be here. See you. I'm staying in Tonto while, Jeff. You go back to the parathing of a Tonto. The first tell me whether you recognize those men. I couldn't see their faces good enough to tell. One fellow's voice sounded familiar, but I can't place it. Why didn't you shoot? You could have stopped them. I had my gun right on them. One had a cripple right on them, and the other was helping them over the fence. A blind man could have hit him, but... Well, what happened? I froze on my trigger, mister. I was afraid I might kill him. You come, Jeff. You may be losing your life now. I know, but I made more a promise. A promise never to kill anybody again. Safe in the gambling den with Hilo Jack, Arnie Mason's first thought was of his wound. As his house man worked on his arm, he groaned. Did you see the armor you plugged me? He had a mask on. A mask? Right. The other fellow was Jeff Hoomey. I can't figure it. It don't make sense. It does to me. They planted that Indian and then laid for us. Well, they didn't get us. They don't know who we are, where we went, or they'd be here now. We'd better let things ride as they are and keep moving. No. I want that mask. I'm right here wherever he is. He's dangerous and he must be hiding, Jeff Hoomey. If we can get him alive and make him talk, we can get Hoomey, too. Then I'll be safe. Yeah, and we can collect the reward. The arm's fixed. I'll get Rusty and the boys. Watch old Doc, his girl, and the jail. That mask man will turn up again. Meanwhile, Doc Wells and Clara, summoned from their home by excited citizens, had reached the jail. As the crowd searched the grounds, they hurried toward the vagrant's room. Hey Indian, where are you? Clara, hold that lantern over here. There's his old blanket. Yes, but he's gone. The door's open. Look, there are bullet holes in it. The killer came back and got him.  I should have seen to his safety. You boys, I'll call them back. Organize the parcels. Let them go. Donna was all right. A mask man. What are you doing here? Yes, I'm trying to help Jeff hope. How? By silencing the only witness who could clear him? Tunnel wasn't a witness. He was here to draw the murderer into a trap. So that was it. What happened? Two men appeared. Jeff let them get away rather than risk killing them. Well now that they've been frightened off, you'll never get out of his trouble. There's still a way of identifying one man. I wounded him in the right arm. You don't expect him to come to me, do you? No, Doctor. But I know how you can call him in. Here's what we'll do. Riding away from his conference at the jail, the lone ranger turned his great white horse into a dimly lit alley in order to avoid the main street. Several hundred yards down the Doby wall passage, a covered wagon loomed up standing crosswise ahead of him. Instantly on the alert, he loosened his six guns and whirled silver almost in his tracks. Act silver. Mounding silver. Just as the big horse straightened out, the loop of a larry had dropped out of the shadows, pinning the mask man's arms below the elbows and making it impossible for him to raise his guns. Before he could be jerked from his saddle, he brought silver to a skidding stop. Leaping from a wagon and nearby walls, a half dozen men closed in, led by Hylo Jack, who was shouting, What do you men want? Your guns for one thing. All right, you've got them. Like a man's, Hylo. I'll take his mask off. No time for that, Rusty. Keep you lurid on him. Time to his saddle. Right. Here the rest of you. Move that wagon and get your horses. Where are you taking me, Rusty? The boss of Reagan thinks you're hiding Jeff Hope. What of it? Jeff is worth $5,000. Dead or on the hook.  I know it, but that don't... Hey, would you tell me where Jeff is? Why not? He's in the big pair of thickets. That jungle? Look, you'll have to guide us. I can do it. I'm going to keep my mask on. All right, at least for the time being. And if we get Jeff Hope, I'll give you a break. I heard that, Rusty. You're fixing to double-cross the boss. He'd double-cross us, and so would you. You side-watched Rusty. You shot him. He pulled first. Now, are you boys backing me? Sure, sure. Hide that carcass and mount your horses. All right, steady, boy. You on rain the mask. Don't try any tricks.  Yes, I know. Then get going. Come on, boys. Come on. Far from being a solid growth of cactus plants, the big pear-thicket was composed of many small thickets, each inaccessible to man and beast. Separating them were natural passages, some comfortably wide, others too narrow to admit a horse, and all linked together more intricately than a man-made puzzle. Just as Dave wrote, the masked man, still bound and held in leash by Rusty's lariat, let Silver pick his way through an opening in the maze. Behind him is Captor's riding in single file, cursed and grumbled. You can't get away from losing this masked man. I'm lost already, Rusty, because he loses himself. I know what I'm doing. Follow me. As the cavalcade wound deeper into the wilderness of Cacti, the masked man began to make brief hauls whenever a sudden turn put him out of Rusty's sight. Each time he kept the lariat taut by twisting and turning in his saddle and slipping the slack over the horn. By such contortions, he was finally able to put a half-dozen turns of the rope around his pommel, stoutly anchoring it. Behind him, Rusty was growling. Hey, how much farther we going, mister? This is far enough. What do you mean? Now, Silver, come on, big fella, come on! What are you doing, fella? Hold it, hold it! What's the matter, Rusty? He's got my rope fastened. Rusty snatched the second lariat the masked man bent low in his saddle, heaving and straining the mighty Silver through all of his weight and strength into the strange tug of war. Pull, Silver, pull! The great legs of the crook's horse shot out from under it. It split on its haunches, then rolled over squealing and hurling Rusty into the spine-armed wall of Cacti. At the same instant, Rusty's lariat jerked loose from the fallen animal saddle. Silver, plunging forward, stumbled, then gained his feats and catapulted into another break in the thicket. The loose rope whipping around the corner after him. One, two, three! He's getting away! Hear those hoes, tunnel? Can you hear them? Silver's hoes. Our friend's coming. There he is. Hold, Silver, hold. Easy, steady, big fella. Cut me loose and give me a gun. Can you do that, Pronto? What happened? I'll explain as we ride. Where are we going? Back to the jail, Jeff. This time we'll get the killer. After a busy morning during which they had subpoenaed every man in La Colina to appear at an inquest in the death of Sheriff Harper, Dr. Wells and Clara were back in the murdered lawman's office. Puzzled and angry citizens packed the place, wanting to know why they had been called to testify. Others stood outside. While Clara, whom the doctor had deputized, seated a coroner's jury of six. Abel King, the young prosecutor, protested.  People don't like to see a girl handling a man's job. Clara's doing all right. Even if she is, this inquest isn't necessary. We know the Sheriff was shot to death. Let Jeff Hope shot him. It looks that way. But that isn't all. Wait, you've summoned the whole town here. You're wasting taxpayers' time and money. We'll be voted out of office. Send my office with force on me. I'll do as it please. Dad, the jury's ready. Then we'll call the first witness. For several hours, the townsman paraded to the witness chair, took the oath, and were dismissed after answering a question or two. The exasperated prosecutor had turned his back on the proceedings when the doctor called. Next witness. Arnie Mason. Is Arnie Mason here? He's outside if it matters. All right. Take the oath, Arnie. Oath. See here, Doc. I don't know anything about the killer. That's what everybody says. Raise your right hand. Solemnly swear, tell the truth, hold truth, not about the truth, so help me God. Sure. I mean, I do. You didn't raise your hand. Have you got a sore arm? I... Well, yeah, I had a fall. You should have come to me. You may have a fracture. That's nothing. I'm looking anyhow. No, you're not. He's got a gun.  I'm getting out of here. Not that gun, Mason. Hey, look back there. The mask man and Jeff. You! Hey, you'll never get me. Come on, Jeff. I've got him. No, let go of my arm. Who got loose? I'll get back all of you. You two, girl. Look out, he'll shoot. Get out of the way. You bet I'll shoot. I'm going out that window, see?  You won't make it, Mason. Oh, yes, I will. Oh, I'm shooting you. If you hadn't drilled me in the arm, I wouldn't have been caught when I was called here to testify. I'm getting you for that. I get out of my way. Give me a clear shot at that mask, man.  I'll always kill by another gunman. Your gang is lost in the pair of thickets trying to find a way out. Yeah? Well, I'm finishing you. Let's both shoot. Oh! Oh, my leg. You got it. Not enough gunplay, Mason. My leg is busted. Stay right there on the floor, Mason. Patch up before we move. He did shoot. Yes, Mason. When the people got out of the way for your shot, they got out of the way for mine. You're fast shooting.  I may as well admit it. I killed him. Oh, my leg. Can you hear that? Yes, Jeff. You're clear to killing Sheriff Harper, but there's still the other case. I know, but I came back as I said I would. That ought to be in my favor. In that other case, he was justified. Any jury would say so. Yes, Clara. I agree that a jury will say he was justified. And I think in view of what's happened, Jeff has nothing to worry about. But you're the prosecutor. Do you mean that? I intend to recommend that the charges be dropped. Clara. Oh, Jeff, you hear that? You're going to be free. There's a matter of a reward for the capture of the sheriff's murder, Jeff. I think you and the mask man might be entitled to it. Well, that mask man. Oh, golly, if it hadn't been for him... Well, where is he? He went out the door, Jeff. Who is he? Oh, Tano told me, Clara. He's the Lone Ranger. Lone Ranger, a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, originating in Detroit, is created and produced by George W. Trendle and directed by Charles D. Livingston. Edited by Fran Stryker, the part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.


What's up, guys? I'm Brian Sakawa. You're watching He Spoke Style, and today I'm going to show you what's in my Dopp kit. All right, so this is my Dopp kit. It is leather. It is by Frank Clegg. This is the small size. I love Frank Clegg stuff. It's extremely high quality, and it only gets better with age. So let's open it up. All right, deodorant. This is honestly my favorite deodorant. This is Armin Hammer. It's unscented. A lot of deodorants I found in the past have kind of like get sticky and stuff, but this one doesn't smell and it dries really well and doesn't have that same stickiness to it. Sonic Air toothbrush. Q-tips. Alka Seltzer. You never know. Let me wake up with a headache or something. Little scissors. Combs. This is our Abbey Horn dressing comb. It's made with natural horn. It just has a really cool look to it. It's very durable. I've had this one for, jeez, I don't know, over a year for sure, and it's still going strong. Exciting. Floss. Oh, some grooming stuff. So I am a really big fan of ASOP products. This is the Mandarin facial hydrating cream. ASOP is a little pricey and it can seem even more pricey when you consider the size of the bottles and everything, but from experience, I've used this for a very long time. It lasts a lot longer than the size would indicate. I've had this bottle maybe for about a month and it's not even half gone and I use it twice a day, so really great stuff from ASOP. I also have from ASOP. This is the Moroccan Neuroly Post Shave Lotion. Again, you can see it's not that big, but I've been using this for a month, believe it or not, and it's still a ton left. Actually, I haven't been using it recently because I've been letting my beard grow, but still, even if I use it daily, it lasts a very long time. I would say from this little bottle I get about maybe two or maybe three months depending on how much I use, and you really don't need to use a lot of it at all. So I've gone through many, many different products when it comes to hair product and this is the Imperial Classic Pomade. This is the one I've been using the most recently. I finally figured out how to make it work with my hair, and I love the hold that it has. Later on, if I run my fingers through my hair, it still keeps the styling that I have, but it feels natural and that's a big, big thing for me. Now, Advil, you know, here is the shaving soap that I use. This is ProRazzo. Again, the reason I love using a shaving soap as opposed to a shaving cream is it lasts forever. I've had this same soap for, geez, how long has it been? Maybe five or six months, and you can see that there's still so much left. It's fantastic. I love the, it's got a little bit of a tingle to it. I like, it lathers very well. I like this. It's not too thick. Yeah, it works really well and I'm happy with it, and it lasts forever. I do like to shave with a safety razor, and this is the razor that I use. This is by Mula. This is the Chrome razor, and actually comes with a nice little, little pouch as well. I've been using a safety razor for a really long time, six or seven years. It's really cost-effective, and I like sort of the old-school feel of shaving with a safety razor. Now, if you use a safety razor and a shaving soap, you need a shaving brush. This is also, this is a shaving brush. It's a travel shaving brush also by Mula. It's really cool. You just unscrew the cap here, and the brush pops out, and screws in the top right there, and it's a really good, it's a really good brush for travel because if you've ever tried to travel with a shaving brush, you know that if you were going to put it in your dop kit, the bristles could get really damaged, and move around, and you could just really ruin the shaving brush, and this kind of solves that problem when you're done with it. Let it dry out, and then when you pack it up, you just unscrew both ends. Plus, it's got a nice heavy feel to it. It just looks really cool as well. Really awesome product. Okay, even though I consider myself pretty advanced when it comes to shaving with a safety razor, I occasionally will nick myself, and the best styptic that I found is this liquid styptic by InfoLab. A little bit on the finger dab, and if you cut yourself, it will stop bleeding immediately. I've tried like other, like a styptic pencil, or they have like a styptic powder. Both of those I don't like. They definitely work really fast, but the white, the styptic pencil leaves like a white residue, which I didn't like. You just kind of want to stop the bleeding and get out of the house, and you don't want to have this white residue. Same thing with the styptic powder. It would leave kind of like a brown mark, and it would get on my collar. Didn't like it. This, very simple. It works right away, leaves no residue. It's the best. Oh, and so for the safety razor, you need to have blades, and I prefer the feather blades. So there you have it. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel, and until next time, thanks for watching, and stay tailored.


Hello, I hope everyone had a good break and it's refreshed after 10 minutes. So let's go to packaging. And yeah, we talked about all the different libraries in the Python ecosystem. Now we are going to add one or at least add one into the test thing. But I'll show you how to create your own package and how to publish your own code or at least make it easy for you to use across all of your projects. So should we do some talking first or just jump directly in? I would jump in or why are we doing it? Yeah, I guess the main thing is to make it easy for you to use your code. If you have a piece of code that you want to use in multiple projects make it easy for you to do that and just have it all in one place where you can maintain that you can just maintain it in one place or even to get it to the point where other people can use your code and only one person still has to maintain it which is it saves time. Other people might even be maintaining your code at some point. I'd actually say that is probably the most important point for packaging in the end that you make it easy for other people to use it. Yeah, so that it is actually used. Yes, so what do we need to make a Python package? Well, we need some structure. Well, yeah, there needs to be some structure that everybody knows is going to be there and that's basically kind of predefined so there will be modules because a Python file is called a module so you will have code in Python files and then we collect related modules into packages and in here we will show how to collect them into a package. Then if you want other people to be able to use your code you need a license. That's also if you want to accept contributions from anyone else, you need a license because they need to give you the access to use the code and that the license file is usually in the root of the project, the root folder of the project. You need a readme file because you need to tell people what the code is and what it does. It's also good to have other documentation but often in a small project or when you're starting readme is enough documentation but it's also good to have other documentation and automated testing is great because it allows you to check that everything works well at least like the things you are testing work by just running one command. And it helps you a lot in staying backward compatible so that what you're changing doesn't change for earlier results. Yeah, that's very important, very useful. Okay, so those other things we'll cover. I'm actually not sure if we cover testing. Well, let's see. But first we'll start with creating a package. So we'll assume that we have some useful functions we have written that we want to use in other projects. So the first of them is add. Yeah, imagine that this is a useful function. So this will add to numbers together. Here we are. Okay, great. Let's also write a subtract.py or subtracting.py, okay, yeah, which will subtract two numbers from each other. Okay, and finally one thing that's slightly more complicated which will do a numerical integral. Are you cheating a bit? We don't really write the code, we just use a library. Well, yes, but you should not write the code for a numerical integral. You should use sci-fi. So there's one question. Can you do this packaging in JupyterLab? So you can write the code in JupyterLab, you can create the files in JupyterLab. So almost everything we do, you can do in JupyterLab. But it is at least for me, we're dealing with the file system more than with Python code. So it's kind of more natural to do it here. Okay, so the point is Jupyter is more made for I guess notebooks and the packaging part, it's about creating Python files and running commands in terminal. So you can do it in Jupyter. It's fine, but it's not using notebooks. Sorry, Richard. Thomas, can you make your fonts bigger? That big enough? Well, probably good. We can see what people say. I probably can't change them in the editor, at least not quickly. Yes, the editor will probably follow the terminal font. Let's see. Can you run LS just to see what's in the current directory now? So we have some Python modules that are useful that we want to use in other places. I think for now, if you scroll down in the notes a little bit, you'll see a general structure for a package or what the folder could look like. I think the first thing we want to do is to create a folder where we put all the modules. So this will essentially be like, this is the Python stuff. This is where all the... This is the thing that's called a package. So this is where all the Python code goes. And it's a folder. It's just a normal folder, and we just move all of the .py files there. So do you want us to start here with the project? So is this what we're kind of looking at, the project folder for our example? I mean, okay, so you created a folder that will be the project root. Okay, so let's just go there, and then there we create another folder that's the package. I'll just push all of this over so that we... So this is a very common structure in the queue. We are back in here, but... Yeah, so now let's create another folder. So basically, the reason for this is we want to have one thing we can import. When you import NumPy, you import all of NumPy. We want to import Calculator and be able to import all of these functions at once. But now actually, we can't quite do that yet. What we can do now is run from Calculator import adding, for example. But we need to tell what Python needs to do when we want to import Calculator. And we do that by adding this underscore underscore init underscore underscore.py. That's something that it's kind of predefined in Python. And it is what turns a folder into a Python package.  Oh, when you import this package. And this is just normal Python code, really. So actually, what happens is when you import Calculator, when you import this folder or this package, it will run this code that Thomas is now typing. And everything that's then defined in this Python code, all of that will appear as Calculator.something. So there will be Calculator.add, Calculator.subtract, and Calculator.integral. And also Calculator.version with the underscores. Okay, so this looks good. Should we now try importing it just to see? Or, well, yeah, let's import it first, and then we'll add a license and read me. Oh, I hope I started the environment. Let's see. Well, right now it's all in this folder, so you don't actually need to be in an environment. The sci-pi isn't potentially... Oh, sci-pi might not be there. That's true. Well, if you try to import Calculator, if there's no sci-pi... Can you run it? Okay, you just run from Calculator. Can you run import Calculator? No module in Calculator, is it? Yeah. It has an init file. Oh, wait. I'm not entirely sure, but... I think, well, okay, let's see. Nope. Interesting. Did you actually move to the folder? Can you type ls? Okay. I'm in the wrong folder. Yes, you are in the wrong folder. Okay. Okay, so now you can import Calculator, and you have sci-pi, so it didn't actually fail. All right, so yeah, that's why we add this init.pi, and that's why we have all of these files in a single folder. You can, of course, you can have a more nested structure with multiple folders, but the init.pi makes this a package. Okay. And then, well, you can also try, you can do from Calculator import add. This actually, actually, this does require an input.pi. Yeah. Okay. Seems to work. Yeah, seems to be doing things. Okay, so let's exit this interpreter. Oh, if you want to try something else, fine. Try an integral or something. Okay, yeah, let's exit interpreter. And now, we don't have a license file or a readme file, so we don't need to decide on a license for this test case, but let's just create the file and a readme file as well. Let's just create them for now. Yeah. They are empty, so... So, yeah, now we have two empty files. If you don't get this again, show what we have. Okay, so we have Calculator, we have license and readme. Now, the next thing to make this a package, or what is the time? 22. 22 past, okay. So, yeah, so the next thing we need to add to make this package installable is this pyproject.toml. And, yeah, just create a file and we'll just copy the stuff from the example. And this is what I do anyway. Like when I start a project, I copy a pyproject.toml from somewhere and then I modify it according to my needs. So, you probably want to change my name because, so the reason is we will actually be uploading this to the Python package index, which means you can install it with pip. And that means, yeah, so you don't want, you want a unique name. If you have, if you try with a name that already exists in PyPy, that's already a Python package, then it will not work. So, yeah, so let's just identify this package for PyPy, so I come 23. Yeah, that's a good idea. Okay, otherwise everything is okay. It depends on SciPy. There's a quick example, a quick description and a readme file. Yeah, so you can also add your name and email if you want to. We could add additional ones. Yeah, you can add multiple authors. You can add more dependencies. That's all. And yeah, there is something called a long description. I'll leave that example. Okay, yeah, so this is it. And what this does, it means it makes your package installable with pip. So now we can run pip install. And while it's not yet on PyPy, it's not yet in the index. So we need to point it by pointing to this folder if you want to install. But let's just demonstrate it quickly. So pip install dot dot is the current folder. Okay, you don't have it. Oh, okay. Okay, we will fix this, but that should have worked. And if you are in the Anaconda environment, base environment, I think this should work with just pip. So the next thing we do is we go to the exercise, which is essentially creating the package we just created and testing that you can install it locally. So we will give you, now we're running a bit late, we'll give you 15 minutes anyway, because this is the important part. And that means we'll be back at 11.40. So yeah, good luck and see you in 15 minutes. Bye. Hey, hello. So yeah, let's go straight into PyPy. This will not take that long. So we do this as a demonstration, but you can also follow along and upload your package to test PyPy preferably, because unless you have an actual package you can want to upload. So yeah, so we will be uploading to test PyPy. I guess I should explain what PyPy is, right? So PyPy stands for Python package index. And it's when you type pip install and just the package name instead of a folder, for example, then it will look for that package in PyPy, in the Python package index. And yeah, you can push your packages there and then people can install them with just pip install the name. So it's a very useful thing to have. So yeah, we'll show you how to use it. And you can follow along if you want to, and you can upload something to test PyPy with these instructions. So and yeah, test PyPy is kind of what it says. So it's for testing, and your packages will get removed rather quickly. I don't remember how quickly exactly, but it's not meant for actual packages. I have the impression it's not that quickly. I just found that there's still one that I probably put on there a year ago. Okay, I'm kind of surprised, but okay, well, fine. Anyway, so it is meant for testing. So yeah, so let's just go through the steps on how to get this package into PyPy. So yeah, first you run build. This doesn't work. Okay, build is the package and cannot be directly executed. But that's kind of the point, isn't it? Should be. Okay, so maybe we need to update the instructions a bit. Let's see. Live Google. Okay, that could be. Or well, okay, let's install twine. Yeah, okay, that's the next step. So Python packaging guide tells you to and we're using setup tools. Okay. Okay, well, it tells you to install build using Python, using pip. Let's try that. This is a relatively new site, right? PyPy instructions. Can you try running pip install, did you try installing twine and didn't work? I tried installing twine and didn't want to do it. So I'm going back to the base environment. Oh, okay. This, well, we'll try for another two minutes, say, but actually twine might just be the uploader. No, pip install twine. Okay, and then pip install build. Okay, now let's try Python tree minus M build. To trees in the wrong place. Yeah. So there has been a relatively recent change in that it's something good. Yeah, that looks correct. Okay. And then we'll try twine upload. So twine is a Python package that uploads things into the Python package index. And here we are specifying to put it into the test index. You do need a username and a password. You need to create an account to upload anything. And then it will, of course, be associated with your account. Okay, there we are. And now we can try installing it. So normally, if you run, if you put something in the PyPy, it's just pip install package name. But in this case, we need to tell it to use the test PyPy instead. Or it wasn't a bit of underscore after four, I think. I tried like this because it seems like to change the underscores. Oh, okay. All right, so yeah. Underscores not allowed. Now it's installing our package. Yeah. And now we should have it. So is it now called calculator for PySE 2023? Or is it just called calculator? We will see. Well, yeah, definitely not with minus signs. It changes minus signs to underscores. Okay. Okay. Well, we did run into a couple of problems here, but okay. Fine. So we need to update this example a little bit to use PyPy correctly. And to, well, I guess the instructions for uploading the PyPy were correct, but somehow it didn't work in that one environment. So there was some, something called build was already installed, but it wasn't. Oh, no, no, maybe it just wasn't installed and it was just a folder. Well, in any case, it worked. I have an impression that the Cypher version that is being used here is not really what we want. Could be. Yeah. Cypher 0.1 is not what we want. Why would it? Oh, because it's from test.py. It got Cypy from test.py.py. So it didn't get the latest version. It got whatever they used for testing in the long time ago when they tested uploading Cypy last time. All right. Okay. In any case, that is how you upload packages to Cypy. And also to PyPy, to the Python package index. And that makes installing them a lot more straightforward for your friends. And collaborators. All right. So there's one thing I quickly want to point out this question about what the license and readme file should say. So in the exercise description, we added a lot of details about, well, essentially we just added links to code refinery materials, which you can read read up on your own time or come to the code refinery course. We would like, I love to have you there. So, so yeah, there's some something about documentation in general. So that also tells you how to some ways of writing readme files. There is in social coding, there is a part about software licensing. The general instruction, the most important thing is use an existing license. Don't write your own because it's legal language. And yeah, it's better to leave that for the lawyers. And then there's a section on testing, automated testing, which we mentioned. It's nice thing to have in a package, but we didn't actually show you how to do it. So there is a section on that. Otherwise, we are right on time for a break. Anything else? I think not really. All right. So let's take a 10 minute break and then come back for web APIs. All right. Bye. Bye.


We're now in the fall period today. First question before we get started, does anyone need to sign in? We're making sure we get a form. Our main words today are from Liz James. And I get some because if you were here last weekend, W Stone Soup is the message for all ages. And Liz writes this away. I am not sure those homeless people were being so harsh in the Stone Soup story. You probably remember how it goes. When the old woman came into the village and asked for ingredients to make food, everyone said they had nothing. She began boiling a cup of water with a stone in it and said, Oh, I wish I had a little salt. And someone came forward, shyly, with a tiny bit tucked away in a pocket. Then she wondered how long she could find a few group of vegetables that another person had that. Some hounds had three spoonfuls of rice and so on until the glorious soup was made. We're told that this tale is about tricking a meal out of selfish people. But I don't really think that's what happened. I mean, if someone asked me if I had a meal to share with them and I only had a half teaspoon of salt or a few old vegetables that are always at the back of my fridge, I would say I couldn't help. I wouldn't be longing when I said I had nothing to give. I would just be longing. When we say that there's nothing we can do, we're not longing. That phone call we might make, that five dollars we might donate, that working mail on the courage unit might send, these things feel so small that we think that they're the same as having nothing to offer. The Stone Soup story isn't about selfish people. It's about people who thought they were powerless. It's about people learning that they had something to offer that would feed themselves and each other. May we be given the bravery to step forward and offer whatever we have. May we be given the wisdom to see ourselves as part of something greater. And may we be given the compassion to see and draw out the gifts that are found in others. Thank you. The Stone Soup and generosity, thank you to the food haulers. We have the majority of our time today. We'll be going to a conversation with each other. This is the... Oh, sorry. So this is the... The fall parachute meeting in the U.S. has been devoted to our open question and process, which we'll talk a little bit more about later, but it essentially means that the majority of the meeting is devoted to listening to each other and talking in small groups on great issues that are critical to the future of our nation and to the mission that we also have. So to a quick agenda review, we do have a couple quick business items. First of which is reviewing minutes from our preview minutes from the last part of the meeting, as well as moving on from one reason to another to some more. So we do have two quick items in the business, and then it goes from the rest of the time to our preview. So then there was a handout with the June parachute review minutes. Are there any questions or corrections to those minutes? From the floor, Sam makes the moves to approve the minutes. So it's Brett Weiss, thank you. Wes, sorry for Brett Weiss. I'll take a photo of proving the existence of the June parachute review in Seattle. Hi. Next item. We're very pleased to have two candidates as new advisory members of the U.S. Board. We have some that are great and really want to know more. They've actually also been attending our last couple meetings as guests, and we're moving forward today as official candidates to open in as official part of the board. They've provided BIOS and all that you need. The BIOS are actually the writing on the back of the agenda. We have it up on the screen here as well. The word appreciation, the American appreciation for the presence in our unit, is very helpful for my honor to think about all the agendas and the full-time information that's, as we basically said, in our meetings. And we very much appreciate their perspectives. A motion from our honor candidates. Is there a second? Thank you. All right. I'll favor proving who's invited the members to the U.S. Board. The process at this time of year fits into the cycle of governance. Today we're going to focus on upon its one of the priorities of the interim time for this year and next is creating a culture of abundance here at FUS. But when I think about a culture of abundance, I immediately think of the classic stories. You can see my little graphic up there. Of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with the loaves and the fishes. I knew him at home, right? Jesus is teaching and people are hungry and there's no food. And so he asked them to bring forth a basket of fish and a basket of bread and suddenly there's no food forever for 5,000 people. Now when I was hearing the story of a kid sitting in a pew in St. Pat's, it was told as a miracle story, purely simple. And you know, no question asked. People were hungry. Jesus made food miraculously in Peter and spread far and wide. And it wasn't until I was in seminary that I had a professor who told us this story and then said, there's the meaning of it. And I was thinking in the head, it's a miracle story. It's one of those that proves Jesus is divine and nothing more to Him. And then she started talking about how really it is a story of abundance and generosity and hospitality. It's the story of a community coming together to share what they each had. She painted this beautiful image of people going into separate pockets and their bags to pull out just a little bit more than maybe they were setting aside for later. And then everyone by giving what they had, they had enough. And she said, it is a miracle story, but it's not a miracle story of one person. It's the miracle of community because when each person gives what they had, we have enough. And that's sort of what Doug was talking about, creating the culture of abundance. That's why I think of that a community of abundance is when we come together and out of this spirit of generosity and gratitude for all the goodness in our minds, we share and we realize that together we have and we are enough. So we're talking about abundance today. It is a clarity of dinner time. It is also what the board is going to be focusing on on a strategic level for the coming year. And so for that, I'm going to turn it over to my co-conspirator. We need a new song. It's now the Terry Carter, the Terry manager. You're going to need a new song. So I'm going to talk about that for just a minute here. I'm going to play it out for you. So what I'm going to mention is that this is a... This is the talk of the month of August. It's a lot of rest of it. So I'm going to say that it's not an opportunity until there's noise for the districts and states. So we are totally convinced. More seriously, the talk of the month of August has been one of the major things where the blockage has been part of our intro over. And she basically wasn't a concerns to be here at the doors this far. I just wanted to mention that Doug isn't able to do with us here today because he is traveling this afternoon. We're just welcoming you up, giving you the opportunity to form the service of a close friend and a copy. So the thoughts are with him today. Oh, sorry. I'm going to use notes for this part. I just wanted to say a few words before we move into our topic about what an open question is. So the open question, one of the board's priorities this year has been to focus on the ways in which we will consistently work within our governance model. So we've been reading and working with the governance committee to review the history of our model and just to understand, you know, kind of be any more depth the intent of the model. Earlier this weekend, the board actually spent quite a bit of time with church consultants and governance experts, Dan Hodges. Many of you may remember me from this work here 10 years ago, and he was one of the folks who helped us implement our current structure. We're one of the biggest things that came out in this weekend's work. It was a better understanding of really what the cadence of activities is supposed to be in the intent of the model and the cadence of the planning activities, and in particular the communication channels between the board, ministers, staff, and the congregation. And the open questioning process is one important point of connection between the board and the congregation. So it's a basic definition. The open questions are designed to gather the information needed for a strategic plan. So the board published its conversations, as we're doing today, to listen to each other and gain a sense that the congregation is the most important priority. But the question and topic that we'll talk about today are something we'll talk about not just here in Sweden, but something that we'll come back to in many other seconds and something that we'll also discuss at our board. The question before today is quite broad, but the eventual outcome of this conversation is to leave to setting more kind of strategic goals. And the intent is to be very forward-looking, so we're actually thinking now about goals that we might want to set for future leaders. So moving into the conversation of the open questions today, Kelly's going to come and invite us into groups of the roughly seven of us all. She's laughing hysterically because we have a divide. She doesn't think we can be done. So maybe you need to prove me right on this one. Do we have an attendance number? Okay. So could the board members stand up? Or board members, if you would come up here. Board members are going to help record what's happening in the group. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight with money. Okay. Awesome. Let's do... Yeah. But she shouldn't believe it. So eat. Right? Do you guys want to be one group or two groups? One group? Okay. So we've got eight groups up here. Let's do it. So if any one of the people... eight groups will be one group. No, there's nine. There's seven. How long does they have to do that one group? Okay. But we have seven board members and two... Right. But we have number eight. So we can be group. All right. Let's come off by eights. We can do this. Okay. We're going to start with Chuck. So Chuck, one, two, eight, one. And then... Eight. One. Three, four, six, zero, eight. Three. Eight. Jim. Eight. Eight. One, two, three, four, six. So before we get to the opening question, it's, as an introductory exercise, primarily to, you know, put ourselves in our small groups and to introduce ourselves to each other. That was the point we've been counting on. It's hopefully here in... So please introduce yourselves to each other. And as a way of getting into our topic, our first exercise is to just talk about things very briefly that speak to the abundance you already see in the West. And we're thinking about just, you know, images, words, phrases. You know, this isn't a part of the conversation that we're really collecting. It's really just a reflective exercise. So, you know, however we interpret the idea of abundance and the wealthiness in here today. So I'm just going to take about 15 minutes for this part of the conversation, and I will drink the wine. If you would get that, then it's back to you. Make sure that everybody in your group has had some time to share and we'll let you know in five minutes. Sorry. Sorry. If you could meet with me as a larger group. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. Let's verify it. Stay in your groups, but if you just wanted to check in verbally, if your books could just shout out like no words or short phrase speech that came up. The staff. The staff. Versity. Sorry. Versity came up in the groups. The first stage was the last one. Music. Music. Inclusion. Beauty. Beauty. Beautiful building. No. No. What else? Opportunities to connect. Opportunities to connect. I don't relive this indication. Spaciousness. OK. How about just do meanS for smaller experience. Opportunities for smaller experience. There's whiteness. Like any expanded land. Tailors. Spirit. Spirit. Jolbendrecht. Laymen. Laymen spirit. Mysector of validation. My- My- What's mean hacerlo? Through- You.  Because of plans. Share a building broken in- Social非常的 specifications. So moving into our actual open question that we'll use for, again, this has meant to be an introductory conversation, and it will take place in any other time. So given the strengths and the areas that we've just been discussing informally, we're thinking more specifically for the future, which our open question is, in what ways could we increase the sense of abundance here about us? And just thinking of our mission and future in many ways that the word abundance can be useful. And just to know our process, because this is a conversation that will continue throughout the year, we're not trying to synthesize or prioritize information right here today. But we're asking everyone to individually write down ideas and themes that come up in your group. You know, I can just relatively briefly on posted notes that are available. And we'll get kind of an argument in the morning for the end of the conversation. And if we want to write down just the ideas that are most important to us as an individual, we're going to place the most notes on the easels from the room, and we want to take that information to work with in future conversations. Was it Michelle's idea or she didn't? No, you don't. I think it's my idea. I think it's my assistant. I'm going to put my feet here. I'm what's really nice about it. Yeah. I think so. That looks good, yeah. Here's a kind of a verse. Just to kind of wrap up some of our conversations, groups may be different places. I've been told some of the moving into the afternoon, some of the groups have kind of started to displace a little bit and wanted to bring things together to pose. A couple of requests. Before we get back into the large group, we just take a moment to thank each other for a conversation today. We're both going to make some connections. I'm going to tell her now. And we'll see if that's a game of the individual thoughts whether they're forward or back or forward. So we'll just take a few minutes. So I think that the measure will reconvene as the larger groups for our first group. We divided by numbers so that all the groups were the same size and we were sitting with just whomever. And that was fantastic. Every other time we've met, I think there have been some groups of seven, some groups of 14, some groups of 25. And we can actually count to eight and get them all the same size. I was amazed by the intelligence and creativity of my group. We had so many good ideas. Thank you. We were sitting up in the front corner and the microphone from there to that corner was utterly unintelligible. Yes. Surprise. I found out that one idea might lead to another idea and getting to know each other by working together was wonderful. We got to know each other by listening to each other's ideas and having them play off of each other. Wonderful ideas for being with the youth leaders. So I was grateful to be in that group. Love to be with the youth leaders. Thank you. What is abundance? What we call riches and bounty? Abundance is all around us. That we are alive is precious. That we are loved is beyond worth. That we love others in turn fills ourselves. We give so food that Mother Earth provides for her body, endlessly renewing, generously feeding all. We give so spirit that will save her social lives, freely and non-leaving represents. Holy, holy, holy. All the families surrounding us, our possessions, the homes that shelter us, all are forms of abundance. The seasons and tithes forever search circling. Some rises and some sets. The blessings of another day. In this we are lifted. Remember to be grateful. Take time to thank the writer for your bounty. With gratitude, with thanks, with love, do we fill our hearts. May you be forever blessed. Remembering that even in times of scarcity, we are ever blessed. May you share only half of those who have nothing and be agents of abundance. Thank you.


Well, let's begin by asking anyone on the panel if they have a question. Okay. A wonderful presentation, and I'm once again delighted to be a student. So thank you for the lesson. In the manuscript that my colleagues and I have been working on, Human by Design, we've been asking the scientists involved to step out of their traditional role, which is to think in terms of how to treat diseases and disorders. And instead, think about or ask the question, how might the human body have been designed differently so that this problem does not occur? In this particular case, how might the human brain have been wired or designed differently so that we would not have Alzheimer's disease? Well, let's say it's a wonderful question. And obviously, like anything, any answer we scientists would give, it depends on one's perspective very much. It depends on what turns out to be the cause of Alzheimer's and the real mechanism underlying it. I presented evidence in my viewpoint on that. And so I would say that if we had designed the process by which we cut up proteins a little bit differently so that we don't create highly hydrophobic fragments of proteins, then it's my opinion that we would not have encountered a particular disease we call Alzheimer's. So I'm squarely in the camp that the buildup of this small protein is what triggers Alzheimer's, even in the many people whose cause we don't know. That is with the aging process. In the 70s and 80s, this gradual buildup is a sine qua known, is necessary for the development of the disease that we call Alzheimer's. So it would be a molecular design issue to cut up proteins more effectively, to maybe make one more cut after the so-called beta and gamma secretase cut liberate that little red box in my diagram to cut that red box more efficiently so that I couldn't detect a beta in your blood. When you're 5 or 50 or 80, I can right now detect it just fine. And indeed, there's some interesting evidence from some of my colleagues at other universities that a beta levels rise a little bit over time. So I would say that would be how I'd redesign the system. But you could also think of many other answers like let it all happen the way it does and protect the neuron from the apparent bad effects of this molecule. Yes, I also enjoyed your presentation very much. You just beautifully described the Baptist point of view as you put it. But I wonder whether you can briefly describe the current research from the point of view of Taoist persuasion. Right. So I'll do two things. One is I'll try to do that and then also mention another thought or a series of thoughts that are neither Baptist nor Taoist. So the Taoist thought was that it's the neuron that of course is at the root cause of failure synapses and it's in the neuron that Tao protein aggregates. And that the A beta buildup might happen but that the Tao protein is actually the true sine qua known and requirement for the cuda grotto the neuron for interference with synapses. And the Tao protein is an excellent position to do that. So the Taoist perspective I think is a more important role for Tao than you would see in my cascade, a role posted at the top. Now a very important lesson from genetics occurred and that is that in 1997, 98, three groups discovered mutations in Tao. And those mutations lead to several different diseases that include the syndrome called frontotemporal dementia. A syndrome in which there is lots of Tao buildup, enough to cause profound dementia and the death of the host. But no A beta buildup and even that, everything we say in science is controversial. Even then someone can come up and say, well, I found one case of a Tao mutation that there was some A beta buildup. And my response would be, well, was that just age related A beta buildup? Or was it moved to the Tao mutations? But by and large, most people say Tao mutations don't seem to lead during the course of the patient's remaining life to A beta buildup. So my response would be, well, that's interesting. Tao mutations themselves can cause profound dementia that looks like Alzheimer's and kills the host. But it isn't the condition that we've agreed upon together to call Alzheimer's disease because it lacks one of the pathological hallmarks. It's again nomenclature. Therefore, I think the cascade goes from A beta to Tao, not from Tao to A beta, that's how we think of it. The other approach though, and the whole idea of Taoists and Baptists is becoming a bit stale, frankly. And I said it a little bit maybe to get in a one liner and get a little laugh. The fact is that this is old hat and that we've come together as a field to recognize that there's a highly complex set of reactions and that neither A beta or Tao, in some people's minds, may be so critical as people like I think they are. But that a whole bunch of other processes make neurons vulnerable. And yes, sure at the end, the buildup of a sticky protein is bad news. But the fundamental reason the patient goes on to get the condition called Alzheimer's disease is because they have some neuronal vulnerabilities. A strong argument in favor of that idea is that there are brains full of amyloid plaques and sometimes even tangles. And we understand those patients were walking around doing just fine. Now, the response of people like me to that, and I'll close after that, is that, sure, that's true. But if I show you a woman who's 90 who was killed in a motor vehicle accident has the most terrible looking coronary arteries with terrible atherosclerosis. But never had a twin givangina, you would not say to me, well, atherosclerosis has nothing to do with heart attacks. So I would rest my case that way. Dr. Whitehouse. Can I just follow up, Dennis, on this issue we were talking this morning when you said Alzheimer's disease is largely a disease. You used the word largely. You just said what we now call Alzheimer's disease. And in your talk, you did describe the buildup that occurs in dogs and monkeys and people with age. So I guess I would ask you in that context, what is it that you think is so unique about Alzheimer's that makes it a disease and not a condition that is part of brain aging? Well, it's just a tough question to answer and probably my answer won't be terribly satisfactory. The earlier we look and Ron Peterson here at the University of Minnesota and John Morris and Washu and others and you yourself, Peter, have noticed that the A beta syndrome is preceded by a condition called mild cognitive impairment, which is the slightest trouble with episodic memory, for example, in one form of it. And there's been pathology on patients who died with that, that they have this process. So we would have perhaps in the past said they don't have Alzheimer's disease and in fact they don't, but they have something that might be a harbinger of it. Or they have something I can't put my hands on. We're going backwards earlier and earlier. And it could be that something about living long in primates, leads to the buildup of this protein, a lack of clearance. Maybe it's some problem with insulin degrading enzyme I'd like to think or whatever. And I think monkeys and dogs do get this process. Whether they get the condition we call Alzheimer's disease depends on their cognitive testing because the term disease needs to be applied after we are sure that there's a true impairment of behavior in everyday life. So I think there are preforms of Alzheimer's that don't deserve the title Alzheimer's, but I have to tell you, they look a lot like this process under the microscope and under the biochemist lens. Let's go to some questions from the audience here. Here's kind of an old one. What is the significance of any of aluminum found in tangles or in their blacks? So the question of aluminum has raised its ugly head for a long time. My mentor Mike Shalansky assigned me to look at the effects of aluminum in rabbits and I put quite a bit of aluminum sadly into the nervous system of rabbits and found that it did not induce tangles of the sort we see in Alzheimer's, but a different kind of a aggregate. So that was actually the starting point, that is the idea that aluminum causes tangles in animals that led Donald Crapper McLaughlin in the 1970s to check the brains of Alzheimer's victims and find elevated aluminum at least on brains. It's my opinion that a lot of work subsequently didn't really have that theory pan out. That's a terrible pun. And that is that my wife and I still do cook in aluminum pots and pans and you and drink aluminum, drink coke out of aluminum cans. There might be some evidence that in some places in the country that have high aluminum in the water as a clarifying agent, that aluminum finds its way to tangles and is sequestered there. But there are other areas where scientists don't find elevated aluminum and the Alzheimer's looks clinically the same and pathologically the same. So it's my opinion that we have little evidence that aluminum is an important or toxin of some sort in Alzheimer's. Okay, another one. Are the plaques found throughout the brain or do they occur in a limited area? Well, it's interesting. The mature plaques that Alzheimer called attention to are found in the areas you might think them to be in the frontal and temporal and parietal cortices of the brain, especially the association cortices and in hippocampus and amygdala. But early plaques and those will be the type that I showed you in that 12 year old Downs patients brain are called diffuse plaques. They're sort of like we like to think loosely fatty streaks of cholesterol in the process we call atherosclerosis. These precursor lesions are found in many more areas, including areas like the cerebellum and the striatum, we call it, which are important for detailed movement control that we don't usually implicate in Alzheimer's. So the amyloid can be deposited more widespread. Okay, so another question like that. It says if the pathology of Alzheimer's involves blunting a synaptic function, why is the predominant clinical effect specifically on cognitive rather than more diffuse loss of cerebral function? Right. I really don't have a satisfactory answer to that. The short kind of answer would be, well, the lesions that Alzheimer described do occur more in the areas important for memory and cognitive function. They don't occur in the substantia nigra that is implicated in Parkinson's disease, but that doesn't tell you why they occur there and not in the other areas. So selective vulnerabilities in these different brain diseases is one of our weakest topics. Okay. Another question. Can a brain MRI definitively identify Alzheimer's disease? I think some of these questions will be covered in the afternoon session at 6.30, which I'm planning to attend, by the way, and listen in on. But the answer is an MRI will show some shrinkage of the cortex of the brain and the lethation of the ventricles, but it won't be specific for Alzheimer's. Other dementias could look like that. You can get a fairly decent idea with a good eye, but it's not near as good, I think, as imaging the lesions of Alzheimer's. We want to be where people are in liver disease and heart disease, where they image the actual pathology in vivo. And I think work like I mentioned briefly from Bill Klunk and colleagues may get us there. We have a number of questions that kind of come down to the nature and nurture sort of thing. This is, are you at the point in your research where you could say that this disease is hereditary or caused by affected external factors such as smoking, drug use, or environmental factors? I'm sorry. It's another key question. It looks like it's going to turn out to be both, broadly speaking. I listed four genes that the field agrees upon. There are actually several other genes that there's not full agreement about, and altogether those genes might account for arguably a quarter of the cases of Alzheimer's disease in the country. And only one is really important, APOE4, this little debate that inheriting one allele of APOE4 from mom or dad heightens your likelihood of Alzheimer's about two to five-fold, inheriting two alleles from mom and dad, and heightens your likelihood of striking five to 12-fold or 15-fold in some studies. But beyond that, there must be a lot of other genes out there we haven't identified, or there are truly non-genetic factors. And I'm the first to tell you that non-genetic factors that are part of time on the planet do heighten your likelihood of Alzheimer's. It is somehow linked to longevity, but I don't know what those factors are. OK. And we have another number of questions about this. Can you say more about prevention of Alzheimer's disease? Do you have any treatments that you recommend at this point? At this point, what I tell my patients in my clinic on Tuesdays is that, number one, you should select your parents very carefully. Number two, you should consider taking vitamin E, which we debated earlier. It's a little bit of a chivalry in our field that high doses of vitamin E might be associated with prolonging the time until you enter a nursing home or have some other untoward event, although there's really little evidence that vitamin E directly has a benefit for cognitive function, per se. But it might do something generally for your health, but it's not potent. There are drugs that we use now in inflammatory disease, drugs like ibuprofen that, again, through the lens of some controversy, look like that might have a role in lowering the amyloid protein in the brain. But no one is ready to say, everyone go out at age 60 and take 600 milligrams a day of Motrin. I'm not saying that today, I'm saying the opposite, we don't know that yet. But there might be preventatives coming up as we do more research. Right now, maybe Peter can offer me some additional ones. I just wanted to add that there are epidemiological studies, which are not conclusive, that suggest your mother was right. So eating a diet that's healthy, physical exercise, mental exercise, and absolutely, for sure, attending Nobel conferences will prevent Alzheimer's disease. I'll finish with one last question here that's of some local significance here. It says, what significance is Snowden's research with the nuns of Mankato, which is 12 miles from here? Has this contributed in any way to your findings? Well, absolutely. His work is separate from the molecular biology and mouse genetics that we do for a living in my lab. But the fact that he's, for example, made the point that the Alzheimer process might begin in people in religious orders much earlier than we here to forethought is something that I have to think about. So it influences me, basically. And it makes me wonder whether is that true? Is it actually the case that someone who has an entrance exam to the novitiate? A clue to whether they might develop Alzheimer's 30 or 40 years later is already present there? Or is it their neural reserve is different than the next person who enters the religious order who doesn't get Alzheimer's disease, etc.? This research in the religious order studies has listed a number of epidemiological clues that we biologists have to pay attention to. Well, I believe we'll call it to a close here for this afternoon. We will reassemble at 6.30, thank you very much for coming. Thank you gentlemen, what a wonderful day.