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I want to talk to you about a really weird kind of fear mongering that I see going on within the Linux community and really within the broader free and open source software community. And this is the fear mongering regarding maintenance mode software or software that's not actively being maintained. Because I get these kinds of questions a lot from viewers of my channel. I often get questions about hey DT should I be running whatever piece of software because it's no longer actively maintained or it hasn't seen a release in however many months or however many years. Should I be running this piece of software? Is it safe? Is it dangerous? What should I do? And the reason people ask this is because a lot of people spread this kind of misinformation especially on Linux forms for an open source software forms about if a project isn't seeing active maintenance if it's not seeing active commits that it's a dead project and therefore you shouldn't use it and that's not necessarily the case. Just because a piece of software hasn't seen a release in a long time doesn't necessarily make it dangerous it doesn't make it unsafe doesn't necessarily mean there's any security vulnerabilities it depends on the type of software for example a web browser there is a lot of people that try to attack you via the web browser I would never run a web browser that wasn't actively maintained. The Linux kernel the Linux kernel has to be actively maintained for security vulnerabilities because hackers are always attacking the kernel. So the minute that the kernel team drops the ball we're all going to be in trouble right so you want your kernel to be actively maintained you want your web browsers to be actively maintained you probably want your email client to be actively maintained but 95% of the software that you run on your computer doesn't necessarily have to be actively maintained most of the software on my computer for example most of the software on your computer is feature complete it does a simple task a lot of these programs they they do one thing they do one thing well it's the UNIX philosophy right a lot of especially your command line programs for example they have one task and if that program already accomplishes what it was set out to do what it was designed to do obviously it's not going to see any further development it's not going to see any further releases because it was designed for one task it already does that it is feature complete at that point so in some cases some of the command line programs that you run on your Linux machine or other UNIX like operating systems like the bsds or the various UNIX flavors and some of those command line programs often haven't had a release in many years does that make them unsafe no it's perfectly fine one of the best examples of a piece of software that is essentially in maintenance mode and it has been in maintenance mode for a couple of decades is the vi editor vi has not had a major release i think and since 2004 2005 it's been a long time since the vi editor at a release you know why it's because it's in maintenance mode vi pretty much already does what the creators envisioned it to do and at some point they just quit adding new features but that's all right because vi was forked back in the 1990s for vim right vi improved is vim and you know if you're really concerned that you know for whatever reason you shouldn't be running vi well you could always run vim or some of the other forks of vi or vim has its own forks like neo vm they see active maintenance and they see all kinds of new features just thousands of new features have been added to those projects that vi for example doesn't have like syntax highlighting and all that so you have these other projects but vi is really designed to be really minimal and simple and vi is actually the default editor on most unix like operating systems think about all the millions of linux servers around the world bsd servers unix servers you know what editor is on almost all of those systems vi right so is vi safe yes vi is perfectly safe if it wasn't safe then all these countless millions of servers around the world wouldn't have vi as their editor there's nothing wrong with a program being essentially in maintenance mode and of course maintenance mode a lot of people like to label these projects as abandoned where right that's another term that gets thrown around they've been abandoned because nobody's really doing anything with it now that that sounds a little more scary right when i say something's in maintenance mode that sounds oh okay that doesn't sound too bad well i said you know vi is abandoned where then people like whoa it's been abandoned something must be wrong with it maybe i shouldn't use it well it's really kind of the same thing it's just one has more of a negative connotation than the other most of you guys are running window managers for example that haven't seen a release in many years how many of you guys have used the open box window manager i love open box it's one of my favorite floating window managers open box has not had a release in many many years you know why it's because open box is considered feature complete like the developers behind open box they reached a point of hey open box is is pretty much done it does everything we envisioned open box to do as a standalone floating window manager so it's not really being actively maintained anymore now again is that okay yeah there's nothing wrong with that open box is still used by millions of linux users around the world many desktop environments use the open box window manager as their default window manager like lx de open box was the default window manager for lx de and it still is lx cute many lx cute distributions actually use open box as the window manager for the lx cute desktop environment so there's nothing wrong with it right just because it's in maintenance mode or some people would consider it possibly abandoned where again doesn't make it unsafe now i also need to mention xorg because xorg's one that really gets thrown around a lot on linux forms for an open source software forms here in the last year or two especially it's really ramped up to where people on these forms are actively telling people quit using xorg xorg's broken stop using xorg moved to wailin already wailin is the future and they're right wailin is the future and the reason this is really ramped up in the last year or two is because really in the last couple of years kde plasma and genome have really gotten there as far as wailin where if you're running genome or kde plasma you can essentially live in wailin for the most part depending on some of your hardware choices wailin could still be an issue for you but for most of the users out there if you want to run genome or kde plasma and live in wailin it's pretty much ready right now is um it still has some work but you can do it and because of that a lot of these people they're using wailin especially on genome and kde plasma trying to tell people quit using xorg xorg it's deprecated it's broken it's just in maintenance mode it's not being actively maintained and that's kind of correct they're not adding new features to xorg anymore the folks that maintain xorg they're not trying to do new stuff with xorg because they already know wailin is the future they would be wasting their time at this point to work on xorg as far as adding new features because they see xorg eventually will die and people pretty much all of us will be on wailin at some point but just because wailin is the future does that mean xorg is broken like right now does xorg work on your system it works on my system most of you guys are probably running xorg you're running a either a desktop environment or a window manager that's a x11 desktop environment slash window manager is your machine broken probably not it's probably working just fine so again don't let these people shame you into running a piece of software that's actually working for you you have to keep in mind that a lot of these people on the internet that are trying to tell you what pieces of software to not use what pieces of software you should use a lot of these people are damaged broken people a lot of these people they actually identify with the software that they run and they need to validate their choices as far as software and how do they validate their choice in software well they try to make you also run that same piece of software because if they can get more people to use that particular software then it kind of validates their choice right it makes them feel better like they made the right decision and if you're one of these people that do that that go on the internet try to tell people what to use what not to use please stop doing that and if you're one of the people that spread some of the fear mongering as far as certain pieces of software they their release cadence isn't quite as fast as you would like it maybe they haven't had a release in a few months few years whatever it happens to be don't tell people that they shouldn't use that program don't don't tell people that it's dangerous to use that program unless it's actually dangerous to use that program if there's some kind of glaring security holes tell people about that right don't tell people to quit using a piece of software because it hasn't seen a release in the last year tell people to quit using a piece of software if it has a real security issue and let them know what that security issue is that's what you should be doing ran over guys peace


So, I've got to talk about what is probably my favorite story of 2021, so the Nevada State Democratic Party was taken over by socialists. And as a result, the centrist establishment Democrats decided to revolt and leave. What this really tells me is that the grip that Harry Reid had on any and all Nevada State politics has definitely loosened. In fact, he no longer is in control. Socialists are in control right now. And we learned about the control that he has, like the institutional power that he has in Nevada back in 2018 when Amy Volela was running for Congress. And the Nevada State Democratic Party worked against her, relentlessly so. But now, uh, socialists put in the work and, uh, ultimately they have prevailed. So as Akilah Lacy and Ryan Grimm report, not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party's executive director, Elena Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations before getting to her main point. She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much. On March 6th, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The establishment had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party's coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's account. The DSCC will put the money toward the 2022 reelection bid of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a vulnerable first term Democrat. While Whitmer's opponents say she was planning to fire them anyway, Whitmer denies that claim. I've been putting in the work, Whitmer told the Intercept for the latest episode of Deconstructed. What they just didn't expect is that we got better and better at organizing and out organizing them at every turn. Now this is really, really important because what they've done here, what progressives have done, this is a blueprint for the left across the country going forward. Because if any state was difficult to penetrate, to actually get your foot in the door, I would have said Nevada would have been one of the most difficult because of the influence of Harry Reid. But they managed to out organize Harry Reid and the Democratic establishment. And really what happened was, and the article is going to explain this, they put in work after 2016. So when Harry Reid's machine crushed Bernie Sanders in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton, the socialists and progressives in the state of Nevada, they decided to organize. They got busy. And by 2020, they had accumulated so much power that Bernie Sanders won in a landslide. This was because activists on the ground put in work. So the article continues, the battle between the insurgent progressive wing of the party and what's known in Nevada as the Reid machine, a tightly run operation still guided by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, began five years ago. When Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders organized support for his 2016 presidential primary run while Reid was working behind the scenes to help his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Over the next four years, outside organizations like DSA exploded in size and strength. The Sanders campaign focused on organizing tens of thousands of young Latino voters in the state, with the goal of activating people whom the party hadn't bothered with before. And it worked. In the 2020 cycle, after investing heavily in Nevada, Sanders won a commanding victory in the Nevada caucuses. When the Sanders campaign ended, the organizers behind it were ready to take their project to the next level. Progressive groups like the Clark County Left Caucus, of which Whitmer was chair, and local DSA chapters had been organizing for Sanders across Nevada since 2016. They used their momentum and the state-level delegates they picked up during the caucuses to continue activating progressive pockets in the state with a focus on local office. Progressives led by the Left Caucus won a majority of the state Democratic Board this summer, a sign that their momentum was growing even without a candidate at the top of the Democratic ticket to get behind. So I think that this really demonstrates the power in organizing. It really shows us that as individuals, we have to do more. We have to get involved, and this is why organizations like the DSA are absolutely crucial, because politics, it really is local. So what we have to do is invest our own time into putting in the work to take over our own state Democratic parties. Because part of the issue, and this goes beyond the Democratic Party primaries for the presidential candidates, you can see how each state Democratic Party definitely wasn't working in favor of what the grassroots wanted. They were trying to work against the grassroots. So if that happens in your state, what you have to do is take over your state's Democratic Party. Taking over the Democratic Party nationally in Congress is much more difficult. But taking over the Democratic Party at the state level, that's much more achievable in the short term, not just the long term. But it's just a matter of how many people, how many leftists and socialists and communists are actually willing to put in the work. And in the state of Oregon, for example, socialists are currently organizing to progress the issue of single-payer health care in our state. Now, what we need to see is leftists actually do what the Nevada State Democratic Party did, but on a mass scale. Like imagine if in every single state leftists were able to take over the Democratic Party. Like if we did this in every single state or most states, like the aggregate outcome that that would produce on national politics would be absolutely monumental. So I love this story, not only because it's encouraging, but just like seeing the butthurt, seeing all of the Democratic Party establishment figures resign. I mean, what happened to unity? Weren't Real supposed to hold hands in Sincubaya? That's what you all were saying when Joe Biden won the primary in 2020. Hey, unity, we have to be united. But the minute leftists actually take over, all of a sudden all of that unity goes out the door. I find this hilarious and I love it. This is what we need to focus on. If you are not involved in your local DSA chapter and you haven't been getting active in local politics, definitely change that. DSA makes it easy to connect with other left-wing and socialist activists, but you don't even have to join a larger organization to do that. You can make a difference as an individual by reaching out and meeting with people, forming your own meetings. But I mean, it is really nice to have the DSA help organize these events. It's nice to have their backing, but you certainly don't need it. But this is something that we all need to get better at is focusing on our local issues and state-level issues. Because state-level party politics, that is where the left can actually make a lot of gains.


In this video I want to talk about uniqueness of elements in a group, because in the previous video we talked about how we can denote the identity as an E or as a one or something like that. But that's kind of putting the cart in front of the horses, isn't it? Well how do we know there is the identity? Why isn't it like AN identity? In English we use these articles to kind of specify like plurality a little bit right. How do we know there is only one identity? When you look at the axioms of a group it just says there exists an element that has such and such property. It doesn't say that that element is unique. It turns out that for a group the identity element is unique. That is there exists only one element that has the property that EG equals GE which equals G for all elements of the group. The identity element is unique. Now when one wants to prove that something is unique, typically what you do is you take two elements with that property and argue they actually have to be the same element. And so there's kind of two ways you could do that. You could do a proof by contradiction to be like for the sake of contradiction take elements E prime and E double prime. And if there are identities they have to have the following property. G times E prime has to be G and also E prime times G has to be G. I do both cases because in a group we don't assume that it's commutative. And then we take another element E double prime and assume that G times E double prime is equal to G which is the same thing as E double prime times G. So we take two candidates of the identity so that we have these two candidates. We have two candidates for the identity. And so we have two elements that are going to act like an identity inside of this group. How do we know there's only one of them? Well one argument could just be that for the sake of contradiction suppose there's two of them and get a contradiction. I'm going to take a slightly different perspective here. I'm just going to take two of them. I'm not actually supposing they're distinct but I'm going to show that they're in fact one and equal. Because their identities this element G that we're playing around here is arbitrary. This property holds for any G. In particular E prime is an identity for E double prime and E double prime is an identity for E prime. So if you take this element and expand upon it a little bit right E prime times E double prime. Well if we think of E prime is an identity for E double prime that means this should equal E double prime. But conversely if we think that E double prime is acting as an identity on E prime this gives you E prime. And so you can see then connecting them here that E prime is equal to E double prime thus finishing the proof that two things are actually one of the same thing. If you did a proof by contradiction right now you would have got a contradiction to our original assumption that they were actually distinct. And so because I'm just contradicting the original assumption I don't really think there's a need for a proof by contradiction but just a thing is still a valid argument. So we actually do get that there's one and only one identity inside of the group. We can do a similar thing for inverses that when you look at the inverse axiom it just says that for any element there exists a inverse but how do we know there's only one inverse? There could be multiple inverses right? Well the group axioms help us figure this thing out here. And so I want you to be clear that when you look going back to this proof of the identity here all we used was that we had a two-sided identity right? And so I want to make sort of like a comment here. We didn't even use the full blown axioms of groups here. So if there exists a two-sided identity this is true for any type of object any type of algebraic object. If you have a two-sided identity it is unique. Now if you have only one-sided identities things can get a little bit more funky which is why we required in the axiom that the identity would be two-sided. But let's get back to the idea of inverses. If G is any element in the group then the inverse of G is unique. So to prove this we're going to take two candidates for an inverse. So we're going to say G prime and G double prime are both inverses for G. What does it mean to be an inverse? Well for the sake of G prime it means that G times G prime and G prime times G is equal to the identity which we'll call it E right here. And what does it mean for G double prime to be an inverse? It means that G times D double prime and D G double prime times G is equal to E. And so what we have here by assumption is two candidates, two candidates for inverses for the inverse of G which like I said earlier we will call the inverse G inverse. But at the moment there could be multiple ones right? And so what we're going to do is we're going to consider the product the product of all three of these elements together. So if G is an inverse or I should say if G prime and G double prime are inverses G they should act like inverses of that. So let's consider I'm actually going to start off with this point right here. Take G prime G and times it by G double prime right? Well if G double prime is the inverse of G that means G sorry I said that I mean that's true but I want to say if G prime is the inverse of G that means G prime times G is the identity. And the identity times anything will give you back the element. So this object right here is equal to D G double prime. But conversely because we're in a group we can re-associate I can redo the parentheses and get G prime times G G double prime right here. And so in this situation if you take G times G double prime since they're inverses you get G prime E which is equal to G prime. And so you see that these things are actually one in the same thing inverses are unique. Now this time we were using of course the inverse axiom to show existence here because to be unique unique means that you have at most one but you also have at least one. The inverse axiom gives us that they're unique. To use the inverse axiom you have to have the identity axiom because the inverse axiom references the identity so if no identity exists the inverse axiom becomes null and void. But you can also see here that the associativity axiom was necessary. So to prove the uniqueness of inverses we used all three group axioms associativity identity and inverses. Now I want to show you why is it so important that the inverses be unique? Why is it so important that the identities be unique? I'm going to show you two very quick applications of the inverse element being unique. So we're going to show what's commonly referred to as the shoe sock principle. The shoe sock principle why do I call it that? So if we have a group G so G is a group and elements G and H are elements in the group we often will denote groups with capital roman letters and then the elements of the group will be lowercase roman letters. Typically we like to use capital G for generic groups lowercase G for elements and set group. That's sort of convention we do. So what the shoe sock principle has to do with is if we take the inverse of a product so we take the inverse of G times H. This is actually equal to H inverse G inverse. Notice how the order gets swapped around when you take the inverse. In general groups do not demand any commutation on the operation here. The multiplication is not necessarily commutative so the order matters. And so when you take the inverse of a product you reverse the order and the principle is the following. In the morning when you get ready for the day you first put on your socks and then you put on your shoes. So that's how you get ready for the day. On the other hand when that's when you put them on but when you take them off the roles get reversed.  So the inverse operation switches the order of these procedures around and that's what we're trying to claim right here. And this proof is basically just the uniqueness of the inverses. What we're going to do is the following. We are going to take G times H and I'm going to multiply it by H inverse G inverse like so. So we're going to multiply these things together and I'm going to prove that this is the identity. Well because the group has an associative operation we can redo parentheses so we get H inverse times G inverse G times H like so. But G inverse and G they're inverses of each other so their product will give you the identity right. So we get the identity EH right there. Well EH times anything. EH is just going to give you the element back. It's just the identity. So you get H inverse times H which as those are inverses you get back here the E. So I want to give you where associativity was key in this discussion. Obviously for inverses they must exist and you must have identities but the associativity axiom was necessary so that we could redo parentheses at our leisure right. So what we have now shown is that H inverse G inverse when you times it by GH gives you the identity. But wait a second it should be that GH inverse times is by multiplied by GH to give you dot dot dot dot dot. This should be the identity.  If your element walks like an identity and quacks like an identity then it has to be an identity because they're unique. In this situation if your element walks like an inverse and quacks like an inverse it must be an inverse because inverses are unique. The only way this element could give you the identity is it was the inverse but look at it it worked. It's an inverse and the other's direction works as well right. So you see that I illustrated doing which one did I do. Here in the proof I wrote up here GH times H inverse G inverse right. I did the other details. The thing is the two arguments are basically the same. You don't necessarily have to do both. I typically would say the other one is similar. So the uniqueness of the inverses shows us the shoe sock principle. Let's look at one other corollary of the uniqueness of inverses here. So in any group if you take an element G the double inverse is the original element again. This again follows by inverse uniqueness right. If you take G times G inverse that gives you the identity because G inverse is the inverse of G same thing on the other direction. But wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. If I take G inverse the only thing that should multiply by G inverse to give you the identity would be the inverse of G inverse right. By construction G inverse that's an element of the group. It should have an inverse element. But as G is already doing that then uniqueness implies that G inverse inverse actually is the element again. So the simple statement that inverses are unique can be a powerful tool to prove more powerful theorems, propositions, corollaries about properties of groups.


Daniel underscore of hair has said my cousin has been disregarding coronavirus safety measures and has been visiting friends And not using hand sanitizer wearing a face mask or keep or keeping even a meter away from anyone Oh, I know what I'm gonna do. I know what I'm gonna do. Hey Are you Malcolm? So I'm going to pretend to work for the government and I'm going to say that that that someone with the coronavirus That someone with the coronavirus app has tested positive to coronavirus and he You have been close proximity the precinct five days ago Aaron. It's the precinct What's that word mean? All right here we go.  I'm just calling on behalf of the Australian government Have you got five minutes to talk mate bit of a weird one? No worries when you're finishing mate love to have a quick just a very quick chat with you just regards to the coronavirus app you've been exposed to someone Five p.m. No worries mate. I'll give you a call in about five minutes Eastern standard times or are you on the great rank great dividing range time? No worries, so if I give you a call back in about five minutes, is that 530 on the eastern standards time or are you at the back? Well, I was just letting you know that you've been exposed to someone who's just tested positive for a coronavirus in the last five days and You're gonna need to go and get tested immediately Oh Yeah, so I'm not sure if you're aware but people are downloading the coronavirus app that the government has issued out and so we've just had a few cases confirmed today and One of them actually had the coronavirus app downloaded and it appears that you were in very close proximity with them in the last ones of five days and Yeah, well it's exactly right. So Yeah, it's it's picked it up and you're gonna have to go in and get tested as soon as possible and The the person that you have come into contact with is is quite sick. So it's sort of it's Pretty late pretty late in the progression for them But yeah, what we just sort of need everyone to sort of stop what they're doing and head straight in Now have you been into close in close contact with anyone at your work today?   How are you? How are you feeling in any symptoms? Any sort of cold or flu-like symptoms any fevers? Um Well, I was working in the rain last week. So I felt like I was kind of fighting off a cold. Yeah That's been all good. I've got a little bit of a sore throat right now But I just drank some refrigerator water and So you've had you so you you're saying that you actually have a sore throat right now That's actually the first symptom. Yeah Yeah, have you had Normal because I just drank refrigerator water and that happens often when I do yeah, right Have you had any sexual intercourse with anyone over the last five days? Very very possibly mate look where we're just sort of getting all the data just gets sent into us You who knows you could have just driven past someone, you know what I mean Like you might have even like been in actual close proximity with it. Do you know what I mean?   All right You you aren't this this isn't real you living in an alternate reality. This is a simulation and we are the owners And we're coming to collect. Sorry. Sorry. You need to apologize to me. Otherwise. I won't take this any further Snapping at me the jaws of death No, you're actually on a prank call for on the Mariam Fully actual podcast one of your mates sent your number in He needed to know I could we will lose in him Yeah, no, yeah, I just I just wanted to try and make it a bit more exciting just to see what you'd say was being frantic Good your mate Daniel I'm like fully hard right now. Thank you for being a good sport We love you dude be strong and stay stay swim Yeah, yeah, dude.  Oh, that was good dude. Thank you for that. Oh My god be strong and stay wise and never drink the fruit of the labors until you reach the end


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. I just wanted to come in here to tell you that I'm deeply concerned over the breach of security in our Moscow embassy, and while all the facts are not known, it is clear that security implications are widespread and that additional quick action is required to prevent further damage to our national security. Two weeks ago, when the severity of the situation became clear, I convened a meeting of my national security advisors and ordered Frank Carlucci to immediately begin an internal assessment of the damage. Today I want to announce some additional actions. The United States will not occupy our new embassy building in Moscow unless and until I can be assured that it is safe to move into a secure embassy environment. Likewise, the Soviet Union will not be allowed to occupy their new facility in Washington until a simultaneous move by both countries is possible. I have instructed the Secretary of State to make embassy security a major agenda item during his upcoming talks in Moscow, and I have asked former Defense Secretary Mel Laird to chair an assessment review panel under the general authority of the Secretary of State. In addition, I have instructed the Chairman of my Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Ambassador Ann Armstrong, to examine the procedures and practices used in our embassies worldwide to protect American facilities. I have requested that both reports from the Secretary of State and PIFIAB be transmitted to me within 90 days. Specifically, both the Secretary of State and PIFIAB have been tasked to evaluate the condition of our new building and ascertain whether it will ever be secure or whether it may be necessary to destroy and rebuild it. Finally, I have instructed the Secretaries of State and Defense to recommend to me the future management of security personnel at the U.S. Embassy in the USSR and elsewhere with respect to length of assignment, selection of personnel, and their supervision. These reports will be coordinated by the National Security Council, which shall, in turn, make comprehensive recommendations to me on counterintelligence and security policies, procedures, and accountability. Henry Kissinger said that it is humiliating for George Schultz to go to Moscow right now, that he should be meeting instead in Helsinki, perhaps, because we should not be going under these circumstances without having secure communications. Well, I have great respect for Henry and great friendship, but I have to oppose him on this. I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. Mr. President, how can you, as the Secretary of State, to do business with the Soviets on arms control when they have apparently compromised the U.S. position in Moscow so badly? How can you deal with them under these circumstances? Well, I think the whole business of espionage worldwide is something that we have to recognize takes place, and counterespionage is employed by everyone, but at the same time, you don't stop doing business. Business as usual, sir. Business as usual? Well, not just a minute. As usual, we have sent 81 of their agents in this country home, kicked them out of the country, and they're still willing to talk arms with us. Mr. President, has this changed the way you look at the Soviets? Is this changing our relations with them? Well, I think I've been rather realistic about the Soviet Union for quite some time, and believe me, it doesn't surprise me a bit, and no, I haven't changed my view of the Soviet Union. It's a new problem, Mr. President, has this been going on a long time, and haven't you had reports? I mean, how long have we had Soviet employees in our embassy? And we understand that you have received reports in, say, 85. And we have ordered, then, the beginning of actions to try and find out and establish if such a thing was going on. Chris Lee. Can I follow up specifically on that, because it was a report in 85 by your own foreign intelligence advisory board that you're calling on now for another report, and they told you that the embassy was vulnerable and specifically called on you in 85, the spring of 85, to get rid of Soviet personnel, yet you did nothing about it, and one of the members of the H-Lost World quits. This report did come in, and we immediately started and did accomplish a reduction of the personnel in stages that were there.  But as we were continuing with that, then the Soviet Union took the first lead and ordered their people out. But, Mr. President, well, if Gorbachev changes his mind, will you then allow Soviets to become re-employed at our embassy there, and how extensive is the problem in other Soviet block embassies? We are investigating the whole area of embassies. So listen, Frank is going to take all of your questions, unfortunately, and I'm not ducking you. I tried to answer a few. What should we hire them, sir, if Mr. Gorbachev changes his mind? No, I think we should have our own person. What about the nine contract employees that were sent home, Mr. President? When? Do you think Colonel Norris take orders from Mr. Casey at any time in terms of contrary? I don't know. Mr. President, what about the nine contract employees, American contract employees, who were sent home within the last two months, and were just exposed today by the State Department? Well, I have just told you what our position is going to be about that embassy building. I'm sorry to leave you to him, because this was run in the middle of my schedule, and honestly, I am... Are you interested in the new test ban proposal from the Soviets? Is that at least an encouraging sign? We think that it's encouraging there's their whole attitude to arms, which has never before been proved with any of the other previous Soviet leaders. Mr. President, Richard Allen says that in 1981, he recommended that all the Soviet nationals be dismissed from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and that the State Department blocked that. Well, as I've told you, it was not an easy problem. But when the second report came in with us here, we did start, and we did make some reductions, and we're proceeding. Was Ambassador Harman responsible, sir? Is Ambassador Harman responsible? I'm not going to uncancelize or determine any individual with... Thank you. Do you want to take a filing break? Five-minute filing break.


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My name is Rebecca. I am the Director of Programs at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. And I work with Elizabeth Sackler to provide additional support for the Center for Foreign Minister here at the Brooklyn Museum. And I'm absolutely thrilled today to welcome Erica Hinton and Mia Contaro, their families, and Sandy Zag, the producer of the film The World Elsevich, and Susan Lazarus. And I'm really excited to be able to see a pageant here in the Brooklyn Museum. I know we've wanted to have it screen since last spring. So it's a wonderful treat to have everyone here for a conversation and to see the film. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opened in 2007, and it's an exhibition and educational facility dedicated to the past, present, and future of feminist art. As the permanent home of the iconic work, The Dinner Party, by Lady Chicago, the Center strives to raise awareness of feminism's cultural contributions to educate new generations about the meaning of feminist art, to maintain a dynamic learning facility, and to present feminism in an approachable and relevant way. The Feminist Gallery, which currently is featuring Michele Iba-Hasse of Specters in 1960, is only one piece of the Center's program. At its core, it's a space for open and free discussion, discourse, and exchange of ideas. Elizabeth Sackler, unfortunately, can't be here today because of an immediate health issue. But I know that she considers it a pleasure and a privilege to have these remarkable, courageous women fly in from the Southwest in order to tell their stories at the Sackler Center through today's film. So I'm going to bring up Susan Lazarus, one of the producers of the film, to introduce the film and the speakers, Sackler. It's interesting that it was 2007 when this institution was formed, but that's when Sandy started making this film. She'll tell you the story of how she came upon the unit of firefighters and was totally inspired by them to tell their story. We have also here Aunt Dolly, who you'll see in the film, and Butch Gregg, who's a firefighter who's also working side by side with his wife, Erica Hinty. So afterwards, there'll be a Q&A, so if you have any questions, please stick around. And thanks for coming, and enjoy. Pat G. Couraging reports tonight from the Western Wildfire Zone. Firefighters say they are gaining ground on the giant show-o fire in Arizona thanks in part to a remarkable team of firefighters. A phone call in the middle of the night is routine for 51-year-old Cheryl Bones. Since 1976, Bones has been crew boss for Apache No. 8, and that means travel, often for weeks at a time. 21 days without a break, 90 hours a week on the line. They have a reputation for killing the toughest of fire. By reservation standards where jobs are scarce, the pay is good. We went out, and we left our families behind. I had three kids, and they left behind five, two, and one years old when I started. That was pretty tough. Chippery, NBC News, show-o Arizona. You never knew what you were going to face.  My people respect me because I'm putting my life on the line to protect what is ours, the beauty of the reservation. When they first started, they were probably the only women's, all women's crew, firefighting crew that was out there. This all-male firefighting camp would be becoming organized, the camp setting up. Then all of a sudden, there's these ladies that come into camp, and everybody's wondering exactly what's going on here. All hits would turn. Susan was the producer of the documentary, A Future, Image Before My Eyes, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a post-production supervisor, she worked on films ranging from Mississippi Missala, Bob Roberts, The Boxer, to The Door on the Floor Prime, and Inside Man. Her associate producer credits include Phyllis and Harold, and Before You Go. Susan Lazarus, more recently supervised post-production on Jim John Rushes, The Limits of Control, and Sean Durkin's film Martha, Marcy, Mae Marley. She is an active member of the New York Women in Film and Television, served on the board as vice-president in charge of programming, and is on the steering committee of the Women's Film Preservation Fund. Sam Desai, the director and producer, who's also a film distributor. Her short film Central Park premiered at Sundance in 1994. She went on to direct a feature called The Girl, which is based on a short story by French writer Manny Wittig, who was at the Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals in 2001. She did a documentary called Soul Masters in 2008, and currently is developing a documentary on Manny Wittig. Come on up, Sandy. We have in the audience, let's start with Erica Hinton, who, Erica started with Pelopak, come on up, and you've heard about her throughout the film. So, please sit here. I want to introduce which Greg is he here? He took the children to the vet. He'll be back later. And some of the children who are here were also featured in the film. And Nita Quintero, seven years old. 17 years, I'm sorry, with the Apache 8 and his now crew boss. And it was out on the wall of fire this year. You might have seen some of the hell attack on the news this summer when that big fire was going on, and you saw them dropping the buckets of water. That's what they were doing. So Sandy will ask anyone who's got any questions. So thank you all for being here. Erica and Nita and their families came from the White Mountain Apache Reservation here. So as you saw on the map, the reservation is in Arizona. And so we're very happy to have them come to New York City. This is Nita's first time in New York City. And Erica was here in the film screen at the Native American Film Festival at the Smithsonian. So I'm happy to tell you some more about the movie, but perhaps there are some questions that you'd like to ask first. And we can all participate with any questions you might have. Yes? First, congratulations on making such a personal film. I just want to know, as a filmmaker, did you need a fixer or did you go in by yourself in terms of getting deep into the culture and then inside the span? Yeah, thank you. As a matter of fact, Michael uses a filmmaker and I distributed two of his films with the Mike Pritzler Company. I'm very happy that you came. I met some women firefighters when I was in the Phoenix Airport. And I walked through a group of women and they were all in those yellow jackets that you see in the film. And the energy around them, there were many, many women in their 30s and 40s and 50s and 20s. And I just walked by and I said, who are you guys? And they said, we're firefighters from Fort Apache. And the words just kind of spilled out of my mouth. I want to make a movie about you. So I got the telephone number of a crew boss and I called during the fire season to find out if I could go up and to see if I could make a movie. And so they told me to talk to Cheryl Bones because Cheryl had been interviewed by the press, I think a number of times. And so I called Cheryl and I said I'd like to come up and see if I could do a little scouting. So she dropped the phone down, she spoke to a supervisor and she said, you can come up. I said, right away? And she said, yeah, you can come up right away. So I grabbed two friends of mine from Tucson and they came up and we did a little trailer. And this little trailer we cut and we were introduced to Cheryl's sister, who's Pearl Harvey who you see in the movie. And Pearl was actually the person that opened up all the doors in the reservation for us. She told me how to operate. And I did make several mistakes. So the first mistake was that little trailer that I made, I had a meeting with the chairman, Ron and Lupi, who you see in the film. And so it was the moment when the iPhone came out and so I gave him my iPhone and he was watching this little trailer that we made and he was smiling and looking at it and finally when the movie was over he said, where did you make this? And I said, here. And he said, who gave you permission? I thought, oh no, I never asked for permission to film on the reservation. So he said, this is a sovereign nation and if you go to England you have to follow the rules of England. If you're on the reservation you have to follow the rules here. And so he said, ten years, how's the rest? And I kept spinning and talking and then he said, okay, five years. And then he just left and he said, no you have to do this correctly. So I had to go to the tribal council and then after that Pearl introduced me to the cultural council and I was very, very supported actually. So that was the beginning of the learning process. Someone had a question for sure. Thank you for coming. For Nita or Erica. Ask about what happened this summer. So Nita, where did you go to work on these summer wildfires that were so fierce? My first fire was at the, it's not on the reservation but it was one of the history fire again. It's called the wildfire which was about probably another four or five thousand plus acres that was burned. But it came close to the reservation but we were on our side of the reservation but the other side was pretty much burned. So I went to almost like, probably five, six fires this past summer. And I wanted to mention that some of the footage is shot with a little camera. It's called a helmet camera and Nita was the first person that I gave the helmet cam to. Erica and Nita were the first people I gave the helmet cam to. So some of those shots, they're actually, when I couldn't be with them, they took a helmet cam on and they shot the fire scenes. So actually they're cinematographers of the film as well as being featured firefighters. And they did an amazing job really. What's the situation with the drugs? Because it seems like that's causing a lot of family tension. It's things within your culture that you're doing. Is there institutions that are set up for some young people to get help? How are you dealing with that? Erica, you're welcome. I'm not really sure. I think there is like help out there. But I'm not really sure because like in the summertime I'm just like always working.  I just work all the time.  And I know there is a lot of things going on the reservation, but I know there is help. But it's like really up to the kids, you know, if they want that help. And so I know it is bad, but I don't really like try to deal with that stuff. I just kind of hear about it. It may not be as widespread as... Yeah, but, you know, it is there and it's really bad. You know, there's a lot of young kids. It seems like there's like a lot of alcohol too because, you know, you go to the store and there's like all these young kids that are just wasted and, you know, trying to ask for money and it is really sad. And that's to do with employment. Yeah. Opportunities for life thereof. Yeah, but like I said, I'm just like always working and if I'm not working with my family, because the time I lose for them in the summer, I try to spend as much time as I can when I'm not working with them. Thank you. Jess? I guess this is a silly question, but I'm just wondering how long a fire typically burns and you said you worked on six fires in the summer. So I was just wondering, like, how long do you usually burn four and how big they get? Or is it usually one big one? Yeah, once you get called up for an assignment to one of these fires and then it's like, it usually takes about two weeks to stay at that fire, to control that fire. And if it's a real huge fire, you can like stay two weeks or you can stay another week, which is like 21 days.  Yeah, it could take like a month, maybe, like even two months. It depends like the weather, you know, if it's really dry and then what's out there to burn. If there's a lot of timber, then you could just take that out. And then once the grass comes back, usually you can kind of get a hang of the fire but it depends what ahead of you. So it could be like weeks, it could be two weeks, it could be, I mean, it just, you can't stay. But you can't, you have a shift that has, because of the smoke inhalation, do they limit the shift? It depends on the fire behavior.  I mean, you can put water on there if it's just like spitting on it. So then, we saw like how Nailita dropped the water, but for those of you on foot, how do you fight fire physically? We have crews on the fire there. And then like for Erica said, she's on the Halitah crew. She has about maybe two or three people out there working with her. So you have like your handheld radio, and then there's some kind of flagging that they use out there. So for her part, her warriors, or she works, she's using like a small fire, she's using like a two to five acre fires. So that means she can, in her sport, they can just take it out then like, then yourself. But you guys, since they're water-riding, or? Like they're using on the show that we use, the tools that we use out there that they gave us. So then for her part, she can use the water, she can call the helicopter. Two ways.  This way of the line is something they know. Like, you know, like the tools you see, you could build a line like a trail site, or it could be like this size of the room you build. It's like a thing.  You have the tools, you have the saws, and it depends on the line, but it could be this small, it could be this, and then like the size of the room. And when I went with the hotshots, that was hard. That was really hard. Because of like the water I have to carry, and then the food, and you have to be like self-sufficient for 24 hours. And it's just hot, and you know, it's dusty, and because when we got out there, we worked on the station fire. I don't know if you guys heard about that in California. Well, it was like one of the biggest fires, and they were already out there, and we caught up with them like a week later. And that whole time, they didn't really do anything. They just kind of stood by because of the fire behavior. So once we got there, the first day we were out in line, and we built a line that I think was like a dozer size, and it was hard because you just work. You work all day. And I remember thinking the first day I got there, I was like, what am I doing here? I should have just stayed home because you know, we're trying to get shade, and you just have to build your own shade.  And then the hiking too, it's really hard because it's like up and down, and it's real steep. And with the hotshots, you know, the guys, me and another girl, and they don't stop. You know, once you start, you just keep going until you get to the area where you need to be.  We kept going, and we get on the line like at eight o'clock, and we work till nighttime. And then we have to hike out, and it's like three, four hours, and actually three, seven miles to get back to the coup cap.  There's days where we just go with MREs, you know, just, that's the only thing we have. But it was really steep when I went down there because we worked out, you know, it was just like steep. So when you would sit down, you would kind of have to dig like a trench just, you know, in order to sit, and we were like hiking up, we were hiking down. And it was really hard, but I'm glad to say that I did it, and it is a hard, you know, it's a hard job. You know, I like doing it. Moving line, you just kept the tree in the direction that the fire is going, so that it won't continue to spread.  Yeah.  It basically looks like a trail, you know, like a walking trail, but sometimes, like I said, it depends, like it could be really big. It could be like a mile, two miles away from the fire. And so, you know, you have to clear that out, or sometimes they use a dozer.  So, you know, it's always about safety too, because you have a lot of people with you. When we have these shots in the film of the helicopter, your helicopter shots, and you saw that big, it's called a bambino, is that right? It's a bambino, it's like a big basket that drops into the water. We actually put one of those little handicams on a helicopter when we were in OMAC, and so you got this shot from the helicopter of the bucket dropping into the water and coming up and moving over the land. It's one of my favorite shots that he got, because it would be impossible to actually get that shot any other way. So, we also went, when we went out to OMAC, that was the first time that we actually followed the firefighters. There was a fire call, and as a matter of fact, there were several fires, and they didn't know where they were going. They knew that they were going west, so I said, please give me a call, let me know when you find out if you're going to California or Washington. So we just waited until they called, and then we actually flew while they were driving, and Erica were driving there, and so we met them at OMAC where there was a fire, and it was actually, you know, so easy to get permission to go out on a fire. But most of the people who were actually in charge of the guests, say, the press, or other people coming out of the fire were women, and so when we told them about the film, they were particularly helpful in letting us get out there to follow them. We had news crews that were very interested in following of the Apache 8 crew members in the Wallow Fire, which just happened recently, but they couldn't get out to find them. They were so deep into the fire that the crews that were interested in following them in DC couldn't actually reach them, because they were really, really far out into the fire zone. So any other questions? I wanted to introduce Ann Dolly. Ann Dolly? Would you stand up and say hello to everybody? Are you convinced that you need to come to Washington? How did you? I came here for the first time with Nita. I was sitting in the chair with the microphone. I was saying that on the first trip I went with Nita to Washington DC about coming out of death. So when she was talking about, I didn't know what was going to go. I was still working. I've been an LPN nurse at the work for 40 years in the hospital. I retired from there so I could do what I want. But then there was a great trip that I had. There's Bill Hess that's my final marriage to my niece. And he did a great job as portrayal. We went to all the things that you see in DC. This is the second time I'm in it so I was telling my niece Nita, where is the third one you're going to take me? But I'm so happy to be with her any time because I lost my sister her mom and the young mom and I'm always thinking about her and when she's away on the fire I kind of get scared and I just pray about it and I told Nita, I just pray as long as you're working on that fire now, don't forget about the Lord. Think about him. He won't help you. So I'm so happy to be with her on the second trip so I was asking where is our third trip now? Where are we going to go? So I'm happy when that when I started making the film I didn't have any idea of who the people in the film were going to be I just knew that there was this all women crew and so at the time I thought it would be a movie about a patchy aid crew but when I met Nita and Erika and Kate and Cheryl and became familiar with their personal stories I interviewed about 30 people maybe more about 30 firefighters and their stories were the ones that came came to the surface and the fact that Nita's sunrise ceremony was in National Geographic was a total surprise and the fact that Erika within the timing of the film became the first woman to patchy hotshot was also just an incredible success story and that Nita became the crew boss after training for for years to become a crew boss and the fact that Cheryl has a statue to herself in her image in Boise, Idaho so none of these things did I know as long as though I said I heard a great story about a great woman that I want to feature so I feel that the film was actually very was blessed we did a ceremony with the medicine woman before the beginning of the film and the doors were really open because it is not so evident to be an outsider and to come to a place and to be welcomed and to be for people to open their heart which they have done and giving their total support to the film and so I just want to say again how grateful I am to you both and to Antali for being in the film and to Nita and for all of your families and their stories and all of the reservation that was very supportive there was a moment when the chairman had never seen the film so we delivered the film by hand to the chairman and so he took the film and he just you know went in the house and then a couple of days later called the person who had delivered the film and said I really like it and I really can't hardly tell you what a relief it was that the chairman supported the film so I heard we should keep the lord with you I've heard about the medicine man and medicine woman how do you keep a balance between let's say your own traditional ways and learning about Christianity and how does that work within the culture does that pass down to your kids like that does it ever become complicated one more back home on the reservation there's like a Christian way and a traditional way so usually a lot of kids there are more traditional ways also when they go to church they know the lord and pray to the god and stuff and once they get into the traditional way they really want to learn more in the traditional way because there's a lot of singing they do a lot of sacred stuff when they do the sunrise dances so mostly like the kids now they want a tradition so they really put the church stuff on the side I know there is some people out there that some of the churches the holy world they say that like our tradition but I know that it's not because we pray to one god and we know that there's only one but there's some people they say no you can't do that but that's our tradition and I'm sure they were raised in that way because my mom she's really traditional when I was young I had her dance to like and I want that for my daughter and we should be proud of where we came from and I know when people talk against it like I said there is only one god and I don't know why they want to try to push that away and that's who we are that's our tradition and we shouldn't let that go I'm proud to say that in a way that was a couchy what I know this thing about traditional dancing it's come from a long way way back even myself my mom taught me what to do she had planned to make a dance for me and I didn't know what was going on just a girl that's the time it would start the way they believe is in the old days the way they believe if you have a dance it's supposed to make you a strong woman live a long life that's the real main thing do what you have to do for a family as a mom if you have a family start having children and work and once a man has to go to work that's the way it was way back but things have changed in the years that I noticed myself a lot of things have changed we used to a very traditional dance would be it's a sacred thing for us a bunch of people and I believed that myself because I had mine and I what my mom told me I think she was doing the right thing in talking the right thing but that's what I did for myself I'm still living here and I'm very proud of it I do have a family I have girls but I never had a dance for them because my girls they are not full blooded a passion or have hope their dad was a hopey but I lost him so I'm kind of alone bringing up my own children but they're all on their own now my children are all on their own and they kind of left me at the house by myself but I do okay so I'm very proud of what my mom talked about this traditional dance I think I'm a strong woman myself I would say was your question back was it anything else you'd like to say yeah I'm very honored to be here and I really like this film myself too people were talking back home about it but I'm glad to be here glad to be here I'm honored for Sandy and Susan I was so surprised when I saw Susan out there when I first met her she was from she was New York and I said wow what are you doing out here in Arizona you better watch out for his wall of patches out here and she was wow since you were with me that this could happen with you so I'll take care of you that's how I met Susan she's a good friend of mine also and I'm glad to be out here and honored myself I mean you know I'm honored to be here and to be a part of the Apache 8 and I'm glad to have met Sandy and Susan sorry you know that I hope you guys enjoyed it ladies out there that can do a man's job but I am honored to be here too I remember meeting when I first met Erica the Apache 8 crew for 14 days before it went co-ed and I was like 14 days is that enough yes so if there are no other questions thank you so much for coming really wonderful to be here and I thank Elizabeth Sackler for her supportive film and we're we're just very honored to be a part of it and to be here thank you so much I've got one thing for Jess I really want to thank you for this place here thank you Jess it was wonderful it was wonderful to hear your stories through the film if people are interested the film is being distributed by Native American public telecommunications and it's also being distributed by women being movies


What are some of those signs that you're stressed? I think for me the biggest thing that I notice about stress is that it's always there at some level. Stress is not something that you just kind of have for a season and then not. So when I'm trying to manage stress, I have a checklist that I like to go through. Number one, am I spending time consistently daily that is in prayer and in Scripture reading? There are wonderful, wonderful passages throughout Scripture that speak to anxiety, fear, worry, and in every case the Scripture is very, very clear that we can cast those cares, those fears, those worries on God. Two, what are my eating habits? Am I eating healthy or am I going through drive-thrus all the time because I'm constantly on the run? Three, I think this is key. Am I getting enough sleep? In fact, you could probably put that as number one. Number four, I think physical activity. Am I spending time doing the things that I like to do to keep in shape? Am I stretching? Am I lifting weights? Am I running? Am I riding my bike? And then last is taking an assessment of my relationships. Am I getting more and more frustrated with my spouse or my kids? If I am, that's an indicator for me and I'll step back and maybe engage them in a conversation. I may need to many times ask for forgiveness. My hope and prayer for you is that you'll notice when things are getting stressful and you'll be quick to not react, but to respond by leaning into some of those things that you need to do to help alleviate that stress.


Simon Bray, CEO of Private Property, is back to share some more property insights into the best neighborhoods around South Africa. Of course, a great new online resource attached to their websites. And I'm sure quite a journey exploring all of these neighborhoods and coming to grips with all the different dynamics. Now, we looked at the southern suburbs, we've looked at Santsen. On the completely different end of the scale, maybe I'm wrong, we now move down to Durban. What is Durb's all about? Oh, I mean, Durb's all about the beach, right? Yeah. It's a beautiful place. In fact, I studied in Johannesburg and I kind of fell in love with Durban when I was a student. The surfing lifestyle, the beach, the warm weather. And I'm lucky enough now that Private Property's head office is based just north of Durban. So I get to enjoy that every day. We love them, Schlango.  But Durban itself has seen a lot of investment. We've seen it starting to grow and change shape. A lot of those suburbs changing along with the times. What is Durban all about when we look at the property market there and the residential areas? Durban's a beautiful old area. You know, you've got a lot of kind of old architecture, old homes. Many of the houses actually up on the ridge are heritage homes. So they're protected and they've got this lovely sense of character. Interestingly, most of them in the warm, hot, humid climate of Durban have got fireplaces. It's like this throwback to some European heritage. It speaks to a colonial era. Yeah, for sure, for sure. But very diverse place, you know. Very energetic, interesting place. You've got restaurants and curry houses and, you know, this is the vibe that Durban has. Yeah, an unbelievable nightlife. We look at Florida Road places like that. One thing that has amazed me because I get a lot of snapshots going there where I get to see developments kind of starting and then being finished. And there are a lot of new developments there. Talk to me about the property market itself. How do we go about that? How do we approach that market? Why is it as a seller? What's the property market like? I think the most exciting thing about Durban is how affordable the property market is. You know, you look at a lot of great areas in South Africa and I would classify Durban certainly as a great area in terms of lifestyle. But in terms of the value for money that you get in Durban, it's tough to beat anywhere in the country. So an average home is around $850,000 for a two-bedroom apartment. To put that in perspective, the repayments on a place like that are only about $7,000, $8,000, around a month. And the average rentals in Durban are about $7,000, around a month. So it actually pays to own your own place in Durban, which is pretty cool. There are not a lot of places like that in South Africa where the rentals and the cost of ownership are about the same. Good for investors and also good for people looking to buy and own their house. I was going to say, great for a first-time buyer as well, where you really do want to treat it as an investment. So who lives there? Who lives in Durban? I suppose we've got the cliched image of our Durbanites in there, but we're seeing a lot more business being done down in Durban. You yourself have highlighted the fact that companies are moving at least satellite stations down there or having a presence down there. Who would my neighbour be in Durban?  We've got this unbelievable surfer lifestyle. You can actually swim in the water. The promenade that was developed around the World Cup now stretches all the way from the harbour entrance all the way up to Blue Lagoon. So it's miles and miles of beautiful pristine beachfront. Guys are cycling there on the weekends, walking their dogs, going for a surf, going for a swim. So that really has energised the market in Durban itself, but there are a lot of other things that make Durban special, and I think that's what drives the property market and perhaps defines the type of people that live there. Some of the best schools in the whole of KZN are located right on the ridge there in Durban, so a lot of family-orientated people live there. We profiled one such guy, Brandon Ribbink, you know, ex-lifesaver, international longboarding champion, so I mean, he's obviously in love with the beach, but now he's got a young family, lives up there on the ridge. They go to school just down the road, and that's the type of scene that you see a lot of in Durban. Young families want to enjoy the lifestyle but also tap into, you know, great schooling and the convenience of access.  So very central. You know, I have to reiterate, I went out, I love running at night, and I went out for a late night run along that promenade, got quite close to the harbour, and there was a young lady running at about 10 o'clock in the evening, they're completely safe, they really have kind of gone out of their way and kind of family vibe. If you could pick one suburb to live in, in Durban's? You know, Morningside is beautiful because you kind of perched up at the top of that bowl and you get to look out over the stadium, over the beautiful ocean, and that's a very pretty, leafy suburb. You know, I would love to live in Morningside. Oh, man, well, thank you so much for giving us your insights today. One last tip to leave us with concerning Durban's? Durban's all about the lifestyle, that it's a super affordable property market, so if you're looking to get in, as you said, as a first-time buyer or as an investor, it certainly makes a lot of sense. All right, well, you've made a lot of sense. Thank you so much for all the time and effort and resources you guys have invested in neighbourhoods, loving the fact that we can now find the property. Yes, but also find the lifestyle that suits us. Brilliant. Well, there you have it, Simon Brake giving his thoughts on neighbourhoods once again today. You can visit privateproperty.coza to discover more about private property and their new neighbourhood tour. Loads of information about the kind of culture, the lifestyle you'll buy into when finding that perfect home for you.


Stand by for crime Chuck Morgan speaking newscaster and radio station KLT here in Los Angeles You know, it's an interesting job this newscasting Sure, most days are like routine stories routine happenings Every once in a while something comes up. That's different This was a half a million dollars different. I mean that jewel robbery out in Beverly Hills last week They got away with a huge diamond clip and other trinkets which belonged or had belonged to Oscar tenant the movie mogul You probably read that Oscar had passed into the great beyond a month before Well, his widow Dora tenant a wheelchair inflated decided to have a private showing for a small group I was invited as was my boss Papi Man's good owner of KLT And of course Carol Curtis my blonde secretary had a tag along So directly after my seven o'clock broadcast the three of us had dinner at the Plaza hotel and then headed out for Beverly Hills What's the purpose of this show Chuck the old lady won't ever want to know how rich she is No, baby. I think it's a release of a long period of frustration frustration How can anybody who owns a half a million dollar diamond be frustrated? That's a fine clam of us The well-remembered Oscar tenant was kind of a screwball about his money. He started with nothing You know made a lot fast. That's right. He began buying things He could never afford before and stashing them away He got a bang out of knowing he had the stuff even though he never used it Do you mean Mrs. Tenant was never allowed to wear the diamond clip? That's it exactly all her friends heard she had the clip And we're asking to see it but Oscar'd never let her take it out of the safe People began to wonder if the oversized diamond really existed so now she's going to prove to everybody that it does exist That's the way I figured Peppy golly. I can hardly wait to see a rock that size Chuck do you suppose no, but you don't even know what I was going to say. Yes, I do. I can't afford even a little one Chuck after all we are engaged and happy would be no I said you tried having happy deduct payments my salary once before and I was broke No, no, no, no The tenant estate was one of those rambling one-story deals with a lot of rolling lawn and shade trees Must have been about 830 when we turned it to the drive Oddly enough the house was almost dark As a matter of fact it looked to us as if only one light were burning and that in the rear of the house That's funny place looks deserted. Yeah You sure you haven't got your date mixed choice. This is ten instead of the six today is a sex, isn't it? That's right. I happen to know because yesterday was the fifth and tomorrow is the seventh right girl Okay, you two stay here. I'll go up and find out what the score is Maybe it was crazy But as I walked up to that darkened house I had a feeling that something was very wrong about all this No reason except for the darkened house and the fact that there were no other cars parked on the drive But it turned out that those reasons were enough I pushed the doorbell button heard chimes way inside the house For a minute nothing happened Then I heard a step behind me and thought something all too familiar pressed them to the small of my back All right, mister.  I came back to give myself up. What do I do now? Get inside sure honey. Don't get trigger happy with that gun. I bruise easily This was crazy And the pitch darkness of the room we entered I could have at least grappled with the man with the gun He must have known that I took a chance one wildly connected with thin air and there was a snap of the switch The room was suddenly flooded with light Across the room one hand still on a wall sweats the gun in the other the small gray hair guy of about 50 In the middle of the floor was a woman in a wheelchair. She too was gray haired about the same age She was leaning slightly forward There's a bright gleam in her eyes a sort of eager Anticipatory love as though she were enjoying the situation So this is what a jewel thief looks like upon my soul.   My such impudence You'll be singing a different tune my fine young friend when you're languishing in the local Bastille the local best Oh, don't try begging for mercy. I intend to be absolutely heartless in this matter Well, are you going to make a full confession or shall we? What's the word odd way sweat? Yes sweat or shall we sweat it out of you? I'd like to be sweated you would Wait, did you hear he wants to be sweated? Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to mother. Did you What in the world is going on here? Oh come in my dear.  Surely you don't mean mr. Morgan What was that is a pal the man Ordway is pointing the gun at is Chuck Morgan a radial newscaster I know him anywhere. Oh No Mother, this is absolutely the last straw.  Morgan? What if he uses the story on one of his broadcasts will be the laughing stock of everyone in town That must be the rest of my gang now, so I let them in I'll go Yes, we're looking for Chuck Morgan. Is he here come on in pappy Carol? I was just about to be sweat Oh, what do you mean sweated? Yeah, and what's the idea of leaving us sitting out there in the car, please mr. Morgan? Do you mind? Okay, okay, we'll keep it our secret. Thanks Mrs. Tennant. This is my secretary Carol Curtis my boss. Happy Mansfield. Mrs. Tennant her daughter Isabel and Ordway, how do you do? Well, when does the show start I've got to get back to the station But I don't understand it was tomorrow night that I plan to put the jewels on display So you did get the dates mixed after all Chuck well in my memories taking a bad turn for the worst I was positive you said the six mrs. Tennant. She did but Isabel darling mother I was sitting right beside you when you called mr. Morgan. You asked him out for the six. Oh Dear, oh, I'm so sorry. Will you ever forgive me dear people? Well, where's the harm now that we're here? Why can't we have a look at the jewels?  Why shouldn't we think that you were the culprit mother? I don't believe it It's another of your wild attempts to be dramatic. Well, then look for yourself my dear. I will I don't get this Seems as though something's wrong sometimes. Oh, I assure you my dear There's not a thing wrong the jewels were stolen about 15 minutes before mr. Morgan arrived 15 minutes before Have you notified the police? No Ordway, and I plan to capture the thief ourselves. We almost did too. I mean Mrs. Tennant Pardon us if we all seem a trifle confused But just why did you think the thief would return because he didn't get the diamond clip, huh? Ordway, and I knew that when he discovered that fact he'd return so we turned off the lights and waited Uh, I mean we douse the glim. Oh, I'll be darned. Where is the clip now? Right in the safe in a separate package where I placed it last night ready for the showing It's true. The jewels are gone. Of course dear all but the diamond clip. That's still in the safe I'm afraid you've over done it this time mother The diamond clips gone too There wasn't any doubt about the sincerity of Mrs. Tennant's concern when she heard that the half million dollar diamond had actually vanished If she'd been playing a dramatic sub to now the show was over the old lady practically threw a fit Still for my money nothing much tied together about this career fair However, I smelled a story and a good one.  There's a velvet what you could for a mother who by now was having genuine hysterics How Ordway Carol and I went into the room where the wall safe was located And it wouldn't take a very smart safecracker to bust that one open How many know the combination order just Mrs. Tennant and her daughter. I think What do you fit into the picture by the way? Why I've been sure for her gardener and general handyman for the Tennant's for years There's only one window in this room Chuck up there. It's too small for anyone to get through small man I'd be able to do it. What's outside order a flower garden, sir You suppose you could scare up a flashlight so we could have a look. Oh, yes, sir There's one right here in this drawer good Carol take a look at Mrs. Tennant away Yes, you need a doctor if the police arrived. Oh Hello, Pappy get through the police. No Chuck this may be a screwy deal, but there's a lot about it that isn't screw. Yeah, the telephone wires have been cut No kidding. No kitty. Tell you what suppose you stick around here while I drive down and report this. It's a good deal Pappy see you later So Pappy went off after the cops Carol went into lend a hand with Mrs. Tennant and Ordway and I went out the back door and around the house toward the flower bed There were no trees on the side of the house The stars were bright so Ordway didn't switch on his flashlight Which turned out to be a lucky thing And maybe it wasn't We were within five pieces of the flower bed when Ordway suddenly yelled look out, sir It was too late Something hit me behind the ear with the force of a pile driver. I went down and out and stayed down and out for a long time At least it seemed that way to me Then I saw the stars of above dancing around like pinwheels From a long way off the boys kept saying over and over again. Mr. Morgan. Are you all right? Mr. Morgan are you all right? Mr. Morgan Mr. Morgan Shall I get a doctor mr. Morgan? No never mind a doctor who? What hit me? I don't know who it was sir. He jumped from behind that shrub. He had something in his hand a Club of some sort. I yell, but he was too quick for me sir. Yeah, what happened? He ran also like a flash. I should go after him by two days and sir I I thought you needed attention and well, I knew he couldn't get away. What do you mean? He couldn't get away. Well because he ran in that direction, sir There's an eight-foot wall that nobody could get over without a ladder Now the only other avenue escape is through the house or right past here Which means the man who hit you must be hiding on the grounds right now The conclusion of stand by for crying Well if the man who belted me was still on the grounds I intended finding him my head was pounding like a voodoo drum I wasn't very steady on my feet as Ordway and I started out in the direction he'd indicated Which accounts for the fact that I stumbled into the general handyman when he suddenly stopped Sorry, what's the matter? Oh careful, sir. I just saw a movement behind that shrub. Yeah, we'll turn your flashlight over that way. Yes, sir Founder the battery seems to be dead Disgain, sir. Look, you just moved. Yeah, there is something there. Come on, Ordway. Let's move in Ordway and I began moving cautiously toward the shrub It was a vague shape beside it a shape that stood motionless into where we're almost up to it then The man whoever he was must have held a track record. He was away from us like a streak of light We kept after him spreading out a little so when he came to that eight-foot wall I'd have to turn back and run into one of us. Well, he came to the eight-foot wall and he turned back right into my arms I'm in a flying pack. I'll grab them around the knees brought them to the ground Ordway can't running over from himself across a guy's chest pinning them to the ground. We've got him, sir. We've got him Get up on your feet, Jada. Keep your hands off me. Who do you think you're throwing around? Who do you think you're floating behind the air with a baseball bat, huh? Don't anybody with anything.  Why? Why it's mr. Avery sir. Yeah, who's mr. Avery? Mr. Paul Avery. He's a he's a friend of Mrs. O'bill. I see this is a way he does this courting a well, mr. Paul Avery Let's get back to the house so we can take a look at you and ask a few questions Paul Avery kid about 20 or 21 years old was sullen and defiant He didn't want to go back to the house, but he went with my help When we got there we found Carol and Isabelle alone in the living room The latter took one look at our prisoner and let out a cry. Paul. Oh Paul, what have they done to you? It's okay, Isabelle. I'm all right. They came charging at me and I ran I guess I thought I was some kind of prowler so the idea was more than that In fact, we're practically sure he was the man who socked me behind the ear with a pile driver socked you Well, you big bully Jack, are you all right? Of course. I'm all right. I've already told you I didn't sock anybody I was just coming here to see Paul Avery. What are you doing here? Haven't I forbidden you this house?  No, Isabelle. I made up my mind about this young man some time ago He's not to be trusted Oddway, what is Paul Avery doing in this house? I'm sorry, Mrs. Tennant we we found him prouling about the grounds and Morgan had been attacked and we thought that naturally you thought that It was Paul Avery who stole my jewels. I just examined the safe myself, and I'm sure of it Oddway, will you please search mr. Avery's pockets? Yes, ma'am. No, wait a minute. I didn't rob any safe I only came here to see Isabelle. We were going to meet out there. All right, steady, son steady I'll only take a minute and it'll be painless.  He certainly doesn't look like a safe cracker to me No, let's see here. Oh What's this? Oh It's one of mother's rings. I knew it. I knew it the minute I laid eyes on that young man He's a thief Paul Avery. Where's my diamond clip? I don't know I don't even know what a diamond clip looks like. Let's start with the ring then How did that happen to be in your pockets on that? I don't know and I never saw it before. Oh, that's rich That's very rich indeed never saw it before then. How did it get into your pocket? I'd like to know well Someone must have put it there. Yeah. Yeah, that's it Someone had to put it there and who else had that chance but the Ordway in the sky here the idea the very idea Accusing Ordway or mr. Morgan mr. Morgan. I demand that you arrest Paul Avery at once Well, I'm not a policeman Mrs. Tannin If I were I think I'd ask a few more questions and search a few more pockets before I arrested anybody There wasn't anything to do but hang around until Papica back with the police At my Suggestion Paul Avery agreed to remain at the house. It looked pretty bad for him if he didn't that was all right with Dora Tennant She was posited the kid had the diamond clip and she kept ranting on about how she was going to have him arrested the instant the cops arrived I looked around for a flashlight that to work couldn't find one. So I got a handful of matches from the kitchen Carol and I went outside and started around to the flower bed Papi's been gone long enough wonder what's keeping him. I was wondering myself Chuck. Do you think Paul Avery is a thief? Could be Or how about Ordway? Could be You didn't slip the ring into Avery's pocket. Did you? Oh, that's a bright question. Okay, okay But I've known you to do such crazy things when unraveling one of these mysteries What's this here? The flower bed beneath the window of the room on the safe slot. Get it. Oh, what do you expect to find? Oh, no, no, let's have a look Looks like a freshly planted bed. There certainly aren't any flowers. As a matter of fact, there isn't anything. Wait a minute. Here's something This rounded mark in the dirt near the edge of the lawn here. It looks like what's the imprint of the tall and man shoe? That's exactly what it is. Glamorous Someone came up to the edge of the bed leaned over to pick up something. But what? There's nothing there now We're not out. We don't have another match. There we are. Look, I'll be the man I stand on the edge of the lawn like this with the toe of one shoe in the flower bed I lean forward and hey What is it? I still don't see anything that depression and the soft dirt over there. Chuck Someone threw something. Yeah, the box containing the jewels out of the window and then picked up. No, no, no No, that's wrong. Glamopus the diamond clip was in a package by itself Remember a diamond clip wasn't way enough to make a mark in the dirt that deep and be shaped like that either about three inches long and rounded Then what? Then what didn't make it? Think how much a drop is that from the window, which is eight feet, maybe? Yeah Now how much would an object dropping eight feet have to wait and make an impression that deep and soft dirt the consistency of which I know a good one like that too. If a boat is traveling to west at a rate of 25 miles an hour How old's the captain? Sorry Glamopus. I was trying to figure something out. Oh, you were just showing off and I'm not impressed So let's get back to the business at hand. Okay, let's go go where aren't you going to try and figure out what was dropped from the window? I did didn't you hear me?  Of course not. Didn't I ever tell your school? I was up. Where's it mathematics? I remember once my teacher said Morgan. Oh is about you're looking for someone. Yes I'm looking for you May I talk to you a minute? Sure. Go ahead. Shall I leave now stick around Glamopus? Isabel doesn't mind Well, do yes about of course not Mr. Morgan Paul didn't steal mother's jewels. I'm sure of it. What makes you so sure? well Because I love him my figures. Oh quiet Glamopus Isabel is the reason your mother doesn't want you to marry Paul because she thinks it doesn't have enough money That and and because she doesn't want me to leave her Since father died she leans upon me heavily for companionship and comfort Does that recall your father died of a series of heart attacks which began about a year ago? Yes, that's right, and it was right after that your mother became confined to her wheelchair.  What was his name? Mansfield.  Perhaps I have something there Perhaps he isn't Mr. Mansfield or you're not mr. Morgan Well, mr. Morgan are you through Mrs. Tender? I'm not sure I like the tone of your voice I'm afraid you're gonna like it less when I finish How would you like to know where your diamond clip is what you know where my diamond clip is? Oh, yes, I know well then give it to me at once just a minute Don't you want to know where the other jewels are that we're stolen? All right? Yes, of course, but it's a diamond clip That's important. It's worth more than all the others put together. Yeah, that's a point That's the reason you forgot your dramatics and practically had hysterics when you learned that the clip was missing Because the diamond clip mrs. Tender was the only jewel that was really stolen Playing a hunch with only a few facts to back it up, but I'd looked as though we're going to pay off Ordway was standing there the outside doorway the flashlight still bulging in his pocket Looked at me gladly as I walked up to him All right, Ordway hand it over and what over the diamond clip of course Are you kidding? Well, you can search every pocket in my clothes and you won't find it. That's a good deal I'll start in this pocket containing the flashlight. Just let me remove it. Give me that give you a lot of way the flashlight Why it doesn't work?  Tendon. It was you who stole your own jewels you and Ordway That's why you weren't worried and you could play it dramatic until you found out that the clip was gone, too You didn't want that stolen because there was no way of recovering it without admitting your guilt and an insurance company Wouldn't pay off without a real tough investigation Why the idea the very idea this is terrible Nowhere near as terrible is the fact that you're no more an invalid than I am. What's that? What's that you said? It's what you said to give away your little game You said you examined the safe yourself for the missing clip That safe is more than five feet above the floor and you couldn't very well search it from a wheelchair Could you mother wait a minute isabel you better hear the rest of your mother's selfish tale When she knew your father couldn't live more than a year after his heart attack She decided to make herself dependent upon you so she'd never be left alone So she can find herself to the wheelchair and worked in your sympathy Then Paul Avery came along and you fell in love with him. Your mother was threatened with being left alone again So she conspired with Ordway to have some worthless jewels stolen and to plant one on Avery Then she invited me out so the business would receive a lot of publicity Only Ordway couldn't resist such a golden opportunity to pull a double cross and steal the clip am I right Mrs. Tenor am I guessing You couldn't have done such a dreadful thing all right boy in in the rest of you the show's over I'll build the first one who moves so I'd forgotten about Ordway's gun. Now. That's me. I was beginning something important For me this time. I wasn't too worried. I'd seen something that Ordway couldn't have because this position near the door Outside a card stopped at the foot of the brand of steps Happy men's field and two uniformed policemen and gotten out of it So I only stood there and watched I Watched Ordway back up to the door Thinking this was perfect timing and that Papi was as is usually the case going to have the final word Ordway put his hand behind him and opened the door and There were Papi and two cops waiting All right, Ordway the show's over for you to get your hands up