Nigerians react to state-invent accredited from the governor of Kaduna State, Governor El Rufai, sustaining Muslim-Muslim tickets beyond 20 years, and House of Reps led fraud in unveiling of Nigeria Air and Demand Prosecution. This is Post-Politics, and I am very honored for it. Former Kaduna State Governor Nasser El Rufai has been caught in a video saying that the Muslim-Muslim ticket must be sustained beyond 20 years in the state. In a viral video, El Rufai was addressing a group of Islamic scholars, and he told him that he nominated a fellow Muslim as running mate in 2019 because he knew they would win without the vote of Christians in the state. For joining us to discuss this is Reverend Joseph Hayab, he is the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria Kaduna State. Thank you so much Reverend Hayab for joining us and good evening. Thank you for having me, good evening, fellow Nigerians. Great, Reverend Hayab, it's not new to see the former governor of Kaduna State caught up in these kinds of controversy. I mean he's always in the views, but no one would have seen this coming. As a person who resides and does business in Kaduna State, what is the meaning of this particular statement that's been accredited to the former governor? Well, if you know El Rufai very well, the former governor of Kaduna State, then you will have to guess one million meanings to whatever he said. Because any time El Rufai comes out in public to speak, if you see him speaking to the right, be careful, he's actually moving backward. If you see him speaking to the left, don't turn right, actually be careful, he's going forward. So the problem with him is that he is not consistent and he is so slippery that sometimes you hardly catch up. But this particular video is a very simple one. El Rufai is simply playing game and simply playing politics and what is he trying to achieve? El Rufai knows very well that before Muhammad Buhari became the president of Nigeria, he played this regional card, he played religious card. And finally when alliance came, they formed alliance with other political party and became president. So El Rufai is just smart, wanting to be the next Buhari. So he's playing a card, preparing himself so that the Muslim more will say, oh, this is really our religious champion, this is the man who depends our religion, this is the man who depends our religion. But I can say without fear of contradiction that for El Rufai he had actually failed even before he started the judgment. Because El Rufai do not have the kind of credibility, he do not have the kind of trust that Buhari enjoy from the people. El Rufai is not, I may have known him a very long time to know that he is slippery, he is not consistent when it comes to what he said. So we know he's up to something and I can't fault that because in the first place there is no way you can claim that you win the governorship of God, as they would have the body of Christian. It didn't happen in 2015, it did not happen in 2019 and even in 2023 it was a collective boss of Kaduna people that make the government. Interesting, many are calling for the head of the former governor, knowing the situation of things in Nigeria, where we are after the just included elections. Some would call this just included elections the most divided that Nigeria has seen and there's still scars to show for it. Some people are saying you shouldn't have said this now, but there have been a better time for him to make this statement and the reactions have been any different. You see, the issue of time is not the problem, but when you look at the time factor issue about it is this man is simply trying to steer up a serious problem for the new administration. And that's why the new administration was what happened. I am not going to suggest for them what to do when they must watch out. It's going to be dangerous for them to carry a snake in their back and think that he is a friend. Because this man will come, jam your head, create confusion in your calm, create confusion in the polity, create confusion among fed foods in the country and go and hide somewhere. And then tomorrow he will be called as if he is a mediator. What I see with a revised statement of speech is that simply a man who will go and steer away fight between a husband and a wife and come back and want to act as a mediator. So a revised one for this crafty and this terrible way of dealing with people. Even his friends knows him. We actually try in Kuduna to manage such a slippery person for about eight years. And today he is no more a governor. But he does not want to leave this thing. If you want to be recognized, if you want to be acknowledged, if you want to be heard. And that's why he's creating this confusion. Yesterday in Kuduna we had a meeting, an interfed meeting that was put together by groups. And we were there with Jamal Tunasi. We look at all these conversations and we realize that it is our call for. It has no meaning. It does not. It does not have Islamic cause. And it is not with the support of Muslims. But you see, it's easy for such statement to steered off sentiment among Muslims and also steered off anger among Christians who do not understand. But I do know that a revived do not enjoy the support of Muslim for what he is doing. And that does verify. See, we don't want to go into certain statements about the election. Who win? Who do not win? But we simply know that this kind of speech by the revived is up to something. He wants to steer the Confucian in the polity, create new enemies for the new administration, and then prepare himself as a hero. Unfortunately, we know him better and he has failed. Looking at the history of Kuduna stage, knowing that there have been more religious crisis and of course, ethnic crisis over the years. For somebody like you, I think I have spoken with you, and Sheikh al-Mariah, I don't know if I've got his name right. Yes. Sheikh al-Mariah, I guess. Yes, on issues of conflicts in Kuduna states. How is it possible to keep the peace if the number one or former number one or somebody as highly placed as El-Rifah will continuously make statements like this? How is it possible for you to keep the peace? It is not difficult to keep the peace because when we talk about keeping peace, we are talking about working with stakeholders to maintain understanding. And I can tell you that larger percentage of stakeholders know the person we are dealing with. You know, I earlier said somewhere today that one of the big problems with Nigeria is that people come into leadership without us as a nation having a provision that requires that we check the mental capability of the people before we hand over our leadership to them. That's why we can have terrible people coming to leadership. Fortunately, to have been given the mandate by us where they would turn to bring out their true color, they would turn to create problem among them. A true leader supposed to find a way to unite the people. A true leader supposed to find a way to build a cohesive society. But when the leader himself is the one that is promoting division, is promoting segregation, is promoting abuse of other people's right because as citizens of Nigeria, we didn't become citizens because we are Christians. We were citizens of Nigeria because we are Nigerians. Our faith does not matter of what's been Nigerian. So we must be treated as Nigerians, respected as Nigerians. How could you swerve by the constitution of Nigeria to defend and protect the constitution and let the constitution trust about everybody has people right? And you, at that stage, will come out to make such a statement. But here you have the L5 we're talking about. Some of us have learned him for a very long time and many times when we draw attention to people, some may not understand and assume we have certain scores to settle. We have no score to settle. We will fight and simply saying, watch out, this man is dangerous. Watch out, this man wants to divide. But I can tell you that I've been speaking to the, since the video came out, I've been speaking with many Muslim clerics. They are ashamed because these to them is even giving their religion a bad name. But one of them said that I want to cut the way he put it. He said our religion promote justice, our religion promote fairness, our religion promote equity for him to hide under our religion to preach this. Someone who do not know about our religion may assume we are in support of suppression, we are in support of taking advantage of people. That's not what the religious of Islam promote. When the L5 was governor of Kaduna State, did he in any way actually promote Islam? And I'll tell you no. He did not promote Islam in practice. He did not promote Islam in citing religious places. He did not promote Islam in whatever Islam stands for.   And I can say, I keep repeating this word that he has felt even before he began because everybody's eyes is open. Yes, he may have gotten an election announced in their favor, but that is not the matter. I can tell you, even if a L5 son is the one to have been announced as governor, he will know the difference between fear and how to govern people when there is fairness. From how to govern people when there is injustice. So talking about fairness and justice, people want to be represented whether it's the governor, whether it is the houses of assembly, especially knowing again how to keep up and apply to people, what people in that state have suffered. If the governor is saying this about who he, you know, who emerged as governor and deputy governor in his state, do other people of Kaduna state feeling well represented in terms of, you know, the cabinet of the new governor? Tell me what you think about this new governor and, you know, the people that... Well, the new governor has not yet formed any cabinet. He makes some appointments, but there is no, you see, when you call a cabinet, a senior special assistant is not a cabinet member. He's just an appointee of governor. Some of the people so far he has announced are no cabinet officers. But very soon he is going to come up with his cabinet officers, then we will judge him by what he said. I think he's going to be hasty for us to start saying, but I can say, Yuba Sani, I know is not Yuba Sani. Yuba Sani we have known is not Yuba Sani. He's not going to be Yuba Sani. Yuba Sani is somebody who enjoyed dividing people. He do not understand friendship. He do not understand relationship. He do not understand togetherness. Everything you see him promoting is about self, about his glory, about his power. I want to repeat that one of the things I have known with about Erufai for a long time and I've said to people is that he is suffering from conflict. He does feel everybody looks down on me. Everybody thinks I cannot do it. So let me show them. I'm not sure that showing your might tells people that you are a leader.  But that is the way he wants to live his life. He has had his privilege to rule for eight years. He knows that Keduna State's supper and so many people died during his eight years. He cannot even exhilarate himself. And from this video, it shows that he has, he had a heart in all the killings that happened just because he wanted to oblige the people, create fear in the people, set confusion in the state. Well, whatever has a beginning must have an end. It is a tenor administration and the tenor has ended. He cannot recontest a new person have to come.  And I must give credit to the new governor because in his speech, he said, the most important thing he is going to focus is security. I pray and I hope he will keep to his word and do not dance to the right or to the left to please somebody. Keduna people may give him the mandate, not another person. So if he chose to hold that mandate sacred, hold that mandate dearly and deliver the services the people want him to deliver, I can tell you it will not belong. You will hear the Keduna you used to hear that people were killed, people suffering, will cease to be the, will become a Keduna of joy. That Keduna we know people, where people will come to do all it is, where people will come to be happy. So I don't want to start thinking that Ubasani will do like Eropai. I am believing that he will be his himself and act responsibly according to the what he took to defend and protect the constitution of the federal republic and what is there in the constitution it should protect lives and properties of citizens and those who reside in Keduna city. You may mention of the fact that the new governor Ubasani has spoken that he is going to deal with security but what is security is there is no form of peace and togetherness. I know that, yes, people like you who are peace actors do your best but in agenda setting for this government, let's talk about that, is the Christian Association in Nigeria and of course the Muslim, the, yes, the Islamic society, are they yes, to set an agenda for the governor because I'm guessing that there are people who will set a different agenda for the new administration. What should be the priority on top on your list when you're speaking directly to the government? Well, before the swearing in of the governor I think just immediately after he was declared the winner of the election he set up a transition committee and that transition committee had a subcommittee called citizen engagement subcommittee. This committee met with Khan, they met with Jamal to Nasser Islam, they met with different organizations and the way they approached us they said look can you come and share with us what are those things that it were not done right in the outgoing administration so that we will not come and make a mistake. We went there and interfaced with them, we shared with them, we put our idea into right writing and also discussed with them extensively. We told them the peace of our mind, we told them how the Kaduna is no longer united, because we told them how people have been divided along religious and ethnic line, we told them how people were sad from work without justification, we told them how we are people, general officers were promoted from lower ranks and on top of those who are ahead of them we fostered the civil service, we told them so many things that you know ordinary we need to speak about. We also expressed concern with the depth, raising of depth that Kaduna have gone into. So we speak to them honestly and we shared our concern. The fact is that we were there early so we were able to finish for two hours we had engagement with them, then the Jamal Nasser Islam came and other groups came. So I believe that he actually has put of his put of a machinery in motion to show that he's going to listen, he's going to attend to advice and he's going to do what is right. To me it would be history for me now to start thinking his part of this, let me give him the benefit of the time. After the first hundred days we will see the way he, our people will say we will see the way he used to drink the soup, then we will know whether he will take all the soup or he will not attend to people, but for now let's give him the benefit of the time and I value said to you that in his speech he makes a clear commitment for unity, a clear commitment to address security matters. So we will work together, what we've done is that our doors are open we are willing to engage, we're not looking for government for anything. Some of us are well established where we are. What we simply want is give the citizens an enabling environment for everybody to come out and exhibit that potential that God has deposited in him. But when you suppress others and you allow the killing of your citizens to go unchecked then citizens will lose confidence and once there's no more confidence then the Confucian we had eight years ago will continue. But we are hopeful that the Confucian stopped on May 29th. What is happening now is that the final effort of those who were used to create the Confucian to go clear out by this government so that Kaduna State will once again come back to be that happy state instead that everybody yarn to come for NYC everybody yarn to come for visit everybody wish to be there because Kaduna State have always been new. Despite the history of our crisis people have always cherished to come to Kaduna because the crisis will come and then we manage it in the future. But why we are not able to manage this crisis in the last eight years because we had a driver who claimed that he knows unfortunately he only know how to kick the car he really didn't understand driving. Driving and kicking the car are two different things. Great. Let me just ask you one last question. It's one thing to hope and trust and be positive that a governor will do what he's promised. Many governors have not kept to their promises but then it's too early for them to decide if he was signing with a good governor or not. But let's talk about re-engineering the mindsets of the people because the mindsets of the people have been wounded, they've been battered. People have lost a lot of ones. People hold grudges especially when it has to do with ethnic and religious crisis. What are you going to be doing with communities? Again, I speak to you as a peace activator. What are you going to be doing to re-engineer the mindsets of the people in Kaduna State? Whether they be Muslim, Christians, what sort of ethnic divides they're from? What are you going to be doing in closing? Already we've been doing and we'll just continue to do what we've been doing. Yesterday when we were holding that interfaith meeting the Kaduna Peace Commission were also holding another meeting with other people. So there are a lot of engagement going but you see there's something about peaceful. I was speaking with one of our organizers yesterday and I said to them one of the most painful aspects of working for peace in Kaduna State is that you go and receive grant in millions of NERA come and invest to promote peace but by one negative action of those in authority by one careless statement of those who are in power you will now destroy everything and all the success stories that you were thinking you will come out as harvest cease to be. But you see there's a commitment to us ensuring Kaduna is peaceful. One because aspect leaders they have no option than to build Kaduna State for our children for the generation to come. Number two as responsible citizens we have no other place we're going to run to than Kaduna so we must work hard to make Kaduna peaceful. I have ever said this and I want to repeat the worst time Kaduna was hot in February 2000 and in November 2002 efforts were put in place and we were able to sustain peace for nine good years and there were no more killings and tension until the post-election violence in 2011 we can still go back and pick those lessons what were those things that we did right who were the kind of stakeholders we work with they may some of them may not be there but the institutions are there institutions are beyond a human being they are about destruction and we begin to work with that work unfortunately for us Obama was around that time let me say this one of the most interesting thing that people don't know about our former governor is that he was never a Kaduna man he was just privileged to hide under whatever to come and be governor of Kaduna and that was like he got virtually everything wrong and he also shows that he do not care whatever happened because after his governor's he's going to move away since he's not a Kaduna man but we have gotten someone who is from Kaduna and we hope that he will understand how we used to live together how we used to work together how we gain success together and he will not throw away that because the piece of Kaduna is the success of his government the fact that it will be a plus for him for Kaduna to be peaceful because he is the governor and people will plan for him Well I'll say thank you Reverend Joseph Hyatt is the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria the United States chapter thank you for speaking with us and keep up the good work thank you for having me Mary I appreciate everything thank you stay with us we'll take a big break where we'll return and we'll talk about the scandal behind Nigeria's big plus


So, here we go, I'm a child, a tyrant, an emperor, I'm infantile, petulant, moody, but I'm also divine and I'm delusional.  I make your heart thump. I'm a wonder kind, a boastful genius. What do I want from you? I just want to play. Nothing else. Did you hear this? Nothing else. I just want to have fun, that's all. I want us to share the fantasy. Here, here, in front of thousands of people, I renounce reality. I renounce the truth. Let the games begin. And what is my game, you're asking? My game is you are my vastly inferior slave to serve me as I please. And you're also my admiring, all-struck disciple. You must accept me as I am. You must. Otherwise, it's not going to work. You're expected to fully forgive and love me unconditionally. You heard? Unconditionally. Forgive. Love. Unconditionally. And regardless of my conduct or my misconduct, what I do or don't do, action or inaction or mission or commission, even when I inevitably and repeatedly hurt you badly, time and again, you still must forgive me. And you still must love me unconditionally as a mother would do. So here's the thing, I'm immutable, I cannot be changed. I'm set in stone, I'm a rock, I'm a force of nature, I'm an element, I'm a quark. I'm also opinionated. And of course, my opinions are always right. They're founded on research, they're rational and reasoned. No one else's opinions come close to mine.  So I'm opinionated. I'm opinionated because I'm superior and I'm superior because I'm intelligent. I'm obstinate because I know best and I never make mistakes. Well, I make mistakes.  I know I make mistakes. But overall, I get it right. I'm grandiose, but I'm grandiose on good grounds. I'm entitled to be grandiose. It's justified. It's rational. It's true.  I'm the next stage in evolution. I'm superhuman. I can't stand people's stupidity.  I can't stand their foibles, the nonsense. I just want to withdraw. You shouldn't try to change me all the time. You shouldn't try to fix me. You shouldn't try to bargain with me. You're not, first of all, you're not my equal and you don't have this power. It just provokes me, aggravates me, irritates me and you know you can play only with me. Only with me unless I let you play with others and I have no intention to let you play with others as long as you are my playmate. Not when you're no longer my playmate, when you're just my servant, my service provider to use a politically correct phrase. It's okay then. You can play with others. Do anything you want with them, touch leaps. I'm entitled to take anything I want from you. I can do to you and I can do with you anything I wish. I own you. I can break you if I want to. You have no right to protest, to decline, to resist my demands, to go cold on me. You're my property, my chateau. You hang in my larder, your piece of cutlery to dispose of and do with as I please. That you have a personality, that you have, that you have a body who doesn't. Cows have bodies and pigs have personalities. We are not of the same species. You must obey my wishes unthinkingly and promptly because of my superiority. You must never disagree with me. You don't qualify. You don't have the necessary knowledge, background, training. And if your agony pleases me, you must deliver it to me.  You must allow me to observe your pain and anguish. It's delectable. And you have no right, no right whatsoever. Let this part be very clear. You have no right whatsoever to expect or to demand anything from me. You play hot and cold with me, no deal.  I give only what I decide to give, usually only as little of my time, my attention, my knowledge and money as is absolutely necessary. I want to keep you hooked. I want to keep you around as my playmate, as long as it lasts. So there's a maintenance dose. I sustain you somehow on your toes, walking on eggshells in the kitchen. That's the maximum I'm willing to do. Anything about that, I can find a replacement. I can find a substitute. You're interchangeable. You're fungible. Don't overestimate yourself. Don't overvalue your contribution. It will be wrong of you and you'll pay the price. Only I decide which game we play. And my decision-making process is not transparent to you. It's based on how capriciously, arbitrarily, bored I am. Maybe how thrilled I am. Maybe how aroused I am. Whatever I am determines the game we play at any given period, at any given time. And external things and internal things are processed by me to settle on the game. That is, that I choose. And you have to adapt. You have to shape-shift. You have to transform. You can't be rigid. You have to hang in there by your handle, you see? You're shocked. If you're fit to play my game, I play with you. If you're not fit to play my game, I lose all interest in you. All the many mugs and cups where you come from. If you refuse to play my game, exactly how and exactly when I want it. Precisely. If you make any demands whatsoever, modifications, if you tinker, if you suggest, if you give advice, if you try to help, whatever, I walk. I walk away before you know it. And I look for a new playmate. More obsequious, playmate who will acquiesce. So many, it's simple really. And it works. It works. It works for both of us. It works for both of us. I can make you hot. You can make my heart race. The caffeine, caffeine probably. I've had no reason to regret any of this over the decades of my life. And you know what? When I compare myself to the overwhelming vast majority of humanity, I'm in good shape. I'm in good place. I'm in really, really good place. And I've spent the time allotted to me on this earth precisely as I had always wanted. My way. My way. All the highway. And now, a little liquidity is all I ask.


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Hi guys, you're welcome back to my channel. I'm a key to this video is how to avoid cakey foundation or Makeup so I'll be giving you tips and tricks if it's sound like Something you want to watch then stay tuned what we get right into this week So guys in this video, I will show you the tips and tricks on how to avoid cakey Foundation or makeup I've cleansed and toned my skin the next thing I'll be doing is to use the moisturizer From albino no matter your skin type You really need to moisturize your skin because your skin needs all the liquid all the moisture possible for your skin to Be balanced when you apply your makeup do not apply your foundation on a skin that is not moisturized No matter your skin type oily combination or dry skin You need to moisturize your skin going to go into this primer from remel's theme at second problem You might be having is not letting your skin care products sink into your skin by letting it dry down If you're layering products upon products, you might have a cakey Foundation at the end of the day. So whenever I apply any product I let that dry down if you're in a haste you can use your Hand fan and fan that down So that whatever you're applying next it will just sink as well Not sitting on top of the first product that you had or you applied on your skin next is foundation You need to know the type of foundation you need for your skin type. Pardon me guys I didn't know that it was a recording.  I spread that on the brush Sorry, I spread that on the beauty sponge because I don't want to go in straight with a clean beauty sponge If not, it's going to make my foundation separate You need to tap with a very light hand guys. So this has Dried down a little on my skin and if you're looking for a full coverage You also need to do this step because when it dries down a bit It will give you that coverage or it covers those imperfection that you're trying to Cover your skin.  I am combination skin I get oily only around my t-zone the other areas remains normal. So I Really do not have issue on this other side. So this is the side that If my makeup want to start breaking it start from this area. So that's the reason why I Concentrated my primer on my t-zone because I know that that is my problem area. I take my time Sometimes I take up to ten minutes max to blend just foundation So sometimes we blend foundation here on YouTube like in the next two minutes You're done That is not what is happening in real life because we don't want to keep you Watching a particular process voice for so long. That is why we you know, we move it forward, right?  Well, so sometimes you see Around the nose. You see the pores in there is not Properly properly blended do not feel the need to add more foundation to it What I do most times I take my fan Dry that area down sometimes it might be that the pressing is oily very oily in that area or The pressing is sweating so you need to dry that foundation down very well. Do not see the need to Go over that area with so much foundation because at the end of the day What you're trying to avoid which is cakeiness is still gonna come after drying down just go back into that beauty sponge and Tap that area lightly and that will cover up those pores but once you go back with Another layer of foundation You just end up having a cakey foundation at the end of the day But this is one layer for me and it's very very okay But what I do for instance, I have some Dark spots going on here. So what I do is just to take a little of that foundation and tap it on that area I'm blending that Area where I added that extra foundation I didn't go all over my face because I am okay with the layer of foundation that I have on already I feel that my skin is too Yellowish so I added this L'Oreal Tremac foundation in W7. This has white undertone. I'll be spraying this on my face I'm going to leave this to dry down a bit before I blend that fixed spray into my skin So I'm just tapping that product lightly I'm going to go into this concealer from Ferraris C cosmetics I'll be using those small flat brush from Vikavel in NK9 So I'm going to go into the shade for the inner corner of my eyes I'll be going into this area with this younger beauty Concealer in SMC3 So I Want this area to look more brighter. That's the reason why I use that lighter shade from them Ferraris C palette while letting the concealer underneath my eyes to dry down I'll be contouring my face Thanks guys. I'm going to be setting underneath my eyes using the younger beauty bluffette setting powder in Custard So guys, I did not sculpt my nose. So I went back to finishing that and then I'm going to blend underneath my eyes again Because I'm since I'm creasing on that there Before I go into my setting powder taking that setting powder and I'm dusting off excess So I'm just going to place it my eyes Go into that setting powder bit by bit There's this thing I saw gross when Hope that's its name on youtube here It took a paper towel and wrap around its beauty sponge and then it tap Like there's a whole lot of foundation on this paper.  I'll be using this Powder palette from V Beauty. You must have known me By now with this palette I'm using the Bianca and sweet horny And because of that paper towel that I use guys applying this Powder is a whole lot easier and smoother. If I were to go in straight without using the paper towel, I'll need to Be very careful. If not My foundation will move but that simple trick just did a whole lot. That trick is cool I think I'm going to adopt that I use this powder from Maybelline's pastel in the shade 355 coconut to set my Contour areas So guys This is basically what I would do When it comes to Applying my foundation starting from my skincare foundation blending and the type of foundation to use for my skin These key things are very very necessary and very essential when it comes to You avoiding a cakey foundation or makeup altogether So I'll be going off camera to complete the rest of my face And I will come back to show you the last tips and trick guys final and last tips I'm going to be using this makeup fix to set the whole of my face Next what I do guys is to spray my my beauty sponge with the setting mist and then I use that to My skin especially underneath my eyes to reduce that powdery look also going to Make my makeup stay for a long time and as well prevent every form of cakeiness Let me do a little recap on all of the things that I just said.  So it sinks well into your skin And also when you're done blending spray your face Let it dry down before you go in with a beauty sponge again It to prevent any form of cakeiness before you go in with any other thing last but not the least thing I want to say is Setting spray so use setting spray that is suitable for your skin type This is the reason why you need to know what works for you So if you got any value out of this tutorial, please don't forget to give it a huge thumbs up Leave a comment below and also don't forget to subscribe right here and ring the bell beside it So you don't miss new videos. Thank you so much for watching Stay tuned. Stay blessed and stay beautiful till I come your way next time. Bye guys


This movie is a great cast, what would you say is your funniest or most memorable moment from filming? Actually shooting in Jamaica, we shot the film in Jamaica and London and there was a moment where we were shooting in an area called Rose Gardens where essentially the whole community came out, some of them were extra, some of them just wanted to be a part of the film as a spectator and it was just a really beautiful moment you know to see a whole community sort of like step back in time you know in the part of that film it was the 1970s everyone dressed up it was like this big fancy dress party and everyone was really really up for it up until like six in the morning it's great. Did you just say whoever wants to come join in bring some 70s clothes? No actually interestingly enough you know we were very lucky there was a little rivalry between another community it was a very serious situation you know there's gang warfare and then you know these two communities decided to just call it quits so that we could come and film and we put flyers out and people that wanted to be a part of it from both communities came and essentially it was a bit of you know life imitating art art it's a life because in the story the two rival communities come together in this scene so it was really sort of interesting to have that. My most memorable moment was the love scene because I've never it was my first love scene so I was very nervous I was very nervous right and so like weeks before I was asking Idris you know so how's this gonna work like what do I need to do but Amel made me very comfortable Idris made me very comfortable it was a close set it was very funny he came in my dressing room like a few minutes before and he said you know sometimes people have a drink before you know and like two minutes later his assistant brought up a bottle of Bayesian rum this is right after Amel had given me some wine because he was nervous I was partially intoxicated going into that scene but it was very nice and you know Amel was very conscious of the fact I was nervous Idris was very conscious of it as well and it was great so my funniest scene is a guy called Mark Reiner who's you know everyone is just glad here and we had this big fight scene in Jamaica and I meant to bat him up and I literally mashed my finger up for the rest of the shoot on his face by punching him so that's my funniest moment in reflection because I meant to be a bad man and it it's just not so if you've mashed your finger up does that mean that he's got a scar on his face now he did have a scar that's right Mark you remember that didn't you he's right by but I've given him a bit of character now it's a bad scene yeah I was gonna ask about the sex scene if it's a closed set is it still quite awkward like how you obviously have to redo it a few times it was quite awkward because even though it's a closed set there's still the cameraman and you know the light and then of course Idris isn't is in an extreme watching it on the monitor so you're still conscious of people looking at you and then every time they said cut Amel was just like draw the sheets over his and stuff the main lesson I learned from doing this film is just how to be comfortable vulnerable um because you have to remember it's not you it's the character and what they would do in a natural moment so I learned a lot just from being in that moment I bet the it did how did you find work of Idris and his direct to debut it was fantastic you know I know people say that but he's such a down-to-earth sort of the other type of guy very encouraging and fun like he makes a lot of bad jokes a lot like he's a good bad joker we had a boy I've learned I've become a better actor but also just just a brilliant collaboration do you have a favorite particular bad joke I enjoyed like whenever he believed the scene was like awesome he'd go like selector so we had shirt that said selector I brought mine did you I did yeah which was really bad when you think you've done a decent scene and you hear nothing you're like Idris yeah you'd all right DJ Idris if he's like so and he would say how do you feel and I'm like how do you feel like if you're good I'm good you know what I mean yeah so I heard that after every like good scene that you'd shout selector this is true after every good take it had to be a good take it was a good take selector if it if it wasn't a good take one more please that was it and I heard you got t-shirts printed would select on it for the rap party you know my gift to the crew was selector I don't know why as a DJ when I was growing up if someone said selector that was means the tune's so good you have to play it again it sort of doesn't work with the logic but when we said selector everybody knew that was a good take what is it about this film in particular that made it want to be your directorial debut I think it's because it was a book that I read when I was really young and the character D I could sort of relate to him a little bit you know it's just this kid that you know had a trauma and I didn't have a trauma but you know every kid between the ages of sort of 14 and 19 has massive decisions to make and it's which way do you go it was also a DJ um and I grew up in you know I literally sort of recreated some of my memories of growing up and going to early blues dances and I knew that I could make this film because I kind of lived some of it um it wasn't like a a step out out into um the abyss it was something that I sort of grew up in there was a lot short in Jamaica and in London the language is very different and there's like a slang which going on so did you have to learn any particular phrases she had to learn her whole Jamaican accent she's still in character they're not strong enough you need to stop that now tell them your English tell them your English he is you know what's funny some parts of the film Amel's sound way more Jamaican than like me and Sheldon and every who are actually Jamaicans because we're conscious of the fact that people have to actually understand you right so we're trying to be very standard but of course Jamaican because it's authentic but Amel went so I'm so proud of you man yeah he went in with the accent he went in yeah we loved Idris in the four movies would you be up for being in the Marvel universe or being a superhero let's do it today we're signing it is the contract yes there you go yes I want to fly is there any particular superhero that you'd like to be played I want to redo Wesley Snipes blade man that's so cool listen I wanted to be his daughter so we're in competition for the play yes I wanted to play his daughter you know what I mean like something about him to I can age up I have to save the world I can age up yeah yeah yeah you can I believe it's like it appeared in every film no just make up on here and then boom I'll just you know I can look like I'm gonna play blade and she's gonna play blade's daughter


offer more help or anything? I mean, we knew coming in that he was a good player, obviously, he's been a really good player his whole career. We were trying to do some things to help and protection. He made some plays. Ryan, how surprising was today's performance? There had been a lot of talk about confidence and not being affected by some of the lack of practice time in the preseason. Can you put a finger on anything today? Yeah, we didn't come out and execute. We didn't have any facet of offense. Missed opportunities, turnovers, the whole thing. We didn't execute the way we expect to and the way we need to to win football games. So the excitement was fine, it was warranted. But at the end of the day, you have to come out and you have to do it. And today, we didn't do it. So we're going to have a chance to take a real look at the way we performed, make the corrections, and get ready to go for next week. How much falling behind obviously make it difficult going in? Do you think guys maybe start pressing a little bit, falling down 17, nothing early? Yeah, getting off to a slow start is never good, right? You're never looking to do that. Then we were able to go score, had a shot at some points right there before half, and thought we were about to get some momentum and get rolling. Fortunately, it didn't stay with us the rest of the game. When you get hit in the pocket that way, is there anything at all you can possibly do to protect the ball better on those fumbles? I'm sure there's something I'll have to take a look at it. The first one, as soon as I turned my head, he was on me quick and just trying to get it out and not take a sack there. Unlucky, he got his hand on my wrist on the ball whenever I was trying to get it out. The second one, I had to take a look at it. It felt like I was going to have an opportunity there to chest there on the back shoulder. And I got hit from the back and didn't see it coming. So we'll take a look at it and work at it this week, whatever I could do there.  How much did you expect your mindset when you're getting hit like that and got hit on a lot of plays that you weren't sacked on? Yeah, they got after us. Obviously, when you know they're getting after you up front, you want to get the ball out. We had some opportunities to get the ball out quickly and they were doing a good job of getting their hands up when that was happening.  My arm hit on another one. We were going to have the ball out quickly and an opportunity for an after catch. So just wasn't clean enough all the way around. And it starts with me. We have to find a way to make the corrections and come to play next week. Ray will tell us that it felt like to him there was three different groups that were between offense defense, and special teams supposed to come easy. Was that something that you guys felt in real time? I don't know if it felt that way for me personally. I think coming out of half, KB gets a pick. We're able to go down to score, kind of compliment each other right there. I don't know what was happening on offense. I mean, on defense and special teams. But I know offensively, if defense gives up points, we expect to go down and answer right away. And we didn't execute good enough offensively to make that happen enough today. Derek had several men get a carry early. How much did your inability to hold the ball right up the back kind of set that thing in motion? Yeah, they did a good job. They went big people and we're making some plays up front. Seemed like they're moving around a little bit. They made tough runs, right? So we weren't able to establish them early, like we'd like to do. I'll take a look at the tape and see exactly what happened and go from there. And like I said, this is when you guys will learn what your culture really is. How curious are you to have the 53 guys that respond? I have belief that we'll respond in the right way. That we have a bunch of men in that locker room who care for each other and want to win. And we'll find a way to make the corrections, come to practice this week, prepare, and go out to Seattle and win one game. That's the mission at hand right now is to make the corrections and prepare to win one game. So I have confidence in the locker room and the guys. Now, we'll see how it happens. But from what I've seen so far, we have the right kind of guys in the locker room and I think believe we will make it happen. We're rolling into next week, a slow start like you had today. How do you prevent that from happening especially on the road in a very violent place in Seattle? Yeah, guys, come out ready to go. We didn't execute early in the game. Got ourselves in long yard situations, had the turnover, and got down a hole early. And so you've got to find a way to come out and execute. Even if it doesn't happen on the first drive, that you can get something going right after that. And we weren't able to do that today.  We're confident today, but reset and come back with confidence for next week. Ryan, have you been hit that much in a game here before? Have you been hit that much? I don't know. I don't really keep a list of games I've been hit in or anything like that. But they got after us up front for sure. You didn't have much time, Ryan, with this offense with these receivers and training camp preseason. How much can that factor a bit into the struggles today, do you think? I don't know. I'm not going to make excuses. We had opportunities, and just we weren't able to make enough plays. How would you assess your chemistry with Julio and AJ today? I think we had, like I said, we had opportunities. AJ made a couple of big plays for us. Julio made us a big place for us. We had other opportunities that were there, and we weren't able to make them happen.  I'll have a great week of practice and get ready to go for Sunday.


Okay, good morning. Again, my name's Damani Davis. I'm a reference archivist at the National Archives. And today I'm going to give you a very brief introduction to African-American research at the National Archives. Typically, my introduction to African-American research is one hour plus, so I'm going to try to squeeze this in as much as I can. Due to some of the popular television series of what who do you think you are? What was the other one? African-American lives. African-American lives and so forth. African-American genealogy has really skyrocketed over the past few years. We have a lot of new or beginning genealogists coming into the National Archives. Seeking to trace the African-American ancestors. A large part of what we do at the National Archives is a large aspect of what we do is basically explaining to people what the National Archives is. Much of the public doesn't have a clear idea of what distinguishes the National Archives from, say, the Library of Congress or the Schomburg local archives and so forth. So what is the National Archives? The National Archives is the repository of all the permanently valuable records, the permanently valuable non-current records of the federal government. That means all records generated by federal activity, all records generated by the host of federal agencies that you see around here in Washington, D.C. We are their archives. We're the archives of the federal government. So any of their records that are deemed permanently valuable from a legal perspective, in historical perspective, evidential perspective, if those records are deemed permanently valuable, meaning those independent agencies of the federal government are not allowed to destroy those records, they must then turn those records over to the National Archives. So that's basically what we are. We're the archives of the entire federal government. So when you're doing research at the National Archives, the basic question that you need to ask is, what potential contact may my ancestor have had with the federal government at any given point in time? So what will we not have at the National Archives? The National Archives does not have records of the slave trade. Again, slavery was a business, a private enterprise. African-American ancestors who were enslaved were basically property. And any documentation on those ancestors are no different than whatever basic property documents someone would have on their cattle or farm animals or whatever. That's basically the status of enslaved African-Americans. But then again, there were free African-Americans also. They will appear in some of the federal records. The National Archives does not have plantation records. Plantations were private property, private enterprises. There was no federal connection to plantations. So the National Archives will not have any of those records. Vital statistics, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage records, divorce records and so forth. The National Archives doesn't explicitly have many of those types of records. But there's a caveat with each of these. Although the National Archives doesn't have or has very few pre-emassipation records, the National Archives does have records that may answer some of these questions. For instance, even though we don't have vital statistics within certain records, there may be some type of document that tells when a person was born or when an individual died, when an individual got married and so forth. And if I have time, I'll try to show examples of those. As far as pre-emassipation records, the National Archives does hold records from several record groups that relate to the American, well the international slave trade or laws pertaining to slavery and certain court records mainly pertaining to Washington D.C. when Washington D.C. experienced this emancipation, the local D.C. emancipation in 1862 prior to the emancipation proclamation. Many of those records were administered by the federal courts here in D.C. Also, many of the manumission records and so forth in the surrounding areas of the D.C. area meaning rural Maryland, rural Virginia, the surrounding counties and oftentimes the district court here in D.C. was the closest court of record that people could go to in order to submit a manumission record, meaning if a person is freeing enslaved property on their own long before the local Emancipation Act. Those records are also available in the D.C. court records. Also, habeas corpus records. These are records of slaves who escaped, who ran away. Or some of these records pertain to the... Okay, with habeas corpus records, if some of these individuals were actually free, blacks who were accused of being slaves. Highlighting the fact that even if you were a free black, you had to have on your person at all times evidence of your freedom, meaning a certificate of freedom. If a person did not have that, they could risk being sold into slavery or jail and so forth. So, if they were captured in jail, they could sue for habeas corpus in order to prove that he or she was indeed a free person. Okay. We also have some slave manifests, very few that relate to customs records. After 1808, when there was no more importation of Africans from the continent, any vessel, any ship over 40 tons carrying slaves were required to file manifests at the ports of origin and destinations showing the name of the slave holder, as well as the name, age, and sex of each slave. These manifests exist for ports for the ports of Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mobile, Alabama, and Savannah, Georgia. But with these, there's not a lot of information. There are very few of these records. And as far as the names of the enslaved persons, it only gives their first names, their age, physical description, and so forth. Now, what do we have at the National Archives? The records that we have at the National Archives are primarily post-emancipation records. Of course, census records. That's the immediate federal record that anyone can go to and try to collect whatever information was presented. Military records. For African Americans, Freedmen's Bank records. Freedmen's Bureau records. Southern claims records. The records of the federal district course that I alluded to earlier, and land records. If any African American got land in what was considered a federal land state, or got land through the Homestead Act, a lot of this occurred in Kansas. Alabama had some federal land. Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and so forth. If any of them got land that was considered federal land state, we would have those land records at the National Archives. And I'll try to get into examples of those. Now, with the census records, again, before 1870, no enslaved person is counted in the census. In some of the census records there are slave schedules, but these are just documents in which under the name of the slave holder, the census is enumerating each of the slaves owned by that particular household. For the most part, no names or identifying information is given. The 1870 census is being the first census after the Civil War is going to be the first census in which all African Americans are officially counted. You know, in many of the census, African Americans are going to be missed or under counted and so forth, but the 1870 census is going to be the first one. One, some of the limitations of census records, of course, the information is not always accurate. Information is not always complete. People did not always cooperate with the census enumerator. And sometimes residents weren't home. They were traveling, moving, working and so forth, which might lead to them not being counted. Quickly, I'm going to give you some brief examples of the early census records. Here's an example of a 1790 census for Hartford County, Maryland. Just by the fact of these African Americans being counted in the census indicates that they were free if they were counted this early. But even with that, they're not, their names are not given entirely. They're just called, in this particular census, Negro Mingo, Negro Henry Brewer, Negro Ann, Negro Ned, Negro Sapia, Negro Violet, and so forth. Later census for Hartford County shows where free black households were then counted under the head of household, but it was categorized by white, free white households in this particular column and free colored households in this column. Only the head of household is given and each other member of the household is noted numerically. Okay, just a close-up version of that. Here's a free schedule for the District of Columbia and a slave schedule for Fockier County, Virginia. This one shows rare instances in which the slave is actually being named. This one, the owner is John H. Lewis. And, you know, all down the line, the names, the ages, and so forth, not the names, but the ages, sex, color, physical description, and so forth, of each slave is noted. In very rare instances, a first name may be given. Usually, it depended on something unusual or something that stood out on that particular slave. For this one, the slave is named. Slave George is written by his numbers, 50 years old, and it says idiotic from birth, indicating that he has some type of disability. Up here, the slave Tom is given under the owner Henry G. Delaney and Tom was unusual in that he was 100 years old. But those are very rare instances when any name is being given. Alright, records of the Freedmen's Bank, Freedmen's Bureau, okay? Well, Freedmen's Bank, these are very easy records to research at the National Archives. They're now available on Ancestry also. It gives really basic information that can be useful for anyone who's trying to fill in that gap, especially when you get to the 1870 census and trying to get past that roadblock there, that's where most African-Americans with enslaved ancestors reached the greatest level of difficulty. But the good thing about the Freedmen's Bank records is that they can give some information that can help clear up some of that missing information. This is an example of Henry Adams. Henry Adams was a fascinating individual from Louisiana who was involved. If anyone knows about it, it was about the exodusure movement when after the rise of violence in the South after reconstruction when white supremacists reasserted what they called redeeming the South from Negro participation, many African-Americans felt the only option they had was to try to leave the South and go somewhere where they could get their own land and have independence, create black towns, and so forth. Henry Adams was an individual who was highly involved in this process in Louisiana. So just on another project that I was working on tracing, that migration, I got some of the records that we have on Henry Adams. Here's an example of his Freedmen's Bank records where it gives just his basic information. The date is when he opened up his account, says he was born in Jasper County, Georgia, but he was raised in Louisiana. Just that tidbit of information shows migration, whether it was forced migration during slavery or voluntary migration that occurred in the early years after slavery. His residence at this time was Shreveport, Louisiana. He was aged 29 at the time. He gives us complexionist black occupation woodchopper, but for genealogical purposes, the good information is his family, the names of his family that he gives. His father was Samuel L. Carter, Mother Millie Carter, siblings James Carter who was still in Georgia, Dennis Winnie, and Nancy of Louisiana, Eli Carter of Robinson County, Texas, Squire Carter of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Nelson Zachariah, Catherine Collins, and Judy Peggs. So that's a lot of good information if you're a descendant of Henry Adams, for instance, who didn't have all of that information. Another example is for this person, Ruben Penel. The crucial piece of information that he gives in his Freedmen's Bank account, which is common in many of these accounts, is the name of his former master and mistress. For those researching as slave ancestors, that's the most valuable piece of information you can get because all of the records during slavery are going to be within, they're going to be the records of the slave-holding family. So once you identify the name of the slave-holding family, then you can focus on those records wherever they may be. The Library of Congress is getting some of the plantation records. Some universities have taken in some of these records, sometimes state archives, local archives, and so forth. Now, Freedmen's Bureau records, Freedmen's Bureau was a large organization that was affiliated with the Union Army during the Civil War and after. They kind of filled a range of functions throughout the South and other areas because in the post-war South, most of the institutions, law enforcement, court systems, and so forth were destroyed. So for the refugees, meaning African-Americans, but not limited to African-Americans, the Freedmen's Bureau kind of served their needs. So I'm going to hurry up because I've gotten a signal. So here's an example of a marriage record from enslaved persons from surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia who came into Washington, D.C. to have their marriages legalized. Many of these individuals considered themselves married for years. 40 years, 50 years, 30 years, and they considered themselves married when they married their spouses on the plantation. But the Freedmen's Bureau was the first time they could have their marriages officially and legally recognized because under slavery, there was no legal recognition of marriage. For instance, this Andrew Smith, and the good thing is it gives the maiden names of the wives. Andrew Smith and Matilda Miles, they say they joined in Holy Matrimony in 1826, and it's now in the late 1860s now when this was made. So they had been married for decades, but they're now getting, and they had nine children. Their residence at the time is Prince George's County, Maryland, and they're now officially getting their marriage recognized. Here's another example of marriage certificate from the D.C. Field Office. Here's Freedmen's Bureau transportation records. During slavery, many enslaved persons were sold, for instance, from this region, Virginia, Maryland, to Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and so forth. After slavery, many of these individuals attempted to get back to their home states. Sometimes the Freedmen's Bureau could provide transportation records. And I'm going to hurry up and give this last example of records. This is Zachary T. Fletcher and Jenny Smith Fletcher. I actually got their images from the Library of Congress. On something that they were doing on westward migration. And I wanted to see what federal records we had at the National Archives in which I could trace them. I found their land records within Zachary Fletcher's land records. He indicated that he was a veteran, but he had lost his personnel records. So just from him saying he was a veteran within his land records, I wanted to see if I could find his military records. Here are his compiled military service records. These just give really basic information when a person enlisted, when they discharged physical description, any medical issues, but for genealogical purposes, the most important records are the pension records. Because with the pension records, the person had to prove that he had indeed served or if he had passed away and the widow was trying to get the pension, she had to prove that she was indeed married to this individual. So it gives a lot of good information. And I'm just going to read this real quick and bring it to a net. So basically with this letter within his pension file, he was explaining to the pension bureau who he was and why he didn't have all information on himself. So he's given all of the information that he knows about himself. Your honor, my dear sir, I've been raised a slave. I have no record of my age. And if there is any, I do not know anything of it. My first master was a bachelor and he died when I was a baby. And will all of his slaves to his sister marry who had married a man by the name of Anthony Robb. She died in a few years and we were all divvied out with her children. And we never all got together again until after the war, speaking of the Civil War. In the year 1856 or 57, I was bound out to a man by the name of Isaac Davis as a race rider. Initially, I didn't know what a race rider was. I learned that in these years, African-Americans were actually used as the jockeys and horse racers. So he was a horse racer. He died in 1863. I stayed with his family until June 1864 at which time I joined the army. And two days later, my mistress, meaning his lady slave owner, Mrs. Ellen Davis, came into my camp and tried to get me out on the grounds that I would not be 19 years old until the 12th of August of the same year. But as I had on my uniform and had been sworn in, she could not get me out. Next, I went to see my father just before he died in 1913. He told me that I was born August 12, 1845, the same year that Zachary Teller fought the Mexican War and that my master, Robert Fletcher, being of the same political party named me after him, Zachary Teller Fletcher. The above is the best mostly that I can give of my age all of my old white people and all of my brothers and sisters out of ten are dead. Mother died when I was nine years old and my father died three years ago at the age of 93. We colored slaves, knew nothing of the census and all of the above acts was in McCracken County, Kentucky, five miles west of Paducah, Kentucky. So that's just a brief introduction to a range of records that we have at the National Archives. The main thing to keep in mind, again, is that most of the records at the National Archives are going to be outside of three blacks who were counted in the census. Most of them are going to be at that point where the federal government becomes involved in the lives of African-Americans around the time of emancipation and the Civil War and so forth. So it's mostly post-emancipation records. Once you get to that point, hopefully it can give you information on any potential slave owners, plantations and so forth, but then you can go to the local level or perhaps at the Library of Congress to try to go and you work your way back farther. Thank you. Thank you, Damani. Our final speaker is Stephen Fullwood as the Assistant Curator in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Stephen counsels researchers to think broadly and pay attention to historical and cultural context as well as all those lines on genealogical family charts. And so, Stephen. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Hello, I'm Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin. I'm the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Warfighting Support. The training video you're about to see, Operation Safeguard 4, was produced by the Interagency Training Center and addresses the technical and operation security threats faced by our military forces and civilian personnel in both stabilization and coalition environments. These environments and vulnerabilities have existed throughout recent history, spanning from the World Wars to our current military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This film depicts many of the potential technical and operation security threats that our nation could fall victim to and depicts the disastrous consequences that inevitably occur as a result of poor technical and operation security practices. Technical and operation security threats can vary and originate from many sources to include our traditional, tactical and terrorist adversaries as well as host country, domestic and foreign contractors and even from nations claiming to be our allies. Every cleared government and civilian employee must remember that we all possess knowledge that a hostile or even friendly entity desires. We are all potential targets for many forms of intelligence collection. Education and awareness are the first steps in a successful security program and mission. I hope that the events portrayed in this video will help you to safeguard your sensitive information, missions and lives. Thank you. It's important you tell us everything, Susan. We have to determine the extent of the damage done by the information you passed. So why don't we start at the beginning? Tell us why you were sent to Akerstan. I was assigned to General Breckenridge's staff, a senior analyst from DIA. In an unprecedented situation, the GJ terrorists took control of the Akerstani border town of Neva. Hello, General. Hello, Susan. Have you seen this? It is in the Neva area. Tribesmen loyal to Mohammed... Thanks, George. Susan, can you give us a quick analysis of our current situation and an overview of what we can expect? Yes, sir. The latest reporting indicates... For my part, I gave the general an overview of the situation on the ground. The GJ forces had consolidated their positions on the three sides of Neva, and justice troubling was the way the Russians had mobilized. General Breckenridge was very distrustful of the Russians because of the size of the force they deployed. Turned out his instincts were right. He was always asking... Pointing into that, Susan, let's talk about Sean. Didn't you remember the security briefings you received before going overseas? Of course, but he was an American, cleared to work in our compound, and he was a retired military officer. I had no reason to suspect him of anything.


Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today, we're gonna be talking a little bit about my experiences with Qt browser Now I've wanted to use Qt browser for some time But what's really pushed me over the edge and actually giving it a good go is all the shenanigans surrounding firefox now I've been searching for an alternative to firefox Ever since the whole firefox thing went down if you want to know everything that went down I'll link to it in the video description or the One of the cards above me, but I've been trying to find a alternative. I've not been all that successful I don't care for brave. I think it's a little bit too pushy for me. It like it just takes over your Everyone I'll talk about that in another video Don't get me angry at brave Matt. It's gonna be okay I've tried I tried chromium But now chromium is going to be losing the ability to sync stuff through your Google account Which makes chromium completely useless because it's the only reason why you'd use chromium I believe and at least in my opinion so I Just decided to go ahead and try Qt browser And I was always a little bit hesitant because I don't want to go through and use my browser completely with a keyboard even though I'm a keyboard Vim guy and You know, I use a window manager and all that stuff. I'm never I'm pretty much attached to my mouse when it comes to the browser. I like to click things I like to scroll using the thing I've Gotten better at using some Vim bindings in a browser. I've even used of them Plug-in for Firefox and Chrome winner or whatever So I've gotten better at it, but It was that knowledge that I would have to use quite a bit more of my you know keyboard They always kept me from using Qt browser, but with all the shenanigans with Firefox going on I just you go ahead and decided to give it a try for a whole week. I Was not successful in the whole week I use it for mostly but there are a few things that I just could not I couldn't stomach using Qt browser for and I'll talk about those So let's actually go ahead and look at Qt browser. This is Qt browser Not out of the box. I've done a little bit of customization on it But not much one of things I haven't done is there's a way to go through and convert the the Tomo file or any of the Tomo config file into a Python config file and then you can do all your configuration via Configuration file instead of using their GUI thing. I Have not done that. I Might do that eventually because I'm gonna create some key bindings and stuff But for now, I've just went through and done pretty much used I've this is pretty much stock Qt browser. I've done very few customizations on it outside of I've enabled it so that When the when I have pin tabs if I close Qt browser, they come back That actually might be the only one for the most part. It's just completely stock. So Here, let me just go through a few things that I that I like about it. So I've actually come to like The keyboard focus of it So I like being able to press the okey and go to youtube.com. Oops. I actually got to type this right and Just you know Do this? I like the whole You know, I like that the keyboards basically locked into like a Vim style normal mode so I can't actually go through and you know Start typing in something unless I go into insert mode. I kind of like that. It keeps me from entering text willy-nilly You know, I accidentally I Found that it's actually fairly fast.  I also Enjoy the UI for the most part if I were going to continue to use it I would change the text at the top or the font at the top I would also probably make those a little bit bigger or I wouldn't make it so that they would go away You know completely because you can do that. So there's a hole if you're not using the Python Config file you can do something called colon set and that will take you to all the Settings that you could do and there are tons and tons of them They're not very well explained. So like a lot of the ones that like let's see here Let's see if I can find one. Let's get out of colors So like a true one of these ones that are set true It doesn't tell you what the options really are you can set it true And obviously there you could sell it set of false with some times you have other options like always or Never or something like that, you know, like this the one here ask It doesn't tell you what the the options are other than ask so So it's just you know It's kind of guess it will tell you if you put in something that's not an option So it'll actually come up with like a little like air at the bottom But you really got to be quick to see it because it just disappears like very quickly So that's one of the problems that I had but I said This is very complicated. So I guess I've kind of transitioned into the things that I don't like about it But it I'm not really complaining that it's complicated because I enjoy that there's all these, you know Options before, you know, like a new user or whatever that I could see that this could be very very complicated and you know unwieldy Really my experience was fairly good as a web browser Intel, you know, I got Into certain situations. So actually one last thing I talked about how you're in kind of a them normal mode And I have like I have spreadsheets here that I have open all the time for word counts And I also have like a fanfic fiction, you know tracker thing and I edit these things all the time And one of the things I really like is you can't go through and actually edit any Text or anything without going into insert mode and that's actually proved so I can actually use Vim keys In Google Docs and you I cannot be able to find how to do that in any other browser if for no other reason I'm gonna keep using Keep browser just so I can use Vim key bindings in Google Docs. It's amazing Seriously, it's the best thing ever That being said, there are several things that are just not great. So The first thing I will say is that it does not do very good with zoom And and by zoom, I don't mean like the conference call thing I mean actual zoom like zooming in on web pages Let's say you're you do a lot of reading like articles or you know, I do stories and fanfiction or whatever If you do those things and you read something and you have it zoomed in so you can actually read it So the text isn't so small you and you know, you navigate away from that into a different tab The zoom goes away and there's no way to get it to remember the zoom levels for website I'm assuming that has some has to do something with cookies. That's just the way it is and that's unfortunate It's not a big deal. It's not as big a deal as some of the other things that I found that I don't like but it's kind of annoying The biggest area I had a problem with and the thing that had me running back to Firefox Was ad blocking Queue browser does have ad blocking It's not good, but it does have it. So if you just if you're talking just Like normal Google ads on a website like a blog or something chances are it'll probably block it if it's not a Google ad And it's on some a website. It may not block it But that's not a big deal where it becomes a big deal Actually is going through and watching a YouTube video YouTube ads are terrible and Even as a youtuber, I can completely understand if you don't want to watch the ads on my videos I understand I don't watch very many ads on videos either I will turn off ad blocker on some creators that I enjoy But for the most part like if I'm watching a youtuber that has like a billion subscribers or something that I'm sorry Linus tech tips man, I'm turning off the ads on The Google ads on your thing on your YouTube channel because I don't want to watch them and That's just because I can even do the whole the beginning like pre-roll ads It's when they interrupt the videos, you know You know, I mean the interrupting the videos like every five or ten seconds or whatever to show me an advertisement. I don't want that Cube browser completely ignores those videos the ad blocker You cannot get rid of ads on YouTube with cube browser. At least not without some hacky hack thing But you know creating a key binding or whatever that will take you to actually playing it into MPV or something. I Did not do that. I just went back and use Firefox That's does whenever I wanted to use YouTube.  I have you know on for this this whole experiment is That cube browser I could actually I could use Cube browser daily. It could be my daily driver. I love the fact that I can use them Bindings in Google Drive. I love it. I think it's fantastic I I've come to really enjoy the keyboard navigation of going, you know into certain situations where it is just completely Keyboard driven. I love it Even with the extension in Firefox to use them key bindings on some things It's not as seamless as it is here in cube browser. I love those things But they're all all those good things that I could 100% Get behind and use and love our overshadow shadowed by the Horribleness of the ad blocking Now I know there are other Solutions like you could create a pie hole or whatever it's called to block advertisements I'm not gonna go through that and do that. I'm just gonna find a different browser. That's the thing is If the ad browser or the ad blocking was better, I'd use cube browser, but the ad blocking is god-awful some of the other things that I noticed is That sometimes this the the startup on it is a little laggy. I'm not sure why I'm pretty sure that this is just my system or It's possible that it's because I have those pen tabs and sometimes the those pen tabs take a while to load or something I don't know. I didn't notice it before I had the pen tabs to make something that's a problem It does remember so it does allow cookies to be saved So because it remembers your login even you know like login if you log into Google or Facebook or whatever it'll remember that you're logged in So that's good. I wish it did the same thing for the zoom So but really so my week with cube browser has been mostly positive If it weren't for the YouTube ad blocking situation, I would be switching to keep browser today I would be uninstalling Firefox and using cube browser that locking man. It's just it's not good And like I said, I know that as a youtuber I should want people to watch ads, but YouTube ads are bad If they if they could just may have good way of doing ads like just keep them at the beginning You know we're beginning or the end or whatever Or even better let the the creator choose where those interstitial ads are so that they can work into the content You know, so if you let me pause here for an advertisement And instead of I'm halfway through a sentence and all of a sudden you're not actually listening to me anymore You're listening to an IKEA commercial.  It just that I Noticed more with cube browser because I have ad blocker on all the time for most of the things I use on YouTube and The fact that it's gone on cube browser was very jarring What I would really wish they would do is to find some way to Use you block origin now. I'm not sure is you block origin open source. I Feel like it is I mean because it's in LibreWolf and LibreWolf is open source So I'm assuming that you block origin is open source But that might be a wrong assumption But even then there has to be an open source ad blocking solution that they could build in I mean understand I think cube browser is just one dude that does the development of it. So it's probably asking too much Come he's just you know one guy. So, you know, you can't ask Take this huge mungus project done But it would be so good if you could just take an open source ad blocking solution If you especially if you block origin is open source, but or whatever and build it in Keep browser would be so I mean a hundred times better It is completely usable and I'd have no problem with it. So That is my experience with keep browser I'm going to keep it installed simply because of those Vim commands in Google Google box. So good. Oh, so good But for most for I'm gonna stand Firefox until I find a different solution. I'm probably gonna try Vivaldi next I've wanted I've just really wanted to try something that's not Or the I wanted to stay with open source And Vivaldi's closed source, but I'm gonna give it a try So anyways, if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't give it a thumbs down in the comments below Let me know your experience of the cube browser because maybe you found a way that you can block those Pesky at interstitial ads on YouTube and keep browser. I would love those. I mean really seriously when it be great I mean, this is completely I mean Complete rant, but I would I've rented like four or five times in the city about ads on YouTube Really what I would love to do is be able to watch the ads at the beginning and skip the ones that are in the center So we need to add a blocker that allows you to do that because then I can support the creators that I watch Without having to watch those crappy interstitial ads. Anyways, that is it. Give us a subscribe. 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