Lucas Host of Hawaii is my mainland, live streamed Fridays at 3 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and available 24-7 thereafter on YouTube and as a podcast from Think Tech Hawaii Radio. Playbuilders of Hawaii Theatre Company is a grassroots community collaborative theater non-profit. Along with the foster care training committee, they have just debuted Dragonfly. Presented as a musical, Dragonfly follows characters paced on two very real individuals, Arthur and Aline Usugi, who have fostered over 300 children in their Waianae home, as well as story circles and interviews with former foster youth, therapists, and social workers. Dragonfly will be performed free this Sunday, April 3rd, 30th, 6.30 p.m. at Calvary by the Tennessee Lutheran Church in Aina Jaina and next weekend at other venues. With me today are Terry Madden, the managing director and founder of Playbuilders of Hawaii, as well as the program organizer and playwright of Dragonfly. Becky Macgarvey, the choreographer, cast member, and dancer. And Apu Turano, who is a former foster youth who is both cast member and songwriter for Dragonfly. So, welcome, welcome. Thank you so much for having us. Thank you, we appreciate it so much. I can't wait to see it. But tell us how this kind of came together, Terry. It came together. Well, our mission is to gather and share real stories that resonate with, empower, and connect individuals within the many rich and diverse communities here in Hawaii. We're six years old, and we have done communities, geographic, like Chinatown, Waipahu, Wahiwa, as well as with special groups like Hawaii's Homeless, LGBT, and now Foster Care. We did two years ago a play in Waipahu called the Waipahu Project. It was written by a student. And we met so many wonderful people, and some of those people happened to have connections with the foster care community. So they saw what we were doing, and Vernon Vernes from Queen Leo Kalani Children's Center, and Alan Pestello from, it was Partners in Development said, you know, this would really be good for the foster care community. And actually, I've got to go back even further, because the initial spark of the idea actually came from Apu, who was working on some legislation with high hopes, with high hopes. And he was telling me about it, and I thought, we really should. So it just, everything just came together, confirmed it, and we moved forward from there. And we've been working on it for two years now. Wow. So it's a musical, although you're not calling it a musical. Right. But it was never meant to be a musical. The idea that we could even do a musical is, I couldn't write a song if my life depended on it, but we would meet once a week at the Arts at Marks Garage, and we would work on our craft of acting and singing and dance. And who's the we in this case? It's myself with members of our ensemble, and Apu and Becky are part of that. But we also invited former foster youth to join us. And they would share their stories with us, and we also would invite people from like therapists and social workers to join us. Just once a week. It was very simple. We met for a few hours, and we found we really enjoyed it. So it happened from a very organic way, and I just one day in circles said, you know, something tells me this should be a musical, but I can't write music. Can anybody here write music? And like three forums are like, yeah, I can do that. And so that's what they did. Wow. Very cool. So can I hear a little bit of your story, Becky McGarvey? In regards with Playbuilder? Sure. Just take it. How did you get involved? Why are you doing this? I'm not a former foster youth, but when we started interviewing people, I learned really quickly that we have a lot in common. I came from kind of a poor area. So that was really interesting and connecting with people through these stories and these similarities. And I also kind of, with Terry, feel that there's a strong need for this play to get those stories out there. We learned through this process a lot of people are not encouraged to share their stories, especially if it's sad or scary. And we just had one performance so far, but the people who came to that, the feedback's been amazing. Yeah, it was an incredible review. I really am so excited. So when this is up, we'll put the schedule of the other performances. Thank you. So you're having four performances overall? No, we're having 13 performances overall. So we're doing these free performances in conjunction with the Foster Care Training Committee with the idea that if people hear these stories, they'll want to help. And so it's part of recruiting resource caregivers and adoptive homes for these kids that are needed. At any given time, there's over 700 kids just on Oahu who are living in sometimes overcrowded emergency shelters. And that's not even counting the outer islands and if we count them, it's over a thousand. So we just thought this is the best way to bring it to people. And we hope that they're moved. When we did our last performance at the Mission Memorial Auditorium, I think there was about 150 people there. Out of that, we sent out surveys. Out of that, we got maybe 40 back, which is actually pretty good. And then from that 40, there were 10 people that said that they wanted more information about how to help. Oh, that's fabulous. That's what it really means to be working in a community. And I'm a firm believer in the creative process, really being transformative. So it's really great. So Apu, how did you join this Mary Band? I started off with House Listen Paradise. Terry was working with another man who I volunteered with at IHS, November Morris. And he brought me the attention to Terry and she said, you want to work with this project? So I played a homeless man in there. Then several months later, there was other projects, but I ended up having my own life situations had occurred. But she came, it was one night in Waikiki. I got to share this story because I was listening to music at the Waikiki. I forget what the hotel was, but I was just having my own time relaxing. And then out of nowhere, Terry, Madden and her family and friends were walking on the beach walk. And she approached me and said, is that you, Apu? And I'm like, yeah, what are you doing here? Just hanging out listening to music. How about you come next week? We're having auditions for play about foster care. And it would be a great opportunity for you to share your story. So that's when the magic began. It was kind of miraculous because he was the first one who brought it to our attention. And then just to run into him on the beach like that, just like, yeah, you're coming. You're going to be doing the right thing. So how long did you say you've been working on this for two years? That seems like a really long time. Yeah, it is. But you had to do it from... There's nothing to begin with. Right. It was an idea. So we have to raise money. So that takes several months of grant writing. And then we have to gather the stories. When we start off, we have no idea what the play is going to be about. We have no preconceived ideas about who it is we're going to be talking with or what they have to say. So it took a year of just doing that. And then over the summer of last year, we took a break. I took the break, really. I wrote the play, but Becky continued meeting with them to work with dance. And Apu and Leila used that time to write the music. Well, you've sent a little video clip. Let's have a little video clip so that the viewers get just a little taste of what the show is like if we can... That looks like an amazing process. It was. It was pretty intense. And you saw some of the story circles. Sometimes we went outside the Arts Marks garage where we were meeting once a week. And we went to Queen Lillio Kalani Children's Center and held story circles in that instance with members of the foster care training committee. Sometimes I went out on my own and interviewed people independently. Like Aline Usugi, who by the way, her husband died seven years ago. And so this play is written in his honor as well as her and the 300 children that they fostered together. How many people do you think you interviewed? I would say dozens. And not all of them, of course, are in the play. But every story that you hear in the play is true. And much of it is verbatim. Like when we do the monologues, especially, those are verbatim. The main story is based on a story, but it's not verbatim. It's like I took creative license with that. And then the music themselves that they wrote sort of helped as we wove those together, knowing what they had to say, also helped a great deal to shape the play. And what is the best way for people to find out what's going on about this? The best way is to go to our website, www.playbuilders.org, or to our Facebook page. But yes, we're doing various churches, but we're also starting the 18th to the 27th, Thursdays through Sundays. We'll be at the Arts at Mark's Garage. Okay, we're going to pause for about a minute and come back and learn some more. Thank you. Aloha. My name is John Wahee. And I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you. So I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to talk story with me and some very special guests every other Monday, here at Talk Story with John Wahee. Come on in, join us, express your opinion, learn more about your state, and then do something about it. Aloha. Welcome back to Hawai'i is my mainland. I'm Kaui Lucas. And with me today are three people from the Playbuilders of Hawai'i Theater Company. And because I can't stand anymore, I really want to hear them. Here's some of this original music that this part of Dragonfly, their new production. So let's hear it. So this song is called Going On Your Way. It's more of a uplifting, you know, for your spirit to be revived and hopefully it gives insight to positive energy. And you wrote the song as part of this production. Yes. Okay. I have faith you may want to know of it's so strong that it inspires hope. Faith and all might just come true in a matter so don't give up, don't fall astray just keep on, keep on moving on your way. We could do this in the parking lot. Yeah. Let's hope to hear hope so strong as the roses appear and she'd with this golden scent will appear right before you so don't give up, just keep on, keep on moving on your way. Want to see hope so strong it's hidden inside of me you succeed with this love you share you touch a heart one day at a time I swear so don't give up, don't fall astray just keep on, keep on moving on your way just keep on, keep on moving on your way just keep on, keep on Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. So Becky what did you use for your inspiration in the choreography and I because I haven't seen I have no idea what choreography in the in the in this kind of a show what do you even mean? Well as Terry mentioned earlier I have a background in in contact improvisation style of modern dance so the cast choreographed a lot of it really I would give them kind of like constraints like and it has a very modern dance feel I didn't want it to look like a musical okay you know so there's also something in the play about this ritual that the foster kids do when they leave a home this circle of light yeah that involves flashlights so we used flashlights and some of the numbers which was fun but yeah a lot of like one of the numbers I just told them you have to make a pose and it's all that frustration that you're feeling or your character is feeling and just how does that go into your body do that and you know they'd have to do in time with the music and it just shaped from there some of the strongest moments that she choreographed are the monologues themselves so it wasn't just choreography with the music but with the spoken word as well okay well I mean we can't divulge the stories of course because people have to come and see the performances but this transition from being in the foster care system as a child and then you know transitioning out of it how long has that process been for you how long were you in the foster care system I went into the foster care system when I was actually eighth grade so I was 11 years old my father I just passed away I ran away from my family my biological family I ran away to friends and since then the friends that I ran away to well my first foster family didn't really work out well then I ran away to another friend and that friend is still in my life to this day and his family take me as their own and I'm really glad that because of that experience even though things were going drastic it turned out to be a positive ending yeah that song is about faith it's very beautiful and uplifting you know it is kind of scary to even contemplate these stories sometimes those of us who know people and know how really painful it can be but it really is that that spirit of resilience that that needs to be spoken about more needs to be told more so Terry this is probably a little different than some of the other shows in that sense I think with everyone that we do we've gotten a little bit better at it and this time we took our time with it rather than trying to write a play in five months we really took our time and I think that you know what you're speaking about how difficult these stories are they are but at the same time you realize how resilient humanity is and I think the thing that I learned the most is that these foster kids are heroes because despite living through unspeakable hardship at the start of their life that they keep trying and these songs that you hear come from former foster youth and they're beautiful and the reason why we called the play Dragonfly the story of a young girls journey through local girls journey through foster care is because that they save themselves maybe there as much as possible but it's through learning how to mature and turn inward it's their faith that's why so many have faith and that's what got them through like I'm not I don't consider myself a particularly religious person but hearing about their faith built my faith so it's very inspiring and the Dragonfly that's the symbol worldwide of that type of change and that's one of the main songs is change and that willingness to change as we learn and we grow that's kind of how the play formed is we were listening to all these stories and that was kind of something that strung them all together was you know how did they and sometimes they would say I don't know I just kept going kept moving perseverance was something that came up a lot if you can recall back to when you were hearing the stories maybe of the professionals are they somehow incorporated in the play looking at that side of it was interesting we have a character by the name of who plays a social worker and if we she's able to speak her side of things and as well as the therapist she goes to rehab center in California so yeah we got those and what one of the most difficult things for us to address is that things have gotten better within the last 6 months to 5 years laws have changed things are better for foster kids than they ever have been but it hasn't had time to really reach the kids as they age out like up who's age or even younger so trying to bring that in how they've changed we can tell people that things have changed but we can't tell them the results of that change and I think we also it's really important to know that if we don't keep stewardship of our kids that's like one of the people that we interviewed was Abby Sylvester's family their friends of ours right and she kept talking about how it takes a village and how Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church has been instrumental in helping support that family she has 10 kids all together 7 adopted well I guess 3 now 3 biological in a way so it's 10 I said how do you do that and she said it takes a village and I know that Pastor Tim takes them dinner once a week and I was like if we could all be like that with our kids we have about 3 minutes so I'd like you to talk about where the next performances are and perhaps what's in your futures our next performance is Sunday at Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church and we're so excited about going there and then after that we head out to Wahiawa to Dot's restaurant where we're inviting the whole community to come all these performances are free and then we are going to be at the Arts at Mark's garage and we'll have our final performance we'll be there I think 7 performances there and that's the only place where we charge that's because we need to raise money to keep our programs going and then our final is May 28th at New Hope Leeward and we'll be doing another free performance there so that's pretty great spread out all through the month of May which happens to be national foster care month oh fantastic so Becky and Appu what's next for you actually Iona is rehearsing right now for their next show which is Paint by Numbers where the hub is now in June and then after that I'm going to the spa I will be performing in another play called Happily Ever After and it's with Manoa Valley Theater and then I will also be taking a trip in August my little sister is getting married I wrote a song for her wow so the best way for people to find out more is your Facebook page or your website www.playbuilders.org or you can also go to the Arts at Mark's Garage website and there will be dates and things there and to purchase tickets for the Arts at Mark's Garage is to go to our website or go to Eventbrite Eventbrite great well thank all of you for coming and being my guest today I will see you again Sunday at 6.30 at Calvary by the Sea Thank you for having us on this show Thank you so much


Hello, I'm Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maurice Brown, coming to you from Charm City Baltimore, happy to announce that for the first time in four years, the Navy's back in town. We're celebrating Maryland Fleet Week in flyover, and it's a great opportunity for the public to interact with U.S. sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, as well as our international mission partners. During Fleet Week, the public can look forward to ship's tours of four U.S., British, Canadian, and Danish vessels, as well as performances by the U.S. Navy band. It'll be fun for the whole family. I can't wait to see you there.


Hello everybody, so I kind of wanted to make an update on my personal endeavors because I had a very interesting couple of weeks I Spoke at Liberty Camp 2013, which was sort of a libertarian conference put on by a German foundation Called the Frederick Newman Foundation for freedom It was really cool. I spoke about Bitcoin to students from Poland Belarus and Ukraine The other speakers were really interesting people one in particular Yaroslav Romanchuk was a former Presidential candidate in Belarus now. It is a very dangerous thing to be a You know past present or future Presidential candidate in Belarus yet a lot of great stories, and I'm sorry I didn't have more time more time to talk to him Hopefully I'll meet him again It was the the conference was near the Veeve in a gorgeous resort and Perhaps my favorite part were the volleyball games that that followed the the lecture They got really competitive. I haven't played those I haven't played sports that got that intense in in a while It was it was a lot of fun really competitive, and we all went swimming in the lake. So awesome time Second thing writing I have for probably years now Been dying to get back to to writing a memoir about my third combat tour The tour in Afghanistan's Kunar province But I've always been waiting for my life to just kind of be perfect I just kind of wanted to put everything in order and get rid of you know all possible distractions and Focus on this memoir and I haven't been able to and I heard about Kickstarter not too long ago And I thought it'd be it'd be cool to try that then I heard about bit starter I thought it'd be even cooler to try that because you know It's good for Bitcoin, and I like Bitcoin I want to support it and then I had an even crazier idea Instead of just straight up crowdfunding just straight up asking for philanthropy Why not sell shares of this creative project, you know Why not essentially issue stock in this in this or virtual stock in this project and then? You know people who support me have a chance of of getting a return on their money now It should regard as mostly philanthropy because books are risky endeavors But I'm also a damn good writer and this this isn't my first book. I have I have I Have a story in this wonderful anthology fire and forget I have a story in another anthology and I I have I have this book which I wrote with the Dr. Yuri Maltsev about the tea parties Which is coming out in a bigger and better form with a bigger and better Publisher in October under the title of tea party the tea party explained but anyway, so so I corresponded with the owner of Of several stock exchanges including BTCT and He was super supportive Ethan Burnside if I remember his name correctly He's an American entrepreneur who actually did all the trouble of organizing this stock exchange as a business based in Belize where there's less regulatory burden and You know Bitcoin is opening up new economic opportunities, you know What used to take a million dollars an army of lawyers and who knows maybe a year's time now takes a week You know no lawyers at all and and just their their website fee And it was awesome the owners of the website voted on my security and it eventually after some conversations with the no voters They eventually got it improved and and it's up I issued 400 shares representing 40% ownership of this endeavor so each share represent a tenth of a percent of future profits and And it's up man. It's happening. I kept most of the shares I issued myself, but I I sold about a quarter of them and and someone bought them and their trading and and this is just so exciting It's it's awesome, you know, why not sell shares of a creative endeavor instead of straight-up crowdfunding? That's right. There's no good reason at all So I'm doing it. I'm blazing trail and and I'm gonna finish on this on the website for the book and Then and then I'm gonna make my life all about writing like I've been meaning to do for for years You can check check it out at the working title of the book is war for anarchists and please check it out War or war the number for anarchist calm war the number for anarchist calm So the third thing I want to talk about in this video is How I spent my Saturday night and in doing so I'm gonna be trade to you what a gigantic nerd I can be when I get interested in in something it started Saturday afternoon when I just wanted to answer a very simple question How does the supply of all the bitcoins? Compared to the or the value of all the bitcoins compared to the value of different national currencies Really simple, right? So I looked for a list of National currencies expressed in some common denomination like gold or euros or dollars and I couldn't find it much to my chagrin So I thought I would calculate it myself. I did find data on on the World Bank website of all different countries reporting their M2 monetary supply In their local currency. So so I used that Most of the data is from 2012 some of it goes all the way back to 2008 and some of it is an important and reported at all, but the vast majority of countries are on there And then I just used official exchange rates I actually took a concise list from the United Nations website and I crunched the numbers and the result is absolutely Fascinating to look at you get you just see what all the all the different monetary supplies are worth Did you know that euros were number one all the euros in the world are worth almost 22 trillion dollars? The United States is not number two. They're number three China all of China's money. It's called the Rem Nimbi It's worth almost 16 trillion dollars and all the dollars are a little over 14 trillion dollars Japan is next all the yen Japanese yen 11.7 trillion and then the euros are broken up by country Germany six trillion France four and a quarter United Kingdom three point nine Italy 3.4 trillion Spain 2.6 and his Canadian money is about two trillion dollars all the way down Russia is a little less than a trillion Brazil is one and a half trillion Switzerland 1.2 trillion Hong Kong. I didn't realize that they had their own money. It's a point point nine trillion So get getting back to the original question. Where is Bitcoin? When I when I crunched these numbers the Bitcoin was about 112 dollars that comes out 1.29 billion and is favorably comparable meaning a little bit better than a little bit more valuable than all the money of Countries like Belize El Salvador to Jikistan. So we're on the map, baby. Bitcoin's a real I also included litecoin in this analysis and all the litecoins are worth 55 million dollars, which is about half of the world's least valuable monetary supply, which is the the supply of the island nations South home and prinsip Which I believe are in the the African Gulf the Gulf of Hiana. Is it called? Yeah, so there you have it and then I had an even more interesting idea I thought I thought of Calculating trust I thought of this this method of calculating trust you can compare you can add up all the pieces of paper Right all the dollars dinars lira euro rubles all the various notes Just add them up make a big aggregate and then compare for any money Compare their percentage of notes with their percentage of value. Let me illustrate that with an example Vietnam's currency is called the dong do ng and They they have a lot of paper or else a lot of zeros on their paper So because the Vietnamese dong accounts for about 25% of all the paper that's out there But that paper only accounts for about point one five percent of the value so using my little my little arithmetic which is a You know the the the latter number over the former number. They they come out with a really low trust factor Europe's euros are almost the exact converse. They they represent about 0.15 percent of the paper and 25 percent of the value. So they they have a really high trust factor I Just got so excited about this idea. I kept massaging the numbers and and I had some bad data in there Zambia or Zambia they they changed their currency recently, so I had a I had a fix a few things and I spent all Saturday night looking at this data and So let's talk about the trust factors I'm really excited. It seems like an obvious way to measure trust at least have a rudimentary measure of trust, although It's I don't have complete confidence In it. I want to write an article about it, but I first want to ask my friend Leo Krasnohan who's at George Mason University professional economist He runs the wonderful Wonderful website a Ukraine watch Ukraine watch dot block spot comm and I had the pleasure of meeting him when he passed Through leave a couple weeks ago So so I asked him like hey am I doing anything stupid? You know is this is this nonsense or what? I don't think it is But I want to just get get a second opinion before I write an article about it So the most trusted is Bitcoin by far Bitcoin's trust factor is 14,550 Next is not white coin next is the Kuwaiti dinar the most trusted fiat money in the world Trust factor of four hundred fifty five the white coin 356 and the Bahraini dinar oman the Latvian money that was a surprise and the British pound with a trust factor of 198 the euro has 172 Swiss franc 139.7 US dollar trust factor of almost 130 Fascinating right I was also curious Which country had the most proportional trust factor meaning they had their currency represents X percent of paper And also X percent of value and and there were two countries that stood out Sri Lanka and Iceland the most Proportional money in terms of percent of paper percent of value least trusted were Iran Vietnam South home and princip those two little islands off the off the west coast of Africa With tiny monetary supply then Indonesia Belarus Laos Paraguay Sierra Leone Cambodia Uganda Yeah, and that's that now I am gonna wait for a second opinion before I write a little article about this But if you want to get the scoop I'm gonna I'll put a link to this spreadsheet in the notes So check it out play with the numbers have fun measuring the trust of money Selling stocks in books and talking about Bitcoin at Liberty Camp. Thanks for watching and stay tuned


Just a couple of days ago, new information was published about the malware used in attacks against the Ukrainian news media and the power industry. And if we look here in this article, at the end there are a couple of IOCs. And one of them is for a spreadsheet. So I downloaded this document and if we take a look at this malware we told it dump, you can see that indeed it is a spreadsheet with a very large macro and that. So let me select stream 7 and decompress the VBA code and let's have a look. Okay and here you can see arrays of numbers. A lot of arrays and if we go at the end here. Okay so we have up to 768 arrays and then we have a function that will take all those numbers and here in two loops, extract the numbers from the arrays and write them to this file, vba.micro.exe and when this is done, it will execute a file and this sub executes automatically when the workbook activates macro runs. So it's very likely that the numbers that you find in arrays there in the VBA macro code is unexecutable. So let's take a look which my regular search tool we are going to select the arrays like this. So the keyword array followed by characters and this enables us to select all the arrays with the numbers. And now we are going to extract those numbers with this tool, numbers to hex. This will select all the numbers in the arrays and convert them to hex, to hexadecimal like this. So now for example I can take that hex code, copy it and then paste it in a binary editor like 010 editor and start to analyze it. But I can also pipe it to my other tools, for example by converting this hex to binary with this tool hex to bin. This will take the hex dump and convert it to binary. So let's pipe this into less and see what we get. And this is indeed a PE file. You can see here MZ, the start of the header. And here this program cannot be run in DOS mode and then somewhere here we see the PE header. So we can analyze this with PE check and indeed we have a PE file that PE check can analyze. And here is the SHA1 hash of the embedded executable. And if we look at our IOCs here you can see that for the black energy light dropper we have exactly the same SHA1. So we are able to extract the executable with these functions. And last thing you can also take a look at the metadata of this sample like this.


Okay guys, so we are here, welcome to Snowbreak Containment Zone and I'm kinda nervous about pulling for this banner. I don't know why, but I'm going with the flow at this point, so let's do some summons here. I do have a carryover from the previous banner here, which is 11, which is correct. So if you guys have some spillover from the previous limited banner, it's gonna be here. If it's not there, I don't know why. But without delays, let us pull here. So let us do some single pulls. So two single pulls here, just to break the ice. Probably get lucky. I haven't been lucky in a single pull yet. So I hope that this is it, none so far. So we have 20 tickets. Let's go with the first 10. So that brings us to 23. No. What did I get? Oh, series. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. You're gonna be getting her from the event shop for free. If you don't wanna pull for this banner, you could get her for free there. So just a tip for you guys. Be quick. Be quick. So you can get series again in the event shop for those specially free to play, saving for a more OP character. Oh, it's life. Okay. So there you go. Nice. I got series here. So we're gonna be continuing with our pulls with our next 10 here. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Is this her? This is her, I think. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So that answers our Chen Xing problem. But who did we get beside her? I'm gonna continue with the pulls, guys. This doesn't end. But I'll be transferring to the weapon banner. Hopefully I could get her weapon there. I don't need a copy of her at this point. So I'm happy with that one pull. So that does what? 22 pulls? That's nice. Oh, it's Haru. So let's skip this. We have Haru and we have Chen Xing in the house. Nice, nice pulls. So I have series. I won't be pulling for series anymore. Instead, we're gonna be shifting to this banner. So we have 60 here. Can I reach at least 60 pulls? Okay, let's do this, guys. Let's do this. Let's have 10. If I do get the weapon early, I'm gonna go back to that banner, probably. So what did I get? I'm just gonna skip this. We have Deep Sea's call. Okay, that's 10. Do we have... Oh, it reset to 9. Okay, that's nice. So that's 10. Let's proceed to another 10 here. Don't let me reach Pity, please. Please don't. So we have Lucky Time's. Let's just skip this. I'm too nervous. I have these anyway. 20 need 40. Can I get... Yes, I can get 40 more pulls. So I can at least get to the Pity. This was a nice pull, actually. This was a very nice pull. So let's skip this. It's only one purple. We do have one. We have Scythe of Racket already. Then we need... Please, please, please, arrive early. I don't wanna reach Pity if I can. But apparently I don't have any choice. So what did I get? I got Odd Alley Cat, which I think I need. And this is new. Wild Construct. Okay, I have... Okay, I can do 10 more pulls. Let's do singles, okay? Single pulls for this one. No. Let's do 10 single pulls. I wanna conserve at this point. That is Odd Alley Cat again. I wanna conserve my pulls at this point. So that is three. I'm actually... I have a thought that I might not get this gun even if I get to 60. Just a thought. Might be a different Orange Tier gun. The Curse. The Curse, so I'm 45. This is 46. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Please be it. Yes. There you go. That completes my night. That completes my night. That completes everything. So Pity resets to 60 and I have extra. There you go, guys. Very, very nice luck in this banner. So two banners I pulled. Weapon and this one. Should probably pull here because I need to get Sunny. This gun here. Let me do single pulls. Let me do single pulls. If I do get Sunny... Sunny whatever. Sunny payback. This is gonna be a great pull. This is going to be a great pull, guys. Sunny payback. Time for payback. So that's 10. I have 10. So I'm gonna go for 10 pulls here. Then the rest I'll save. 10 please. Sunny payback. Here we go. Here we go. I can't complain. I can't complain at this point. I can't complain. So there you go. I'm at 20 for this. Just waiting for Sunny payback to complete Penny. But again, I'm happy. I got her. Finally. Where is she? We have Ceres here. So at this point I'm not gonna push my luck in terms of pulling. We have Chen Xing. We have her weapon. Where is her weapon? Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me. Storage. It's here. Okay. Chen Xing. Chen Xing. Chen Xing. Change. Why is it not here? Chaos damage. But let us filter. Okay. Electrical. There you go. I thought I lost her weapon. Confirm. Okay. That's it. Now I'm going to do a comprehensive build on this girl. So just wait and see. That is it guys. I had fun. I was nervous but it all ended well eventually. So thank you very much for staying this far. Take care. Stay safe. This is The Warden and I'm out of here.


There are a few things as awkward as being a perpetually singled 20-something, sitting at Christmas dinner with your extended family because we all seem to have an Uncle Gerald. You got someone special in your life these days? I mean I got somebody single in my bowling league if you're interested, I think they might be 35 or something maybe, it doesn't matter, age is just a number after all. Now I think we can all acknowledge that Uncle Gerald is coming from a good place.  Okay well maybe he's got his own issues. Now speaking from experience, being a 20-something single Christian isn't just ponies and rainbows like some married folks would have you think. Undesired singleness can present a lot of internal challenges, it can wreak havoc on your sense of confidence, self-worth, identity and more. Now this is obviously not ideal especially for Christians, we're called to find our identity and confidence in God, not in our future spouse. But the real challenge for Christian singles is internalizing that truth. Along the journey of being a Christian single you'll find out that many along the way including Uncle Gerald will try to give you pieces of advice and wisdom that they believe are really profound. And while that's very nice of them, often they believe a certain set of lies about relationships, singleness, dating that overflow into the advice that they give. I want to debunk some of the common sayings, phrases, encouragements that marrieds or people in relationships give singles in order that singles and marrieds can once again live in harmony. When you find your satisfaction in God, he will give you a spouse. I can't tell you how many people I've heard tell me this in a roundabout kind of way. It's important to know that lies are most dangerous when they are closest to the truth. And that's very applicable to this saying. As single people and people in general, marrieds included, we're called to find our satisfaction and fulfillment in God and bringing glory to him and finding him as our ultimate affection. As we apply this to being single, we can see a common ditch would be to try to get into a relationship in order to satisfy these deep longings in our heart. Or perhaps to heal old wounds of rejection and loneliness. But biblical wisdom would say that singles should stop looking to our future spouse to fulfill those expectations, but rather look to God for our sense of connection, wholeness and fulfillment. Now that is good advice and I'm seeking to live that out on a daily basis. But this is the problem. People have distorted this good and right biblical idea and have added a transactional element to our relationship with God. It often goes something like this. Listen me son, you need to become fully satisfied in God first.  You see what happened? It started out as some truth, but then it turned into a transaction. The simple lie goes like this.  That is not the way that God works. Other common advice and language around this specific topic goes something like surrender your relationship status to God or give it to him and he'll work it out. Stop looking so hard and give it to God. Now if the advice ended here, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. But what often precedes this short advice that people give is that after you do that, then not too long after, God will bring in somebody into your life. And they do this by testifying to their own story. Oh, you know what? I stopped looking for my spouse and two weeks later, guess who showed up in my young adults group? Now, the way these stories are often told and this advice is often given is they're setting up false expectations and they're turning our relationship with God into something transactional. Yes, we should find our whole satisfaction in God. Yes, we should submit our relationship status to him. But that does not mean that God is obligated to give you what you want when you want it. Also, I think it's important for us to realize just because someone is single, that doesn't mean they don't find their whole satisfaction in God. And that doesn't mean that they haven't given God their relationship status. And that doesn't mean that they're doing something wrong.  Let's send him down one. It's like, that's not how it works. And by thinking it is or saying that's how it is, you're basically saying that single people are second class Christians. Or they're not nearly as mature as you, who just all of a sudden is one weekend to dating your girlfriend. You know what, don't you worry. I didn't meet your Aunt Margie until I was 37. I don't understand why this is the thing. Now this is definitely in the category of more humorous and there's generally no malicious intent when people say this. They say it in like a very joyful, you know, keep up the good fight, young man or young woman. There's a person out there for you.  I met my wife at like 34. I'm like, bro, 10 years are you kidding me? Like that doesn't encourage me really. And totally like I understand God can do what he wants to do. And if that's God's plan, I might not be happy about it right now, but I will grow in maturity and learning to be content in God's plan for my life. And that's, that's how it goes. Like that's the calling as a Christian. So that's okay. I can deal with that. But right here in the now, it's not the most encouraging thing to tell me, hey man, you might still be experiencing another 10 years of the turmoil you're going through right now. It's just so funny to me how wires get completely crossed, like how one person could believe this is so encouraging. And then the other side is like, this is like the worst thing that you could say to me right now. It's all good though. I think as singles, we take it with a laugh. Forget about looks. We all get old anyway. Okay, I get this. I really get it. In large part in our culture, there has been an over fixation on physical attraction and physical appearance and that's not good. So in a lot of ways, the heart of this statement is relevant for a lot of people. However, in my experience, I didn't grow up in secular culture. I grew up a Christian and my experience was very different. You see in the spaces I existed in when I was growing up, this Christian conservative homeschool community, both in person and online. In general, I would say, and this is not on my parents at all. This is kind of the larger community in general. There was a downplaying of physical attraction and the importance of it. Look, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think attraction was a bug in the system or a result of the fall. I think it's an ingrained feature in how God designed us. Why do we downplay such an important aspect of who we are as people? Now, obviously a conversation on proper expectations to have is definitely necessary, especially for a generation that's been inundated with pornography and sexualized media. Attraction is not the most important, but it is important. And that's why I think we should, as singles, have both chemistry and character as two things that we value. So yeah, physical appearance does fade, but telling someone to just not even think about it whatsoever is to deny an important aspect of how God created us. And I don't think that's a good foot to begin your relationship. You know, singleness is a gift. It's a blessing. Enjoy it. Hold up. Wait a minute. Clarification. The gift of singleness is a gift. What Paul had, he didn't have the desire to get married. He was content with being single his whole life. I really appreciate the way Douglas Wilson addresses this topic. He'll have a young man inquiring to him whether he has the gift of singleness.  Then Douglas Wilson, he proceeds to ask some, do you struggle with pornography at all? The young man replies, uh, yeah? Then Pastor Wilson replies, you don't have the gift of singleness. I've known many wonderful elderly ladies and some gentlemen who have served in the church for decades, and they've done it while being single. You talk to them in their content and their relationship status. They love being everyone's auntie or uncle. Okay, but here's the distinction. Undesired singleness then, though is a blessing from God, as all things are, can still be a trial in somebody's life when they have the desire to get married. Now, I fully recognize that we should give thanks to God in all things, but that doesn't mean that everything that happens to us as singles or marrieds or people in general is yippy-skippy. You don't have to see everything in your life as great just because it's part of God's plan. Yes, it is part of God's plan, and yes, it is ultimately for your good and his glory, but in the moment, man, it can still be tough. If you were to walk up to somebody that was going through really, something really challenging, aside from singleness, something that people would actually begin to acknowledge is a little bit more challenging, maybe they lost their job, and you say, oh man, you must be living your best life. Now you've got so much time to do all this stuff that you've always wanted to do. That might come from a nice place, but how do you think the person that just lost their job is thinking? They're thinking, no, how am I going to provide for my family? No, this is part of my responsibility, this is one of my desires to be a provider, and so now you're coming in thinking that, this is a blessing from God. Yeah, okay, as all things are, it's a blessing, but it's also a trial. The expectation that the single years are going to be some of the best years of your life, I think that expectation is just unreasonable, and I don't think it comes from the Bible. Beyond that, the idea that your single years are going to be some of the most productive, most undistracted years of your life could be true for some people, but it also could not be true. You know, when Paul talks about being undistracted and being able to focus on ministry, largely that is the context of the gift of singleness. But then you think about somebody that does have the desire to be single, and yet they're continually confronted with their own singleness, and everywhere they're going, there's couples all around, there's families, there's children, and there's just deep longing in their heart. In this way, they can be distracted, and that happens. Now, you can disagree with me on this, but I just question the narrative that single guys or girls are less distracted or have more focus, or they're able to put more focus on things, because, often, man, this desire that they have, it's not a wrong desire, but it preoccupies their attention. Rather, you have somebody that's in a relationship that's in this kind of stable marriage.  Am I ever going to find a wife? Am I going to be lonely my whole life? No, you're stable in your relationship, and you have that kind of security. Look, I think this could be a case-by-case basis, but I think we need to give more credence to the idea that being single isn't necessarily just this glorious time of productivity and focus, because when you have this deep longing in your heart and God-given desire to be married, that can be a distracting thing as well. You know what? Don't stress about it. God has got this under control. All the things that need to happen will happen in His timing. You just need to trust Him. Thanks, Uncle Gerald. That's actually some great advice. But in the meantime, there is an opening on my bowling team. Thanks so much for watching this video. If you enjoyed it or got something from it, give it a like down below and subscribe because I'm putting on new videos all the time. I'd love to see you over at the Daily Disciple Club on Patreon. We have a Discord there. There's promo codes for merch, and we also do video calls with the whole gang. It's a lot of fun, so I'd love to see you there. Thanks so much for watching, guys, and I'll see you next time. God bless. That's so wise. That sounds like something I would say.


Hi, really quickly before this video begins, I just want to let you guys know I have another channel. I've been uploading there all year. There's a bunch of videos you can go and watch right now. Go see if you like them. They're just me being me. So subscribe if you like that and don't, if you don't like that. Oh, and subscribe to this channel and like this video too. I'll just get that out the way now so we can start the actual video. Just have a good time. All right, whatever, let's go. You see this over here? It's the eShop. Load it up on my Nintendo Switch. 2,500. That's roughly how many games are on Nintendo Switch right now.  However, that doesn't mean there isn't hundreds and hundreds of really fun games on the console. The question becomes, how the heck do you find them? Aye, has it gone? My name's Wood. And in this video, I'm taking 10 games on the eShop highlighting them and giving you a reason to possibly buy them. If you didn't know, this is a thing that I just do. I think this video right here is actually episode 20, which means for you mathematicians and everyone playing along at home, today's video will take the total of eShop games I've reviewed on this channel up to 200, 200. All right, whatever. Thanks for being here. I do really appreciate you watching. Let's go. The first game that I plucked out of the eShop is Roomba First Blood. That's not it. There's no way I could randomly land on it. That would be impressive. Sometimes games just sell themselves and Roomba First Blood had me interested on its name alone and had me hooked after I played the first level.    Yeah, you could even say, I'm their worst nightmare. This game blends my two favorite things, killing bad guys and cleaning up the house. I do enjoy some cleaning. Not only can you clean up all the messes around the house, like a good automated cleaning robot, but you can also hack into loads of inanimate objects around that house to keep your abode safe and secure. Just make sure anything you break, you also go ahead and clean up after. Oh, and don't leave your kills rotting on the floor either. Clean that guy up. Once defended, you only have a certain amount of time to clean up as much of the evidence as possible. And there's a lot of replay value here in trying to achieve the highest score possible. At only five bucks, but also only at about an hour or too long, Roomba is well worth the price, but it's a game that's gonna leave you wanting more because it's awesome and worth $5. What the heck? Who left a plank of me here? Have you ever wanted to play Left 4 Dead on your Switch? Well, now you can in Earthfall, which is essentially Left 4 Dead, but instead of zombies, it's aliens. It's pretty much the same thing. Just in case you've never played Left 4 Dead before, that game and this one, coincidentally, are both four-player cooperative shooters. However, as I said, whereas in Valve's version of the game you're hunted by zombies, in Earthfall, you are mowing down hordes of aliens. Definitely different games. All jokes aside, this game is honestly really solid with great controls, fun gameplay, and while a lot of corners were definitely cut visually to get it running well on Switch, I'd still say it looks pretty decent. There's a great variety of weapons, explosives, and even barricades for those times you need to hunker down and defend a house from swarms of aliens. And with a 16-chapter campaign and a five-hour runtime, it's a great game to just blast out some levels with a squad of friends. A huge drawback for me, though, is that there's no in-game voice chat. So unless you have Discord loaded up, playing online is gonna be a little quiet here. I mean, of course, you could use a Nintendo One-line app to... I'm sorry, I couldn't get through that with a straight face. Next game. I assume I'm not alone in that feeling of going to a fair or theme park and throwing down $10 on the tilter who cares and having like four minutes of crazy intense fun, but then when it's all over, you step off the ride and you check your pockets for your $10 and wonder, where did my money go? As short as it was, you had a fantastic time, but was the $10 really worth the experience? That's pretty much how I feel about 1980X on Switch.  However, in that time alone, you'll punch up dudes in a beautifully animated beat-em-up, blast away at a giant robot in a perfectly built shoot-em-up, rip through the streets in an arcade racer slash steal in a fast-paced ninja-themed endless runner, defeat some dragons in a dungeon crawler and experience a gripping story animated gorgeously in a wonderful pixel art style along the way. Oh, that for $10. There is a lot going on within this one game and they did a fantastic job with each of the genres it tackled in one cohesive story. Here's the thing though, it's almost unfair how short a time we spend in each game. The beat-em-up and shoot-em-up won specifically, but all of these could easily be fleshed out and expanded on so much more. Rather, the entire package of 1980X is over in about an hour, which is far too short and it's going to turn a lot of your way, I'm sure. For me though, I go back to that theme park analogy. This game was an action-packed thrill ride for a whole hour and I loved every second of it. It left me wanting so much more, but I'm still happy I at least got to enjoy the short experience for what it was. I've definitely spent $10 on a lot less and a lot worse. So I just hope that somewhere down the line we get an expanded sequel to 1980X because it was really cool for an hour. I'll be honest, Ultimate Chicken Horse almost completely passed me by. It's like water bottles. I had never even heard of this game until I posted on my Facebook page the other day asking people about their favorite go-to party games on Switch and Anthony suggested this one. Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, of course, I checked out the game. That was a terrible joke.  At the start of each round, you're given a blank canvas onto which you are to build a level, just easy enough for you to beat, but just hard enough to prevent your opponents from crossing that finish line. You see, you only score a point if you finish the level alone. If you all finish, or none of you finish, then none of you are getting any points. But no round ever feels the same as the parts you are given to build with are randomized. But also, you have all these different people's brains creating the most ridiculous platforms, obstacles, and traps they can imagine at the time. While it might look like a budget party game, it's anything but with quite a bit of content for your money. It also has other game modes, like an online mode, free play, and challenge mode. It's absolutely worth a buy for your next party game night, you know, assuming you have friends. Whoa, Mario! Ooh, Bowser, stop that. So, sadly, I was a late bloomer. When it came to watching Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, it's one of Kim's absolute favorite movies. So we watched it together about a year ago, and it was shortly after that that they announced a Netflix series and a tie-in video game. Both of these things had me worried, as a new fan of the old movie, not wanting to see Jimmy's reputation tarnished, and while I still haven't watched the show, the game ended up being pretty sweet. The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance Tactics is a term-based tactics game. Who would've guessed?  Your characters can also be upgraded in their unique trait using a skill tree, but as you level up, you can unlock other traits for the same character, allowing you to have multiple different jobs active on a single unit, which really opened up the tactical side of the gameplay. And I was honestly surprised that the amount of depth here and the fast, easy-to-use controls make it really easy to sink a ton of time into the combat. If you're either a fan of Dark Crystal or just a huge fan of tactical games, I don't think you can go wrong here. But if you don't like Dark Crystal and you don't like tactical games...  Tolls up! If you're anything like Kim and I, you're probably always looking for a new couch co-op game to play with your significant other friends or houseplants if you're forever alone. Ha ha. Tolls up might be the fresh experience you've been waiting for. You and up to three friends work together to turn apartments from drab to fab. Early on, you'll be cleaning up mess and laying down carpet. Then as the levels progress, you'll have delivery people dropping off last-minute supplies or having to share a bucket when you both need it for different tasks. If you've played Overcooked before, just switch out the cooking for home restoration and we're looking at pretty much the same thing here. Frantically timed gameplay with levels that you'll reset about 100 times before you're finally satisfied with your efforts, you and your friends trying to not get passively, aggressively mad as you block each other's characters and accidentally use each other's materials and controls so clunky and awkward you can't tell if it's intentional or just bad game design. But for all the comparisons I just made, Tolls Up just doesn't match up to Overcooked. If Overcooked is a deliciously cooked cheeseburger, then Tolls Up is a messy, unfinished apartment. It's a game that's worth its $20 price purely for the hilarious party fun that can be had or for anyone looking to expand their multiplayer party night library if you already have Overcooked. Otherwise, get that first. And then dive into Tolls Up later on. This is a transition. Stranger's Wrath is a first-person slash third-person hybrid action adventure game that was originally released back in 2005 on the original Xbox. And I would have to say this is the second best port of the game I've seen with the Ouya port being number one. This game was on Ouya.  But he does have these weird terrifying creatures instead. Now I'm used to my Oddworld games looking a little something like this. So all of a sudden roaming around, hunting for creatures and then slamming those creatures onto your crossbow and using them to hunt for even bigger bounties is a pretty huge departure from the original games.  Also, you can decide whether you want to finish them off or capture the bounties you hunt, which will affect how many Benjamins you'll cash in for later on. Now, about that hybrid part, the game is played in third-person with the platforming and even stealth parts, but then when you want to shoot, it switches into a first-person mode. I figured this would be disorientating, but honestly, you get used to it pretty quickly. The game as a whole is fun and holds up pretty well. So I would say if you love this game back in the day and have a hankering to dive back in as a more bounty hunting, then this HD remaster should scratch that itch and it's worth every penny. If you're currently in North America, that's most of my audience. Hi. All these games can get so expensive, I know, but I got you guys. Squidlet is $2. It's like a McDouble or you could be smart and buy a video game. In Squidlet, you play as a squid and that's pretty lit. I'll show myself out. This little indie platformer attempts to recapture the look, sound and feel of the original Game Boy and it nails it perfectly in my opinion. Even down to the charming border around the gameplay that blasts dutes while you play. You have a double jump that also acts as your attack as you ink the enemies below you. You'll find a lot of platforming and exploration here as well and NPCs to talk to and even the occasional dialogue choice. The gameplay shakes up from time to time with boss battles ranging from mid-air shooter battles to a magic book that you have to jump inside of mid-battle to ink out the words inside. For its price, Squidlet offers a quaint, polished little adventure with some unique concepts. Well, all that sounds great, but what's the catch you might be asking? Well, you can finish the entire game in like 30 minutes and it presents little to no challenge whatsoever, but forget about that because you can buy the game for the same price as two Frostys at Wendy's.  If you're currently in India, hi. Florence is an Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi developed game, so you know I had to represent. If the art style alone isn't appealing to you, then you might have something wrong with your dum-dum brain, but I'll play along your dum-dum. How about this music?  If there's still isn't doing anything for you, then I'll just speak slower, I guess. Florence was originally released on mobile back in 2018, but before y'all start groaning, it was extremely well received with the game being compared to the Warrior Wear series from Nintendo. You play as Florence, a 25-year-old lady who lives alone and is very much settled in her day-to-day routine of working at her job and vegging out on Reddit posts all day long. The story is told through beautifully hand-drawn art and it's really well animated. You get to interact with all her daily activities from brushing her teeth to eating sushi, and that might sound a tad monotonous, but these quick little mini-games have a similar joyful feeling as the mini-games and the before-mentioned Warrior Wear series. You never know what you're gonna need to do next, and each one is so short that it never outstays its welcome. However, it's the storytelling that really shines here.  During conversations with other characters, you may need to piece together a conversation bubble of dramatically filled boxes during an argument. I became far too emotionally invested with Florence and her relationships during my short playthrough, and it ended up being a really nice little story that was well worth me experiencing for just a few dollars. This is fun, I'm gonna do it one more time. If you're currently in North America again, well, let's be specific, what am I pointing to? No, that's pretty much Portland. Hi, Portland. You guys are weird. If I told you the next game was inspired by both Secret Amana and the Goonies, would I need to tell you the name of the game or would you already be finding it a way to download it somehow? Knights and Bikes, which is a really good name for anything really, a game, a TV show, a movie. My new band name called it, I can't be in a band, I have no talents. Anyway, Knights and Bikes is a co-op action adventure game directed by Rex Crowey, probably pronouncing that wrong, who also made Terrowade, and you can see a similar visual style used here as well as a similar emotionally-voking story. The game exceeds in its overwhelming breathtaking art style and I loved exploring every new area in the game. Set in the 1980s, this coming-of-age story has you brawling creatures, solving puzzles, and customizing your bicycles with the coolest accessories around. You gain new attack skills as you play, like water bomb, throwin', and puddle splashin', and you're even able to combine attacks between the two characters for bigger combos. All together, Knights and Bikes is a charming, heartwarming story about two friends going on an adventure together, and that's just the best way to play this game too, with a friend or just someone else. The adventure is tailored for two players, and while you can play solo and switch between the characters, it's a much better experience if you bring someone else along for the ride. Well, there you go. Another 10 games, and the first 10 for the year. What did you think of them? Have you played any of them? Do you like them? Are you gonna get any of them? And which ones do you want me to talk about next time? You can let me know all that down below. Remember, as well, about my other channel. Go check it out, maybe, if you want. If you haven't already, be swept on that subscribe button, or hit the like button. I'd appreciate if you did those things, too. I know that this year on Switch is lookin' a little, we don't know what's goin' on, but there is still this huge backlog catalog of games, like 2,500, as I said, to keep us entertained in the meantime. That's why I really like the Switch. Okay, bye!


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So this will be a spoiler-free review for the Hunger Games the ballad of songbirds and snakes This is directed by Francis Lawrence who is returning to the franchise. He directed the previous three I don't think he directed the original film that came out back in 2012 I think I don't think he directed that one, but he directed all the others and he's back to direct this one It is a screenplay by Michael Leslie and Michael aren't it is starring Tom Blythe, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schaefer Jason Schwartman and Viola Davis as well as many others So years before he would become the tyrannical president of Panem or Panem 18 year old Cory and Lainis Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage a once proud family That has fallen from grace in a post-war capital with the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching the young snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird The female tribute from impoverished district 12 But after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem's attention by defiantly Singing during the reaping ceremony snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy snow and Lucy Gray's race against time to survive We'll ultimately reveal who is a songbird and who is a snake Now the Hunger Games the battle of the songbirds and snakes is equally good as well as it is underwhelming at times on one hand The strong performances and gripping story make for a highly engaging film from start to finish finish on the other hand As someone who is in a die-hard But has seen the previous Hunger Games films The games aspect fell flat and was mostly forgettable and the pacing was hitter many times Also operating mostly as a villain origin story for Corrie and Lena snow It succeeds at carving out his path from good to evil going down that dark path and offers an intriguing character study along the way as well Snow's motivations are clear in his compelling journey or evolution if you will carries this film greatly sadly outside of Corrie O Himself everyone else around him is underdeveloped or just barely interesting with Lucy Gray being an exception despite also being Underdeveloped in her own regard the build-up to the titular Hunger Games the 10th annual to be more specific for the timeline There's very little to get me emotionally invested in anything that's about to unfold for these tributes If more time had been spent letting their characters marinate I could have gotten on board with it all the way. Hell even Lucy and snow's relationship isn't fully convincing before the games take place So his commitment to Lucy is kind of like I'm halfway in the door But I'm not fully on board or convinced why you care so much about this woman because you just met her. It's not a bad film Just got so much right with snow while also getting things wrong that bugged me is all the characters aren't even poorly written to be honest And again, most of them are interesting Lucy probably has one song too many despite Zegler being a phenomenal talent Her voice is incredible. There's this shift in the screenplay where I'm like what the heck What am I watching? Is this a different movie? But of course it was the same movie I don't know how much of the film stuck to the novel structure But if it's completely like the novel structure, it didn't translate well in this format What once it reached point that I'm talking about what you'll see once the movie drops because a lot of you might come Out saying the same thing that it felt like a different movie. I really do have to commend the performances There is so much conviction that our film worth enduring just to be in awe at how great everyone is in their roles Rachel Zegler might have her naysayers, but she's so talented as far as I'm concerned the singing on display Was impressive and she's so convincing in the role Viola Davis doesn't even need to be mentioned Really because when does she not devour a scene? But job well done as usual miss Davis. She devoured the scenery. She left no crumbs Tom Blythe, I would say he stole the show as Coriola Coriola in his snow Phenomenal production design you have a great score that adds to the stakes of the film and the direction was pretty good for the most part Regardless of the story shortcomings There's great amounts of tension and suspense that are still able to resonate that keep the story durable Even when I go back to the structure that how they built up to the games while again I didn't really care about what was going on once the games came because of the fact that it didn't really let too much of What happened prior marinate and let me get to really invest in the characters the games themselves were still very suspenseful tension-based and gripping despite again me not being fully on the Fully on the side of Coriola in a Coriolanus is snow's investment in Lucy great There are a lot of low-angle shots that grew tiresome to me But maybe I'll be the only one that gets tired of that Some of you will know what I'm talking about when you see the movie again because there are indeed a lot of low-angle shots The pacing was here to miss the third act really drags Lucy and snow's relationship didn't even keep me invested once it started To come to a close where overall I wouldn't say I was bored while watching the hunker games Ultimately by was to rate this on a scale of one to ten. I'm gonna give it a seven. I honestly would it's not a Terrible film it is a film that I did enjoy. I liked it. I thought it was a very good It again just has its problems like any movie seven out of ten is not anything to be ashamed of Let me know just think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't read of course Make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notification. You never miss a video in the description I'll have links to all my social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course Let me know if there any movies news or reviews you like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video the next video


Advocates have stressed the need for stakeholders to step up campaign, so encourage us and mothers practice exclusive breastfeeding for effective growth of the child, the reports. As a way of nurturing healthy children, devoid of early-stage illness, mothers have been urged to do exclusive breastfeeding for their baby's white list six months. According to experts, the vital nutrient from breast milk is important for the growth of the child. Experts wrote sensitization awareness campaign in Port Hacott, organized by the River State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization. They also stressed that it is of great value to mothers' health. The state coordinator of the BHL, Buster De Ezekwe, said exclusive breastfeeding of babies for six months is a well-recognized childhood survival strategy aimed at reducing on the five mortality rate. We are in an era where we have faced a lot of challenges. There is food shortage, there are diseases that are emerging, and so we need to have our immunity boosted. And the best way to achieve that is to start a child early in life by breastfeeding that child exclusively so that the child gets the needed immunity to fight these diseases and also ensuring that the child is adequately immunized. My final message to mothers is to ensure exclusive breastfeeding for their babies from birth up to six months and for families to provide the necessary support for mothers and society. A nutritionist at the State Ministry of Health, Glory Unwokote, spoke on the theme of this year's campaign, step up for breastfeeding, educate and support, which is aimed at educating nursing mothers on the benefit of exclusive breastfeeding. Unwokote noted that the aim is to educate women on the benefit of breastfeeding so both the mother and the baby and advise them to eat well and consume a lot of water while tasking fathers to encourage it for the babies. Breastfeeding is the only food, only food, natural food that is produced by God for the children zero to six months exclusively before complementary food is also initiated to the child, it's given to the child. I see women that is good to give children breast milk. Those children are very intelligent and they look different among other children. They are always the first class children and they are always intelligent in their school. They are always performed well. The nutritionist advised mothers to continue breastfeeding as it creates bonding between mother and child as well as prevents ailments such as breast and ovarian cancer. As a way of nurturing healthy children, devoid of early stage illness.


Welcome to the ITU Planning Potentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio by Mr Solomon Jamiro, who is the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Information and Communications for Sierra Leone. Deputy Minister, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the fact that there's currently considerable attention being placed on harnessing the power of information and communication technologies and ICTs as an enabler for good, for development, for the benefit of people, families, communities and nations. What's your perspective on this? I think that principle resonates with me personally and I could say that I represent Sierra Leone as Deputy Minister for Information and Communications. It's a country of about a little over 7 million people and we have a President retired Brigadier Julius Madabi, who was elected in March this year. So the government is like six months in office, but he believes in ICT as the cross-cutting driver of growth. He's already issued directives to all ministries, departments and agencies to see how ICT could be embraced to ensure productivity in all sectors, bring accountability and development. So I'm sure in the course of the conversation we'll be talking about the several facets of ICT. But I agree with you. I subscribe to the principle that indeed ICT is an enabler. And that's why for me I am so thrilled that coming to Dubai at the Planet Potentiary Conference, we're able to review the resolutions that were achieved in Busan four years ago and see how those ones could be remodeled or amended so that it forms the trajectory for the next four years. And I hope and pray that Sierra Leone would continue to be part of the global ICT ecosystem so that together we forge ahead with the right direction to ensure that ICT positively contributes to development, to security, to education, to health, to agriculture. And I see it's a cross-cutting tool. And that is the appreciation that I have personally. And I think it's the appreciation that is shared globally. Now you mentioned the ITU Planet Potentiary Conference in Busan that was four years ago. This conference here is the first since the world adopted, in fact, a year later after the Planet Potentiary Conference, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I wanted to ask you perhaps to give us a few examples of how ICTs are enabling sustainable development in Sierra Leone. Yes, of course. One critical pillar has to do with education. As excellent as the president, Rita Brigadier-Julio Smada-Bio, has launched what we call the Free Quality Education in Sierra Leone for the very first time. And as a matter of fact, for the first time also, one of the milestone achievements that this government has made is to appoint somebody we call the Chief Innovation Officer. Under an office, we call the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation. So that department would be interfacing with relevant ministries, departments and agencies to ensure that ICT positively contributes to the economy, to agriculture, to education, to health. And those ones you know would constitute critical pillars under the SDGs. So for us in Sierra Leone, we have a very fair appreciation that for us to have, to change the narrative with respect to those different sectors that may have informed and advised the United Nations to formulate those SDGs, we believe that it will be the critical step to take. And as a government, we have a consensus. We are settled, well settled on the position that every ministry, every department, every agency has to embrace ICT to ensure that we meet our SDG benchmarks as set by the global platform. Now you mentioned innovation, I just wanted to know how much are SMEs, small and medium science enterprises, in your line of sight? We have a very unique situation and I'm sure it's a situation that other countries that we now call developed or advanced countries or economies would have been into at some point in time. We have an emerging market. As a developing country, I would say that we have some critical challenges. But I think the culture has now emerged and Sierra Leone's across the board have embraced the idea that SMEs have to be supported and so there is the business of rolling out the emerging technologies and assisting SMEs and promoting the culture of embracing ICTs. One example has to do with what we call mobile money. The mobile telecommunications companies and other facets of our economy have rolled out what we call the mobile money platform. So now you could be in the city and you want to send money to somebody in the provinces to the remotest part of the country. So indeed, different areas are being embraced and we believe that SMEs becoming a critical chunk of the economy. If ICT is rolled out and they are supported, they are given the necessary tools, I am sure that we should be able to change the story with respect to the economy. And for us, SMEs like every other part in the world play a very critical and significant role in developing the economy of Sierra Leone. Let's talk a little bit about how much this particular figure is important to you. About half the world's people are connected to the internet. The other half isn't. What is Sierra Leone doing to get everyone connected? That's a very important area and it's a very profound observation. And I am glad that one of the key resolutions at the CS Plenty Potentiary Conference has to do with what we have to do within the context of ITU to bridge the digital divide. Within our own local context, we have what we call the Telecommunications Act of 2006. Section 13 of the Act, well, don't mind me that I am making references to those provisions because I have practiced as a legal practitioner for 12 years before my appointment as a Deputy Minister. So section 13 of our Telecommunications Act provides for the creation of a Universal Access Development Fund. So that fund essentially should be utilized to make sure that we address the critical gaps in underserved and unserved areas. So we're working closely with the mobile telecommunications companies, the internet service providers to see how they could be encouraged to roll out those services to those areas. And once we are able to meet a certain critical benchmark, then I would say Sierra Leone is one country that would provide a very encouraging example in bridging the digital divide. I think that every country has its own percentage of what the gap is, but the most important thing is that at this year's conference again in Dubai, we have looked at digital divide. And I am sure whilst we are working on our own response to the digital divide in Sierra Leone, we would also be collaborating with other countries, looking at our immediate neighbors. For example, Guinea and Liberia, I'm just coming from a quick meeting with them to see what we do first as a country, second as a sub region, and then by and large by extension within the global context of the ITU what we do. So we're looking forward to the next four years with great optimism that we should be able to take critical steps in bridging the digital divide. Finally, let me give you the opportunity to put your message across, which I'm sure you have been doing here at the ITU Planet Potential Conference to our wider audience as well on behalf of Sierra Leone. First of all, I would want to say that we have, the Sierra Leone delegation has come to the ITU with great optimism, but also with tremendous willingness to be able to learn from the best practices of other countries and also listen to the instructive guidelines that the ITU would be providing. So I want to use the opportunity to say thank you to ITU for organizing such a wonderful, wonderful Planet Potential Conference. Thank you to Dubai for the hospitality. Thank you to the studio for giving me this opportunity. And I believe that in the true spirit of globalization and collaboration, we should be able to change the narrative and see how ICT and specifically telecoms could respond to the critical challenges that we have within the context of security, the economy, the health, agriculture, unemployment issues, because those are issues that will continue to define the global environment. So on behalf of Sierra Leone, I want to say thank you to the organizers and indeed I hope and pray that this conversation, this interaction will continue and the world should be a better place four years from now. Well we very much look forward to catching up with you again in the future and Solomon Jamiro, Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Information and Communications, Sierra Leone. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you.


My name is Sanbacki. I am the author of Malignan self-love, Narcissism Revism. The narcissist is confident that people find him irresistible. His unfailing charm is part of his self-imputed omnipotence, part of his personal myth. This inane conviction that he can charm anybody and that no one can resist him is what makes the narcissist a pathological charmer.  The cerebral narcissist, on the other hand, seeks to enchant and entrance his audience with intellectual pyrotechnics. Many narcissists of both types brag about their wealth, their health, possessions, collections, spouses, children, personal history, family tree. In short, the narcissist brings forth and brags about anything that would garner him attention and render him alluring. Both types of narcissists, the somatic and the cerebral, firmly believe that being unique, they are entitled and deserved special treatment by others.  And they use these people as instruments of gratification, as sources of narcissistic supply, attention, integration, admiration. Exerting personal magnetism and charisma become ways of asserting control and obviating other people's personal boundaries. The pathological charmer feels superior to the person he captivates and fascinates. To him charming someone means having power over her, controlling her, or even subjugating her. It is all a mind game intertwined with a power play. The person to be thus enthralled and charmed is an object, a mere prop in the narcissist's theater of life. He is of a dehumanized utility. In some cases, pathological charm involves more than a grain of sadism. It provokes in the narcissist sexual arousal by inflicting the pain of subjugation on the beguiled who cannot help but be enchanted by him. Conversely, the pathological charmer engages in infantile magical thinking. He uses charm to help maintain object constancy and to fend off abandonment. In other words, he uses charm to ensure that the person he has bewitched won't disappear on him suddenly. Pathological charmers react with rage and aggression when their intended targets prove to be impervious and resistant to their lure. This kind of narcissistic injury, being spurned and rebuffed, makes them feel threatened, rejected and denuded. Being ignored amounts to a challenge to the narcissist's uniqueness, entitlement, control and superiority. Narcissists wither without constant narcissistic supply. When their charm fails to elicit narcissistic supply, they feel annouced, failures, nonexistent, disintegrating and even dead. As is to be expected, they go to great lengths to secure narcissistic supply. It is only when their efforts are frustrated that the mask of civility and congeniality drops and reveals the true face of the narcissist, a predator on the prowl.


Hi, how are you? I hope you are doing well. My name is Indanya, and welcome to yet another episode of Crazy 11. Today, I spotted an amazing artist, he's an artist, he's a comedian. That's the one and only why. Let's approach We talk to him. How much of 저는 having cooked? 1100 le replays to me so kethch and the entire safety of the kellt So that's enough? 2.50 Bure Bure So tatu So ni geti kwa kungalesha kido go Just ask 11 random questions As we work, kido go to a paskutu ya pambale So Kwanza haus fatherhood sofa? Fatherhood is amazing That's our level It's a new experience It's a new level Nafil different other jokes So what's the first thing you do when you wake up? The first thing that I do when I wake up Is pray I pray Because I have to thank God for a new day There are a lot of people who wish to see a new day And they never do Unfortunately And it's not because we are special So the first thing is I pray Na thank God I pray I pray Na thank God Na thank God Na muwamba Na take care For the rest of the day Yes I notice you have interest in music What's your current type Favorite type of music? My favorite type of music Is good music Good music Majalik uku afrika Nii I love rumba And that's why sauti sol is My favorite band Musiki sa sauti sol asubui baka jiyoni Sauti sol asubui baka jiyoni And of course I mix with a few artists Kina Otile Brown, Kina Kinkaka, Kina Kali But sauti sol na nyash But sauti sol Ndiwale Watu atari Wato na jaw kuandika vitu wana panga Yanu kia nga liya bilawasawandika muziki Achara na na lyrics Awa say ngomayaw kuwana body Ikona introduction, ikona body I love ikona conclusion Ngoma ikona structure Mzike mzuri, mzuki wa pesa Nipesa tu me baki ni tafutu Ayu kuna pesa tu siyongi What's the best thing About being a comedian The best thing about being a comedian is Doing something that you love And It is the only job That you do To make you sure you're making people happy Onajiwa Adha kariya kupaka Labda kuna misiana paka gaga rangigari Uko shuwa kama kilandwa kwa na furai Ama na cheka But I am always guaranteed That when I'm on stage People are happy If not all but majority So that is one of the best thing Being a comedian is that you make people happy Craziest experience you've had with the fun Kuna dem Kuna si koni kwa naixuongo Iksuongo fituanga pwemu dramatic Dema kwa siha utu wakase na nintaka Nipemimba So that's very good Sida ni hi Uko na dem Denya kwa po Tla uke mwangalewo Kwa nintaka umpe mimba Nintaka uke mwamimba So very good So Wajiwa nintaka Ni ni mayanawas tiyanwa na irobi Ni ni mayanawao Another question What's the best and the worst thing about being male in this country? The worst thing about being male is that people overlook our trouble and people only think that it's only women who go through heartbreak, it's only women who go through trouble, it's only women who are supposed to be Why did you hit her? Why did you hit her? and she's a woman and imagine you're doing that to a woman it means it is okay if you do it to a man So there's this biasness which is to affect kama wanaume and wanaume is jeongelia You see like the other day I saw Obina talk about his issues and what's the best thing about being male is that people are not taking those issues seriously and they are taking the baby mamas seriously Na mimi ni siadilawanawake and I know very well sometimes before ni jajimutu atani kiyona dema me toka palia kawangia I will always never be quick to side with a woman because women sazingi emotionia kisha kwa mbia fanya tu Yes and one thing I know Ukiyakama Obina's case Musema akuna inu amount of child support that ineza satisfy demonye mwana nakupenda ah akuna Adha ova nyanini In another word so Dema napenda Obina Bado That is why shout out to my brother Big up to yourself Ange kwa napenda Obina It's either anapenda Obina Bado Amma chali mwene akona ea ea Anafil Obina Akujyake Ange kwa akuna chali mwene Ange kwa nangana Obina You think so? Yes I don't think You know what makes Research Valid At the probabilities And the outcomes Of course they are Not every outcome Eko prompted in a specific situation But most situations Iki kwa nga zinafani kanga hivi That's what akua lossa eko kotini So what are the probabilities If this thing happen like this Then there is likely what of this happen like Like that yes No comment How would you want Your loved ones to remember you for What I would love My loved ones to remember me for That I was one gogeta Who believed in himself And I would also want them to know That you can Just come from nowhere And take risks I would want my loved ones to know That this life Is a matter of taking risks And just because you've taken risks Do not, does not mean Just because you've taken a risk does not Guarantee you of success Risk nipua That's what I want them to know me for Meridume fika is because I took a risk I took serious risks Of course those are stories for another day But or however Just the fact that we may take risks Does not mean We may take more risks Uli take nika bounds Risks Nime take zika bounds Nimo mub kwa bieshara nime Nime dumabiz Zika hata Nime hata to kianza comedy Kuna risk nili take The major risk nili taking in kianza comedies On the very day that I was Supposed to be performing on Churchill E Anko angwa lukwa na sema Kuna vini nili kwa nisha mchosa Of course namo understand sana Kwa zal kwa nipiafini Kwa nimianda mamu audition Nili kwa I go well na e So yundosi kwa lukwa sema niaje Onanda ocha leo Uru di watua kifungwa Kwa skutul kwa lungolide Aga sema watua ki ru di kampo De una ru De una ru nda home leo Na siku perform that night What? Uku sana na anko uku Alafu sigiapata chansia kupafom uku Imagine what happened But I believed in myself I saw myself where anybody else never saw me And I'm glad I'm not yet there But I'm headed there What makes you this self confident Ni tips ganyu neza patiawa tu Ni nini na fanyungu Una germini ibo Mujia minisana because Of where I've come from Where I've come from Misigiya kwa na ma Godfather Sigiya kwa na atimusea Anishike mukono I have typically worked for Every little stuff That ni konayo Ata ni ki panandaige ni tokiapa Ni ne mombasa Ya ni mu kuna pride ni kijua Ini doyangu mazeni me li patiket na pesayangu Ata kami me ishia But sitishu Kwa sabamu ni pesayangu Ni pesayangu So one of One of the major reasons why I'm very confident about myself Is nime gruwaia Estemiangu li kuna crushiwa sana Because siya tukuwa dosi So na joa this likelihood of Kutesuwa Palemili Tatu na Manko Enginiwa Biroa Tatu So here li kua It was meant to crush me But looking at the situation where my mama was living Ni ki yangali bradangu, ni ki yangali nini It gave me a sense of confidence And confidence i me kua ebu ku open doors for me So the fact that Neza open door, neza Sometimes I don't have to wait for Klanta ni pikesi mua tiniame ni age So we are safari kum or we are what We are calling to ah, I knocked Kuna milangu mingi zeni me patajo Because I knocked myself nila nga bisha ni age There's something I've seen you doing But I think With what I do, I think I'm able to make your company The most preferred option Oh okay, how are you going to do it And it works out So the success stories about The things I've done with confidence We're more confident about myself Rambuam jitu me What's the most precious thing you own? The most precious thing That I own Life Life And a lot of people do not know that How many people overlook It's life I've seen people saying That Mazi ya ni nini Mazi ya ni nini Milangu ozendu zeni nila kufunguka Wakatisi si mazi Ya ni nisi si Godel tukas Imagine I wish people knew how rich They are Just by the fact that they are alive There's somebody out there Or 1 billion shillings Akuena oganufla ni amuili But where at this particular time Ukonayo ogani amuili So you are that amount Ono na yo pesanataftakukuawewe You are that amount rich But you do not know So the most precious thing that I have In life Because any other thing So where's the accomplished kama sikuwa live I cannot be a great comedian if I'm not alive I cannot have children I cannot accomplish anything I cannot own a kite if I'm not alive It's life So as long as I am alive I can be anything I agree What's the most impressive thing You know how to do best The most impressive thing I know how to do best is to Kuku omena You can cook Omena na merenda You know I grew up to keep picking up Merenda every day Sofre na toka muna Sofre kemalizangatu wewe Muna Merenda na dani So I grew up Nili anzaku picka nikuwa klas Nikuwa almost nikiwa klas 1 Puri Nikiushanama dango kibera Before to relocate to Ochafta Budali Dedi So one of the things that we are going to pick up Sani likuwa merenda Na omena once in a while But na omena na merenda Try me East and Central Africa In fact the whole world kwa sababu akuna So the whole world So how are to best kia wewe Thank you so much That's it Now kindly tell my people to like Share or subscribe Bani support too Ladies and gentlemen It's been an amazing show with Ndanya And this is 11 right here on SPM So keep supporting her She's doing an amazing job and of course She's also beautiful Too many Too many Too many Too many Too many Too many Too many Too many Share And let her grow Let the industry grow Let Kenya grow Thank you so much for watching My name is Ndanya until next time Bye


I mean, quite seriously, when you're setting out to say like, because you're creating films that have real stories versus a franchise based on a brand. How do you sort of say, OK, this is going to make this much we hope, and I think we can budget this much for it? You know, it's, I mean, some of these movies were really priced very sensibly, and some of them were not. The danger, like the reality is, is that you make a movie for what you can get for the movie. That's really what it is, and the way that you, and the market kind of determines what a movie is worth.  Does it have movie stars that have some intrinsic value? Does the director, someone has some intrinsic value? And the intrinsic value is that if the movie ends up totally failing, is it still worth something? Because someone will see it on the, you know, on a video, and they'll say, oh, I like that actor, or I saw that guy's last movie, and I'll rent that movie again. And that has, that is called financing for failure. And that's how movies get financed, basically, is if everything goes wrong, is it still have some value just because of the elements that you put together? A horror film doesn't need to have big actors in it, because people go to, people, you know, rent horror films, and they go to horror films, even if they're bad, because it has that following for it. Because I remember, like, with the Savages, which starred the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, I love, there was this whole, they were brother and sister, and she lies about having a, a, um, junior MacArthur genius grant, and he calls, he's her, he's her brother, and he calls, or he calls the, um, MacArthur foundation. Something only a brother could do.  And, like, I thought that was hilarious, that she would lie about having a genius grant, and that her brother would have out her, and that she really just had a FEMA grant after 9-11. And, um, but I was like, does everyone find that as hysterical?