Lagos State releases white paper on N-SARS protest, counters report of its own panel, says only one person died at the Lekitoket on October 20, 2020. Governor Babaji de Sunwar Lut calls for work of peace to heal the wounds of N-SARS protests, but celebrities snopped his invitation. And the old Progressive's Congress APC faces one of its biggest tests, a split, with two Catech and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committees and two chairmen. The newest chairman will be live with us this morning. Hello and welcome to the breakfast on Class TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And it's great to have you join us this beautiful morning. Thanks once again. I am Messi Ibupo. All right, Messi will start to have the show this morning with what's trending all over social media spaces. That's indeed the world with Lagos being one of the top trending issues of discussion for most Nigerians. The Lagos state government, you know, was at the knees with the release of the white paper, you know, and of course asking some proper Nigerians, you know, to join in peace work. Messi yesterday, the Lagos state government addressed them a press conference and indeed called out several proper Nigerians, comedians, and Faus was there, Mr. Macaroni, popular lawyer, Deli Faro Timi and others, you know, to join in the peace work, you know, to heal the land, to heal the city of Lagos after all that is happened. But one particular thing that stands out from all of that from yesterday is that the state governor is actually denying its own panel that it's constituted saying that just one person was killed as against the nine as earlier, you know, reported by the panel. So what has actually happened is what a lot of Nigerians were anticipating. I mean, no one would actually, if you remember vividly, we have always asked the question of how can you be a person of interest in your own case. So first of all, you are being accused. Of course, however, the thing is saying, you know, he's responsible, who made the call and all of that. So and then at the end of the day, after all that happened, you set up what do you expect? You set up a panel and the panel would actually submit this report to you. You can't be a judge in your own case. And that's what's applicable.  No justice. So it is not shocking to me. I actually expected it. And a lot of Nigerians as well had also said that they were not even sure that, you know, they would leave by it. Because on the other hand, and let's not also forget that when the, you know, the report leaked, everyone constantly said it was a leak report. You also have, you know, the chief of defense staff, Mr. Kim saying, Oh, it didn't go through the appropriate channel. And that's because you can't say the signature, you know, there were no, there was no signature on it.  We understand that there is a truck, you know, let's take that particular truck at the Lagos State governor, but they saw a new addressing the press yesterday just before the white paper was released. This month of December, I'll be leading a walk of peace to herald the healing of our land. Let me therefore use this occasion to extend an open invitation to all of our youths, members of the diplomatic corps, civil society groups, students, gentlemen of the press, media, and other stakeholders to join me. I want for life, for land, for political fowls. I want Mr. Macaroni. I want an activist lawyer, Mr. Delefa Morotemi. I would want him to talk to me. I would want Mr. Sheikun Awosonya. I want at the tone, just the tone, who draws me every day. I want the legendary son of Felas Sheungkuti. I would also want the commissioner of police, Mr. Kim Udmus. I want the commander of the IRS, CSP Yinka Egbeemi, to join me on this historic march for the Lagos. October 20, 2020 is one that the government and residents of Lagos State cannot forget in a hurry. The reminders are still very visible across the state. And South Protesters had a group on the city. Apparently, hoodlums hijacked it. Burning down perceived government infrastructure and those of its cronies. At the lagittor gate, soldiers allegedly shot at peaceful protesters who had gathered there for days. This resulted in avoidable loss of lives. This led to the setting up of a judicial panel of inquiry by Lagos State Governor Babaji Desawunlu. The panel was to investigate our misinvolvement in the protest. The panel was led by a retired judge, Doris Okobi. The report was submitted on November 15 after a year-long sitting. Apparently, the report got leaked even before Governor Sawunlu could say the content. It is, however, regrettable that the panel's work and the leakage of an unauthorized version of the report has generated tension. Sadly, a deep wound has been reopened. The heated exchanges among various shades of opinion on the report have unfortunately put us at the risk of meeting the larger picture. Sawunlu insists that the leaked version of the report is nothing but falsehood and has asked legations to discard it. To become a champion of prejudices is to own a fleeting and a false victory. It is a victory of ranker over reason, of vengeance over justice, of hunger over compassion. Today, I stand before you to declare that I reject these parts and I invite you all to do the same. The choice confronting us today is between restoring a greater harmony or doing a greater harm. Sawunlu reiterates that the government has no retention to further inflame passion on a matter that has generated intense interest and controversy nationally and internationally. He has promised that decisions and actions will be based entirely on the law, the weight of evidence in an unblemished respect for the truth. From Legas, Love Ikuku Uyedukum for Plus TV, Africa. All right, welcome back. And that's what just happened yesterday when the state government addressed them the press's regards at the release of the white paper. And he invited, he called that to several celebrities to come out and join a peace walk and they have since snobbed that particular invitation, which MC Macaroni is saying that he isn't coming. Of course, Fawze described the invitation as a joke. For me, it's really brave. Of course, Shio Kuti has also dropped his thoughts. He said that he rather work a work of justice and not that that he's called for. It's really, really sad. Like I mentioned earlier on, you can't be a judge in your own case and expect a different result. So there will be sentiment and it was expected. But, you know, usually when Nigerians actually predict what the Nigerian government or, you know, the state government would do, we expect that they would act differently, but they'll always never fail. And it's really, really sad because people actually lost their lives. I mean, that report, you constituted that report, your own panel.  After how many? 365 days again? Yeah, over. Yeah. And that's what the people get. But it's really, really sad. It's really disappointing. And well, how do you now call for a work of peace? How do you now say you want a justice? Let's quickly run through the thoughts of Fawze. He says the suggestion of a work for peace sounds like a joke and a very disrespectful one of that. People were mothered in cold blood and absolutely no iota of justice has been said more than a year after. How can there be peace without justice in this same speech you set to be a smart city? We must first be a just one. Remember the young Nigerians that had their lives snatched away by weapons wielded by our own army forces. You want to sweep that under the carpet? Is that how to establish a just city? And there's also a hashtag and says young Nigerians still today have been constantly harassed and extorted by police officers and you were awfully quiet about that one or you're not aware. Hashtag answers really, really bad. And that's, you know, one thought form Fawze. You also have the other one, but time will not permit us to run through all of the thoughts. The truth is you can't have peace without justice. And that's what we constantly say. If you look at the entire country, a lot of people are getting away with so much. You look at the bandits, you look at people who are committing crime and criminality and all that this does, it emboldens the people. So what happens? Because I will constantly see what acts, even with the report and the fact that yes, we congratulate the panel for doing a great job, but you still find some gray areas. I mean, the borders, where are the bodies of this person, where they're taken to? How do the persons who have lost their loved ones, how do they reconcile? How do they find peace and solace? All of these questions are left unanswered. And now you come to say that just one person is dead. It is really, really sad. And of course, another disappointment again. Also trending, making headlines around various places is Kadona Train. It has actually skyrocketed over time and the passengers are actually lamenting that they have had to pay as much as 15,000 to 20,000 now. And the online ticketing platform has shot dead. It is really a very, very, very annoying situation to think that in the 20k it goes for about 2,600. It's now from 10, 15 as much as 20. And there's some racketeering ongoing across that particular space, all because a lot of people are moving towards the rail system when the roads in itself are not even secure. No, it was because of the incident. And the attacks on that particular highway. It was because of the constant attack. I mean, let's not forget that the report has that over four days you have constant attack on that road, kidnappings. And so people would always want to use the other means of, alternative means of transportation and that's the real system. So at the end of the day, you can't tell me that this is, you know, the, what's it called again, the law of demand and supply. It is not, it is not.  You're deciding to use, you know, terrorist to improve the IGR. It is really, really sad at this point in time when you find out that there's inflation, a lot is going on.  I mean, make purchase because there's one thing to say you want something is another thing for you to back that with, you know, the power and that's money, of course, if you cannot afford it. So this is really, really wrong. I mean, I remember a time where we had the MD of the corporation. I had a one-on-one with him. And the question I asked was, because there was an eminent, not very prominent, but, you know, an eminent attack at that time when we bothered that train. And I raised the question of their provisions to ensure that, you know, these road tracks are protected. And the question is, yes, we do have patrol. Not, you know, the answer wasn't quite convincing and very, very satisfactory if you want to ask me. But, however, you see, we don't pay attention to all of this thing. And it's not what we're going to take out the fact that security is still in the exclusive list. It is not my responsibility to provide security. And so we cannot rule that out as much as we want to do, as much as we want to ask, like, you know, that's a different thing entirely. We cannot rule the fact that government's responsibility across the entire globe is ensuring that lives and properties are protected. And so this is not a time where you begin to extort the people and increase the, you know, the fare of ticket and saying that that's because, you know, the online platform at Glissure. I think that we can do better as a people. I'm hoping, you know, that those who are settled with the responsibility will just, you know, sweep into action and do the need for. This is not a time that we should be acting in this way because Nigerians are going through a lot right now. We are. And indeed, the fact that the online platform is down, I mean, there should be alternative. I mean, they should have a plan B, a plan C. But a lot of people are actually, you know, making the most of the system failure to rack it here, to, you know, make a fast one out of all Nigerians' mercy.  Again, Barbados is also in the news and this number one, they have become, or the country that is has become republicans. They have parted ways with the Queen of England. Mercy, it is really a very wonderful, it was a very, very wonderful ceremony. Yesterday, you know, popular artist Rihanna was there, you know, and of course, Prince Harry was also there. And right now, they have their own president. Now, very important. Standout for me is the fact that colonial rulers actually ended entirely in the second phase after over 400 years. We're looking at 396 years of that colonial rule, the breaking ties, you know, with the Queen of England. That's the British Queen. It's a great one.  What's the name again? What's the name again? What's the name again? Sandra, Sandra Mason. Sandra Mason. Sandra Mason, yes. So that's it. So for me, and then the fact that you also have Rihanna becoming a national hero, compared with that particular title. So I think that women, it's a plus for women across the entire globe. And also, you might also be interested to know that, you know, North America, but with some ancestry to Africa. So it means a lot. It means a lot to the entire world. And I'm saying congratulations.  But let's not also forget that the Queen is still actually the Queen in about 15 countries, Australia, Canada. It's most of the common countries. And we're hoping that, you know, they would get some kind of liberation at the end of the day. The good thing for me, the big one for me, is that after all of these years, indeed, that they can actually manage your own affairs, decide how they want to go as a country, you know, what direction they want to, you know, follow. They just have to make your own policies. And indeed, they will just be a wonderful people. We have a truck on that particular report. Let's see it and we'll come back and round off from this particular segment. I've got the number plate on the vehicle. Yes, right. I was leaving that for you, too. It has the crown. Yes. When the president elect arrives, the number plate will say GG. GG. However, in suspense is when she's leaving. Okay. There he is. His royal highness. First, the Barbados Cadet Corps. The Viscose Association of Barbados. The St. John Ambulance Association of Barbados. And we can see overhead the arrival of Her Excellency Dame Sandra Mason. Yes, only the parade commander would pay compliments. No colors are offered. No colors are on parade at this stage. Not at this stage. Because she is still technically the queen's representative and those colors have been retired. The colors have been retired and they've been marched off on parade. And I dare not say this, but you can get a situation here. She is in wonder. We, the people of Barbados, in unity of hearts, hands and minds. Sandra Pronella Mason. Do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Barbados according to law. So help me God. I, Sandra Pronella Mason, do swear that I will well and truly serve Barbados in the office of president. So help me God. Ladies and gentlemen, Her Excellency, the most honorable, Dame Sandra Pronella Mason, president of Barbados. Congratulations to Dame Mason and of course Rihanna and indeed all of them, the Barbadian, so who are now their own Republicans as it were. But that's as much as we can take on top trending. We'll be taking a quick break when we return. We'll have Tunde Kuala Wale joining us on Off the Press, still with us.


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I am back in the virtual world! What is up my Cranky Crew? It's Ethan from CrankGameplays and today we are back in more VR. Today in the Oculus Quest. Big, big thank you to Oculus for sponsoring this video. Today we are going to be jumping in to the new game Tetris Effect. I'm very, very excited. It brings the classic game of Tetris that we all know and love to the VR realm but also has some twists. Journey mode, effects mode. Change various modes to match your current mood. Ooh! Let's just go with the classic journey mode. So back in the Oculus Quest, as you can see, this is their standalone headset. This is all you need, the headset and the controllers. You can actually even use your hands in some of the games as your controller. Today I'm using the controllers but it's super cool because there's no wires or anything, it's all built into the headset. You don't need another PC to run it or anything. And honestly, the Quest runs from my experience from me using it. It runs just as well as the Rift S which is another headset that I also have from Oculus. It is so cool. You can bring this pretty much anywhere. You can put it in a backpack. You could also do it stationary so you're just sitting in a chair so you can use less space. But it's so cool! VR! You don't need any wires! All right, let's get into Tetris. Play at the slowest speed and with no game over. Let's just do practice real quick because this is the first time of me yumping into the game. Also, I'm not wearing headphones right now. There's no headphones coming in. Okay, how do I, how do I, shh. Oh, how do I, how do I, how do I change? How do I, how do I change? Ah, ah, ah, classic Tetris. Search Tetris, classic. Oh, baby! Now, am I good at Tetris? Not really? I mean, I guess we'll kind of find out today, won't we? Well, we'll kind of figure it out, won't we there? What is the best spot for me? So again, this is just practice mode for me to get into the game. Oh, there we go. Just to figure out the controls and everything. It's pretty simple, pretty simple so far. How do I store that? Okay, like that, there we go. This is so cool, it's so cool. I'm excited to try out the actual, the effects because that's where it'll get a little bit juicy. Okay, let's bring back the big boy and put him down there, baby. Wait, whoa, slow motion? That's not what I meant to do. Bruh, that's sick. It's slow motion, that's so cool. Let's get this guy and let's put him all the way over here. That's what I like to see. That is what I like to see. Ooh, and those tunes. Hopefully royalty free. We're gonna take, oh, I keep practicing the wrong button but if I press this trigger, then that's when it goes into slow-mo mode.  Guys, I like this. Uh, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh, look at that. Look at that big boy that I just got. Is that a Tetris? I can't remember. I don't remember a thing. A Tetris is four more or five or more? I cannot remember. Look at the whale, dude. We're in the sea. We are in the sea. We're building it back up over here. Oh, uh-oh. I thought that I had a big boy. I did not have a big boy. He is getting a little spooky, getting a little tiny bit spooky. We gotta bring it back down. Bring it back down, baby. This isn't even really like a rhythm game, but I like the tunes. It makes me move my hips. Nice, nice. Look at that. Look at that. Why is it going inside? Did I win? Whoa. This makes me nervous. All right, I'm just gonna die real quick. Just because I want to experience going back to the beginning, and let's see. Let's see what the effect mode is like. Welcome to the effect mode staging area. Here you can see what the Tetris Effect community is up to. Wait, so other people do it? That's the United States of America. Look, it's a whale. I'm a level one whale. Marathon Ultra Sprint Master. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, wait. Green is relaxed. Blue is adventurous. Orange is focused. Classic is gray. What's due? I think this is focus. Gilded horizon. Okay.  So pretty. Look at the stars. Ooh. Do, do, do. Oh, watch this, guys. Oh. Oh, that's what we like to see. That is what we like to see. All right, so what we're gonna do is we're going to try and get this as high as we can. Okay, okay. I think it's time to bring that down. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That was a bad move. That was not good on my part. It's okay though. It's okay. We are building back up. Building back up to the tip, tip, top. Do, do, do, do, do, do. I goofed that a little bit, guys. I really kind of goofed that down there.  Okay, got the big guy away. I got that big boy away from us. It will be okay.  Do, do, do, do, do, do. It's so calming. I have 55 seconds left until what? What do I have 59 seconds? 50 seconds until? I don't know. It's spooking me. Oh, oh my gosh. Oh, this is so nice. Look at this. Okay, time to bring it all home. Oh, baby.  I haven't been able to stop moving my body. It's kind of nice though, you know? When you think about it. New record. Hey! Now that's sweet. All right, I gotta see. Not too bad, not too bad. All right, let's do, I wanna try, hold on. What was, let's do master. Initial speed level. Sure, we'll start with that. This is gonna get, I feel like this is gonna get stressful and terrible. Clear 300 lines. All right. Oh, I don't get to control the way that it does things. Okay, okay, that's scary, that's scary. Oh no, oh no, oh no, this is bad. This is not good, this is bad. Oh no, you have to go so fast. Oh God, oh no, I've really done it now. Okay, okay. Oh God, I'm not making the correct decisions. This is so stressful. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Oh, this is bad. This is so bad. I don't know how to be better. I don't know how to be better. 300 lines with all this stuff, dude. It seems impossible, impossible. Nope, nope. How many did I do? Oh wait, I got 700. I did seven lines. 100 and I got seven. Oh, I bet it games. That's me, bet it's game. Okay, so we did ultra, we did master. Wait, so if I do sprint, how is sprint, is sprint gonna be faster than what I just did? Clear 40 lines. Okay, this seems like it might be slower. Oh guys, oh guys. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I can get down with this. We're gonna try something. Oh, baby, did you see that? That was an expert move on my part. That was, oh my gosh, that was tasty. That was delicious. Uh-huh, uh-oh, uh-oh. I may have goofed myself, guys. I may have goofed.  It's okay, I'm coming back. I'm coming back. Actually, if you think about it, it's not so bad. It's not so bad. Mm-hmm, see, I'm clearing these boys away. I'm clearing them away. Look at his split. I'm doing good work, good work on these fellas. Are you guys paying attention to what you're witnessing right now? A legendary, legendary tetanus run. Tetanus run. This is a lot more my speed. Oh no, I goofed it. A lot more my speed, you know, it's smooth and calm. You know, I like that. I can appreciate that. I haven't stopped grooving because why would I? How many lines have I done? 39 out of 40, just one more, just one more. And I've made it to the great beyond. We are getting a little, a little toasty around here though. How was that not, how did I not get it that time? Oh no, okay, I got my 40, I got my 40. Oh, oh, oh, I got my 40 lines, 43 lines. Ain't nobody ever done that before. Never. For my last trick, I want to see, see. I wanna see what we get in the sea. The surroundings are so beautiful. Even down here in the deepest depths of the ocean. I love the different ways that the cubes look too. Okay, I gotta, I gotta be careful now. Oh, there we go. Did you hear the whale? The great white whale, do you hear it gamers? Do you hear it's call in the night?  Well, what if I just wanna have a nice time, you know?  Did you ever think about that? The possibility that maybe I just wanna chill with my Oculus Quest? Nope. Not what I meant, not what I meant to do if I lose, it's not my fault because it's not what I meant to do. Don't worry. Don't worry, I'll get us out of here. Oh. Ooh. What have I done? I am enlightened. Guys, big, big thank you to Oculus for sponsoring this video. Go and check out the Oculus Quest and Tetris Effect both down in the description down below. Huge huge thank you to them for sponsoring the video and supporting the channel, I really appreciate it. I genuinely love the Quest so much. It's such a good piece of technology and it's so cool because for such a long time we've been restrained by the cables, but no longer. You can do this anywhere. You don't even need an internet connection. If you have games downloaded already because it's all built in, it's so, so cool. So big thank you to them. Hope you enjoyed the video. Let me know if you get a Quest, how you like it. Let me know what your favorite games are. Yeah, cool means. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the virtual space.


Right welcome back for another episode of testing the tips where I as an average golfer just like you test out some of the tips from a very best golf YouTubers out there. I look at their tips and drills I've tried them myself relay them back to you and see if they're any good whether they can help us average golfers improve our game. And in this case it's looking at the short game in and around the green which can be massively costly and we're looking at a simple few changes that can perhaps save you a whole lot of golf shots. My words. I'm impressed with this, you know. Impressed. Right some chipping is such a critical part of the game and like I said it can be very costly and the common mistakes we make is kind of fatting them, catching them heavy or thinning them, blading them through. I think what Danny does in this video really really well is he explains why we might do each of those two things and I'll attempt to explain it but as I say in every video is that it's my interpretation of what Danny has said. But if you want a better explanation from that PGA professional then make sure you go and check out Danny's full video and I'll put the link down below. But what he's saying is is to concentrate. We're going to get an address position which is quite different for me and I think the idea is to simplify the chipping motion that will work in the majority of situations. It's not ideal for everywhere that you might find yourself on a golf course but for the majority of situations when we need to chip this is what we'll do. But for now let me just explain what he talks about the butt end of the club and why we thin or fat. When we take any sort of swing position, the generally rotation in the shoulders, club head sits down low, we swing round and the butt will either face that way or it'll end up facing that way. And that's very much on the follow through that way and we end up hitting a fat and on the vice versa if we come into the ball with the butt facing that way and I'm exaggerating this motion a bit. Then we end up hitting a thin, yeah? So we get flippy going that way or we go the other way and we get heavy, we swother the ball and we hit a fat. Because what we're trying to do if you're hitting the chip and run shot which we'll approach shortly, perhaps for me I'd be looking to sort of smother that ball but there is that occasion where again and as Danny rightly points out that butt is pointing forward and you hit down, you don't get that right, that's where the fat comes from and vice versa the thin. So that's what he's trying to eradicate, he's taking those possibilities out of the equation if you like. So how does he do it? Well first of all there's a massive change in terms of the way he addresses the ball and the way the club sits. He looks at the club as very much as a, this is a pitching wedge by the way, we're going to use two clubs for this drill but this is pitching wedge. He looks at the club as a pendulum, it's very much upright and it's swinging like that and this is the way we're going to address the ball very much upright, very alien to me. Address the ball like I said, almost stud very much vertical, ball in the back of the stance and all he asks us to do is to swing with a very much a pendulum like motion, right? Even I'm struggling to do it now and to do that there's just a slight break in the wrist, this back wrist and it's as if you're throwing a ball is how he explains it on an underarm throw and all we're going to do is take it back and through, back and through. Now this is for a chip and run don't forget, we've got a lot of green, we've got a pitching wedge and all we're trying to do, let me give it a go, is back and through. We haven't picked the easiest of places here to do a little bit of a demo because it's on a massive slope this shot but the idea is that probably pitches up a little bit higher than I wanted it to so standing up high, back and through. Let me try that again, so back through, that was the shot I was trying to hit which was that much lower chip and run that might even go in the hole, a bit better effort. So the idea like I said almost as if the heel of the club when you stood at a dress almost as if the heel of the toe, the heel of the club is slightly raised off the ground and again the hands feel awkward but it's just about taking that little bit of a wrist break with the rear hand, with the lower hand and then through. And what it does, I'll give it one more go, back and through. Now what it does, it eliminates, first of all, I thought that was going to go in, first of all what it does, it gets the ball rolling at the hole, right? So we've got no kind of, we're not trying to throw this thing up in the air, we're not trying to be over complicating the chipping game and the many times we've got to chip over a bunker or whatever kind of thing that gets in our way we are going to have to have different shots in our repertoire. But to simplify the chipping effort and to get something rolling at the hole, the first thing is that chipping run we've got plenty of green to work with, stand up tall, this butt now isn't going to the right, it isn't going to the left, I'm not smothering it, I'm not moving, there's not much body movement whatsoever We're taking all the kind of things that make the golf swing very complicated, we're taking all those things out of the equation, all we're doing is standing up tall, ball at the back of the stance, that back through and then there. And you'll see that when I swing through there's a bit of a rise in the butt and again it's the way Danny explains it, I don't really should have understand this bit, but the butt will come back and then it moves slightly upwards in an upwards finish, so we're slightly, so we're back and then we're up. And that's all we're doing. It's a real, real simplistic way of chipping, it's not a method that I've ever used before, I've never stood that club up so tall, but what it does just in this first instance is a chipping run, it gets the ball rolling at the hole, it's not got a lot going on, there's no great movements, there's no great flicking of wrists, we're not smothering it, we're trying to do anything special, almost that pendulum motion of just letting a pitching wedge do its job, pitching wedge 9-9, whatever you think for that type of shot, let the ball run out and release. But obviously there's other shots that are going to require just a little bit of a different shot, so we'll move into another situation and see how adopting the same technique really simplifies that chipping again. Now don't forget that was a chipping run shot, so we've got the 9-9, we've got plenty of green to work with, we use that same motion, so what happens when we get into this position, we're on exactly the same green, we've got a little bit of first cut if you like that we've got to get over, but then the flag is fairly close by, so we don't want a chipping run, we want this to just pop up a little bit and obviously we need it to stop and not release as much as that chipping run. All Danny explains is that we simply change club, so everything stays the same, the motion stays the same, I've moved to a 58, I think in the demo video that he does, he uses a 56. We address the ball exactly the same, ball in the back of the stance, nothing is changing, hands and wrists are forward, that heel is almost off the ground and don't forget it's that little chip. My word, I'm impressed with this you know. I'm impressed with it because like I said in all these tips what I like to find out is bits that I've never adopted in my own game. I don't mind chipping, it's not what I call a weak part of my game, but this is a very simple and straightforward way of adopting something that really is effective. Let's try that again, so hands forward, so it's back, you see it even just popped it up a little bit higher on that one there. It's incredibly simple and the first thing like I said back to the chipping run, it gets the ball rolling at the hole, but it takes out so much of the bits that we can get wrong in terms of the thinning and the fatting and it just keeps it very much. The swing is literally just a couple of feet, all we've done is it's exactly the same swing length as what we played with the pitching wedge as what we're playing for this, the shorter shot. But the results are just the same, it's just the loft helps to just pop that ball up. Really good tip this Danny. Impressed. Right, it's the third and final situation we've got to put ourselves in and it's not, it's the kind of situation that most average golfers aren't going to like. We're sitting down in the rough, we've got a pin fairly close by, can that same technique work in this situation as well? Well Danny says so but we're going to find out and trust me I've never tried this shot before and prior to the six shots you've made me watch on video, I'd never try this technique at all like I said this is brand new to me. But anyway we'll do exactly the same thing, club with heel off the thing, don't forget that pendulum motion that we're trying to get. So back off the ground, back in the stance, let's just have a little bit of a practice swing so that's all it should be. Should be, let's see. So back, oh my word, get in the hole, get in the hole. How good is that? And again, right, I forgot to mention I've still got the 58 wedge so the only thing that changes throughout this, depending on what situation you find yourself in and how far you want that ball to travel is the wedge, the loft that's on your club. So from going from pitching wedge through to this, we're still back in the realms of that 58 club together, there's no major body movements going on, there's no bit, the club's not travelling far, it's travelling in pretty much a straight line and almost feels like. So we're taking all the complications out of what is a real difficult situation and really simplifying and that's what I like about what Danny Moore does with his videos. Right. And that just goes to show that it doesn't work every time and you know what? I mean I dug in there so what went wrong? I mean it'd be interesting to watch it back. What did I do differently than I didn't do on that first shot but you can see I've took a bit of a chunk there, definitely got a bit of ground before ball. So let's try that again so heel off, back, so back, that's better, could go in this one. Much better I think, I mean again I'll have to watch that back but I think it was a little bit of hesitancy in that second one, maybe just stabbed it a bit and as I've said with all these tips, the reason I leave those shots in is because the idea is there's not a magic one, they still need practising but the point is eradicating shots for all, the ability of losing shots and chipping is a massive, can be hugely costly.  And I love the idea of this tip like I do with them all where they really simplify matters and they try and make the game as easy as possible for us to get from A to B and get it in the hole. Love that Danny and it's certainly something that I will put into my own game when I'm in those situations and I'll practise that just a little bit more. Right, as ever, thank you for watching. I say in every episode, people seem to be liking this but what I like is the comments section being filled with golfers who either try this tip themselves, go out and try it after watching this video, come back and tell me and other golfers whether or not they had success or what problems they had with it. Because by reading all those comments between everybody else, it gives a good indicator of did this only work for me or is it working for a large majority of golfers out there and I think that then encourages others to give it a try. Right, as ever, thank you for watching this Test in the Tip series. I am really going to practise that just a little bit more because I think it's a real, real winner. And once again, thanks to Danny Mord but for this video I'd appreciate it if he gives a thumbs up and I'll see you all next Thursday for another Test in the Tips.


Bengal Cat vs. Berman Cat. What are the differences between these two cat breeds? The Bengal could never be called delicate. He is an athlete, agile and graceful with a strong, muscular body, as befits a cat who looks as if he belongs in the jungle. His broad head is a modified wedge shape, longer than it is wide, with rounded contours. A top it is medium sized to small ears that are relatively short, set toward the side of the head. Large oval eyes are almost round. Joining the head to the body is a long, muscular neck. Supporting the body are medium length legs, slightly longer in the back than in the front, with large, round paws.  When a Bengal rolls over, you can see that another characteristic is a spotted belly. Enhancing the Bengal's wild appearance is a short, thick pelt that feels luxuriously soft and silky. It comes in several colors and patterns, including brown tabby, seal mink tabby, black silver tabby, and seal silver links point. The coat can be spotted randomly or in horizontal patterns, or it can be marbled, with horizontal stripes arranged randomly on a lighter background. Some Bengals have a coat that is described as glittered. The fur shimmers in the light as if it were tipped with gold dust.  This is a medium-sized to large cat with a stocky, powerful body that belieses gentle demeanor. The medium long-to-long coat has a silky texture and little undercoat, which means that it rarely mats. It forms a heavy rougher around the neck and is wavy on the belly. A pale body, which varies in shade depending on the cat's color, is set off by darker points. For instance, a seal point Berman has a body that is a pale fond a cream color with a warm tone, gradually shading to a lighter color on the belly and chest. The points are a deep seal brown.  On the back paws, big gloves extend up the back of the leg, called laces, and end in a point or an inverted V shape. In the show ring, the symmetry of the gloves and laces is an important factor and may mean the difference between a kitten going on to a career as a show cat or as a pet. Besides seal point, Berman's come in blue point, chocolate point, lilac point, and various party color point and links point colors. Links point Berman's have a clearly defined M marking on the forehead, light markings that resemble eyeglasses around the eyes, spotted whisker pads, solid colored ears with nose stripes, and thumb marks on the back of the ears. The legs and tail have stripes and rings. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. The Bengal is both energetic and clever. This makes him enjoyable to be around, although he may be difficult at times. Overall, the Bengal is a self-assured, chatty, sociable cat who is always on the lookout. Nothing escapes his attention. He enjoys activities such as fetch and is an expert at learning new skills. His nimble paws are almost as good as hands, and it's a good thing he doesn't have opposable thumbs or he would probably rule the world. Bored Bengal cats can also adopt some unconventional and slightly destructive habits, including turning light switches on and off, fishing seals out of drains, and excitedly plucking CDs from your DVD player. Fond of playing in the water, the Bengal is not above jumping into the tub or strolling into the shower with you. Aquarium and pond fish may be at risk from his clever paws. He also loves to climb and can often be found perching at the highest point he can reach in the home. A tall cat tree or two is a must for this feline, as are puzzle toys that will challenge his intelligence. On the rare occasions that he isn't swinging on chandeliers or swimming in your pool, the affectionate Bengal will be pleased to sit on your lap. It goes without saying that he will share your bed. And yes, he steals the covers. If you prefer the Siamese pattern but not the Yali voice, a Berman may be the cat for you. He is a calm, placid cat that adores people and will accompany them from room to room. Expect the Berman to be interested in what you're doing, and be thankful that he's not as pushy as the Siamese. Dossel doesn't mean dumb. The Berman is a smart cat and, of course, curious. He likes to explore his environment and has been known to get trapped underneath floors that are being replaced or to accidentally, maybe on purpose, go for a ride on top of a car. It's a good idea to always keep tabs on where he is. He communicates in a soft voice, mainly to remind you that perhaps it's time for dinner or maybe for a nice cuddle on the sofa. He enjoys being held and will relax in your arms like a furry baby. The short, thick coat of the Bengal is easily cared for with weekly combing to remove dead hair and distribute skin oils. A bath is rarely necessary. Keeping him indoors also protects local birds and wildlife from this avid hunter. If possible, build your Bengal a large outdoor enclosure where he can jump and climb safely. Despite the length of the Berman's coat, it has a silky texture that doesn't mat easily. Comb it weekly to remove dead hair and distribute skin oils. Berman shed their winter coat in the spring, so you may want to comb more frequently than to remove loose hair. A warm bath can also help to loosen and remove the shedding coat. To accomplish a Berman bath, wetting the cat with a hand-held shower nozzle is often preferable to immersing him in a tub of water. Burst the teeth to prevent periodontal disease. Daily dental hygiene is best, but weekly brushing is better than nothing. Trim the nails every couple of weeks. Wipe the corners of the eyes with a soft, damp cloth to remove any discharge. Use a separate area of the cloth for each eye so you don't run the risk of spreading any infection. Check the ears weekly. If they look dirty, wipe them out with a cotton ball or soft damp cloth moistened with a 50-50 mixture of cider vinegar and warm water. Avoid using cotton swabs, which can damage the interior of the ear. Keep the litter box spotlessly clean. Cats are very particular about bathroom hygiene, and a dirty box may cause them to start using other places in the house instead. It's a good idea to keep them as indoor-only cats to protect them from diseases spread by other cats, attacks by dogs or coyotes, and the other dangers that face cats who go outdoors, such as being hit by a car. Cats who go outdoors also run the risk of being stolen by someone who would like to have such a beautiful cat without paying for it. The active and social Bengal is a perfect choice for families with children and cat-friendly dogs. He will play fetch as well as any retriever, learns tricks easily, and loves the attention he receives from children who treat him politely and with respect.  Nothing scares him, certainly not dogs, and he will happily make friends with them if they don't give him any trouble. Always introduce any pets, even other cats, slowly and in a controlled setting. Like many active cats, Bengals have a high-prey drive and should not be trusted with smaller prey animals such as, hamsters, smaller rabbits and guinea pigs. The friendly, laid-back Berman is a perfect choice for families with children and cat-friendly dogs. The Berman communicates in a soft voice, mainly to remind you that perhaps it's time for dinner or maybe for a nice cuddle on the sofa. He loves the attention he receives from children who treat him politely and with respect, and he doesn't mind playing dress up or going for a ride in a baby buggy. He is happy to live with cat-friendly dogs, too, thanks to his amiable disposition. Introduce pets slowly and in controlled circumstances to ensure that they learn to get along together. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


It happens very much when we work. Hi. Hi. No? Everybody know how to do this? Yeah? We're going to work some. Anybody out there in the Twitter universe? We're going to work some. We're tweeting links. And then we're going to talk about your work and your creative process. Emphasis on your... Yeah? And if you're out there, do you want to tweet in or however? Yeah. Did you grow your hair? I did. It's great. Oh, wow. Yeah. And a lot of the past activity. Yeah. It's had a moment. It's great. It's gross. It's like... Yeah. So if you are watching at home and you want to ask some questions, you can tweet as if at watching work SLP with the hashtag HowlRound, which is H-O-W-L-R-O-U-N-D. Or there's actually on the HowlRound.tv streaming platform. You'll have to do a little questions thing that you can click on and comment, and I'll be looking at that as well. All right. Yeah. I think that's it. Awesome. I want to do my work for you there. Yes. I know, right? It's so great. I think you can get people to look at them. Yes. All right. So we're going to do 20 minutes. Do you want to get any work done? One word. You've got one thing done. Here's the part of the show where we ask you how you're doing. And if there's any way I can give you some feedback on your creative process, I'd be happy to. That's why I'm here. Anybody? Give your name. I'm Alexa. I'm Alexa. I'm Alexa. It's short. My question is sometimes personally, I find it hard to work on my own stuff because quote-unquote for anybody. Right. So sometimes I don't work on that as much as I think I should. So sometimes I do like little contests and little things with deadlines to help me get into that mindset. But sometimes I also feel that I spend too much time on these little contest plays that I care, I guess you would say less about. I should keep trying to train myself to do a deadline by doing these contest plays that I care a little bit less about, or should I just find a way to regiment myself? Did everybody hear your question? What's really good, you can pat yourself on the back for several things, really good is to realize, huh, okay, I work better when I have a deadline. So I'm going to go through these contests because they have deadlines. So you can sort of notice what you need and you're going after what you need. Okay. And the question is should you keep doing plays you don't care about because you not care about what I'm working on, that's just not how I function. So I guess it's more of a kind of good because I feel like there's a lot of pressure when I write these. So I have more fun doing that. Right. So maybe my question is how do I take the pressure off myself of, you know, is there a It's tricky, it's tricky because you have to do what you're saying is to have a deadline it gives you a certain kind of pressure, which makes you much more deadline, but because you choose to work on a place that you don't care as much about, it takes some of the pressure off. So that's another thing you need.  Right. So yeah, I would say, you know, work on stuff that really matters. Right. So that's, so if it's your place that you're not serving to these little contests that you call them, then just go ahead and find where you work on the stuff that really matters to you. Now how can you have a deadline for something that you're just writing for yourself? Right. Yeah. You can just make one up. Oh, it's easy.  August the first. That's a good one. Right. Right. Yeah. Or August the first. That pulling out of thin air. But I bet that's a really good deadline because it's far enough in the future to give you some time, you know, right? Because it's not like tomorrow, you know, what? Right. That would make everybody freak out. But as far as, it's not so far. It's not like a year from now. Yeah. Which is so long in the future that you're going to forget. Right. Okay. So you can make yourself deadlines like that. But if August the first isn't working, you can make July the 10th or whatever. Okay. So you can do that. You can do that for yourself. I do it all the time. Okay? The second thing is how can you have more fun working on things that matter? Right. Should anybody have anything? You know, because it's like stress. You're working on something that matters and it's stress. Try to find a way to get in the mindset of when I'm writing the contest plays when I'm writing. Right. Right. And how do you get in that? Is it, is, is, what makes the contest plays fun? Is it because they are, for example, short? Is it, what is it, what is it? Um, they are shorter. But, no, there's nothing to say that what I'm working on right now has to be long. So I guess I can tell myself just write what I want to write or what I feel like is the length and that hasn't, that has to think it has to be a three or two act or whatever. That's true. Right. Just let it be what it is. Um, also, these are fun too because it's kind of like, usually there's like a theme or something and it kind of focuses my brain in that area. Right. Which you can also make up for yourself. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's tricky because what you want to do is you want to become a, a, a, a free person. Right. So, right.  You want to be free. You want to be independent. You want to be free. You want to be free. It takes effort and responsibility. Right. Okay. Between, you have to develop some skills. Like you have to develop the skill of creating your own deadlines. That's a free woman. That's what a free artist does. She is self-motivated and self-directed. You have to come up with your own themes. So, we don't need to wait for the man, the master, the one, the teacher to tell us what to do, how to direct our thinking. We can do it on our own. Okay. And plenty of, I'm sure, fine plays and works that come out of people telling people what to do. But if you're interested in seeing what the, what, what the other side of the person is like. Right. You want to, you want to give that a try. You want to be encouraging of ourselves when we're doing our thing. Right. So, we're not just doing something for some, we're doing our own thing. Right. Yes. Okay. So, you want to be that. And you want to develop a delight in your own. There's a, I mean, we don't call them plays for nothing. A play. You know what I mean? It's plays. What you have to do is you have to, there's an exciting that happens. I was talking to some students a couple of weeks ago at Yale. I was talking to them. We were talking about how if you're swimming in the water, you know, in the water's deep and you're sort of in the ocean after a while. Right. You have to learn that actually what you're there to do is dive and learn to swim underwater and delight in the complexity and difficulty of the path that you've chosen. Right. Dive. Dive. That's your job. Your job is to dive. Not to swound around on the surface. Right. Right. And wait for somebody to tell you what to do. You're going to dive and delight in all the treasures you find underneath the surface of your surface. Okay. So, to go there, you know, and if it's difficult. It's okay. Keep, keep going. You know, and develop that. And that's what an artist, whatever she does, painter, director, dancer, you name, whatever, tightrope walker, rather, fallow, you know. We learn to develop a delight in our craft. You know, that's why we walk around with smiles on our faces. Even if the work is hard to have this catalog. Right. Because it's simultaneously very difficult. And it sounds very enjoyable at the same time. Right. Okay. So, just remember, if you let it, it totally gets hand out to you. You go there. You know. You know that, you know that place, right? I do. Right. Yeah. Sure, sure. What we all do, we all forget about it. We all forget about it. We all forget. It's difficult to hold in your mind and in your day to day, you know. How something you're doing kind of just for yourself should be, you know. And I think the more time you spend on it, the more enjoyable it becomes. And then you get into the practice of delighting in this complexity. And there you are. You're on your path. That's the path. And which doesn't mean that everyone's who I might forget. You should have a community to remind you or remind yourself or whatever. That's a good question. Anybody else? Hi, Rachel. Hi. I just wonder if you have any suggestions on how to approach people or feedback. Recently finished something like Never Share. It was more, I do a lot of like professional business, whatever, writing. Right. Very little creative personal writing that ever goes beyond my iPhone. And so I decided to share with several people and then didn't hear back from any of them. So I didn't, not so much didn't hear back, but heard like very minimal different things. And I don't know if it was like the pool of people I chose. Yeah. Content of what I chose or how I like, if I was too low key about, oh, just take a little bit of time or like, I don't know, since I haven't done or sharing. I'm here before. You're so brave. Look at you. You wrote something. You finished it. You decided to share it with people and you went out.  There's nothing wrong.  And some people, just so you know, just like sharing your work is new to you, some people getting someone's work and needing to comment on it. That's new to them. Some people don't know and they don't want to say the wrong thing. They're not accustomed to it. Okay. So that's the thing, which means that the next person you pick to share your work with maybe needs to be someone who maybe does some writing of her own, or his own, maybe. Maybe there's a writing group you can get in that has an active, that's part of the process of the group, like a short story writing class that just wants what we can share like that. It's part of the class. So that's a good thing because everyone in that class will be expecting and expected to comment on your work, to give you feedback. It might not all be helpful, you know, but it's the format of the class. So maybe a formal class and there are lots of them around town, you know. Even if, say, it's a poetry writing class and you're a fiction writer, you can still probably join and say, hey, this is the format. You know, you can check it out like that, okay. But that's kind of a, if you're sharing with friends, yeah, maybe next time, or maybe if you have other friends you haven't yet shared with, ask them. You're going to share some with me, you know? No, yeah. Totally whatever. College, colleges. Hey, that's a good idea. Other writing in this. That's a good idea. That's a very good idea. And maybe prep and before, you know, because also some people, they might be tight for time. I mean, you know, those many things that are going on in your life make it difficult sometimes to give quick or generous responses to people you know, your friends have that too. But it's definitely not the quality of what you sent them. It's just the people and how they had their own stuff to deal with. You know? Okay? So, yeah, definitely widen your pool.  That's a good place to go. Okay, going not necessarily with parents. I know. Not caring about it like that. But you know what I'm saying? But friends who care about you. And maybe friends who you can reciprocate.  Something like that. Something like that. Or childcare or whatever. I'll sit for you for two hours if you want to give me feedback on my efforts to, yeah? Good question. But congratulations, you've been so great. Did you do that? Do you have a cape? Thanks. Sounds like you do. We might be, I forgot you. Wallace. Wallace. Yes. Someone to read something I wrote. Uh-oh. Is it long? Try sitting down. I can't, you know, you know, this is not, this is not what we do in this class. But you really gotta read something. Yeah. No. It's a poem. Yeah. And so is the Iliad. But, uh... Yeah, you said... It'd be about, it'd be... I'll give you, give me 30 seconds. Give me, give me, I have a question first. Are you expecting me to give you feedback on your work? Nope.  Okay. Okay, go. Upon the back of a forest, a rose, a city of steel built by hands of immigrants in search of a new ideal, the Algonquins were the first, then the Dutch came next to shore, Peter Stuyvesant last led the scrappy band, scorning Dutch Jews and Quakers of Yor. That's the first one. What is it from? It's from... Did you write it? Yeah. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a poem about New York City history written poetically. Mm-hmm. There'll be other elements to it, but, but it was, what the 20, what I used the 20 minutes for, was to look for the poem. And I have this beautiful journal that say, it's called an intensive journal. Uh-huh. And I couldn't find it, so I like tried to scrub it out what I could remember, and then I was able to locate it. But, but I added more to that, to what I knew because, you know, I didn't have what I thought I had. Right. So, um, but that's, that's how I used my 20 minutes. It's gorgeous. So where, where are you going with your poem? Um, I think this is a poet. What I want to do is I want to, um, write about the history of poetry in New York City. Oh, cool. Um, you know, starting from pieces that were not known, that were perhaps done in, by the Alconquans. Um, and then later to just come up through the ages and talk about not only poets, but the famous poets, the most famous ones, because there were like lots that were there, but we don't know about it. Like we know about Emma Lazarus. We know about, um, Alan Ginsberg. We know about who else. Who else? I mean, it's just, don't, don't you jump to mine. Thousands. Hmm? Thousands.  Right. But there were some, there were her contemporaries. Oh, Walt Whitman. But there are people who are written, writing in her day that they don't remember them because their poems didn't rise to prominence as theirs were. So there will be people that I will miss, you know. I'm just, it will not be exhaustive. Is it to be performed, or is it, is it just, not just both? Uh, yeah, it's actually a part of a autobiographical poem. Um, and last time I was here I talked about epic poetry. So I've taken my life and done that. And so it starts out, you know, like how many years ago, 10 years ago, and kind of like starting in 1999, and it moves through the present day. Talking about the things I learned. So it will be a part of a larger piece. What's the title? Uh, right now it's called Fairy Chronicles. Uh, fairy, a very specialized word. Um, there in the 1970s there was a movement of gay men. Um, mostly pagan that drew a word uh, an ideal out of native culture called the birdosh, or the two-spirited warrior, male and female, androgynous. And, um, and now many of those people are, that movement is called the fairy movement, the radical fairy. So they, uh, they're very known for, um, educational efforts during the beginning of the AIDS movement, the AIDS crisis.   And a guy by the name of Harry Haig was, uh, yeah, Harry Haig was like the, the leader the first of that movement. So, so yeah, so I'm one and, and the thing about it is none of us are alike, right? So, someone who is, they would say, you're not a radical fairy, yes I am because that's what I claim. Well, almost I would totally claim you as a radical fairy. There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. What are the other policies, uh, very often, um, they play with the idea of gender, you know, they're not drag queens necessarily. They're just men who say what rules says that men can't wear a skirt as a part of everyday what kind of skirt? Um, it depends sometimes they're called broom skirts broom skirt?  I mean it's like some of the clothing, you move the man into another culture I was just getting you with a fashion man, I was totally joking Oh, I got a bad news Yeah, so anyway so the fairy comes to New York That's great and I appreciate it because I'm really looking forward to this, you know, this is where I can actually talk about my creative process so I'm very grateful for it Okay, that would be easy More, but you know do you have a deadline? Do you have a deadline? Um, you know, I would like to put the four pieces together for my birthday on November 11th Okay So I have three already written and so this is the fourth Oh great, okay and you have a good method for finding your work when you need to find it Yes coming here, because otherwise it would still be I mean it would still be on the shelf Okay, so you're going to put the four together by your birthday Yeah, November 11th That's a good birthday 66 You? Oh, in 1966 Yeah Time to time Anybody else? I'm not sure if it's like totally the right form but let me know So I'm mainly a producer but I'm interested in what like the ideal kind of producer playwright relationship is and like this new and sort of like a way of thinking of like a producer sort of a dramaturg and collaborator type person and not just a person who like tracks the budget and like finds the things Is there like I guess it's not exactly a question I guess I'm just like what is what would be a good version of that relationship So obviously a good version of a relationship between a playwright and a producer that's not just someone who runs the buzz People at Audra's Department, you guys are legendary and you can make magic happen, I mean but it's very much magic that most people going to the theater don't even notice We go, we sit there and you guys have made all this beautiful stuff possible right I mean examples in people we know What do you look for like in a do you look at it as a producer as a collaborator or do you not have like more hands off like what is the It depends on the producer actually because some producers you want in the room and some you don't Right Right, I mean some people you want in the room helping you get there to the finish line and some people you really don't want their notes Right, so people at the public theater you want in the room, you definitely want them, so like you think of Oscar you know you want Oscar in the room because you want to hear what he's thinking and not just because he's a big cheese with a long hair but because he gives really good notes so he's I mean in my mind he's the kind of producer that you want you know the producer who's also the drummer kind of thing over here with Andy, you want them in the room you know, you want to hear what they're thinking, now this means that you have to develop a real relationship with the playwright and that takes some effort but it's no, it's not bad it's like you read their play and then you say hey can I grab a cup of coffee because I'd love to talk with you about your play you know, where are you in the writing process and because I'm the the kind of producer who is who offers when asked you know dramaturgical advice and you can just start a relationship but you have to begin it because most playwrights they're not going to say hi who in the room has notes for me you know I mean you're going to have to approach them you know just in terms of like do you think like I would never want to give somebody notes who doesn't want but he wants them or not yeah, I think if you begin the relationship before rehearsal starts that's great because then the pressure is much less so when you read the play that you like and you know it's going to be the season or whatever then you start the relationship then right? and you then so it's and you can say I'll be around so if you want another set of eyes on it I'd be happy to you know and you bet they're going to be calling you it might not be appropriate because maybe other people in the room might be like she's only going to take my notes so it might be a little tricky so you'll have to be kind of maybe back channel about it you know and you know writers like people who give them notes that are helpful can you guys ask? Rebecca hey Rebecca welcome back, good to see you how's it going? I spent 10 days on the second graph with the fantasy that I would get through so it's full of blank draft but it's all the way through well that's a lot but I got through enough then I'm sort of feeling a redirection is it good? well I think the one thing that is good is I'm sort of figuring out so this is about someone else and of course it's not a memoir but it has personal stuff in it so that's the balance of that I'm trying to figure out how to represent a crime that was probably a reaction to a crime so that I'm struggling there and one of my informants who's the original, unreliable narrator told me about his historian he told me about the Beodoldius in historical documents so now my struggle is with how much more research actually actually going to be seen in these court documents I have to see them I think they're actually the transcripts of the grand jury right they've all been burned taking to the dump in there Nashville I think they've just finally got it because I've been on this for ten years which is the other thing damn I don't have time right so I just feel I think the pressing thing in terms of is getting the how to represent a crime that I mean it was murder that I consider justified right not necessary and not right but justified and how to represent that how to write about it how to you know that Bob Marlin song I shout the sheriff I did not shoot the deputy let me shout the deputy right and just deputy was beating up the black woman so how to is it like it's not first person is it it goes it moves so when you're talking about the crime which person will it be it's the newspaper coverage but it's a kind of balance between what the black paper said which are totally right but it doesn't feel like enough to at this point to let those two things sort of talk to each other represent different versions right so are there characters you could survive that um right because he lies all the time right but you know I think it is probably so then there's the balance between the story and the commentary and I think it's a commentary but um it's confusing um so you have a draft of it already that's not working is that I don't know if it's working it's only 55 pages in the second draft but you've gone over the material before I'm sorry you've got you've shown this part of the book I mean you've written this part of the book already and then you said it's a second draft so I'm sure that you have a first draft of this particular difficulty and it's not working no I don't think it is I started out wanting to write about the Jim Crow period without ever saying the words Jim Crow so that people would feel it as opposed to have some idea of it and that's what I want this to do is have people feel both the action and the consequences and and not not 80 years later holding against so um so I you know I know it's like in terms of writing it's like there's this thing up here I'm reading for and it's just out of my skill and range and reach why do you say that well because that's the best way to write it just out of my skill and range and reach just the structure you know I feel like there's certain things we all know how to do and there's certain things we learn how to do in the process of trying to reach that perfection I'm not going for absolute perfection but I am going for I'm not sure there's I mean I need to keep writing and I know that yeah but it's okay to have to realize you know you're in the difficulty of it and that's okay and it's going to take some growing as a writer to get there and that's okay too and you know like you said it's it's a new skill that you are acquiring you know and it gets closer and it gets more reachable as you continue to work on it you know it seems like you're going to get there you just need to keep walking and it's difficult for ten years yeah yeah well a lot of that was just the piece of stuff together sure sure sure eight years of it was just a piece of it yeah yeah yeah so this is the moment where I feel like I have most of it do you have another block of time to work on it? I'm trying to figure that out probably after I teach still some so probably after graduation I'll take a couple of weeks it's very exciting it's very exciting I'll keep going good luck and it sounds like a great project so anybody burning questions? burning questions I've got one from online there's a couple paragraphs but I'll choose a part of it so this person Jeanine Robinson is saying that she feels like she's in a gather phase for a project and she wants to make herself sit down to work and it's just not coming any suggestions? and do you use a typewriter in real life? real life as opposed to what we do just three times so yes I use a typewriter there's a lot of things typewriter, write on my phone there's a lot of writing on our phone longhand shorthand computer so yes all kinds of things are helpful anything's just right in this show so you're in a gathering phase she's in a gathering phase she wants to sit down and write and it's not happening maybe there's more gathering certainly maybe there's more gathering but I will say also if you feel like you've done gathering for the moment anyway you can just sit down with your title 20 minutes a day and just free write and see what happens because a lot of times you might have an idea of what it is that you're looking for like it's going to look like this it's going to be a red rubber ball and you're sitting down and waiting for the red rubber ball to descend from the ceiling it's not happening so you think nothing's happening but something in fact is happening and you have to just sit down and write long hand computer whatever 20 minutes a day to start talking to yourself you know mulling over your gathering things and things will start to piece themselves together like Rebecca was saying pieces together right they start to collect together for the that's what I think anyway that's helpful so are we back next page nevermind we're back on April 30th April 30th we'll be doing another installment of why should we work thanks


I am a fan of Adelaise Kanto, because in fact I am one of those people who almost always remember her dreams, and I don't know why, even though I am a fan of Adelaise Kanto, so in this video blog I want to talk about three dream dreams that I had last night, and also I want to talk about a strange thing, Adelaise to something that happens in my dreams and almost always repeat it. There is a strange thing, but I will talk about it later. So last night, I had a very strange dream. In the dream, I remember that I was in the urban area, the urban area is very destroyed, all the conservation is incomplete, and it seems that there were a lot of explosions, because everything was destroyed, and there was a lot of rubbish around me, and I was there with my two brothers. And I remember that last night I didn't know why, but I just decided to run away, and later I remember why I ran away, because in fact there was a big dinosaur there, and the dinosaur was Tyrannosaurus. And for that I don't know, Tyrannosaurus is maybe not anymore, but when I was a child it was the most famous, the biggest dinosaur that I really like to eat. And in the dream, I saw it and I ran away, of course, because I don't want to stay at home, but I remember that my two brothers just walked around, because it was a nice Sunday, they just made fun of the Tyrannosaurus, and I remember that I stood and said, «Kuro, there is a Tyrannosaurus running away, fuckers!» But they just ignored me, and of course the Tyrannosaurus liked it, and they just ate my two brothers in front of my eyes, and of course I ran away when I saw it, and just ran away, but the Tyrannosaurus still wants to eat it, so it chased me along the way, because I was on a very large way, and the way, in fact, was a very high way, and I remember that I ran along the way, and the Tyrannosaurus was closer to me, and I just decided to jump out of the way, over a barrel in front of the construction site, and almost all the Tyrannosaurus chased me, it just ran through the barrel, that didn't hit it, and then I thought, «Aaah!» and I went to the construction site, and then I thought that I was safe, because I was on a very large construction site, the walls were on the walls, and it seemed that I was safe, but the Tyrannosaurus didn't really care about the walls, it just ran through the walls, and then I stood there in a huge hall, and there was a Tyrannosaurus in front of me, there was no more walls, it was just a huge hole in the wall, and the Tyrannosaurus, and then I ran away, and started to jump over the two floors of the construction site, and the Tyrannosaurus followed me, and then I thought, «Aaah!» «What should I do?» and then I went to the houses of the construction site, and then I went to the window, and I started to climb the window, and of course, the Tyrannosaurus just ran through the wall of the building, and then I saw that I was trying to climb, or not climb the window, and then I started to climb the wall, outside the building, at the top of the building, at the ceiling, and I reached the ceiling, and I noticed that I went back, and saw below, and I could see the head of the Tyrannosaurus, it actually had, it actually put its head on the window, and saw me, and then did this, and then, very sadly, the Tyrannosaurus started climbing the wall, I don't know how it can do that, of course, it's a dream, and in your dreams, foreign affairs, it happened, but it used its very big hands, and started climbing the wall, at the construction site, and of course, I was on the construction site, and I thought, «Aaah! What should I do?» It came to me, and then I went to the other side of the building, and I almost went, and I could see, there was a hole in my building, and the other building, and I started to go, on the hole, to the other building, I went there, «Aaah! Aaah! Aaah!» and finally, I reached the ceiling, of the other building, and I thought, «Oh well, it can't reach me now, that hole is too big for it, and then I noticed, that the Tyrannosaurus, reached the ceiling, of the other building, and then, I saw myself on the other building, and then, I went to the basement, I saw it, I saw myself, and then, I started to go, on the basement, to my building. It was the most difficult thing, and I thought, «Oh well, and then, I went to the other side of that building, and I jumped from the building, into the bush, and then, the Tyrannosaurus, reached the the ceiling of that building, and then, I went to the other building, and then, again, everything repeated. I went to the Tyrannosaurus, and then, it repeated so many times, and then, I can't remember what times, but when I finally got away, my whole face was covered in sweat, and then, I felt all the sweat, I didn't want to hurt it at all, I just pushed it there, and then, I saw the Tyrannosaurus. And then, there's another thing, almost always, in my dreams, not in that dream, but almost always, in all other dreams, I always see the bottom of the tree, and I don't know why, always in my dreams, there's a big bottom of the water, so the water just throws the earth, and I don't know what that means, but it's always in my dreams, and I remember that I always see that, so maybe that has a separate meaning, but now, I want to ask you all, pardon me, I just pronounce that something strange, it's probably the fact that I still have the heart in my mouth, and I don't feel that good. So, yes, now I want to ask you all, in all other dreams, you had the last time, because I hope that I'm not the only person who has three different dreams, and probably I'm not at all, so watch with me, your different dreams, so that's all, if you liked this film, like it, share it, subscribe to my channel if you haven't subscribed yet, and I'll see you all in the next film, and if you're not there, I'll find you in the next film. And as always, I want to thank you for donating to my Patreon, and you are, in due time, Alexander Tolfes and Bonkota as well as Jay-Z, Knuckles Ludisto, Margarita Kilpac, Robert Nielsen, Robert Port, Sarah S.C., Shane Power, Tommy Lindsley, and James Harlan. And if you want to donate to my channel, because the best you have is the link in the description.


our virtual community and our community that is here in the Mark Morris Dance Center space. Thank you for being with us to celebrate the 2022 Summer Leadership Institute culminating performance. During our Summer Leadership Institute, which is 10 days, today is the ninth day, we begin by grounding ourselves in the principles of entering, building, and exiting community. And as simple as a part of this learning are dancers, actors, educators, organizers, administrators, production folk who are with us on this journey of embodying what does it mean to question our We Democracy. So we began with the principles of entering, building, and exiting community. What does it mean to look at those values of how we are in community together? And then we go to our work with our longtime partner, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond PSAP, and the workshop is understanding and undoing racism slash community organizing. And we're looking at systemic analysis of how democracy works and who is invited and who is disinvited, who is supported and was not supported, who becomes the major beneficiaries, and who become the victims, really, of the system and how we can make it better by understanding its manifestations and how they show up in us. Then we look at organizing, and we had two amazing people, Karen Atlas and Dr. Kimberly Richards, who have been longtime organizers to talk about their journey and their road as we look at this question, are we democracy? We are here at the Mark Morris Dance Center, and we are on the unceded land of the Lenape people. We understand the resistance, the sacrifice, the struggle our indigenous brothers and sisters have gone through, those whose labor were forced, the African people who were here and their labor was forced. We bring all of that, all of that learning, all of that history into our dance, our songs, our texts, so that we integrate all of this knowledge in creative expression as a way to share and internalize what we know. And that's what we're sharing with you today is the journey we've been on creatively in these last nine days for the culminating performance of the 2022 Summer Leadership Institute performance. Thank you for being with us. This is the democracy story. Once upon a time, not too long ago, the people thought democracy was dead, and they began to mourn.  Is this life? We hope to see you again. Now we say thank you. Every plant leaves a little behind, a little turnover, a sharing of the earth, the grass, an invasive dominance of white pick in the founding of the devil's eyes, colored red, white, and blue. For the privilege, the soil of its life, its nutrients, will let the justice burn like a righteous fire in natural tilling of the soil. Democracy working towards it. Backs curved, fists closed, then open. Breathing hands open to possibility. Looking to what we could be if we let go of what has only caused harm. Stolen lives, broken hearts, depleted souls. I want us to fulfill our promise. But first, repair. I thought I was in love with democracy.  Thought I was the one. We were engaged, but after the honeymoon, all of so-called democracies, so-called friends, that they met at Electoral College started showing up at the house, refusing to leave, like Oleg Arke and Phil E. Buster. No, no, no, no, no. I think you all have it wrong. You must be talking about something else, because I've been getting to know democracy pretty well over the last couple of years, virtually. And we have our first date by mail in August. August. I actually went to college with this person that has been saying their name is democracy. I went to the Electoral College, and I just want to say that for one, I did not meet them at the club or online. But also, they're really that much of what their name is, as long as I'm getting what I need. And I am. The resources. Hold on, hold on. Because my democracy can't be your democracy. I'm a big ol' suburban and a Jesus piece. I've been messing with democracy since before the internet, before co-filing. In fact, we have two children together. And although we don't have a lot of exchanges as of late, he shows up in my bank account. I get paid weekly. She gets paid by democracy. Well, good for you, Gal, because I have been investing in democracy for many, many years. And I'm afraid this has taken a toll. I believed in democracy. Democracy broke my heart. Sorry about your heart. I'm going to let you finish, but hold on. We didn't clarify yet. Wait a minute. We all talking about the same democracy? Wait a minute. Y'all, are we democracy? Just want to stop and take stock of who I don't feel like talking. No time for laughing. Just let me be still. So my emotions can fill my heart. But everyone thinks that I am happy, go lucky. If they only knew heaviness of my heart and might be strong. So I could carry knowing the truth that strong it's the Lord. Oh, just take my hand and love. People starting to realize they had the power in their hands, in their hearts, in their bodies, in their minds. And they remembered the legacy of people like Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer. They remembered the power of the voice. But some languages surpass words. They travel past galaxies through time to ancestral lands and into the minds and bodies of those willing to receive. Yesterday, my body danced like it knew more than I did. Like it tapped into some kind of invisible knowledge or blood memory and has traveled with me through my DNA. What it is, power, they say. Born with it, it's been here. It moves through the years, I breathe it. And as I inhale, it partens my soul. What is this fun thing that's set in me? What is this smoke that's through my skin when the world's against me? Or loving me? Or shoving me down the road that I've been before? But it externally warns and noiselessly teaches the ones ahead of the music, the dance, the food, the struggles to enhance the people. This thing, it's in me. And I stand swaying like the trees bobbing in the breeze and it tells my story for centuries. It's humanity. It's in me. Oh, oh yeah, it's poetry. I'm not saying we'll not speak over me anymore because I will sing. My joy, my joy, my joy, I will sing, sing, sing, sing, sing. Nobody take my joy, my joy, my joy, I will sing. Donna Joe Baker, Rosa Parks, Els Horton, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, Medgar Evers, Catherine Dunham, Dr. Doris Derby, John O'Neill, Bob Moses, Betty Shabazz, Malcolm Eck, John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We give thanks. We give thanks. We give thanks. Thank you.


Hello, my name is Lin Tao. I'm from HP. Today, I'm going to talk about how we use issue and open policy agents for authorization. So first, I would like to talk about authorization. Authorization is to verify if an identity has the permission to do something. And there are many common approaches to do authorization, like role-based access control, which grants access by roles. It is cost-grained. Typical example is Kubernetes RBAC. And there's also policy or attribute-based access control which grants access by policies. It is more fine-grained. Typical example is AWS IM policies. And we are using both of these approaches in our current project. So a little background on our project is called a fish station platform, which is a customer shoe platform. We have many third-party partners developing their service on our platform using our platform API. And the service built by these partners are running the same Kubernetes cluster as our platform services. So it's a challenge for the platform network security and access control. So we divide these services into layers. So we have layer one, which are our partner service. And we have layer two, which are platform services and layer three for internal services. And on each layer, we apply different authorization to this game. So in layer one, we are enforcing role-based access control in infrastructure layer. That's where ECL mixer comes in. So we have customized all the adapter on the mixer. So all the request to layer one service will be handled by our adapter. The adapter will authorize with our central flight authorization service. And here's how we convict the adapter. We have a rule basically says that only the request to the service with layer equals L1 will be handled by the adapter. And here's the adapter template. It defines all the attributes from ECL that will be used by the adapter. So the adapter knows who is trying to access our API. And then the adapter can authorize with our authorization service using role-based authorization. So that's L1 authorization.  It's cost-grained, but it's what we want in L1 services. But in L2, we have service from different partners. And resources from different partners, we want the more fine-grained access control. So for instance, company A cannot access company B's resources. So that's where Open Policy Agent comes in. So we have a library called Aussie Client, which all L2 services are integrated with. So this client will send the authorize request to Open Policy Agent. So a little background on Open Policy Agent. It's a general purpose authorization engine from CNCF. I think it's just graduated. And basically, your service will send a query to Open Policy Agent. And Open Policy Agent will make an authorization decision for you based on the policy and the data you configured. So here's a typical example. So in our order service, we have Aussie Client integrated. And let's say the user Alice trying to request orders from company HP. Our Aussie Client will extract attributes from current request and pack them into a JSON payload. So these attributes include user attributes and API attributes and request attributes. And they will be sent to Open Policy Agent. And on the other side, Open Policy Agent is configured with our policy and data. So this policy defines that our user is only able to access orders from his own company. And the data here, we defined the relationship between the user and companies. So with these three pieces of information, Open Policy Agent is able to make an authorization decision and return the result to our service. So that's basically how we enforce the fine-grained access control in our L2 services. And here's the overview. In L1, we enforce the role-based as control with the user manager. And in L2, with a back using Open Policy Agent. And in L3, it's our internal services. We are applying some network policies to limit access to the L2 services. So thank you. Because the time is limited, I can dive into details. But if you are interested, please feel free to reach out to me. I will be happy to answer. Thank you.


Palo Alto Networks recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability that was being actively exploited in Pana West, the software that runs all of their next generation firewalls. Isn't that ironic? A security appliance that's normally used to protect enterprise networks from malicious traffic ended up being the entry point for it in a couple of breaches that have been disclosed so far. Now if we take a look at the advisory on Palo Alto Networks.com we can see that the bug is described as an OS command injection vulnerability in Global Protect. Now this Global Protect feature allows the security appliance to protect the traffic of its mobile users. We can see that some of the features that are included with Global Protect are a remote access VPN security mechanisms for organizations that have a bring-around device policy, URL filtering, advanced threat prevention, all of the things that you would want in an enterprise network that has a remote workforce. Now the severity of this bug is rated as a 10 out of 10 just like the command injection bug on Windows that rust and a number of other programming languages had or in the case of Java still has. And just like that bug that I demonstrated in MemorySafeRust, using a MemorySafe language would not have made any difference here. And I only point that out because some people seem to think that rust or other MemorySafe languages are a magic bullet, especially now that government agencies and the restation in chief have specifically endorsed the language or really the compiler in the case of rust for enforcing better safety in compiled code. But command injection is a whole other class of bug that can still carry some critical risk. And I feel like this is a much more legit 10 out of 10 severity command injection bug than the Windows exploit that we talked about last time because there's actually organizations that are using these security appliances in affected configurations that have already had breaches and I've got a feeling that we're going to hear about more in the future. Now real quick, if you are using a Palo Alto security appliance, the affected configurations are PanOS 10.2, 11.0, and 11.1 that are using the global protect feature and have device telemetry enabled. Now hot fixes are available for those affected versions, but if you're not able to install the fix right away, then it's recommended to just disable device telemetry to prevent the appliance from being exploited. Now we have some details from Vilexity about the threat actor who is aliased as UTA 0218 and how they were able to exploit some organization's firewalls and what they did after. Now based on the current timeline that we have from them, initial exploitation happened on March 26 and after compromising the firewall, the threat actors would download additional tools from remote servers in order to facilitate access to the victim's networks. One of those tools was a custom Python backdoor that Vilexity calls UpStyle. On the firewall, it would have the name Update.py and its main content was stored as a Base64 encoded blob. This is part of the decoded main loop of the backdoor. Now this backdoor allowed the attackers to put commands into the compromised firewall in a request to a non-existent web page. The specific command pattern would show up in the web server's error log which the backdoor would then look for in decode and then the output from the command would be appended to the firewall's bootstrap.min.css file and it would only stay there for 15 seconds for it to be read for the output of the command to be read and then both the bootstrap and the error log files are restored to cover up the backdoor's activity. And in another breach the attacker set up a persistent backdoor by continuously fetching and executing the contents of a file named patch which would check for the existence of a cron file named Update and then create it if it didn't exist and that would download a remote file named policy which it executes via bash every 60 seconds. So this policy file would get updated with whatever commands the attacker wanted to execute on the firewall like this is basically just their way of sending commands to it. And there were six different versions of the policy file that Vilexity observed. One contained a one-liner reverse shell that was written in Python. The second one cleaned up some CSS files that contained command output from previous attacks and then also exfiltrated the firewall's configuration file as a CSS file. So basically saved it as a CSS file and then the attack is able to download that from a remote server. Another policy file update removed the newly created CSS file that contained the firewall's configs. The fourth policy file was a failed attempt to download Ghost a simple tunnel written in Go. The fifth version of policy was a slightly modified version of the fourth one that successfully downloaded the Go tunnel. And finally the sixth policy file downloaded and executed an open source reverse shell called reverse SSH. Additional post exploitation behavior was observed after the attacker was able to pivot to the victim's internal networks via SMB and WinRM. Once the attackers reached the internal network they stole the Active Directory database, Windows event logs, login data, cookies and local state data from Chrome and Microsoft Edge for specific targets. The data that the attackers stole would allow them to effectively compromise the credentials for all of the victim's domain accounts and of course the stolen cookies and login data could allow compromise of various specific online accounts as well. And because this is a compromise of a firewall we could see vulnerable networks long into the future because unfortunately a lot of organizations just set and forget their firewalls. I mean maybe they'll make some changes as policies update but those could be very infrequently but most IT teams really wouldn't suspect the firewall itself to be a point of entry right because it's a security appliance. If anything we would expect attackers to just try and bypass our firewalls but as you can see here these devices can still be vulnerable and they're oftentimes on the edge of your network so they're actually much easier for someone to try and attack or at least for them to try and interact with them directly. So don't forget to assess the security of your security appliance as part of your network security policy and if you enjoyed this video please like and share it to hack the algorithm and check out my online store based.win where you can get awesome merch like the tie-dye tortilla or the Libre sleeveless shirt perfect for touching grass on a nice spring or summer day and of course you can save 10% off of all products on base.win when you pay in Monero XMR at checkout. Have a great rest of your day.