Please welcome Winslow and Milica from New Reality Company. Such a warm intro, I appreciate it. Here we go. Hi, everyone. So we can, yeah, this is good. Yeah, I guess delaying his dinner was the best thing we could have done. So we are a New Reality Company and my name is Milica. And my name is Winslow. Apologies for a little bit of a horse voice. I might have done a little too much karaoke last night, but bear with me. So we are an actual virtual reality company, a studio base, both in New York here at RGA, if you guys are familiar. And also if you find us afterwards, we'd love to be able to show you at RGA right now. We have tree setup, which we're also going to be talking about. But we are a virtual reality and augmented reality company specializing in social and environmental impact. And we are also, we are bi-coastals. So our second office is based in LA where I am. And it's based actually in Technicolor Experience Center. So a little bit about me. There's some MKG people in the house. Shout out to them. I started out as a creative technologist. There we go. A creative technologist doing a lot of immersive installations. Some of them you can see at the bottom. We worked on some projects for TED with Delta. And also it was a producer, an interactive producer at the Barbarian Group. But really, I was always the kid in my family who knew how to change the clock on the VCR. I was always interested in how to tell different stories. We started out both as editors, but then we realized we wanted to tell our own stories. But with traditional linear media, it's not always a conversation. So with interactive art, there's the opportunity to bring the audience into that world, to have a conversation with them, for them to feel like the protagonist, the editor, the camera person, and really feel like they're part of it. So for us, that was really important to be able to put that in our work and also bring our experience from working in the experiential ad space to interactive storytelling. And my background comes, I started in film as an editor, then transition, interacting, and I worked for nine years. I lived here, actually, in New York for 10 years and worked, out of those 10 years, worked with Marina Abramovich for nine years, preparing her performance, the artist is present in MoMA for four years. So, and then worked on a lot of social issue documentaries as well. But Winston and I have always been saying in those 10 years that we were friends, that we need to start our, you know, to start doing our own thing. And that happened with our first project. We actually, the first project was called Giant. And we, this was our first office, maybe some of you are familiar, this is a new museum, and then next to it is a new ink, which is a new museum incubator. That is for artists who work in intersection of art and technology. We didn't have, you know, we quit our jobs, so we didn't have any money. We didn't have a team, it's just two of us in this big, big passion to do something meaningful and to tell meaningful stories. So, we got this part-time desk here in New York, and then we assembled a team of people for this project called Giant. And Giant actually draws inspiration from me growing up in Serbia. I grew up in my whole, let's say, from 8 to 18, our country was struck by some kind of war. So, I lived through the bombing, and I went to, and because we all know that these situations are still happening all across the globe, I wanted to speak about that. But the way we learn about war is usually through media, and we understand political side of the war. We understand statistics behind the war, but what we don't understand, because maybe we were not inside the conflict zone, we don't understand those feelings that mainly innocent families who are struck inside these conflicts and who pay with their lives, what do they actually go through? So, that's why, that's how Giant was born. And so, what we decided is to place you inside a basement with this family to use virtual reality so you can be there. And this family has a young daughter, and it is an American family, and this is happening in the future, and we don't even say which war, because it really doesn't matter. We just went to focus on the human aspect of the war.  So, this is a story, and you're there with them, and we have actually a chair that is vibrating as you're watching the experience, so you can feel it even in your own body how it feels. And as storytellers, it was important to make you feel like you were there, as Militz was saying. So, this is actually one of the first projects where we're compositing volumetric video inside a video game engine. The same video game engine that's used to create games like Fortnite, you know, first person or sort of battle royale shooters, but we know that this is, you know, it's a new canvas for self-expression, for telling really new stories, and, you know, there's a huge opportunity to be able to evoke empathy when it comes to this. So, we shot the actors on a green screen stage, probably only 20 blocks from here in Chelsea, and as you can also see, we're using a, this is the volumetric capture, as you can see on the left, that's the color information, and then we married that with the depth data, using a Kinect 2, which is just, you know, something that you do dance video games on your Xbox, but we can, you know, reuse this technology to do really interesting things. So that sense of, when they put them together, you feel like you're in the basement with this family, and then you can start feeling what it might be like to be there. And also, if you want to talk. Yeah, we kind of approach, we are as not just eyes and ears, you know, but also as a physical installation. So we decided to build this room that is dark, that resembles the darkness of that claustrophobic feeling of that basement with the dim light bulb, and position these vibrating stools there.  And I think also as Militia was mentioning, you know, it's really important how we begin telling the story, it begins before they put the headset on. I think probably everyone here has been to the Javits Center, and there's some like VR experiences that you might do there where they put you in a folding chair, there's bright lights, they put a headset on you, and as soon as they take it off, it's a very jarring feeling, because in an experience, you feel like you're transported somewhere, and it's almost like waking somebody up from a dream. So you want to be able to off-board them as well, be able to let them sit with the emotional feelings that they're going through, because it might be something very new and profound for them. So the project premiered at Sundance, was shown at Cannesville Festival, and went all across the globe, and we were traveling with it, but when the year ended, we realized we need to embark on the next project. So Giant speaks about how we as humans destroy each other, but we don't stop there. We also destroy nature, so we decided to present that topic, but in a personal way. So in this experience, actually, we worked with the Rainforest Alliance, which is NGO, and they were advising us with their biologists and scientists how to really accurately depict what is going on, and we represented the Peruvian rainforest, but this is very common all across the world. And according to the latest UN reports, we are destroying this planet so fast that we really have a decade at this point to wake up and start doing it properly. So for us, this is very urgent to actually transport you in a body of a tree right now. So you start this experience underground. When you look at your body, you are a seed, and then you start growing in the experience. You pierce through the ground, and all of a sudden when you start getting trunk and branches, so you're in a full control of a tree. You're having fun, you're enjoying the nature until humans come to the rainforest, and that's how you witness firsthand what do we do to the rainforest all across the globe in this very moment. And we can show you a trailer, I think, oops. What's that play? I don't know if it's on a plate or I guess. Oh, we can describe what happened. It's what you just saw, but in video form. Yeah. And it's just a teaser. It's only a minute and a half, so just to wet the appetite, but... In this experience, we worked with two ad agencies, actually Hereby Dragons, or there is another arm of Smuggler and Droga Five. So actually Droga Five helped us with design, as you can see. So what happens at the end of the experience? Because we end on a very devastating note, on a very hopeless note, but that's not our goal. Our goal was just to inform you what's happening on an emotional level, but when you get out, we actually give you a gift. We give you a gift of a seed that you just embodied. It's a Keppok tree. It's a rainforest tree. With a message inside this envelope saying, take this seed as a reminder to keep our forest standing, because there is still time and something we can all do about this topic. And so, you know, as a team, there's just the two of us as the core creative team, but then we have about four other people that we work with on both coasts, but we're very collaborative in nature. We worked with four different VFX and AAA game studio companies. The one on the lower right needs a rebrand if anybody here wants to help them out with that. I'm not sure if that's a shiny potato or what it is, but it's a company called Dekochon that was actually helped us with the original version.  They're really talented Dutch video game experts and also milk visual effects that did... They won an Academy Award for Ex Machina. They never really worked in VR, at least not in the way that we were doing it, so for them it was a really interesting opportunity. Converge in LA, Rewind in the UK as well. With these projects, because, you know, there isn't really that much immersive storytelling out there, especially things that aren't directly related to a brand, so there's a really interesting area to play in right now. And for us it was a journey where we created the first version in the prototype in three weeks and then we found out we got into Sundance and then we only had two months to be able to create that version. So, and that was during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, which was kind of crazy. But, you know, we really... We were fortunate enough also to get sponsorship from all the different pieces that made it up. The hardware, the software, the headset manufacturer. These were our three sort of, our marquee sponsors that really helped us throughout the way. And we also helped them. They were using mostly marketing budgets to be able to fund this. For them, there was a lot of learnings in this space because it's still so new. But, you know, from what started out as three companies, eventually it was 36 different companies helped us on this project. And it's still evolving. We're still showing Tree as we were saying, you know, all over the world and we're really interested in how can we take the learnings from that into our next projects. And this is the setup that we had at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. It's really important to consider the space, as I was mentioning before. You know, consider the user, if you will. But as some people say, the only people that refer to users are people who work in software or drug dealers. So, we prefer to say participant if we can. It's really important to consider them, you know, what is their journey throughout the experience? Because we're dealing with space, you know, how much space do they need? You know, how do we hide the technology so it still feels very much like a big illusion that we're creating in order to help immerse them even further into the narrative. And with that, too, we worked with a company called O-Widgets. And this is actually where the... For the first time when we were in Dubai, we were able to work with this automated scent machine. It's pretty new technology and it's really inspiring to see how it can enhance the storytelling. When you break through the soil, there's this really authentic wet soil smell.  And then at the end, we won't spoil it, but that last smell is not a good one. Also, making sure that everyone gets the same experience, so we actually have a circuit box that triggers the fan and the heat and we have wind as well so that it really feels like you're there. You don't question it. When it's a nice marriage of technology and storytelling, you just feel like you're there and we're used to trusting our other senses than just our eyes and our ears. So how can we employ them to really bring a greater sense of immersion? And as a company, that's something that we really feel strongly about. We work with, you know, it's almost like Home Depot is one of our partners because that's basically the fan that you'd use if your basement was flooded. But we hide it away so you don't see it, that sub-pack. It's a base transducer that you strap to your back which simulates different parts of the tree's growth. And then that's just a generic honeywell heater that you'd see people in an office that's not adequately heated at the bottom of their desk. But when you turn it on and off and when you're in the headset, you just don't see these things. And again, it really helps compliment the narrative that we're bringing out. And so we've been traveling a lot with the project. We were in the World Economic Forum in Tianjin where we got to meet a lot of people making policy and also the heads of company that are also really closely integrated with environmental impact initiatives. So for us, how do we take this, something that is a form of entertainment but really try to make a real world difference? And we're continuing to show this, hopefully we haven't shown it in Africa yet but that's the plan for the fall as well and really just to show this to as many people as possible in as many different diverse environments as well. So after we actually also premiered at Sundance and went through the entire festival circuit and brought it to a lot of tech conferences, environmental conferences, but really Davos World Economic Forum this year opened up the doors for us to start showing this project to politicians and decision makers, which was our dream from three years ago when we started making this. So it is happening and that's where we met Madame Christine Lagarde from International Monetary Fund and we were just in Washington DC at IMF and World Bank Conference showing again, like for example we showed it to the Minister of Finance of Brazil, which was very important to show to him and he took off the headset and said I was a green person but now I'm even greener and in China we showed it to the Minister of Technology of China who said, who took off the headset and said we need to protect our grandchildren. So for us, we really want to keep going showing three making as much as people as possible on this planet into trees because we want to see a physical change happening on this planet. And BREED is the next project that we are working on.  It's about what can we all do together and it's about our connectivity on this planet. In BREED you're going to embody that little girl from giant. You will start as a six-year-old girl and you will go through her life for the rest of her life. You will be a vehicle of her empowerment and transformation and you will see what one human being can also accomplish on this planet. And we will be using... Yeah, so we'll be using a custom breath sensor that we have because we want it to be a really intuitive interaction and also we're not using controllers but instead a 3D camera that can track your hands. It feels really intuitive and we want it so that, yeah, you're not really thinking about it. You're feeling it. You're witnessing it. You're there. You are the character Rose throughout key moments of her life using BREED as a way to interact until ultimately her final breath. And we will be... We are actually working on a script with Luke Davis. He's a scriptwriter from Australia. He wrote a movie called Lion. Maybe some of you are familiar and he just wrote the whole Catch-22 Hulu series with George Clooney. So he's an incredible writer and we think this project is going to be very, very deeply emotional for people which is our goal with projects we're doing. And also we took a lot of the... After showing TREED to about 29,000 people, we've gotten so many different reactions and one of the most common ones is that they want to spend more time in the rainforest. And it's an interesting situation where we're using technology to bring people closer to nature but that might be nature that they would have never seen before. And it does raise a lot of interesting questions as us for storytellers and also as conservationists. But with Rainforest, instead of going to us to be able to put the headset on, how do we bring the rainforest to you? And so I'd like everyone to look under their chairs. We've got magic leaves for everybody here in this room. Right now, sorry, just kidding. That was my Oprah moment. Sorry. Yep. Yep. You can hate me later but after the presentation's done, okay. So next slide. I had a feeling that wouldn't go over well. So in the gameplay, yes, we were using smartphones, magic leaves as I mentioned, to be able to scan an environment and then we can populate a procedurally grown like rainforest with the flora and fauna that's accurate to the proven Amazon. And this game is not really about competing against each other. It is about collaborating together because really, what is the way that we are all going to survive and preserve the animals and nature on this planet is if we work together. So in this game, we will be together creating the whole virtual ecosystem. And we really want to bring it, we're talking right now to the Ministry of Education in Singapore, in Emirates. We want to bring it to the schools all across the world because the future is with the kids as we know like what Greta is doing now and the kids are protesting and understanding what's happening, maybe even better than the grown-ups. So we want to make it accessible to everyone either on your phone or in your school. But also we want to make it through fun.  And so we can show you some basic prototypes for wayfinding. Right now in AR it's still, it could be someone's first time doing it. So we want to be able to onboard them to something that's very intuitive. So basically when we scan the environment, as soon as you get closer to these blue morpho butterflies, they'll be able to bring you to another place in the space to encourage you to explore, to interact more and ultimately through the interaction develop a closer relationship. Obviously this is an abandoned part of RGA right here, but picture this is in your own home and maybe in your own cubicle, how can you bring that to life? How do we go from tens of thousands of people now to tens of millions because smart phones are pretty much in everyone's pocket, at least in the United States and it's a growing number in other countries as well. How do we take something at scale, be able to bring an immersive environment to you so you can explore it, learn about it, become curious, develop a connection and then also when you feel like you're more responsible for it then you feel a sense of loss also when you learn about the inherent threats that it faces as well. And how do we be able to understand scale of something? Go from the size of your desk to a full, to a fully, to an actual scale rain forest that we can explore. Obviously these are like super early prototypes we have. We have a new version that we're actually going to be showcasing later today, but yeah we'd love to be able to, if you guys come by RGA, to show you the next stage of this. And yeah, that's our presentation. Thank you, thank you everyone.


Hello everybody, my name is Amy Donahoe and I am studying journalism and I am in final year. I have MPS's vlog for week 4. I'm raising awareness for the homeless period Ireland and to do that I am hosting Abonite Wish Her Campus. Yes, we made it! Research has found nearly half of teenage girls across Ireland are struggling to afford sanitary products according to Plan International. Over 1,100 young women between the ages of 12 and 19, so that's nearly 50% of Irish teenage girls find it difficult to afford sanitary products and young girls even hide the fact that they're on their period from their families and friends. Women who are homeless in emergency accommodation or struggling to feed themselves and their family unfortunately do have to make the decision between buying tampons or food. Although shelters get allowance from the government every year to buy items such as condoms, they're still not in for sanitary products. Women who can't afford the products are left to go to public bathrooms and improvise. So the homeless period, so that is the charity that we are having the other event for on Wednesday. So they encourage people to donate sanitary products to homeless women because at present there is over 1,000 women sleeping on the streets of Dublin alone and countless others who are living in emergency accommodation or in extreme financial strain. These women deserve the same basic level of hygiene each month that majority can afford. So that's what I think. Ellen, what just happened? I don't know! There's not one left in here! How many fringles do you have left? Oh! There's one in my bag! Ellen, how are you after your Pringles crisis? Not happy. Not happy? No, and some women, like way to put the blame on the victim, she just judged me to act like all is built on purpose. Yeah, the woman taught you a little bit. Obviously, why would I spend 250 on those? But to get in the musical mood we're going to see a star is born. Hugh Harrell was in the line for like an hour. He's actually gone back to the line, is he? We need to go to the cinema, Ellen. Oh my God, we're already late. Keep ranting, Hugh.  It was a great film! In my life! No, never again. What was the worst film you've seen really? I can't think of any of the ones that are worse than that. At least the room was funny back. It's not even funny back, it was just bad. I don't got players there, it's because the classics are the right. I won't spoil the ending for your lovely viewers. This is stupidest ending to make up for an awful movie. Hi guys, this is Eve Shields, power of each day. I know that Amy is in charge of the vlog, she's passed it over to us for a little while. We're just amping ourselves up for our avonite. Are you excited? I'm very excited. Exactly, so we are so excited to raise a bit of money for a good cause and then also have a bob doing it. And we've put on our drag make-up. Well, I have. Adam, what are you doing? We're bringing gear into the new bar for avonite. Avonite? Yes. And Adam Healy? What are you doing with Healy? Maybe later on to my dog.


Conquer fear. Advice on how to conquer fear. Face your fear. Face your fear. Educate yourself. What are you afraid of? We'll read up on it. Educate yourself. Right? The human nature is to fear what we don't understand. So understand what you fear. That way you eliminate your fear. Right? Seriously. Like Frank Herbert wrote about this. Right? Fear is a mind killer. And for me, when I read that in the mid-1990s, I read Dune through a friend's recommendation. That line, if you ask anyone that's read Dune, that's the one line that everybody remembers. Fear is the mind killer. 100%, which is something that is taught by some of the greatest teachers on this planet, including including psychedelics and psychoactive plants. Right? Fear is the mind killer. So the best way to understand fear is you know, or conquer fear is to understand that human beings usually fear what we don't understand. So if you want to conquer your fear, try to understand what it is that you fear. Right? Face it. In essence. In short.


Nativity scene, in the Christian tradition, the nativity scene is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the birth of Jesus. While the term nativity scene may be used of any representation of the very common subject of the nativity of Jesus in art, it has a more specialized sense referring to seasonal displays. Either using model figures in a setting or re-enactments called living nativity scenes Tatlo v. Vont in which real humans and animals participate. Nativity scenes exhibit figures representing the infant Jesus, his mother, Mary, and her husband, Joseph. Other characters from the nativity story, such as shepherds, sheep, and angels may be displayed near the manger in a barn or cave intended to accommodate farm animals, as described in the Gospel of Luke. A donkey and a dox are typically depicted in the scene, and the magi and their camels, as described in the Gospel of Matthew, are also included. Several cultures had other characters and objects that may or may not be biblical. St. Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first live nativity scene in 1223 in order to cultivate the worship of Christ. St. Francis himself had recently been inspired by his visit to the Holy Land, where he'd been shown Jesus's traditional birthplace. The scene's popularity inspired communities throughout Catholic countries to stage similar pantomimes. Distinctive nativity scenes and traditions have been created around the world, which is displayed during the Christmas season in churches, homes, shopping malls, and other venues, and occasionally on public lands and in public buildings. Nativity scenes have not escaped controversy, and in the United States their inclusion on public lands or in public buildings has provoked court challenges.


friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here you are in store for the third video in my holiday baking series this time we did all things eggnog we made eggnog frosted cupcakes that are WW friendly and wait until you see the smart points they are so low for a frosted cupcake so if you want to see the third episode in my holiday baking series for 2019 just stay tuned for this edition of holiday baking we are going to be making egg nog cupcakes and these are going to be frosted so I cannot wait what a great thing to take to holiday parties or get-togethers and no one will ever know that they are WW friendly so let me show you what is in our eggnog cupcakes first you're going to need some Pillsbury sugar-free yellow cake mix if you do not have this in your area you can make your own cake mix using flour and things just make sure you recalculate the points also for the eggnog portion I'm going to be using the Trader Joe's almond nog you can also use light eggnog whatever you want to use just make sure again that you just recalculate the points if necessary this particular nog is two smart points for half of a cup so if your nog is a little bit different you'll just want to re-put that into the recipe builder unsweetened applesauce powdered sugar alternative I'm going to be using this so nourished I purchased this on Amazon and it will be linked in my Amazon store below light butter eggs vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste whatever you have on hand nutmeg of course some fun Christmas cupcake liners rum extract sugar-free vanilla pudding and then you'll also need one quarter cup of water so let's get started on our eggnog cupcakes so let's start putting together our cupcakes so in my bowl here I have my box of sugar-free yellow cake mix to that we are going to add one package of the sugar-free vanilla pudding we're also going to add one cup of the eggnog four eggs I went ahead and just crack them in a separate bowl just to make sure there's no shells I'm notorious for that and then we're also going to add one quarter cup of water one third cup of unsweetened applesauce this takes the place of the oil in the recipe I'm also going to go ahead and add in some nutmeg go ahead and add it to your liking it the recipe calls for one teaspoon of nutmeg and then lastly I'm going to add in some vanilla bean paste and it's one teaspoon of vanilla bean extract or in my case vanilla bean paste and then we're going to get this mixed together with our hand mixer so our batter is mixed it smells so good with that nutmeg so I went ahead and grabbed out some liners for my cupcakes I'm just going to go ahead and put liners in 12 we're going to start with 12 cupcakes and see how much batter we have left over so let's get our liners in and then we'll start filling up our cupcakes whenever I use oil as a substitute in my recipe I do like to spray my cupcake liners and or pan with some non-stick cooking spray only because I find that the cupcakes stick a little bit when you're using applesauce in place of oil in your recipe so then we're going to go ahead and take our large scoop I bought these off of Amazon they are linked in my Amazon before or Amazon store and we're going to just put one scoop in each of our muffin tin so basically one level scoop should be perfect for each tin for the perfect size cupcake and then we'll be ready to put these in the oven at 325 until a toothpick comes out clean the first batch of our eggnog muffins or cupcakes are out of the oven look at how good these look you guys they are so soft and moist so I'm going to let them cool I have 16 cupcakes total which is exactly what I was hoping to get out of the recipe when the last batch comes out we'll let those cool and then let's put together the frosting all right so let's put together the glaze for our cupcakes so I have one cup of my powdered sugar alternative the recipe calls for two cups I think that's going to be way too much so I'm going to half it to one cup I have one quarter cup of melted light butter so this is the I can't believe it's not butter light and I did go ahead and let that cool just a bit I have one quarter cup of eggnog so we're going to mix that together just a little bit it should be a fairly thick glaze so that we can just kind of put it right on top of our cupcakes and then we're going to add one teaspoon of vanilla extract and we're also going to add quarter of a teaspoon of rum extract yum and then lastly we're just going to add a little bit of a nutmeg just to kind of spice it up we want about a half of a teaspoon give that a stir and you may need to add some additional powdered sugar if it's not thick enough which I may need to actually add a little bit more and then you just want a nice thick glaze to go over those cupcakes I just pulled the last of our cupcakes out of the oven so my glaze is ready I did end up having to add pretty close to the two cups of powdered sugar to make it the right consistency but we're just going to take it by the spoonful and we're just going to place it on top of each of our cupcakes and then I'm going to sprinkle just the tiniest bit of nutmeg over the top as well so it's fine if it kind of drips down but go ahead and add your glaze to each of your cupcakes and then I will add a little bit of nutmeg right on top and they are good to go so let's get these glaze and I'll be back to show you the completed cupcakes and give you the smart points so here are eggnog cupcakes they look so pretty and they taste amazing you get that big punch of eggnog from the glaze with the nutmeg it is seriously so good our cupcakes are very very low in points I actually ended up getting 17 cupcakes total so 16 cupcakes makes them only four smart points a piece and that includes the glaze on top so again a great thing to take to any holiday parties to help you stay on track you get a big frosted cupcake for only four smart points thank you for joining me in the third video in my holiday baking series for 2019 I hope you enjoyed this eggnog cupcake recipe great for only four smart points you can't beat it for a frosted cupcake I am planning on having one more video in my holiday baking series that will be up next Sunday so definitely don't miss out on that make sure you're subscribed and you've hit that little bell just so you're notified whenever I upload a new video that way you're not missing out on these special ones like the holiday baking series if you loved this video give it a thumbs up and of course comment down below let me know if you're gonna give this recipe a try the recipe is down in the description box below as well as all of my discount codes links to some of my favorite things and anything and everything I can save you some money on so thank you guys so much for watching merry merry Christmas from my family to yours and I'll see you in my next video


Howdy today we are looking at the first book in the Eisenhorn trilogy. It's called Xenos and it's was Suggested by my patron brother Santotis and anyone who's familiar with the name brother Santotis is probably seeing where this is going This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long so the Eisenhorn novels take place in the Warhammer 40k universe and if you're not familiar with that it's basically just a really expansive universe that originally started as a tabletop game and then since then it's expanded into, you know, video games and books and stuff like that and I I'll come right out and say that I am not that familiar with Warhammer or Warhammer 40k. I have heard some stuff about the lore and it does sound like a pretty interesting setting and I Mean it's it's not that I have a purposely avoided it or anything It's just not something that I've gone out of my way to look at so far But I will say that all that said This book is pretty great so it follows this guy named Gregor Eisenhorn who is a member of the Inquisition and my understanding is that the humanity lives in this gigantic empire spanning like thousands or millions of worlds and they're ruled by this god emperor guy who humans Well, they worship him as a god and the Inquisition You know, they sort out heresies and such but they also protect humans from like demons and aliens that wish them harm so they are Not exactly good guys. They do a lot of nasty stuff, but they do overall protect humanity and Gregor Eisenhorn is a member of that and It's difficult to really give away that much or to talk about it without giving away too much because this is very much a Mystery story like it starts off with Gregor chasing after someone Criminal that he's been in pursuit of for a while actually and then he catches him But he realizes okay, there's something much bigger going on There's a much bigger threat that I need to deal with and most of the rest of the book is him Investigating leads and going after that and running into trouble. So in a lot of ways, it's kind of like any other new what noir Detective story where you have this hard-boiled dude who's willing to do anything it takes to get the job done and he's Not quite in over his head But he is in a very dangerous situation and he's just trying to figure out the truth of things The only difference is that there's aliens and psychic powers and a lot of weird stuff Like I'll come right out and say it As I said, I'm not that familiar with Warhammer's lore and this book does not do a great job of getting you caught up Like there are parts where I could follow along just fine. There are parts where I could Almost kind of sort of follow along and there were one or two very small bits where I was totally lost And I want to emphasize that those bits where I was lost were they were very small you know like if you are Even a little bit more familiar with Warhammer lore than I am you'd probably get through this just fine And if you're a fan of Warhammer then yeah, you'd understand everything It's just for me personally and for anyone else who's not really that into the franchise Yeah, there's gonna be some growing pains that will make it harder to get in there I just mixed up my metaphors, but whatever and Honestly, I'm willing to look past any issues I had with getting into the setting because the story and characters are really really solid like I Really liked Eisenhorn as a protagonist He was pretty great because one it's told from his first-person perspective and at first I wasn't sure how I felt about that but as it goes on he spends more and more time talking directly to the audience and He has a nice sense of humor He had a couple of good lines that got a laugh out of me and he has this I'm not sure how to put it but Like I said, it's not uncommon for the protagonist of this type of story to be some hardened badass Who does whatever it takes to get the job done and that occasionally means making some morally great decisions? Eisenhorn is like fully aware that he does some pretty nasty stuff But he does straight up justify it to himself and to the audience by saying it's for the greater good like very early on he leaves someone to die when he could have saved her and Because he needed to go after the bad guy and he straight up says to the audience if you think less of me for doing that That just means you couldn't be an inquisitor like you don't have what it takes I have what it takes to save humanity and you don't and it's uh, it's pretty interesting actually like you he knows He's not the most morally upstanding guy, but he still does what needs to be done it's it's an interesting way of looking at the character and Maybe it'll change as the series goes on because there are more of these But in this book it was just I mean it immediately got me into him and then even after that He is like an intelligent guy because you know, obviously he's essentially a detective who has to follow leads and stuff So you'd have to be at least somewhat intelligent to do that And while he is a badass who gets out of fights and or gets into fights But fights his way out of them at a couple of points You never he's not so much of a badass that you ever feel like he's not in any danger Like you know the entire time that if he makes one wrong move He could be killed because while he is dangerous and while he's badass and powerful There are horrible horrible things in this universe that could tear him apart Without even thinking about it. The other characters are fun, too Like there's this anti this person with like anti psychic powers called elizabeth or elizabeth which Again, that's one of those bits that I didn't 100% understand But I'll all roll with it and then there's a most who is eyes and horns Well, I guess his sidekick essentially and he was kind of fun, too I don't I don't have much to say about him, but he added things to the story He never felt like he was useless. He was actually contributing to solving the mystery and stuff So I liked him and most the other characters they sort of came and went but they serve their purpose well and As for the story it's well, it's a pretty good mystery You know it makes sense how there really is this big thread out there And you aren't sure exactly what it is at first But as it goes on you realize more and more the gravity of the situation and you're like, oh, yeah they got a they got a nip this in the bud before it gets really bad and By the end without giving anything away It does leave itself open for a sequel, but it does more or less wrap things up in this one little package So I liked that I like not having to Commit myself to a whole series because you know that I just have a whole lot of other stuff that I need to be reading right now now I gave this book four stars on Goodreads and I had to think about that for a while part of me really wants to give it five stars, but After thinking on it some I don't think it quite connected with me on that level because as I said What it sets out to do? You know be a mystery in this sci-fi universe where we follow this Essentially a grizzled old detective like I mean I hate to keep referring to him by that But he does fit into the archetype pretty well, but yeah it's essentially that sort of mystery and that it does that Amazingly well, and if you're a fan of Warhammer that probably just adds more flavor to it But the thing is that's not really my favorite type of story like I don't hate it It just doesn't immediately grab me and so something like this just While it while it succeeds at what it sets out to do it does it amazingly like you Could hardly find a single mystery story of this type That does this better. It's just not really my cup of tea and the fact that it's in the Warhammer universe Which I'm just not that familiar with and like again. I don't have anything against it. I've just I'm not familiar with it I haven't I Wouldn't even know where to start if I wanted to play the game. I don't really know anyone who's into stuff like that so I'm just not that familiar with it And so the setting couldn't quite grab me like I mean I felt that it was a really big and very strange setting so There's that I guess but it just never quite clicked with me the way that it probably would if you know about Warhammer and so for this book I would recommend it to If you're looking for a mystery thriller type thing 100% yeah, you probably love the hell out of this one If you're a Warhammer fan You might I don't know it depends.  Anyways, thanks for watching. See you next time. Bye


Welcome back to the Plus TV's breakfast show. Now this week started on a monthful note for residents of Kushe in Kuro district of Plattev state. Twelve of their kinsmen were killed by gunmen on Sunday without provocation. The natives say herdsmen carried out the killings. Five other people were killed at the same time in nearby Zalgor village, also in Plattev state. Herders have also been blamed for that but the Myrti Allakartal British Association is disputing that. A baron native and lawyer Salomon Dalyov is joining us to discuss this. And of course we also have the Myrti Allakartal British Association in Plattev state, who is represented today by Muru Abdelayev. Many thanks for joining us on the breakfast, gentlemen. Let's begin with you Barista Salomon and Dalyov. Can you give us the actual picture in your opinion what happened on Sunday? Barista Dalyov, did you hear my question? All right, let's bring in Muru Abdelayev. They have been accusations and counter-accusations concerning who was behind the attack on Sunday. And the most fingers are pointing in your direction. What is your organization or your association rather saying concerning what happened in Plattev state over the weekend? In the Plattev we totally condemned the incestant killings of one another from one point to another. And all the killings we described them as barbaric and out of criminality. So we, as an association, we didn't back any killing or destruction of property of one another. But at this moment I want us to look at the things happening in Plattev state holistically because there are issues undergoing in the states that are very horrors and barbaric, which we didn't necessary to describe them and mention them in media. What the government of Plattev state are doing and some of the security agencies is biased in mind in treating these issues. When it comes to fulani being killed, they never mention it in any media. They are not issue out statements condemning such unart. But when it is other side of the story, they try to condone people that are affected and then they visit them, they assist them and other things like that, which I don't believe it will help us in resolving this problem in plattev state. What I believe is government should do all possible way and remorse everybody and see the take care of everybody in the state. So that we join hands to resolve this problem amicable. But whenever something happen to the other side, they will start allegation that it is suspected fulani. For the past 20 years they have been suspected fulani, fulani, fulani and often today there is no results. Investigations have gone on in some other clings, we are the suspected fulani and after investigation you will be surprised to see who are the culprits. All right, Belay, are you still there? Hello. Okay, I think we have Barista Salomon Daliob joining us, right? Thanks for joining the conversation. Before you joined us we are talking about the killings that happened over the weekend in plattev state and rest in the farmers are like a quicker to blame on the map and that is the association of Nigeria and their representative in plattev state is saying that that is not the true picture, that government is actually sympathetic to rest in when it comes to killings and there is never any mention when their association members are actually killed, what do you have to say concerning that? All right, I'll repeat the question, I'll try and take it slowly this time around. We're talking about the killings that happened in plattev state on Sunday you know where people were killed and the Mieti Association is saying that they are not responsible inasmuch as rest in to think otherwise. Macban is saying that government is sympathetic to others as a side to them whenever there are killings they are quick to blaming them and government never ever mentions about them when their own members are involved or killed. They are involved as the people of the Mieti Association. Barista Dalyop. Barista Dalyop, we can hear you. We'll take a quick break, we're still looking at the killings in plattev state, we'll come back and try and we connect with Solomon Dalyop, stay with us, it's still the breakfast on plattev africa. You're welcome back to the breakfast on plattev africa, we're talking about a very sad incident that occurred in plattev state on Sunday where gunmen killed 12 men injured four men and one woman and we've invited Barista Solomon Dalyop to shed more light on that. Good morning, thanks for joining us again Barista Dalyop. Thanks for joining us Barista Dalyop. Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, let's first hear from you regarding what happened in Kushe community on August, or I beg your pardon, on Sunday nights. Yeah, at about 9, 9 p.m. on Sunday, gunmen suspected to be full animal issues invaded Kushe village of Kuru district in the sub-local government area of plattev state. As a result of that, first people were shot dead and five others sustained fatal injury. And not only that, another village in Rium was also attacked simultaneously. There was also another attack recorded in Basa local government in a village called Zogu, all perpetuated by Pula Nihetmen. And it was, it was in certain Nigerians to know that prior to this attack, there have always been local security intelligence gathered, they heated that short communities will be attacked. And it will be alerted all security architects on ground will be informed before time. Like in the case of that Kuru community that was invaded, the information went round virally last week that there will be attack in Sabola, that is Kushe village. We are expected to see proactive measures taken by security agents on ground to ensure that either it is abate, or the attackers, you know, are repelled, or there should be a condom on that community. All right, Barista Daliop, Barista Daliop, can we hold on. We spoke to Nuhu Abdelahi, he is the chairman of the Miati Allah Cattle Breeders Association earlier, and we, you know, put forward these accusations to him that Fula Nihetmen or Magban members are led to have perpetrated this attack, but he said it was simply falsehood. So we had you come in because you're now saying that Fula Nihetmen are responsible for those attacks in Plato's state. What evidence do you have to show for that? Yeah, of course, it's Fula Nihetmen, there's no doubt about that. You know, they've been perpetrating all these attacks. And it will interest the agents to also know that. Just on the projection and the body deposition of Fula Nihetmen, they are to attack you and then you are not to respond, you are not to exercise the right of self-defense. Because in Nuhu Abdelahi, exercise the right of self-defense and one of them is killed. They will go on air and say, so also people have killed their people. That is just it. And then there are no traces of Fula Nih within that as it usually comes from either, you know, nearby Fula Nih settlement. So that has always been the trending, you know, happening here on the plateau. All right. You will also interest the agents to know that, you know, you know, the analysis there is that, you know, last month we received an information. It went viral on air and also in the social media that Plato's state just would be attacked by Boko Haram. Shortly after that, we started witnessing attacks by Fula Nihetmen.   Okay. Barista Daliob, thank you. Can you hold on? Let's bring in Ms. Abdullahi. Ms. Abdullahi, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. All right. So Barista Daliob simply stated that they received intelligence to say that Boko Haram was going to attack. And then shortly after they started getting attacked by alleged Fula Nihetmen. But you're saying that Fula Nihetmen are not responsible and the government is taking sides in this matter. So may you kindly, you know, oblige us with this information? Who then at the real corporate, perpetrating these attacks in Plato's state? Well, the root cause is, okay. Ms. Abdullahi, go ahead. Yeah, yeah. The root cause is, the root cause is of this attack. Barista, please hold your thoughts. Let's get some response from Abdullahi. We'll come back to you to get some more comments. All right. Thank you. Yes. To a certain level, there are issues raised by the Barista that I can agree with. Okay. But there are issues that he is contradicting himself. Which are the issues? But when he said the security lack of security in this space, I concur with him in this aspect that security are not doing the needful. Because like he mentioned, from that Kuru, he is alleging Fula Nihetmen, to where Fula Nihetmen are is a very far distance. If security work closely with a strict movement, whether on motorbike, on vehicles, or whatever, they should have at least make an arrest immediately. So that we see who is that perpetrator of this hermitage. Are they Fula Nihet? Are they Boko Haram? Who are they? That's what we're asking you, Ms. Abdullahi. I know that these are... He is saying it is Boko Haram that are being alleged to be attacking Palato State. But at a point he is saying it is Fula Nihetmen. No, what he said. There is no connection between Fula Nihetmen and Boko Haram. There is no such connection completely. Okay. What he said specifically? We are always at a higher to peace processes. And we have been working tirelessly to see how we fix this peace in different locations. And we have been working with government security agencies, opinion leaders, traditional leaders, religious leaders, and so on and so forth, to see how we foster peace in the state. So by mentioning the Fula Nihetmen is duplicating the effort of good people that are working for peace in the state. And these allegations have been giving us headache where we cannot ascertain who exactly made the atrocity. For instance, when the Stafford of Kulere, a paramount leader, was attacked and killed in Boko Haram's local government, immediately after, before one hour, it was amongst the whole world knows that Fula Nihetmen attacked the paramount ruler and killed him. That is how the investigation has been going on for quite a long time. Of him today, there is no identification of who did that atrocity. But I didn't mean to keep it open. It could be anybody.  So they, they mob out strategy. Then I was talking to them. They refused to mob out strategy, work with the locals there to identify who are the perpetrators. Let's put our heads together, turn our heads together and work as a community, as a team to see we resolve these incest and killings. All right, let's, let's bring it up. I don't know if somebody is supporting this, this criminal activity. All right, thank you. I'm so, so fine. Well, thank you for the lie, thank you for the lie. I was, he is saying Birom or Enigre have been attacked and killed. They are all killings have drawn attention in the world. But our own, when a Fula Nihetmen is killed, nobody talks about it. We will try our best to see we put it in the media, but the media is behaving like there's nothing. Don't never issue any statement. Security agencies to confirm the incident. All right, all right. All right, Mr. Nui Abdullai. All right, thank you for your thoughts. Barista Dalyov, let's get back to you. Now, you have heard all that Mr. Abdullai has said so far concerning the no love lost relationship between locals and of course the Fula Nihetmen. And you also said that there have been a security lapses in plateau state. So what then would you suggest as profitable solutions so far concerning all of these issues? You said you have local vigilantes and of course you're saying that the security on the state level is not really in what it should be. So what are you suggesting right now? Since government as it is cannot really take care of residents, what then is the fate of a resident and farmers and of course locals in Jaws? Yeah, one of the ways forward is that over time, Fula Nihetmen has got to clamor for the retention of so that military here on the plateau because it appears that they have the sympathy of the military. I would say this without any iota or reservation of any word. Because we've had reasons where with petition some of the security personnel who have completely played down the gallery with the Fula Nihetmen during the invasion of communities. So there should be total withdrawal of all the military and then be replaced with mobile policemen. There is also this aspect of the security arrangement to see whether the situation on the plateau will persist. Secondly, there should also be arrest and prosecution of whoever is found perpetrating this crime or whoever has been fingered because many a times suspects who are Fula Nihetmen have been arrested and then within within a short time they are either taken to Abu Dhan from there they are released or there is an outright release of them without a proper and preliminary investigation taking. And then these are people that have been fingered. There are some of them that were arrested with arms. I remember in Boko's local government in Dappo, Dappo District 255 when the community was attacked in 2017 or 2018. A Fula Nihetmen was arrested with arms among those who unleashed terror attacks on their locals and then he was taken to the police against us. But we didn't hear of any prosecution or didn't hear of anything. The next thing is that the guys are released. So there should be arrest and prosecution of all those that are in Boko. Indeed arrest and prosecution. Whether it's the Fula Nihetmen, whether it's the Fula Nihetmen, whether it's the Hausa or whoever that is in Boko. All right, Barista Daliya. There should be there should be displacement of all the Fula Nis that have invaded communities and are presently occupying them, having stopped them from their ancestral home space. As it is now unknown on the plateau, we have over over fifty to sixty villages that are currently under the occupation of Fula Nihetmen by way of invasion, by way of conquests and the plan is that, you know, they have gotten those communities by way of conquests which is not tenable within our legal system. So those are the issues and then there should be ban to open grazing. Okay, Barista Daliya, yes, that really is another kettle of fish within this issue. But let's bring in Mr. Abdelahi here now. Mr. Abdelahi, I think the bone of contention here is who is responsible for the killings that we've been seeing, you know, in the north, especially in Joss right now. So I wanted to ask you about, you know, who is responsible. We know that your sister association, the Miatialak Koutahori Association, have you heard any word from them regarding if they know anything about these attacks in plateau states? Yes, these issues in this country, they are, they are disturbing that I cannot talk on behalf of Miatialak Koutahori. I am a member of Miatialak Koutahori Breeders Association of Nigeria and I am the leader in plateau states. So all I'm saying I am talking on behalf of Miatialak Koutahori Breeders. I had the Barista saying that they should ban all military officers that are in plateau states to re-install them with mobile police, which is okay. But let me tell you, these military officers have, some of them will write their names in gold and keep for a history. People like Janara Heria, Janara Agondu, who came to plateau state when plateau state is in very high chaos, that he worked tirelessly and day in day out to forestall, to enforce the peace. Before he left plateau state, the plateau state was a bit quiet everywhere. Things are moving quietly. People are mingling together and businesses are going on successfully. And now that we are talking, there is one colonel in Barikiladi, that is sector four. Who is still writing his name in gold? Because the guy who has been up and doing, now Barikiladi is a bit quiet. There are some pockets of issues here and there, but still Barikiladi is very quiet. So we, we didn't, mobile police are dangerous security personnel and we buy them, we agree that they should come and assist to forestall this peace and peaceful coexistence. But what do we do about the sponsors of this Herianos Act? There are people behind the scene, whom we call them shadows. They are there behind perpetuating this Herianos Act. How do we help them? Just recently an, an, an armory or a manufacturing company of, of, of raffles has been identified in plateau state. And I believe there are many more that are here in plateau state, manufacturing raffles and selling them to local so that they take a lot into their hands. What do we do about all these things? There are ample of arms and ammunitions in plateau state more than any other place. So government should tirelessly work towards recovering all these arms and ammunitions from the hands of the, the locals and then work towards achieving sustainable peace.  But bringing Mr. Dali up now, do you know if anyone has been arrested in connection with these killings and attacks in plateau? Well, I have to commend the effort of the present commissioner of police who has accepted some arrests. Like when free community was attacked last three weeks, you know, one of the attackers who was injured because one policeman was killed in the scene and his rifle was cut away by the, by the full and he has met. Now through the security intelligence, one of them has been arrested. So, so, so then we are, we are patiently waiting to see, you know, what comes out of the investigation. Okay. And then to ensure that, yes, so, so all, in all these things that few of you, in short, it is, it is through the local intelligence that those ones were able to arrest them. But they are not ready to surrender some of the people who have been seen that even they've given to them that we want you to produce so, so patients who have been named in this particular attack. They've never cooperated in, in short, it was, it was only in one of the incidents that a paramount ruler, one of the traditional ruler was seen. He, you know, some of them were, were, were, were kind of brought and then they were handed over to the security. But after then, we didn't hear anything. The next thing we had, they didn't, they didn't release without inviting even the, you know, victims. So all we are saying is that I'm still using this opportunity to commend the effort of Colonel Abdul Salam, who is in charge of Burkilaji. And then you begin to ask, why is Burkilaji experiencing this? Because the march is over doing, but why are other places experiencing, you know, insurgencies and then all, all, all sort of attack from planning. It's either the officers in charge of those areas have compromised. And that's why they feel that, you know, it is our own, it is their own, well, well, well, possibly this one is with us. That is why we can do and undo, because nobody will do us anything.  But we have not seen that one. Who are they will come and unlist them after this, like the Islam that occurred in, in Kushe of Kuru. After 11 hours, security came, after 11 hours. And then you are telling me that to have confidence in this kind of security, and then there are security, most of them have compromised. They've read the second sign. They all must know this. And that's why I am, I am personally calling for restructuring. Once there is restructuring, every state will take the responsibility of, you know, guaranteeing the safety and security of its people.  And then overnight, they've turned back and then killing people that win. And then nobody's saying anything. All right, Barista Daly up. I want to ask, do you have any information regarding the health status of the five people who were injured or aware that they, they have, you know, been taken to the hospital? Are any of them responding to treatment? Well, those individuals are now responsible for their self-treatment. No any assistance, no intervention, no one, they've been left to their feet and see it is, it is, it is their own fault that they were attacked and killed. And those who suffered injuries are left to their feet. So you can see how pertinent the situation is. No attention has been given to those ones, they are left on their own. All right. Thank you so much, I'm Barista Solomon Daly up for your thoughts. So let's just get a final word from the President of the Mi'it al-Alakata British Association in charge in Plato State. So far now you, you said the, the security situation in Plato State is not, it leaves so much to be desired now. So in the next couple of days, are you looking at maybe bringing a situation where the locals, the farmers and of course some young men can have some sort of dialogue and maybe foster peace in some way? Why that one? Hello? No, Mr. Daly, please. Mr. Daly, that question was referred to you. Hello? Hello, Mr. Daly, did you get the question I guess? Yeah, what I asked specifically? Basically, way forward to foster, to foster peace in Plato State amongst the locals, indigent and of course your association. Are you looking at a maybe, bring it some sort of a situation where all of you can sit maybe at a town hall or a round table and discuss some of these issues and so that way the issue of a non-loveless relationship can be addressed once and for all. Yes, we have done some strategies, maybe especially in the southern senatorial zone, which now with the assistance of especially the former ruler of Huwase, the emya of Huwase and the Longomai of Shandong, a very good chap and up and doing, we join his together. Now the southern zone is a bit quiet and things are moving normal. The issue of kidnappers, armed robbers and so on and so forth, we don't blend a community, an entire community.  So what I want us to do here is the barista is busy calling full army, full army, full army, which will never happen. Don't think all these full armies are criminals. Out of out of hundred percent, it's just one percent of the full armies that are criminals. And we are giving our, submitting ourselves to surrender them to the security. If you have any information about anybody that is perpetrating any violence, that is a full army, don't give me that information. I will disclose it with the security agencies and the other guy. And the virums, the virums that are killing us on daily basis, almost daily basis. Now we know them by their names, we know them by their villages, we know them by their, and we will describe them, and it is no more suspicious that we are certainly on who is doing what to us. For instance, what does happen on in, don't, don't, don't, don't, recently on Sunday this last week, a full army man was killed, an agent about 15 years old, full army man was killed. But we know the killer because the, the, the, the, the, they mentioned his name, they called him, he went out and then they are, they, they, they shot him and killed him. So they, they brought us know whose voice is that. But often today there is no arrest. All right, Mr, Mr. Abtaiai. And all these assaults that have been on fly, we know them, these, these, these, these, these people that have been killing our people so comfortably, nobody has been arrested. So we are buckled through this situation in part of this, but they are biased and then they are anything they suspect full army and say full army and any full army is liable for that offense.  But they, when they go further in the station, they will not go anywhere. All right. Mr. Abtaiai, we really thank you for your time on the breakfast this morning, Chairman of MACBAN, as well as Barristas, Suleyman Dalio, for joining us to take a look at the security situation in Plattus State. Do have yourselves a great day, gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. Abtaiai. All right. When we return from this quick break, we will be focusing on the calls for restructuring in a moment. Stay with us. Don't go away.