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Always remember folks whatever you think about you bring about whatever you focus on grows up everyone's having a great day safe day. Match first folks you're gonna love it. Let's make it a great month. Year of the tiger that's right. Oh baby don't take anything personally transform your life. When you refuse to take things personally avoid many upsets in your life you're feeling of anger jealousy and even sadness will simply disappear if you don't take them personally and that's that's that's a great card man but sometimes it's really hard not to take it personally. You know what we all gonna why would I definitely get to watch out for man. You know most of the time like this when you get road rage man and you know sometimes man it just comes up out of nowhere. We're all gonna watch out for that that's for sure. Cookin. Mug it wise let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow industries down 493 Nasdaq off 131 S&Ps off 46 gold contract of $41 trading $8.19 42 an ounce. We got silver up a buck $25.46 an ounce. A light sweet crude up eight bucks 103.81 big numbers out here folks and I'll go through it with the oils in an ABC structure up I believe it's like 120 or something. You got copper up there at 13.5 pennies 458 notes and bonds a 10-year note up a full point plus seven ticks trading out here at 128.21 the 30-year up a full two points plus 11 ticks getting out here at 150.901 and King dollar. King dollars a 659 ticks trading 97.364 euros 111 yen is at 114.90 and the British pound is at 132 to 1 US dollar. iPhone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> give us a call folks. Want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&Ps let's take a look at them. What do you have out here? Well we take a look at this baby what you're going to see is your lower you get light volume here hit the highs of the low so the highs of the last lower last week was 428.76 we hit 427.93 and you're going to have lighter volume the real kicker here folks is that where are we going to end today that's where this is you know basically shaking out and if we end out these lows guess what you're going to go after these lows tomorrow. NDX100 we take a look at the NDX100 what do you have what do you have with the NDX100 bottom line you're down 335 the high of the low there is a 340 104 you're at 3 you hit 340 57 we're at 54 million shares and that's only going to do about 64 million so if this could reject the lower price we might have a chance here to basically get a little bit higher right now bottom line is that this is building cause well it's building cause a lower price anyway I mean that's my take on it but the real bottom line is that it's going to go after it right now and we'll see gold gold contract out here we take a look at the gold contract you're up 42 bucks right now in the gold contract this baby wants a higher price you know you get to get the spike high out here I suspect we'll get that spike high but if we do and we take this gold contract and we take a look at it there's going to be choppiness out here but the bottom line with gold right now you can really see it in spades too gold is real currency you know people have argued about that over the course of the years well guess what when you know everything hits the fan bottom line this is the currency and it's a currency in spades so you're you're high from 2011 1920 we blew that away we're at 1943 you're last you're all time high right now is 2063 bottom line I that's what I expect we're going that's nothing that's only 80 bucks well 120 bucks away and we very well may have an abc structure on the way up that that's how this is shaken out we go take a look at notes and bonds the note and bond market out here right now you get the 10 year note doing 2.8 million contracts so it's big contract volume you um yeah it's definitely big contract volume look at this I mean you talk about a spike right on a 10 year so let me do this ty1 I'm going to put this on a generic one because I can get a better feeling for if we put this on a weekly okay so let me get this on a weekly so we are at okay yes so this can go up to ice so we're 128 20 130 26 is game and that would be all that actually is folks okay that's just going back to ice where it broke down that's normal that's it that's a normal basically counter trend bounce we take a look at the 30 year that's the 10 year we take a look at the 30 year out here what you're going to have with the 30 year up a full two points and 10 ticks in the 30 year I'm going to put this also on a generic okay so yeah I mean this thing can actually get to 167 you're at 150 yeah this can go to the top of the swing point which is 167 we take a look at that with the 10 year is yielding right now you're yielding out 1.71 and we got to go over to the oil market when you see this man this is something else okay so we take a look at the oil market what you're going to see here you're up with 653,000 contracts the the b-point on this so this was already the abc structure up here it is right here he's taking his baby out so yeah and when I lay this out let me put it this way so you can kind of see it that's what I'm looking at I'm looking I'm taking an a-point from December 20th the b-point up there is uh February 14th so you got let's call it 66 bucks it's 65 69 66 bucks to 93 yeah so we get 27 bucks you got 87 97 107 that's 110 no no okay hold on one second 20 87 that's 90 that's a buck 10 bucks 17 it's a buck 17 and right now you hit a dollar six you know so there's big numbers here king dala now king dala as well as gold king dala wants higher price too you can see this kind of yesterday man we'll see whether it can basically reach up and you know this this also pulled us back a little this could really be a little rocket ship out there well I mean this can this can run all the way up to the 103 again right now you're at 97.362 our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> stay right there folks come right back we have the dow industrials down 523 nasdaq is off 159 s&p's off 53 we'll come right back are you looking for a way to consistently add winning trades to your portfolio 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fourth largest producer of potatoes fifth largest of rye fifth place in the world and b production and then eighth place in wheat i mean we're talking about one of the reasons why i've been speaking to you for quite some time about the price of the soft commodities i mean we are still along in mind for my subscribers the dba which is the dba agricultural fund and that's got all those things it's got that you know so i when you look at this and you try to resolve it and you're looking at crude you were just talking about the price of you think that we're a crude oil is going um what what we need to also put in perspective is that nothing there's nothing that can happen in the next week or two that can just resolve this to the point where i'm not talking about the humanitarian side i'm just talking about the commodity side where everything goes back to to normally lost 300 000 people or something like that that have left the country so all that production is nothing that's just one country so i think we've got to take this very seriously in terms of the upside potential in the overall market but in that there are some sectors that are actually working to a certain extent that i'm kind of intrigued with because the really beaten down nasdaq stocks there are some of those that have just taken i mean 30 40 50 60 decline so in that area even today you you've got the cues and certainly the etf that we have that has some of these nasdaq 100 type stocks holding pretty well so it's i think this is a period where if you're long anything you have to be quite specific you have to be sector related if you're already in the sectors that are working that's a good sign then you have to just moderate you know use stops or add to whenever you think you're getting a dip you think that sector's going to continue but most importantly when i was looking i spoke to you about the candles this particular pattern that i call the chapel of roman candle and it's been one of the one of the candles that we've seen in some of the major tops over the years back in 2007 the s&p had the same candle one one month after it made the top so i spoke about this i'm going to expand it so that you can see and what i i still feel that there's a really good chance that over a period of a couple of weeks we'll start to form a base and have a really strong rally because the the intensity of the selling is so so great and the uh if you measured the vicks or any sentiment indicator some of these stocks are you know really good companies they've just been beating beaten down because of the market but this particular candle where at highs the price opens up and has a fractional little wick to the upside and then pulls back really sharply and then comes back and then closes a half to two-thirds from the low it creates a spell called the chapel roman candle because you know roman candle you like it and then proof protects you know yes it's it's it's an ugly looking candle in terms of a a chart in the stock market but looking up in the sky it's quite pretty but in the stock market where i say is if the wick gets taken out in a shorter time span the long wick that was formed you've got to be careful because then there could be a test of the low and you got to be careful that it doesn't break well we tested the low and then what happened that was in january now february we've closed the candle and we formed it's not exactly the same thing because the wick is a little too high but everything else about it is good and i don't want to see a second roman candle and so far the pattern that we've got to look at is that if there is a weekly close in the s and p below 4290 it says gotta be careful because you could retest the most recent low that was the low of just the other day and that was in the 4100 area so it might be there by the time it's finished talking you and i certainly hope that does that i mean that's a good reaction but you're right i mean this is the speed of these turnarounds in today's is really quite amazing it is so i just i just wanted to put a perspective on what i'm looking at here but that doesn't mean to say that there aren't certain sectors in certain areas that are working and um within that context i think you've got to be able to put together the panoply of all these different things so when i look at the over when i look at say port for you remember for weeks and weeks i've been saying we're raising cash we're raising cash any positions we're putting on a really basically trading positions and quite a number we have a gold stock of course that's that's acting quite well we have some of our core positions that we've held you were speaking about the dollar and in this particular case we've been long since 90.07 back in 2018 washington right all the way up to the it was 102.99 early january 2020 then it plummeted down back to 89.21 fortunately i stopped held in the u up and we're still long and it's very interesting and that's what i'm saying this is a very complex market in many many ways because i've been also speaking to you about the tradition that i have in the back of my mind is that when the stocks get volatile meaning they're going down that's a wall street terminology yes volatile um money tends to flow into bonds and then what happens is the bonds rise it's called the safety of bonds yields come down we have only just seen that in the last week so that's the first time that we've got that which tells me that the uh we cannot rule out that whatever the Fed is going to do they're going to have no choice but you need to do some some uh you know some upgrade of of the of bonds in terms of the yield but at the same time what i'm thinking is they also going to look at the overall economic perspective so they kind of caught between a rock and a hard place so i think that the dollar i've always considered the dollar to be just at the back of my mind i treated as an icon of the american economy it's like holly davison this is a it's just an icon around the world but it's also a go-to place because it's for forever it's been the safest place to be so i think that's one of the reasons why the dollar is going up yet gold is screaming higher so i've always said there are times when you've got to separate the volatility index the dollar bonds and um in this particular case is going to be gold so i think what we're looking at here is is a very complex market you just got to predict cash cash is a good position to be in uh for safety and at the same time we're trying to get some stocks that have this counter trading rally and that's what we're trying to trade and folks it's very easy to get basils news that i come over to our website at tfnn right at the featured content you're going to see the opening call you hit that button basal have a great one safe one we look forward to show tomorrow morning thank you very much thank you stay right there folks come right back are you having fun trading the 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welcome back folks down investors right now down 659 you get the nazik off 234 s&p's are off 76 let's just go look at this s&p for a second so no yes okay so you're down 75 right now okay so we're into the bar now that's what's going on you're into the highs of the lows though the high of the low is 47 no 40 4290 oh we're right at it we're at 42 right 90 right now we'll see what this baby shakes out well you know in basil just bringing up the ukraine folks okay what's really intriguing to me is this is that you know when I go back and we look at you know you had the soviet union they was supposed to be the big rock and roll the whole ball of wax they went down about a heartbeat when putin is in here basically going after ukraines my take is that he really he really didn't do his homework and this is where i'm coming from on this deal the ukraines are holding up in a huge way now I didn't grow up with ukraines okay in south boston but I did grow up okay so picture everyone thinks south boston's irish folks okay this majority is irish but guess what it's irish italian lithuanian and polish okay and most of them came over approximately 1875 to 1887 1890 okay and I can tell you a flat out man okay the lithuanians and the polish right if you want to fight with them okay picture we were always fighting okay but bottom line man you'd never want to fight okay because they could always fight I mean in a monster way that's number one number two in the context of who owned the houses those folks always wanted to own the house okay so it's really intriguing when I think about it because you know people are wondering why that the ukraines can hold up so well it's in their DNA man I mean they're gonna hold that land as long as they can so it's gonna get really intriguing here and it's sad there's no doubt but I'm telling you man they're a lot tougher than Putin thinks they are and you know we'll see how this baby shakes out but you know you know Lithuania pole and they're on those things if they want to fight the man forget it man yeah yeah you're not going to get out of that clean that's that's that's my take on this whole deal and we'll see you know the oil went up today because the the squeeze will be okay they squeeze the oil and there's no doubt there's going to be unintended consequences all over the place and we'll see you know bottom line who is holding either Russian debt or Russian equities and they're going to be in tough shape that's that's the bottom line because you know this thing's yeah you know they're going to get squeezed beyond belief some of the higher volume equities that we have out here today and this so here let me show you something actually yesterday this was the clue if you got my newsletter you know that when you take a look at this see this this volume yesterday the volume is there is 1.7 billion they were selling stocks day and night that's in the NYSE and watch this one this is in the NASDAQ composite 5.8 billion so we had the expansion of volume in a monster way when you were going south that that's the bottom line if we take a look at some of the higher volume equities out here today inside of the market you have fords off 83 apples down two bucks you got bank ramerica off a buck 60 oxidant those up 334 and videos down 10 bucks you get facebook off seven bucks chevron is up five dollars that's a big number there's no doubt about that we go take a look at the inside of the Dow industrials the strength versus the weakness inside of the Dow point wise out here what you have uh chevrons put in 33 positive points home depot 25 walmart 5 taken away from it america express minus 18105 goldman 82 bowing 68 visa 50 if we go inside the ndx 100 we take a look at the ndx 100 see what's moving that ndx around what we have out here today by these up 7.2 percent the workday is up 4.4 you got consolation uh look at that that consolation brands consolation brands up four and a half percent taken away from it lucid group is down 14 percent you get amd off seven and a half zooms down six and you got as ml five let's go to zoom this was a 400 dollar stock so we take a look at zoom the low for the area is 114 dollars the high is 4 40 that's within 12 months man this is like crazy okay so let's see put this back i say okay well when it gets when it gets this close to where where where the it broke top side you'll probably get the bottom of it yeah i wouldn't be touching this thing just yet and i mean it looks to me like you know what we did is this we hit 114 and 121 is the top of the level where we went top side 77 is the bottom um you know oh 588 thanks tom oh my god yeah 588 that's intense well this is saying that listen it can be back go back down right against uh where it took off from that would be 77 dollars which would be pretty intense there's no doubt about that that's that's that's a big number let's go to the amazon take a look at some of these big dogs and see what they're doing look at this holding tight man that's that's impressive man amazon down 55 bucks let's see what google is you know same thing down 20 bucks but hanging tight in a big way uh facebook is getting destroyed i believe yeah it's going to go after it's going to go after it's low it's down seven and a half dollars you take a look at uh look at this thing yeah see this looks to me okay so we're facebook hasn't tested its high volume low yet this level where it's at though is that February it's a 2018 2020 yeah it's 2018 okay so where facebook is right now that it looks to me like if we put the s and p up this is where it looks to me like this thing is actually going to get down i'm gonna pull this back a bit okay so you're talking 33 93 yeah it's another thousand points down from where we are that's where i'm thinking this thing wants to go let's go to uh rich and harrigan rich what's going on hello hi how are you good that's a beautiful day how are you i'm doing great man totally totally you must be enjoying this uh art of timing the trade market yes it's a beautiful thing well i know hecklo has not been one of your favorites in the past but it's taken a kind of a jump today on volume what do you think of hecklo let's take a look so you get you get hecklo it's a silver stock the lowest footalls in 50 cents the highs 942 uh it's trading at 650 right now and what you have here is that you they took an 807 million last year they looked to take an 827 million this year now i'm gonna bring you over first to the silver contract because this is what happens with silver folks we are right at the spot where uh not that one si okay yeah rich you stay right there we'll come right back we'll talk about silver we'll talk about uh the metal itself as well as the equities down industrials right now down 606 nazics of 231 s&p's are off 69 stay right there folks come right back are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area including the surrounding st petersburg tampa and 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metals themselves okay took off and where silver is right now and this is what you have happening here folks okay which you're going to see these silver stocks really take off so you can see silver's trading 2551 well what happens is that let me put this on a generic for a second when you start getting to these numbers here right silver equities folks when they take ounces out of the ground they're millions of ounces not by the hundreds of thousands by the millions and when you get to this point in silver meaning 2545 there's almost not a silver stock that can't get silver out of the ground from 18 to $22 so every dollar that you see silver go up you'll see these you know silver stocks explode in a monster way because because of the amount of silver that they take out of the ground times a dollar so if we take a look at heckler we you know this thing is right now you get the juice behind it um you know the next where it's 653 740s game and let me put this on a monthly yeah i mean it's evident that is that that 9 940s game actually man just stay right we uh you'll get you'll get some flak at seven seven bucks around seven dollars but i suspect it'll get up here and then you know we'll see if this uh baby keeps going i mean you got a shot of i'll even 1135 you know so well it's a bumpy uh stock to own it's the whole well you know that rich the whole sector is a bumpy thing to own man what am i talking about no no it's a truth though listen we know what it is okay well you know what you can't we all can see right now though this is a currency man there's no there's no if ands and buts about it you know it's a currency so it's real and you know people are using it so well i appreciate it okay man have a great one have a safe one let's go to our man frank and gloss the frank what's going on hey how are you doing i'm doing great it's march march 17th is coming frank thank god the snow is still on the ground and uh i know you guys got some snow man you you know one day was 63 right i was talking to my daughter katelyn and she was 63 and then two days later she sent me a picture of her driveway and it's full of snow oh yeah yeah that's the way it is yeah the way it is it's uh it's global warming for us yeah for sure yeah well what an interesting market man uh i have a stock for you want to take a look at s s s s four s is okay symbol and it's a financial and i'm thinking in this inflationary environment maybe financials will fair a little bit better as a as a group what do you think yeah let's take let's take a look so it's sural capital they take in 1.6 million they they're gonna make yeah this fourth quarter they yeah so they're accelerating okay that yeah so they're gonna take in 535 thousand this quarter but then they say they say they're gonna come in with two dollars and 23 cents so that's quite a they pay a ridiculous yield to i was just gonna say that's quite an acceleration on the way up so whatever they have going oh something's got to be wrong with this frank they kind of pay a 69 yield well i get 52 i i know i know they came through with seven or eight percent last year okay so but i don't know that's a little screwed up that has me a little bit hesitant yeah or the chart look the chart looks okay okay so let's take a look bring this back get all these highs yeah it does look okay man what's intriguing even last week there's not a lot of sellers when it went down to 1050 man yeah i know when it went to the launch when is the next dividend due do you know i've been going up since yeah since fall of 20 it's been on a straight line up a lot of you know bouncing back and forth from eight and a half to 11 but kind of thing not gonna capture it in 56 million yeah i'd be careful there frank i mean you've been doing this long enough you know that a 69 dividend doesn't make any sense man yeah i know it so the only thing that has told me back i mean we're talking about a stock that trades at $11.40 and so basically what they're they're saying is that they're gonna pay you a dividend of what uh 690 plus 60 cents so uh seven seven you're gonna pay a different as seven dollars and sixty cents yeah i know no i know it's like okay yeah i'll take it no for sure man i i'm the company for oh i said the company focused on lead stage institutionally backed private companies oh let's do that oh here let's see so let me put let me see if there's you can find out what's in it top two segment your jersey division must let's hold this yeah um i you know the track doesn't look bad that that's that's the bottom line um you know but we know that a 69 dividend i mean i can't i can't see i can't see that happening right i mean all right let's keep an eye let's just keep an eye on it yeah i'm telling you man yeah look you know you got a pretty good you got a pretty good tan going there it's listen i i try to swim about 500 meters every day so really wow yeah no kid yeah i have 100 meters yeah that's a mile keeps me healthy yeah i guess it does yeah that's your secret well it's fun down here i was i was i just started up again the only time i didn't do it for about four weeks because a little by a little too cold but it the heat's here again man so it's a beautiful thing man come down here and join us frank you're gonna like it yeah maybe one of these days thanks Tom okay man have a great one have a safe one let's go take a look at vista gold vgz and there's no doubt they uh they you know they the question is is anything wrong with it uh then they're running as you see yesterday i know there's nothing wrong with it but you can see also that the bottom line is that it's not moving and gold's at uh you know a huge price so the way this does trade folks is that bottom line all of a sudden it just takes off so we'll see other shakes out but this is not making too much sense to me either uh meaning in the context of uh that you the low for the s 59 cents the highs of buck faughty we've had Fred on you know he has the licenses it's like you get a market cap out here of 98 million and when you when you read those it's like okay man i got a market cap of 98 million that's not a hard thing to take out so you know bottom line is that it is what it is and it hasn't moved yet so uh market wise out here we're going to be at these lows man this is uh this is going to be a little dangerous coming into yeah tomorrow's only wednesday that's not good so let's let's put this spy up here again yeah it's gonna so you're going to be into the high 428 you're 427 just depends on how far how far we're going to be into this high folks stay right there folks come right back sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument you have to practice sure but you also need excellent instruction from experts at tfnn you'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis and it's not just dry tedious text either tfnn airs live financial content streamed live on 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no the xlf this is ready to break man this is building cause and yeah this is going to be a bad market yeah i wouldn't touch this thing because you could probably break tomorrow this is what happens with the xlf folks when we get big down drafts right the xlf is actually one of the last ones to break but when it breaks man get out of the way i mean it's extraordinary and it looks to me like this xlf's going to break and make its way down to somewhere about 31 and right now you're at 37 so um yeah where we're getting into lower prices out here and if we take a look at this again let's just see where the volume's going to lay out you got okay so now this is going to be cool right now you get 900 million in nyse which is light volume but this was yesterday someone dumped at the close and we'll see whether they're going to dump out here again because yesterday was 1.7 billion and then if we take a look at the nyse i mean the composite the composite has volume man you're already at 5.4 that's going to do with 5.8 that's going to do 6 billion chairs so the bottom line is that you're accelerating on the way down you have volume on the way down and you have three days left in the week that's it that's a problem in itself folks okay um that's a long time uh before the weekend i always remember folks whatever you think about you bring about whatever your focus on grows and whatever you want in life folks visualize it like a nice big motion picture step into it take ownership of and fly with it everything you need folks is right inside you you might as well enjoy it man it's part of your DNA have a good time with it come back and visit tommy tomorrow morning great show yeah look at him folks building


Fawr ydych yn y bod yn gweithio wedi'u cerdd, mae'n gymryd i'n ymwneud ydych chi'n gweithio'r ffordd ar gyfer i'w bobl i'w cael ei gweithio ddweud â'r ddechrau. Mae'r ddechrau sy'n cael ei gweithio i hybrid ac yn dweud yn gweithio'r gaelol i gweithio'r gawdd i'r gelfwyr. I want to make sure in today's video that you've got some basic fundamentals in place to make sure you're getting the optimum performance when you've got a hybrid in hand. Right so let me start by saying this video comes from the art of simple golf so if you want to see the full and detailed explanation then make sure you go and check out the link in the description below but for this it is my of course interpretation of that video tip and it's very very simple and straight forward and there's a couple of stages to it what we're going to do is we'll start off with the fundamentals very very basic is all about the setup now and it looks can be a bit boring at times but it's really important we get this bit right and particularly with hybrid where for me having watched the video it would probably change from where I would have normally had my ball position to start with and that's key as you know to making sure we get the most out of these hybrids because what we're looking to do we want to use the bounce on this club and we want to use the CG we want to use everything that we've got the benefits that this offers over a long guy in well it's good but you've got to make sure you're set up in the correct position to get the most out of that hybrid like I said we're going to start off with a ball position you're going to need either an alignment stick or a golf club laid down in front here we've got a good strong line that you can see there which is this yellow line which is centre of my stance and then you'll notice where the ball position is and I would say it's between the yellow line and my lead front foot so the halfway in between the two and if you're going off your lead foot maybe a couple of hybrid club heads back in terms of the width from my lead foot hope that made sense and I'm sure from the visual it will now I said that's a bit different because for me I'd have probably been a little bit more towards the centre of my stance and the second thing is also key and that's the hand position they want to be in a fairly neutral position so what that means is we don't want them leaning forward we don't want them leaning back and what that also means is we don't want a descending blow nor do we want to hit in this thing on the upswing it needs to be very much a neutral angle of attack using that bounce using that CG to get this ball launching airborne so what you're going to do is your hands are going to be positioned if we've got centre of my sternum is on the yellow line then we want our hands pretty much in line with the ball itself which is on my lead front chest my left chest and we're going to simply make sure that we're in that position there not forward not behind just sitting nice and balanced over my lead left chest all simple and straightforward like I said so far before we hit a ball we're going to do one more thing and this will certainly aid people who've got any sort of restrictions in their movements or their ability to get through the swing maybe for older golfers is just flare out that front lead foot then you'll see that on a lot of videos particularly if you want to try and help with your driving I've seen that on a number of occasions but what we're looking at here is the ability to again just rotate through this swing a little bit easier and make hitting hybrid just that bit more simple so quick recap ball two club heads back from the lead foot hands very much in front with the with the left chest not leaning forward not leaning back flare out the front foot and then we've got to do this no that's a real good strike in terms of the big thing I've noticed since I've been trying this off camera is my strike quality has improved significantly it feels very neutral in terms of when I've hit the ball well I'm not feeling any mat and I'm not certainly feeling either before nor after the ball I'm just clipping that ball nice off the top so dead dead simple but really important get those fundamentals right in terms of your setup that is stage one of making sure you start to strike your hybrids far better than perhaps you are currently right so very simple to start with and we've moved the alignment stick and I've actually placed the ball on a T as well for this next element I'm going to look at because although we talk about arriving in that kind of neutral position that kind of not hands forward nor hands back that's all good but how do we try and what can we take from this tip in terms of a way we can concentrate our efforts in doing that well first of all Alex explains that we've got to get those fundamentals right and we can't use the the benefit that you're finding our hybrid unless we get that sort of ball position right hand position right but once we've got there trying to find that low point and returning to that low point in terms of our strike location Alex talks which is a really good thing in my opinion he says he doesn't want the sort of hands to win the race and he doesn't want the club head to win the race and what he basically means by that is we don't want to be hitting a descending blow if the hands get there first and we start to smother the shot a little bit deal off the club and then vice versa he doesn't want to sort of flip in that ball trying to get it airborne and therefore the club head win in the race so what we've got to try and do is we've got to arrive at that impact location with a straight leading arm leading into the club face straight down so our low point being the point in which we impact the ball in very much a neutral position hope that makes sense the way we're going to do that is quite simple that's all we're going to focus on is trying to come back and arriving at the low at that ball with that left lead arm straight down into the club head into the ball impact before we start to come through so no flipping up don't be trying to get this let the loft on the club what a hybrid is really good at is getting the ball airborne because of the width of the sole and that cd right at the very back the club head will do it and you see a lot of golfers trying to help that ball up in the air and vice versa what you don't want to do is start coming down shifting your weight over smothering a club deal often and yet again negating all the benefits that a hybrid offers over a long guy in so let's just try that first of all with one concentration and that concentration being arriving sort of at the ball as neutral as possible in terms of our low point first of all that's a super strike so really pleased with what's just happened there in terms of with the camera being on i know for a fact that there was well there was no interaction with the mat whatsoever even before nor after what's really interesting if we go back and see the the first screenshot of what we got off trackman from just our alignment thing then we realise that you'll see that the the low point in the swing was absolutely perfect that zero zero number means that we've hit the ball in the exact position that we want it to so neither before nor after just a quick glance back at the screen there it's interesting because we've just it suggests a slightly descending blow so therefore my low point slightly one inch after the um the ball so what that tells you from trackman is although i feel really good and i felt us off hit that in a neutral position there's a slight descending blow so something we can certainly work on but the final stage is this i'll get another golf ball and the final stage is all about like sort of um through all the videos that we've done so far in terms of testing the tips what i've noticed is definitely a correlation between them all and there's some things that you're doing video a that you're doing video b and starting to understand all those elements certainly helps you to understand the golf swing throughout from the top right the way through the swing and this is another one where what we're looking to do in other exercises we're looking to get through that um through the ball impact and make sure that we get um keep that extension going through our our lead arms traveling through but of the club club head as far away from the body as we can be for as long as we can be another video that we've covered and what alex just talks about is making sure that we focus on really three things and that's our belt buckle our chest facing the target and then just a little bit that third one just a little bit of a push off with that um heel rear heel that is and making sure that we're just sort of uh propelling ourselves if you like through the shot and that's a final element and and that just makes that life a little bit easier i don't think on point b i flared my lead heel i don't think on the first one so we've got all them fundamental setups in place hands are in a very neutral position turning round and then i'm just going to push off and hit the ball and power a little bit through impact we'll try one more whilst we're on and again really solid strike i'm really happy with the strike and one thing i've noticed is just how you can just hear the difference first of all and i know that for me i've been advocate of hybrids over long lines for a long long time and i think it's really important that we understand as average golfers these can be a real help but i also note that a lot of comments where people say they just don't like hybrids now maybe one of the reasons is that you're just not getting those basic fundamentals in your setup correct which are going to help you make the most and all the benefits that these things offer over long irons anyway i hope that video helped i hope you enjoyed that one yet again don't forget art of simple golf if you want a more thorough explanation go and check out alex's original video link will be in the description below thank you for watching this one channel is going really well right now a lot of support you're clearly liking what we're doing so i would encourage you to carry on subscribing notifications bell give me some feedback below and we'll carry on producing these videos and hopefully along the 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Thank you Admiral very much for those kind words and I want to say good morning to everyone I said I know I'm back in the military environment. It's early and we're up and Adam, you know But but of course the Admiral has already been out playing hockey at five so again I know I'm back in the military and it's wonderful. It's it's wonderful to be in a military environment again But this is sort of the creme de la creme. I mean in this beautiful room and in this beautiful campus I also want to start with my thank yous besides the Admiral Thank you, Dr. Mary rum and your team for the hard work of putting this together But also helping me personally get here and a special thanks to Ambassador Mary and Peters whom I've known for a long time We've been colleagues and you're the first person who told me about this conference I only wish we wouldn't have had a furlough so that I could actually stay for the entire conference Instead of going back to this retirement job. I'm doing now It's really an honor for me to be here with the Distinguished women and men who have been assembled and I know how much I could learn from all of you if I could stay here for the entire session and I would love to come back again and Kudos to the Navy War College for hosting an event like this We talked last night at the table about being the conveners and when you can convene people It's really an important role because we all go back to our worlds. We work hard But it's where you share ideas with the other people working in the same field And I also want to say kudos for this topic Answering the how progress challenges and issues for sustaining the national action plan Because it's sort of rolling up our sleeves and figuring out. Where do we go from here? I said dr. Roma lauded 45 minutes to me That's dangerous because I can take all that time. I should have brought a pen up here So I can start flipping through the pages But before I start talking about some of my own experiences I really am impressed with what has happened with this national action plan We were talking a little bit in the car this morning coming over the fact that it was just two years ago that it was signed and Little by little the bureaucracies are sort of waking up. I think to the importance of this document and The fact that there have been six U.N. Security Council resolutions passed four of them having to do with Violence against women in conflict, which is so important and you'll hear why when I tell you some of my stories And and I say kudos to big doD for embracing this I mean little by little big doD is being brought in and standing up and and playing its role. So kudos for all of that Again when I looked at the information that dr. Um sent me I thought what in the world would I have to say to a Group of people I said the experts are the ones being invited. You're sitting out there But it was when I realized you were focusing on practical experience I thought maybe maybe I can share some of my experiences that show how important this work has been for a long time Also, you're overarching objectives And the first one of those and I'm just going to repeat the five of them because I hope I'm weaving my comments Through or these are being woven through some of my experiences Starting with the idea of national integration and Institutionalization and those of us who are a more senior in the room. No, that's what's been missing We haven't had that authority and that doctrine before so now it exists Secondly the participation in the peace process and decision-making I've worked in peace processes for much of my career and it's so important But the role of women in those peace processes are critical the protection from violence You know, we've got it codified now But it's so important that we keep pointing that out Conflict prevention, I mean wouldn't that be nice if we could prevent all the conflicts in the world But then we have to figure how to assuage the problems especially especially for women when the conflicts arise and Access to relief and recovery and I know we have some of the USA ID and other Specialist here, but it is so important to get the relief and again I've had experiences in some of these working with other colleagues. I said I've been doing some of this work for three and a half decades before the authorities and the documentation was there We've needed to be working on this for decades probably even centuries to work on more gender equality but I now want to shift and Look at some of these diplomatic Experiences, but actually start with the importance of these authorities and documentation I did carry the national security strategy with me. I said I don't sleep with it But I felt like I did for about a year and a half there when we wrote it. I have to be very careful I did not write this national security strategy I led a team of four people at the White House and then got to use the brain of Samantha power Who was across the hall from me? And the deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes who is Has written speeches for the president since he gave his speech in Berlin and his acceptance no Bella speech He sort of channels the president So my job my little team was to do the building blocks of this document Fortunately, I'd been with the military long enough to understand ends ways and means and you have to have a sort of the Building blocks to get the strategy going it was absolutely fascinating But I'm not here to talk about the national strategy I'm here to talk about what is in here that's relevant to this work But I'm gonna start just a little bit by saying We thought about the president's strategic approach and the first part of this document It's going to be so interesting to see what Susan Rice publishes here and about I mean it's it's done I'm sure it's going to be out. I think shortly after the first of the year But we started out with the strategic environment That is the world as it is and that was the world that President Obama inherited when he got there So we discussed some of the issues the problems then the strategic approach to the world that we seek What is it that we would really like to do have different in the world? And we tried in that section to describe What we as a nation needed to build as our foundation to accomplish the goals And one of them was pursuing comprehensive engagement. I thought about that because I remember we discussed Imagine if we could have a negotiation with Iran. I mean we discussed that in 2009 But and we talked about a new international world order These were all the things of the strategy going forward Now those of you who are students of national security strategies and we lined up I think about 15 table of contents and what a surprise Many of the elements are the same because our national security interests are the same Year after year our our national security our Economy our you know public policies But what had never been in a document before had been the element of our values And it was President Obama who insisted, you know, and I remember saying we don't have values as a national security interest And I mean I was saying that to my team not to the president And the president filtered back no this is important And I read you the quote that we put in the document Because I think you'll believe this as well We uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right But because it strengthens our country and keeps us safe Time and again our values have been our best national security asset in war and in peace In times of ease and in eras of upheaval Fidelity to our values is the reason why the united states of america Grew from a small string of colonies under the writ of an empire to the strongest nation in the world And that Is what the president believed and he said we've got to elevate our values in the national security strategy And hold those up as something that we represent around the world so democracy human rights Were tucked under this but the paragraph and I again i'm sure many of you know this and have cited it That is that is in here is one about women Women and children and the protection of women And so they get the special mention here And that women should have access to the same opportunities be able to make the same choices as men do Experience shows that countries are more i'm quoting now what what is in this document without reading at all Experiences show that countries are more peaceful and prosperous when women are accorded full and equal rights an opportunity And when these opportunities are denied countries often lag behind So that plus another section under the international Order that talks about preventing genocide I think and deals directly with the human security that I know I think you even have a panel on human security and civil society I feel that this offered the documentation that then Not too long after that Secretary clinton had the first q d dr the review Internally of of the state department and then the national action plan came along And so i'm going i'm fast-forwarding a little bit to the secretary's policy cable I don't know how many of you on the outside are aware of policy cables that go out in Go go out to the embassies in the state department show me your hands if you're aware so You're you're quite aware of this policy cable Well, I have to tell you after 30 years of being a diplomat I mean this was one of the strongest clearest messages ever to be sent, you know, and it was sent to each and every diplomat I mean you get it It was called policy guidance on promoting gender equality to achieve our national security and foreign policy objectives And so that meant that no matter what other priorities you had for your mission as an ambassador You had to take this mission on as well That's a policy direction that is really important Um, and I said I know that many of you like me have followed secretary clinton's Career for a long time. She has dedicated herself to this issue for for decades But it was wonderful that she was at the department and Was there at a time when the authorities were there and she could move this ball forward I think it was back in her 2009 congressional testimony And this leads this policy cable when she said if half the world's population remains Vulnerable to economic political legal and social margin marginalization Our hope of advancing democracy and prosperity is in serious jeopardy And she went on to say that the united states must be an unequivocal and unwavering voice In support of women's rights in every country on the continent Because this was issued just as I was leaving my very last post there in cartoom I left the very last day of february and this cable was sent out to all the embassies in march of 12 Generated from the national action plan that you're working on That was signed in december of 11 I don't know exactly the reaction in embassies. So i'm only supposing, you know that it was met with varying degrees I mean i'm sure it was embraced by some embassies and some ambassadors and country teams And maybe not so much by others, but it also has to do with the bilateral relationship in the country you're in The environment, but it is so important that she directed The embassies to do this. So i'm all for institutionalizing And I think it now is policy and I think we can all say thank you to secretary clinton I said i'm still waiting for the day. We have a female defense secretary. Don't you think that'll shake things up admiral Yeah, it was a close one this last round, wasn't it? um Anyway, I only wish that I were Still in charge of an embassy so I could have received this cable and called my country team in and said well We've got some work to do, but um, I know that's going on all over the world Um now since you're going to let me go on a little bit of a memory lane trip Um, I want to take you through some of the experiences I had where I didn't have these authorities, but we knew it was right And so you worked with women The admiral mentioned my time in barundi for all the three years I was there from 99 to 2002 the country was at civil war between the hutus and the tutsis And I watched the women and children become the double victims, you know of both military abuses And the abuses of the rebels Approximately 300 000 were killed in that war It was a tragedy. It was forgotten in many ways I used to think it was a hangover for our policy makers because of the Rwandan genocide of 94 But you know, I'd kind of say yeah, we're out here. We've got a lot of problems still going on in barundi But I learned early on To go and visit projects aid projects And of course, we didn't have aid anymore us a id in barundi when I got there in 99 But there were NGOs working there and I must say the women working with women I will never forget these italian nuns and lay people and they Went in trucks in the morning and picked up the women and children sitting in banana leaf huts And brought them in they did not have food clothing. They'd been raped. They've been victimized They brought them down to this little camp and they literally lined them up by You know the ones that were the most malnourished, you know, because they had to feed them in different ways and those that You know could still eat a full meal And I you know, I went back from this experience But the most encouraging was those who had been there for a month or two and were physically stronger The women have put them all to work. So it was women helping women, but they were sorting donated clothes They were playing games with the children. They were doing education with the children So I went back to the embassy and I thought I have got to get more money for programs like this, you know So you take on that advocacy that action role because you know, it's right and I also know that You know as the months went by The women had been victimized. This was another very sad story Um in 1996 when the uh coup had happened USAID by our government regulations had to leave But of course the hiv aids program we had going the social marketing program we had going Then was abandoned So, um, I thought how in the world are can these women now be being victimized by the fact that they don't have any protection You know, they're out in the hinterlands. So I decided how can I become the proverbial squeaky wheel And I was capable of doing that I sent I sent a cable into the state department of the title of it was condoms condoms condoms and I got to tell you They they hadn't seen many cables coming into state, you know With that sort of title It got read I had emails coming in from all over Um at any rate and then I decided um That that I needed to go to cdc because I was watching with jealousy the millions that were pouring in on hiv aids money into Rwanda and I thought look it we've got the same mix here. We've got some of the same problems Um, and and these women have nothing Um, and I don't think cdc, you know had very many ambassadors dropping in on them And so I said look it we've got to do something better about this It took and that's another bureaucratic lesson, you know, you referred to it takes time to change things By the time I left about two and a half years later There was a hundred or there was 1.5 million which is peanuts in some worlds But not in barundi when you were trying to restart social marketing 1.5 million and there was about two million more in the pipeline and I thought squeaky wheel That's a lesson, you know, it doesn't hurt use your voice and your power when you have it Especially if you know your your cause is right and just I think you can Speak up The admiral mentioned my work with nelson-mandela and I have shed a few tears in the last week But it was an absolute honor and pleasure to work with this man in the barundi peace process And there is a link to women in this work too First of all when I was trying to get money for aids and other things my seniors in washington say Mary your job out there is to work on that peace process. That's what's important. I said, yes, we can do two things at one time but I would go to these peace talks in arousia about once a month and at first I thought this is just absolutely hopeless But nelson-mandela Had the most amazing moral authority. I mean, I've said that about it for a long time I read it in tom freedman's piece yesterday in the new york times It was the moral authority to say to the hutus and tutsis who just wanted to Stand up give their speeches being a diatribe about you have it all this way you have all the power And he listened to them. He listened and listened and I thought there's an important lesson there And I thought this is taking too long. I mean, you know, I just wanted to go get things organized No, he built a framework He knew that they had to be the stakeholders in the issues They were going to decide on and when he suggested that one of the committees be reconciliation You know, they listened to him, you know, they didn't want to talk about reconciliation Some of them they just wanted to get on with cutting the pie up so that they you know, the The haves and the have nots could redivide it But I think that watching him and learning to have patience in peace processes Learning to listen to everyone and I actually took that lesson back to barundi with me You know, he would sit with these groups, you know Endless groups and they'd go on with the outrageous request, but he would listen and he would listen No, I mean, I know people of those of you have been in iraq and afghanistan and other places It's the same story. They have to become stakeholders and actually the amazing thing was Over the two years. I mean I went there for two years and it went on about another year before We actually got the transition government, but the people got to know each other So they couldn't demonize each other anymore They had to deal with each other as human beings and they also found in these groups that they had some shared goals as well So they began sort of pulling the oars in the same direction Um, anyway, I mean I you would watch uh, maddella. I mean it's just an honor, you know And he'd shake his finger at him, you know, I mean he was sort of that old school teacher But I think that's exactly what these hardheaded people needed They needed someone to crack their heads like that together I wasn't going to tell this story, but I said every time he came even though he had bad knees He was only a little over a year out of his presidency when he took on this job in december of 1999 And he would go through and greet like in a hall like this He would greet every single person, you know, and they just felt so honored So he established his authority in a sense and he came up and I'd met him a half a dozen times He came up and he said ambassador. We have something in common. I said mr. President I can't imagine what and he touched his head. He said quite hair I said last week I thought about that. I thought oh What an amazing man. I thought well, that's probably about where it stops too Well, I forgot you're taping all this um anyway Anyway, I I think that I learned a lot from mediba and what I started to say is I went back To the embassy and we had just as many problems with the leaders there In the country and everyone thought that the u.s. Government wasn't exactly doing the right thing in barony The right thing in the great lakes area But I thought I'll listen to you and that led to a lot of late nights sitting in my living room Listening to french for two or three hours when they went on some harangue, but it was okay Because I heard years later. Oh ambassador. You were always so accessible. We were able to talk to you So I mean I I think listening in situations like this and I also think women are very good at listening so One other thing that happened in barundi that links to some other experiences I had those of you in the state department or know of the state department's international visitors program Where we take people from around the world and send them to america for a three to five week programs And they're very popular Well, I knew about this from other countries and and I said, you know I think there's an african women's leader Group coming up and I said to state department. When was the last time you let barundi? Send people on an international visitors program. They said, oh, they're just going to jump their visas You know and forget that idea mary. I said no I said and I want two slots. I want one for a hutu and one for a tutsi And so I was able to get them out of the country They did come back and they did come to my porch And give a good talk about their experiences and I invited a mixed audience of hutus and tutsis And so I thought those women telling their story Was so much more powerful than any message I could have delivered, you know about america And they had met wonderful people in america and seen what American women were doing in many different venues I am going to move along here Um, oh last night someone mentioned swanee hunt and I was going to drop that paragraph But she was another person who now we're talking 99 2000 she just established the institute that w i always get the alphabet super on w a p p p at harvard In 97 98 after her ambassadorship in austria and of course she listened and learned about the the victimization of women in bosnia And has taken off from there, but this was her first trip to the great lakes region And again people in washington saying mary don't give her country clearance You know you don't need that on top of everything else you're trying to do out there You know one of my favorite things is we had those old cell phones, you know And sometimes the cell phone went dead, you know because I just hung up on people who were telling telling me what to do From washington. I said, oh that line got broken again but but um She came and she was so dynamic and she was also so touched by the stories Of the barundian women and I think of what she's gone on to accomplish Since then and every time I see her publicity and she has groups of african women I can remember when you first came Let me turn to gana for a moment. I still okay on time. Oh, I better move on along After three years in barundi to go to a country like gana where everything is just wonderful You know the gdp now is rising more and more of the ganayans are coming into middle income They have had successive democratic elections and peaceful change over of power You know so you think what could be what could be wrong in a country like this But again when you go and you listen and you live there I heard so much about violence against women, especially in the homes I thought isn't this strange and you know, I would then Ask um The male leaders with whom I'd meet, you know, is this really true? Is this an issue in this country?  You're not an african. You don't understand this is internal This is in intra family issues and problems, you know But then I realized this really was a serious problem And uh, but the ganayans were smart enough and educated enough They had whole institutes on gender studies and so I just spent some time getting familiar with that I can also say that of the 50 Ambassadors of the missions there only two of us were women myself and the japanese ambassador And it opened up incredible doors because the women's organizations came to you And I think my lesson from that is you know, you don't just we were having the conversation in the car this morning You know if you get tagged with all you're doing women's issues, you know People sort of just dismiss you or marginalize you But I don't think you can deny the fact if you're in a position and women come to you You need to listen to them as well And try and figure out what resources you have that can help them move forward in their agenda And and I was impressed with what so many of the women did there I said I I was I was the second female ambassador in gana The first one was surely temple black several decades before me.  I could not compete with that Um And but but just to mention because I was in a country where we had very well developed and sophisticated programs in our USAID the mother-to-child transmission. We had education programs Women and girls programs So I mean I had resources and assets there to try and help But also what one of the problems that I learned about that was vexing was And there would be headlines in the paper about how many middle and high school teachers Male teachers would prey upon their middle school students, you know, and I thought this is just You know so wrong in any society, but so prevalent So the peace corps director a male peace corps director Asked each and every one of his peace corps volunteers to learn a training I mean to do a training of just some simple blocking techniques And each and every one of them then went out to the hinterland and taught that and I thought It can be something simple like that. They each had their their own role as the peace corps volunteer But they taught this in the schools throughout um I'm still on memory lane for a little bit longer here A couple minutes Went in gana Liberia Was at civil war the entire time So I had enough to do running my embassy in gana, but because the peace talks were in a craw Um, I was asked to sort of help and oversee those negotiations well, uh, the women were not part of the formal negotiations in The Liberian peace talks. They were on the margins and Somehow this network of powerful women who seemed to be organized got wind of the fact that I was having a discussion at My residence with the p5 ambassadors to figure out what we could do about Liberia And lo and behold the women came to the gates of my residence protesting and who was leading the protest But ellen johnson surleaf So that was the first time I ever met her. I had to go out and say thank you very much I understand you've been marginalized from these talks Um, I had nothing to do with bringing them in it was their own organization It was having the piece of paper was being able to show that they were value added to these peace talks So they got inside and it was actually my Embassy representatives who would go and say they always had the best ideas. They were the most organized You know because they listened to what the people on the ground needed So, I mean, I think there's a real role for women and of course when she was elected Um One of the first things she wanted Um was to have security sector reform. That's another whole subject And I think I'm just going to eliminate that from my conversation today But I I was fortunate. I mean it's so important security sector reform It is intimidating to a lot of women I think women need to understand more about it So anything that you're going to do in your panels here It's I think it's very very important and I see civil society as the wedge for women to get into security sector reform because Through civil society they can raise the consciousness of leaders military leaders and other people parliamentarians people in in responsible positions to say These issues matter for women and for security and for your daughters as well So, I mean I I um Anyway, I'll skip that section and go to my closing here Which takes me to Sudan coming full circle. I said people say to me now Let's see you went from advising the president on Africa to being interim chargé in In cartoon. How is that a promotion? I said it wasn't a promotion It happened because I hit retirement age at the white house and you couldn't work there anymore They had just had independence between the two sudans in july of 11 And the president of the united states asked me to do it. So I did it and it was absolutely fascinating to go to cartoon And I had all my preconceived notions. I've been running the discussions at the white house on sudan And to get there and again the complexities on the ground talking to people on the ground. It's totally different The women in sudan also the victims both the south and the north but my job was to run the embassy in cartoon And ironically and I'm going to just pull a couple of themes together Um a group of international visitors young sudanese women had just been to the united states first week They said would you like to come and and uh, you know meet them after work I was so amazed at these young women when they left to go on the trip They were part of one nation They were in the united states of america when their two nations separated. They continued on this trip together They met with many people. They went on homestays with america. They came back and they were telling me the stories But what I never realized is those that were studying at the university of cartoon even as a tall denka Woman, you know from literally from south sudan She had to finish her studies at cartoon if she wanted her university degree And I thought we don't see that complexity, you know, when you're there as policy makers I mean and and they on the ground have to find ways to work together and solve these problems and So I went then to a thawed women's university where usa id had a big grant Because they were teaching The muslim women there how they had to go out and understand Those that as we say the nilotic and the non-nilotic tribes those who were outside of the capital how those Muslim women lived which was like of another century And so we were paying for this gender education through usa id even though washington wanted to cut off all usa id I said it's not the regime. You've got to help the women and some of these other programs And you know one of their incredible woman i met who had a battered woman's shelter that she started Herself so before I left and I'd met with some of the parliamentarians who also they were separated They're female parliamentarians who are from the south and the north and the ones from the south had moved to juba In july, but they had a way to continue their networking and I think this helped and I'm just going to read from this last business See how many pages i'm skipping After I returned And started my retirement I was invited to come down and meet with a group Sudanese and south sudanese women Who had put a coalition together and gone to the peace talks that were happening in adis ababa? And I was so impressed with what these women had accomplished The men could go to this meeting and argue in fight And even president kir walked away from agreement after the handshake was done But these women took it upon themselves And first they met together to determine The primary shared concerns from the current situation they could easily the women of both sides list those priorities for creating a peaceful future Then they did a gender-based analysis of the documents the agreements already signed and they found it lacking a great deal Then they produced a communique and they sent it around they sent it in both capitals and they sent it to adis Then they went to adis and they asked to see the senior leaders They made a difference and now they and this came from princeton lineman our wonderful onway at the time He said they were the most incredibly powerful force because they got organized in this peace process So that's a little quick tour through my life. But what I want to tell you is this is important work I'm impressed. I'm impressed with everyone who has taken the time to come here I wish I was able to listen to all of you and thank you for giving me the honor Mary, thank you for letting me speak with you here today