کیا آپ اس مجھے پیدا کیا؟ یہ مجھے لگتا ہے۔ یہ مجھے حصول بہت ساتھ ہوتا ہے۔ تو بہت ساتھ مجھے ساتھ پہنچی درشت ہے۔ وہ بہت کچھ بہترین بہترین بہترین بہترین بہترین ہے۔ سال لذا کسی محابوس پر اگر سال کرنا چاہتے ہیں میں کمشک کرنے سان You'll Be Welcome تویانی مرم AND HEAL کمشک کرنے کے لئے کسی سال جاتا جاتا جاتا جاتا جاتا ہے اگر سال کے حالت ہوج Kennedy ایک سال کتویان منبتکائی جو کامید شاہتا ہے جو ان پروگیی مکنے کا مبادر لے حالت ہوں جو کتویان تصمید کیا تو اس پرپلم initiatives جو کتویان کیا کتویان چاہتا ہے یہ بہت سکتے ہیں کہ ہمارے Wade by آجنگ مباہات یہ بہت سکتر کے لئے ہمارے بہت سکتے ہیں کیونکہ یہ بہت سکتا ہے کہ آپ نےereca구以 لئے 1528 کے لئے ہیں سب سے ایک کچھ ب긴 ہے ہے مبابک ایک دولتے ہیں یہ بہت بہت دیکھا ہے اس بہت سے ضرورت پرے لیتے ہیں یہ ایک دول مصہرک ہے اور بہت ہی کجھ یہ ترحیح تورہ کیا ہے کہ انویدروں کو بہت دیتے ہیں کہ ہمیں معاہد میں ایک جیہاد ہوتا ہے بابر ایک جیہاد کیا ہے جو کبھی ایک جیہاد ہوتا ہے اور انہوں نے ایک چیزی کیا ہوتا ہے جب انہوں نے یہ اجترہ کرے گئی جب اجترہ ایک نیسان کے اجترہ ہے لیکن اجترہ میں اجترہ دیگہ یہاں بھی اکورتا ہے today's Muslim community is very important that today's Muslim community does not identify with those people is very important at the same time it's very important that the Hindu community also do not identify the present generation of Muslims with the atrocities of the past. this is very important then the problem becomes very simple as to how to handle it right now this onerous task has been given but it's a very good thing it's coming to some sort of conclusion because kicking the can to the next generation is not an answer which is what we have done for a very long time it is very important on various levels we are making this effort right now because people have given such a huge mandate to this government because they want them to solve problems problems which are an impediment for the development of this nation for the future of this nation sovereignty issue citizenship issues this temple mosque issues everything must be settled in our generation so that future generations who live in this nation don't have to live with this endemic problems there will be other issues to handle for them but not these endemic issues of the past very interesting because some people are saying that all these issues tie in with a majoritarian sort of agenda that is being pushed by this government how do you respond to those people see there is a small group of people and they are not even Muslims those people are always trying to ferment problems if you look at the whole history of Babri Masjid case or the iodia Ram temple case whichever way you want to call it in the last 40 45 years which is the if we can say the some attempts to find solution you will see when responsible archaeologists clearly produce evidence definitely there was a grand temple out here when one level of excavation or without excavation when they were standing columns 12 columns standing in the mosque with all kinds of Hindu motives when this evidence was produced they said this is not good enough and Allahabad high court ordered one more excavation in 2003 this excavation unearthed 50 columns in 17 different rows clearly showing there was a very grand temple out there before this so evidence is substantial it's just a handful of people who are professors and who call themselves professors and scholars who are not even archaeologists who have misguided the whole nation and made this into a Hindu Muslim issue this is not that kind of a issue unfortunately they have managed to divide the country on this it's time these people are not empowered in any way to talk further about this it's very important the nation speaks clearly that we want solutions we don't want to kick the problems for tomorrow and hope they will go away they will not go away like that we have to see address them head on and come to a solution everybody whatever solution we come to there will be some give and take somebody feels loss somebody feels gain but considering the nature of this problem see for Islam this Babri Masjid does not represent Mohammed or any of his legacy it represents Babar so definitely the Islamic community should not identify themselves with the legacy of Babar because then all the atrocities also will come upon their heads they should not do this but for the Hindus the emotion is that this is the place of Rama who is the icon maybe Rama is not such a big icon in the south but in the northern communities where millions of people for them it is the ultimate place in a way if we have to draw parallels for a whole lot of devotees who worship Rama who is the icon for them for them this is the Makkah of India so there is no need to quarrel about 2.77 acres is it worth quarrelling for five centuries it's very interesting you seem to put the onus on the Masjid side to drive towards a resolution or a solution but their councils have been arguing in the courts that Ayodhya dispute would have been settled long back if it was accepted that Rama was not born under the central dome this is what Rajiv Dhawan has said in court how do you look upon this particular line of argument see nobody even knows where our grandfather was born all right exact spot the important thing is Rama was born in Ayodhya and they say that was the place millions of people believe that is the place whether he was born there or ten feet away or a hundred feet away from that place what does it matter what kind of argument is that this is because certain number of people in this country which is fortunately a small group try one problems they want to find problems in every solution it is time we find solutions in every problem there is a problem we must find a solution the judgement is nearby we must respect this and go ahead and above all I think in many ways you know the responsible Muslim community which I feel is over 95% of them are like that it's only a fringe elements fringe elements are there in both communities ignore the fringe elements if you take the responsible community then you will see this emotion towards 2.77 acres is not there in them they will be willing to settle and above all in a way before the judgement comes if they take a step because this is a historic moment if they want to grab this history into their hands as they were the most responsible people before the judges come out with their judgement they should make a statement Muslims of this nation make a statement okay it means so much to you you do it the question is not about Hindu versus Muslim the question is for one person the emotion is super important for another person it's just a piece of property so tell me where the solution should come from otherwise the judgement will come and even if the judgement comes we can continue this problem all I'm saying is do not continue this problem let us focus on addressing genuine problems that we have we don't have to create new problems India has many problems of nourishment of poverty you know various problems are there instead of addressing that we are just creating problems and playing football with that it's very interesting because some people argue that the exact site of birth is at the core of this case now you've said that we all know that he was born in Ayodhya so what does it what difference does it make whether he was born under the central dome or not but the courts go into such minutiae because law cannot take a position an emotion that's what the purists will tell you that's what people familiar with the law will tell you what do you have to say to those people who say that look no one denies that Lord Rama was born in Ayodhya the dispute would have been settled had the Hindus accepted that he wasn't born under the central dome in that exact spot see if the debate and the problem was that both Rama and Mohammed were born close by within hundred feet of each other and then we are debating whether this is Mohammed's place of birth or Rama's place of birth that would have been a real problem now Mohammed was born a thousand miles away and Rama was born here if Rama was born hundred feet away from the dome what is your problem that should not even be the line of argument I would say this kind of thing is coming because you don't want a solution because a whole lot of people are using this problem as an investment to build their own political futures or whatever else they're planning so if you look at the way they discredited the archaeological survey of India whatever evidence they came up with these few so called scholars or you know professors from certain universities who went about doing this if you look at that it is very clear they had their own personal agendas they were not interested in the evidence going by the evidence definitely there is a temple Rama born there are not there you can debate forever it's over 6000 years ago nobody can geographically fix it alright you can put a google dot on it but was there a temple 100% everybody knows this now is there so much emotion in the Islamic community about it no they have just feel wronged that the mosque was brought down so now when they know in the history a certain wrong was there somebody is trying to write it you can't go on rejiging history Hindus also must understand this this one thing there is so much emotion it's come so far and this could be a big impediment for nations development in some way we must come to a solution even when the court gives a judgment it's very important once again we don't go into two thirds belongs to somebody one third belongs to somebody again there will be no solution some decisive solution should come if we don't have the courage to take that step we will only kick the problem to the next generation and that's not the way to handle things let me ask you sir there's always a winner or a loser in a court case do you believe that the Hindu side should be given without any ambiguity the entire title in this suit do you believe so to avoid a conflict from perpetuating as you've said to the next generations see we need to understand this in 1855 there was a terrible right regarding the same issue but in 1857 both Hindus and Muslims came together to fight what we call as the first war of independence it is after that the colonial design became such that if these two communities get together they will be severely weakened so the East India Company put out a plan and they came up with many many ways of dividing the two one thing is they decided Muslims should get separate education and they must have a separate oath they vote separately, Hindus vote separately all these kind of laws they brought in just to divide the country let us not be a slave of that device today after 70 years of independence let whatever you are in your heart you may be a Hindu or a Muslim let that be a personal faith but we belong to one nation it is important we want a solution what is the solution if you ask now you want me to spell out Rahul that oh I support the Hindu community no I am not that kind it is not about supporting the Hindu community or Islamic community I want the impediments for the development of this nation to be gone I am sure 95% of the country's population is with me on this one that they want the impediments for the development of this country to be gone in whatever form it is so right now this is one of them which has been a thorn which has been bothering this nation for quite some time so it should go can you move Ram out of Ayodhya and put him in Chennai is it possible no because he also came to Tamil Nadu can we say he was born here it's not going to work so obviously it's not going to work so let's do it the way it works it's not the question of taking this side or that side we want a solution not for Hindus not for Muslims we want a solution for the forward moment of this nation so what in your words would be the best solution to ensure that our nation progresses without impediments well there were sovereignty issues we are trying to settle that there are citizenship issues we are trying to settle that there is a temple and mosque issues we are trying to settle that this is a good thing see the very idea that people have given a massive mandate because they believe they are going to sort out the problems well when we try to sort out the problems will it happen in a perfect way no we must understand this no human action is ever perfect we may have perfect intentions but when we execute something it is never perfect so those imperfections somebody may perceive as injustice let us keep this down for some time let us understand in this whole thing what I see is the main mischief has come from the colonial forces and the second level of mischief has come from very far left leaning kind of scholars and professors so let us remind them that when we say Islam we talk about Mohammed Mohammed said whole earth is a mosque for me can you make a more inclusive statement than that please let the Muslims live by that when we say Hindus now they talking about Rama Rama is that kind of man just to out of his integrity he gives up his kingdom he is a coronated king but he walks away into the forest and his wife is stolen terrible things are done but when he kills his enemy who stole his wife and did terrible things to the people he repents having killed him so that is the man you are fighting for don't forget and for the leftist left them remember all this conniving nonsense that they are doing everywhere even today they are continuing like this I want to remind them they are not progeny of Joseph Stalin or Maoistang they are supposed to represent Karl Marx who thought of an equitable society a society without disparities a compassionate economy which will nurture every human being this is what he represents please let all three remember this right now this fanning of that you know Hindu Muslims must fight this whole thing is unfortunately not coming from Islamic community or largely from Hindu community there are fringe elements on both sides I am not saying no but largely it is coming from left cleaning extremists what is their interest in religion they should not even be interested in religion but they are always playing with this I request all of them please understand whom you represent you represent Mohammed you cannot do this if you represent Ram you cannot do this if you represent Karl Marx you cannot do this so left leaning extremists now the prime minister has come up with a term to describe some of them he says that they have occupied a vast influence over the minds of this country because they are located very close to the center of power I mean you can call it the Latin zone you can call it the Khan market consensus what have you but do you believe these individuals have a motivated interest or are they just ideologically driven to doing this see that is what I said their ideology is about Karl Marx they are motivated because unfortunately they have understood this when Marx envisioned communism he thought richest nations will go for communism because he believed out of our humanity we will become communist but right now they have understood only if there is poverty there will be communism to convert people into communism you need endemic poverty in this nation so they are working towards that they must be defeated because this is not good for the country the country is striving to progress people are striving to fulfill their aspirations and some people their aspiration is in based in poverty as a capital very interesting very eye opening and interesting sadguru I want to ask you that inevitably in a court case there will be one winner and loser I am telling you they are yes no go ahead you were saying something go ahead no I am telling you how far this ghost means this is not just about temple and mosque these same people are going about campaigning if you plant a lot of trees it's dangerous for the country how do you what do you say about that very interesting yeah I mean look there is obviously a massive debate raging in the country about the contribution of certain individuals but I just want to take it away from that a little bit because it's not about the country because your time is precious to us now there will be a side that might go away feeling hard done that injustice to use the words that you used have been done to them how should they cope with this who should they turn to to deal with this sense of loss if I may if they feel whatever the court may say I would advise I would advise either the Uttar Pradesh government if it is in their hands or the central government should do something to assuage their hurt in whichever form they think is best more than what is needed they must do to ensure that they don't feel hurt do you think there should be a temporal this is very important because this is not one generation so how should this how should this outreach it is not a one generations problem should it be through what sort of resolution mechanism would you suggest see one thing is I am not an expert or a scholar on Islam but from what little I have known one thing that clearly states that a mosque cannot exist on a disputed land when Mohammed speaks about a mosque he says it can be anywhere it can even be open space but only condition is it must be clean clean not just physically clean in every way clean that means he is telling you that there should be no disputes about it it must be a clean piece of land where we can assemble and seek God of course the highest possibility whatever you believe in you are trying to seek the highest possibility so in such a place let us not when there is such a big dispute and such negative emotion about it and somebody has so much angst that their temple has been taken I think even by the dictates of the religion there is simply not necessary somebody should educate them in the right sense rather than raking up and saying that injustice has happened tell me how to do justice divide it 50-50 this is like the Solomon's wisdom he asked the people two women claiming a child is there he said okay let us cut it into two then the mother said you take it I am not going to cut my child into two so don't go by this thing this Solomon's wisdom we must understand cutting it into pieces is not a solution we must offer a solution which will be good for everybody but there will be hurt as you said to assuage that if the court may just go by the law they may not bother to assuage the hurt the government should reach out and assuage the hurt it's very important the Hindu community should reach out and assuage the hurt that is very important you should not feel you should not burst crackers and jump around and we won we won this should not happen in the country you must have the humility that Ram had you must bow down to them that's it beautiful words yes beautiful words no triumphalism let's demonstrate the humility that Ram demonstrated even in victory thank you very much sadguru thank you it's been a very productive conversation and I hope your message resounds


Hi and how are you all today? Let us start with the question. It says find the principle and the general solution of the following equation. Now the value of cossack x is given to us as minus 2. Let us start with our solution. Now first of all we need to think that if we are given the value of cossack x as negative that means x lies in third and fourth quadrant, right? So let us find out the value of cossack in the third and the fourth quadrant. Cossack x is equal to minus 2 is equal to cossack plus pi by 6. Since it is in the third quadrant we will be adding it to pi to make it in the third quadrant and it comes out to be cossack 7 pi by 6, right? Similarly we will be finding the value of cossack x in the fourth quadrant. So that will be cossack. Now it will be 2 pi minus pi by 6 as it is in the fourth quadrant will be subtracting it from 2 pi and the answer comes out to be cossack 11 pi by 6, right? So that means the principle solution of x in the third quadrant is 7 pi by 6 and in the fourth quadrant it is 11 pi by 6, right? Proceeding on to find the general solution it will be x is equal to as cossack x is equal to 1 by sine x that means x is never equal to n pi. So it will be n pi plus minus 1 to the power n y that will be 7 pi by 6 and this is the general solution in case of cossack x where we write it as x is equal to n pi plus minus 1 to the power n and we will include y in it where y is 7 pi by 6 and also where n belongs to the set of integers, right? So this answers the question that was given to us. I hope you enjoyed the session and do remember how to find out the principle solution and the general solution. Bye for now.


So I'm here at IT Connect 2019, IT Nation Connect 2019. I practice this and still say it wrong. But that always makes for a more fun intro. I'm here hanging out with conscious labs and this is really cool. They have a new thing they're doing. So I've done a review of conscious labs. I talk about how detailed the reports are when they find indicators of compromise and problems on the system. And then people ask, but it doesn't do anything. I see you guys in the comments going, and yeah, you have to do action items on it. But that's actually not true now. You guys rolling out a new feature. This is another value add here. It's going to actually help you with the radiation process. So tell them a little about it. Yeah, so we're here. We're rolling out assisted remediation. And assisted remediation was really kind of our next step in our crawl-walk-run strategy. So the initial was, let's tell you how to remediate the incident. Let's tell you here's the steps that you need to do that your level one text can do. And we find that that worked really well, but it was time consuming because as an MSP, you had to schedule a tech. They had to coordinate with the customer, potentially log in and do the steps. And it worked, but there were sometimes people would miss steps, and then the malware would still be there so they had to go back. Or sometimes they were just busy and they couldn't get to it. So what we built was assisted remediation. So you can go in and you can review the plan that we've set up. The plan will say things like, delete this file, delete this registry key, delete this service. Just like you would get previously with your assisted remediation, or with your remediation recommendations. But now you'll be able to click a button and say, yes I approved this, go ahead and do it. And we'll task that. So the next time the agent calls in for tasking, we'll say go and do these steps and we'll automatically remediate that malware for you. I'm pretty excited about this. And I haven't tested it out yet, but that's the next step. But that's something announced here at IT Connect 2019. And like I said, this is, so you can really go in there and it does more. I know this is like the one thing people ask because it just reports, but it's kind of cool. And it's gonna be a time-saver if you have a massive mess to deal with. Which I think you guys probably have maybe done some testing. Yes, yeah. And that's one of the places where we found it like helps best, you know. Sometimes partners would get like a lot of malware and we'd send them this huge list and they had like 400 things they had to do. And inevitably they would email back and say, hey, this is a lot. Like is there some way you guys can help us out? So now you'll just see that. You'll be able to look through it and say, yeah, go ahead and do this and we'll do it all for you. So it's no longer a case of like, oh, I need to spend 20, 30 minutes doing this. Like we'll clean it up. Yeah. What I have to figure out is a way to infect some computers to test it out. It's gonna be the hard part. Yes. So you guys will probably help me with that part so I can see it in action. Yeah, it's interesting. We get a lot of partners who call us and say like, hey, we want to test yours out. Can you send us some malware? Will it do it with like the e-car file, the e-car test file? Oh, yeah, I think I know it won't. Okay. Cause that's really just like, that's for antivirus to like make sure your antivirus is working. Is there a version of it that's something that will make it able to trigger your product or? No. I'm kind of curious, okay. Yeah, we could probably find something to help you out there. A lot of people ask us for live malware and we always have to tell them like, no, no, no. No, no, you don't. That's a bad idea, you know. That's not a good idea. No, if you're not familiar with the e-i-car test file, check that out. That's a safe way to test. Yeah, you can find it online. It's like a text file. You can just save it. And if your antivirus is running, it should immediately flag it and say, hey, this is what we found. Yeah, and it's this test file. But so I didn't know if there was anything in your industry. You're niche. Not really, but we get a lot of requests for that. So it is something that we should build. Yeah, but this is, like I said, an announcement. I'll link back to the Hunter's video that I did. If you're not familiar with the product, it's a product we still use. This is not a paid endorsement, as I've said before. This is just, we like the product. We've been working with the company and they're really cool. I'm gonna throw it out there too. Tradecraft Tuesdays. Yes. This has been getting bigger for you guys. Yeah, yeah. So it's something Kyle and I actually started like three years ago where we would just go on weekly and we would try to talk about something, we'd talk about the news and the security industry and what was interesting about that. It ended up being just too much of a time sink so we stopped doing it for a while but we brought it back like three or four months ago and we're gonna do it once a month. And so we get on there. The three of us, myself, Kyle and John and we talk about here's some interesting tidbits in the news, whether you're an MSP or an IT shop and here's what it means for you. And then we also break down like some topic. We've done two factor. We've done administrative privileges and while you don't want to give that to your users and if you're an IT shop, whether that's MSP or an IT department and your users kind of push back and say, but I need administrative privileges, we gave you some stuff that you can talk about and it's like here's what you can say or here's some tools that you can use to make this problem easier. And we're gonna keep doing that with topics once a month. Yeah, it's kind of fun. So I've interacted with Kyle and some of his team here at Huntress and hackers at heart is the best way to describe it with all you guys. Real hands on the keyboard. You're not just saying, we're throwing magical AI. No, you're talking about how someone got in a network, how they pivoted and things like that. Some of the tradecraft of how the hackers work because you have to learn the tools, you have to learn how the bad actors, the bad actors are using these tools and playing with them to then understand how to protect against them. We've had some interesting conversations. I did that video on how ScreenConnect was used to deploy and that's because of the conversation I had with the team there and they're like, hey, you screen check time. Could it do these things with PowerShell? I'm like, actually it can do those things. You're like, oh, that's interesting because we're seeing this type of threat comes there. So it's all that continuing education and sharing it back. I like to share back. These guys have subscribed to their channel. They have a whole share back on there. Even if you're not using a product, you're gonna get some tips on cybersecurity and things like that. It's interesting stuff and like you guys all say, security is a team sport, man. We all gotta share as we learn about these threats as they come available, protect yourself against them and how to defend against them and what tools are being used and what to watch out for. So check out all that at Huntress Labs and if you're interested in a product, I have no special offers or anything. I'm not an affiliate, you just contact your salespeople and they'll sign you up and they have a free demo you can stand up for to test a product, right? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Come check it out and we'll tell you what we find and then we'll help you show the value to your customers and everybody wins. Unless you're scared because I will tell you it will find things. You go, wow, I thought these machines were clean. Yes, yeah, I mean it will find things but somebody actually said yesterday which I thought was interesting is if you're not doing that and you're not finding things you're hoping and hope is not a good strategy. So better to know that you have nothing than to hope that you have nothing. Yeah, I've seen someone talk about compliance. They say, show it in your compliance. If we don't look, we're not out of compliance because we didn't look, right? I don't think it really works that way, but. Sort of, until somebody else comes in and does the check for you and then you find out you no longer have that customer. Yeah, yeah, you don't want that. All right, go check them out at Hunter Slabs and leave links below, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out. If you'd like to hire us, head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on. 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My name is Stephanie Haynes and I'm from Pasco, Washington. And can you please tell us the testimony that you want to share with all of us today, what God did for you? Well, about probably six years ago I had C-section with my first child, and since then I've had complications using the restroom. I believe from that surgery. So I would have to take a lot of medications, drink lots of coffee, change my diet, a bunch of stuff, and when Pastor Vlad was praying two Wednesdays ago for healing, I thought, you know, what could I pray about? Because it kind of just became a lifestyle. It was just something I was used to. It was just part of who I was. And I felt like God put it on my heart, like, pray about that. That's not normal. You need to pray about that. So I prayed about it and it's been two weeks and I've been completely free from that problem. Wow, let's put our hands together for Jesus! So you mentioned that you are taking a lot of medications and stuff like that before. Have you taken any medications since? Nope, none at all. Wow, that's so awesome. So Stephanie, now that you are completely free from these stomach complications, what can you say, what advice do you have for other people who might have some sort of sickness or some type of pain that they have that, like you, they became used to it. It became a part of them. What can you say to them and what advice can you give them? Well, it's, if it's uncomfortable, if it's not normal, you know, don't believe that God doesn't want to heal you. He wants to heal you. And just have faith and He will set you free from it and you won't have to suffer from that anymore. Amen, let's put our hands together for Jesus!


Will Smith is one of those celebs who looks like he doesn't age. He definitely seems to have it all and then some. At the time of this recording, Will is 51 years old but doesn't look a day over 40, maybe even younger. So, what are Will's secrets to looking so great? You might be surprised. I personally thought that he would be the type to be super healthy and strict, but we'll get into that a little later. Aside from just his looks, Will seems to be happy and successful in all areas of his life. He's a successful Hollywood actor who's also had a career in TV, music, you name it. And Will has a beautiful wife of many years, Jada Pinkett Smith, and has two children with her, Willow and Jaden, as well as another son from his previous marriage named Trey. We know that Will isn't hurting in the financial department either, considering his net worth is estimated at 300 mil, actually making him one of the richest actors in the world. He's living the dream with his family in their Calabasas mansion, which has its own zip code. We also did a house tour of the Smith family home here on Famous Entertainment if you want to check it out, because let me tell you, it's crazy. At the moment, Will has over 40 million followers on Instagram, and he also has his own YouTube channel with over 7 million subscribers. He's pretty into posting and uses his Instagram and his channel to share things like vlogging his adventures, or just stuff with the fam. Will has been getting roles since the early days from his time on Fresh Prince to I Am Legend to the beloved genie in Disney's Aladdin, and it's no doubt he's changed over the years. But has he really changed all that much? I don't think so. You are getting shorter. What's going on guys and girls, my name is Cara, and this series we've titled Before and After. Today's video is going to be a little bit different than our usual ones because Will Smith hasn't seemed to change much over the years, and it's not like the man is getting plastic surgery. We're going to look at Will and how he's transformed from the early days of his career to now, or maybe just how he's stayed pretty much the same. We'll look at Will's fitness and any secrets he has to looking so damn young, here for you on Famous Entertainment. I've done other celebrity transformation videos on the likes of Rihanna and the Kardashian geners, and we'll have links to those at the end of this. If you like this channel, make sure you're subscribed and ring that bell to be notified when we post so you never miss out. I've been reading all your comments and I'm going to be responding to some at the end of this. As always, if there's anyone else you want me to document, let me know in the comments down below. And be sure to follow me on Instagram because I love connecting with you guys. Now let's get into this video. We'll start by looking at Will in the early days. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Will seemed to know pretty early on that he wanted to be in the spotlight, or more specifically, wanted to rap. Fast forward a little bit and Will started off as the MC of the hip hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince with his childhood friend Jeffrey. This was the start of that rap career Will has always wanted, so before he was ever an actor, he did music as I'm sure you know. In 1990, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was born. This sitcom was basically built around Will and it was a huge success. Of course back then, Will had a completely different look and style, but I mean it was the 90s. He looked cool for the era, I think. And you gotta love that bare chest tracksuit look. Although Will had an iconic look, especially for his role as the Fresh Prince, he did have some fashion regrets and some outfits he was really not so fond of. And I saw I had a half shirt. I blame my friends. You know, you can't wear a half shirt on national television. Will's Fresh Prince style included plenty of signatures like his neon cap and interesting outfits over the years. If you watched the show, you might remember some of the things Will wore, like pants with crazy prints and colors, oversized patchwork or leather jackets, plenty of 90s jogging suits or that undershirt over the t-shirt look. Pretty iconic. In the early 90s, Will also started scoring roles in blockbuster movies and his Hollywood career really started to take off at this point. He was well in his way to leading man status pretty quickly and also launched his solo music career with the first men in black. In 95, he met his current wife Jada and they started making appearances together. Their style as a couple has definitely evolved with the times too. Just like Will's career progressed over time, so did his fashion, but he did rock a lot of great outfits even back then. He pulled off the all leopard look, the leather outfit look, even the jerseys. I wanted to get my clothes and I wanted them to show that a hyper energetic person and then slowly I started to evolve into where I am today where where I call it a classy splat out, which is what I try to do. It's just really classy, but you gotta have a little splat out. It's my own term, it's my own style, it's classy, splat out. Although Will embraced plenty of trends and actually looked good most of the time, he's grown into a super classy style and has come a long way since the Fresh Prince era. I want to know what you guys think, what were your fave Will throw back outfits? These days, Will always seems to be looking great. Number one, you're not in charge of the bow ties. I feel like he mentioned bow talks in that clip but I'm not sure what that was about. I personally don't think the man gets any and if he does that's some supernatural looking bow talks for sure. Fashion wise Will definitely has mastered the leading man look. He always looks sharp, classy and rocks some really great suits for the red carpet. I can see that him and Jada still clean up really nice for events as a couple too. Yeah, we dress up nice. So the question is how has Will managed to stay looking so great after all these years? He always looks ripped when he stars in movies too, even recent roles. I would think that Will keeps a strict diet in order to get his body the way it is and they do say that as you get older it's harder to stay in shape too. So I was surprised to hear that a few months ago Will's family was actually calling him Pudge Muffin. After an overindulgent vacation, Will said on an episode of Red Table Talk chatting with his fam that he was the most he's ever weighed at 225 pounds. He blamed it on eating too many fresh muffins every day and having alcohol at lunch. Sounds like living the dream to me. Of course Will ended up quickly losing the weight because he wanted to get back in shape after that trip. He claimed he did some sort of fasting which was also unhealthy and then revealed that he actually doesn't know anything about food and the way it affects his body. Will said, I eat food like an addict. I love food.  I eat for joy. He said, I get bored and I start to eat. I realized I'm a grazer. I put something in my mouth every 30 minutes all throughout the day. So clearly Will has a more relaxed attitude towards food than you might think. But to get those abs we see Will rocking in a lot of his movies he has to train hard.  He had five days a week of lifting sessions that focused on one or two specific body parts, ran at least five miles six days out of the week and boxed twice a week. Will's trainer at the time, Daryl Foster said, There's no better fitness regimen than the one a professional fighter uses. It seems like more recently, Will has been doing the same for his roles and still going hard with the exercise. Even while filming Suicide Squad, Will tore a leg muscle training early on but was still committed. He said, When you're 47 years old, no injury is a mild injury anymore. I was stepping back to throw a blow and my calf popped. Everyone heard it. The doctor there told me I was going to be down for six weeks but I couldn't allow that. Come on man, damn! Even though that happened the man trained harder than ever so it's no wonder Will is proud to show off his body when filming. Apparently his drive even inspired the rest of the cast to push harder in the gym but I'm not surprised. With Will's workout planned post injury he did a lot of controlled motions without too much weight and focused on four more. His trainer Aaron Ferguson said, We were trying to build up the shoulders and slim down the waist to give that real action figure look which I think we accomplished. And if you want Will's full workout routine for this you can see it online. Looks pretty intense though. For Will's eight pack abs apparently the main exercises involved using the crunch machine with super heavy weight and slow movement and doing leg raises on a pull-up bar. From the sounds of it, Will doesn't follow any specific diet but when he's filming certain movies he has to have some ground rules. For Suicide Squad he didn't diet super strict but Will was eating around 3,500 calories a day. During these times when he's training apparently he makes sure to take some protein powder through the day and has a go-to dinner of grilled chicken breasts, sweet potatoes and broccoli. One Christmas while he was filming he couldn't eat carbs and Will said it was terrible. So now that we've looked at Will's fashion transformation from those fresh prince days and crazy 90s outfits to his classy leading man style now pretty sure we can all agree the man looks great. I think it's also clear that Will hasn't changed all that much for a man who's over 50. He looks about 10 years younger than he really is. From the sounds of it his secrets to staying youthful have nothing to do with getting work done or even a really strict diet. Will gets serious about his diet only when he needs to be in tip-top shape for a roll or lose weight but aside from that he seems to enjoy food and just appreciate the good things in life. I think everyone needs to indulge a little bit sometimes. Whatever Will's doing he's obviously happy and living a beautiful and successful life with his family. It also doesn't seem like he's slowing down anytime soon so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what's next for the actor. Okay guys now I'll be reading out some comments from past videos. These ones are from Will and Jada's house tour vid we recently did on the channel. Elizabeth Ray has said, I love the outside of the home more than the inside I'm more neutral and modern vibes but I love them as a couple. I thought they would have had more of a modern vibe. I agree Elizabeth I love the outside. I also didn't know what to expect of their design style before I saw the home but it's definitely different. Renee Roberts said about the home, Jada and Will deserve everything beautiful that comes from their combined work. Work hard, play harder. That's a great way of looking at it Renee. I think the same thing good for them. And finally Jose commented requesting Kevin Hart's house tour so thanks for the suggestion and that one will actually be up soon so stay tuned. All right guys and girls that wraps up this video here on before and after. If you want to talk more about Will's transformation you can hit me up on Instagram. I want to know what you guys think. Did you guys think Will would have more rules when it came to staying fit? What was your fave Will look over the years? Let me know in the comments and let me know who else who would like me to make a before and after video on and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye.


Your coca-cola bottler presents, Claudia, based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia Darling come on David wake up Quickly David please wake up Time to get up already practically, please. Oh, don't turn over come on get up. What is it or fire? No, what's no no on the ground snow over everything Snow what all right? I guess no use if you don't appreciate it go on back Let me see you're trying to tell me that it's snowed outside if I understand you correctly You understand perfectly correctly the first time has it snowed a great deal snowed Enormously, oh, aren't you gonna get up and see it won't go away Well might snow melt then I suppose I'll have to look or I'll be nagged until I do go on actors If you're not interested won't hurt my feelings. I didn't do it. Where am I slippers? Oh, you don't need any slippers. It's warm today It's always warm when it snows. No This great blasé performance you're putting on mr. Not and I noticed a minute I said snow you stopped yawning you were wide awake. How could I help it with you jabbing my ribs? I did not jab you lead me to the window love need yourself love cold Hey Why didn't you tell me it had snowed? What? Why didn't you tell me it had snowed? I heard you the first time but I did not believe my ears. Oh, you said David it snowed that you didn't mention anything like this. Do you like it? Mm-hmm It's really snowed in it quite nothing in the world is quite as snow Must be at least Oh eight inches deep. How can you tell see the stone wall over there?  It's not a thing to listen to nothing moving Not even any footprints or anything. We're just like an island Now How do you like winter in the country? It is gorgeous. There's only one thing wrong. It had to go to snow by in my back Couldn't wait till I was awake and could see it, of course Well, if it had waited it wouldn't be all ready for us now. You mean you mean to look at I mean more than to look at Snow's not just meant to look at you know, David. Do you mean I mean exactly? Oh But David you have to get dressed and have breakfast and go to new york and go to work Yeah, I had to get dressed I have to have breakfast but That's all I have to do. Oh, David. That's what I love about you darling. You would give up architecture All because this is our first snow in our fun. Well, it's a nice sentiment, but unfortunately, it's not exactly true Well, I don't get you you're talking contradictions. Well, you may have forgotten but this happens to be the morning I have to be in eastbrook. Oh at 11 o'clock. I'm due to meet with the school board Blueprints in hand. Oh darling. You plan everything so beautiful. No, don't I though you say the meeting's not till 11 Got until 11 Uh, let's see that's about about uh, three and a half hours exactly Plenty of time to go and we can use the one that we found in the loft of the barn I haven't been sledding since I don't know when I bet she's not anywhere as near as long as since I've been Oh, you make yourself sound as old as Jared Tucker.  Oh, let's just put on our bathrobes and ask mama to go sledding with it Mama's probably still asleep. This is not a morning for mama or for anybody to sleep on Hey, david, throw me my slippers. I am not standing over there. I'm standing over here. I was trying not to hit you Almost did. I'm gonna go and wake up mama Hey, tell her we'll make her a nice snowball for our breakfast. We'll do Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh Jack Frost in person Mama, what you doing up any objection? I'm looking at the snow. Oh David said you'd be asleep david was wrong. I must have snowed all night. Did you ever see anything beautiful? Certainly looks pure. Oh, I don't regret summer a bit Mama, have you any ski pass? I should say not what for for the snow snow doesn't need them Oh, but you well, you can't go sledding in a fur coat and dress. I can't go. What can't go sledding dress like a lady Claudia this lady has no intentions of going sledding not at all. Mama. It's full of snow outside I shall admire it and no more Oh mama since when are you said to stick in the snow since I arrived at the age of reason Darling when a person starts blaming their unwillingness to partake in the gear things of life and blame it on their reason in good sense It's it's hopeless to try and convince them otherwise They are lost cause david you ought to be ashamed you've been eavesdropping and mama is a lost cause Very lost very contented and don't try to rescue her. Please. I am surprised at you, mrs. Brown refusing some good wholesome sport My little sledding would do you a world of good. I don't care to be done. Good too. Thank you Well, and come on darling pay no more attention to your decrepit old mother stick some snow can break my bow Last chance mama, then I will take this opportunity to say that I think you'll both be sorry sorry for what you'll see She's so cryptic today. Oh, she's just envious because you and I still have the pulse of life in our veins Oh, you sure do talk pretty mr. Naughton.  You're going to risk your neck. Well, don't you worry about our neck snow soft What about breakfast when we get back and you better tell bertha to make it griddle cakes We're going to have appetizers biggest houses Well, let's get dressed david leave mama to her knitting have fun and for heaven's sakes be careful children Remember, you're not children anymore. We are children at heart mama. Can you think of a better place? Hey, david wait for me? Oh, I wish we're out in the snow already sledding and snow balling and rolling in it up to my Gosh, I never realized this hill of ours is so steep. Did you david pick up your feet? I'm trying to but It's beautiful, but exhausting sit on the sled.  What do you take me for a lazy female for that? I will walk up. Thank you You know the trouble is going down is so much faster than going up. It's gravity nonsense sledding Oh, david life can be so simple one people that is that it can David what turn around I have a surprise for you Oh It's you right in the air. I'm distracting me by talking philosophy. I should have known you're nothing but a hoidon david David, what are you going to do?  You're much too.  I'm a little snowball. It was a wet cold snowball. Prepare yourself for your destiny, mrs. Wait for me.  Are you promise? Yes What do you think I am Like an avalanche You seduced me in behaving like one Oh, I love a serious man when he's not serious. Who's you are? What? Serious and that makes sense, but only to me. Oh, it's all that matters now. Come on get about that drift before you freeze I am Good thing it's soft. That's all I can say Well now that you're on your feet again, mrs. Norton and we're alone on top of the hill with no one to hear. I'll um I'll tell you something. I don't trust you.   I am Not quite nice girl. I am Not bad looking in those ski clothes Confidence imagine. Do you know something else? No, what?  I've ever sledded with finally the truth What's the matter? Did you never go sledding as a tot? I lived in virginia. Remember I remember but it snows in virginia, too Mama was nervous after watching you today. I don't blame her when I was a tot I had no big strong man to teach me like no Oh, listen those poor crows. They must be freezing Well, come on. Let's go home. You're freezing too. No just starving That's school board meeting remember Yeah, I think you belong not on the board but in the kindergarten. Oh, thanks All right last ride down. Oh All good things must come to an end. I suppose. All right now here you sit on the sit on the front of the sled and yes I'll put your feet on the steering bar. There you are I know you don't have to tell me each time david. I learned quick. Hey david is slipping. Hold on to me Yes All right, give me the rope. Here it is. Now hold me All right, we're off. Here we go We'll stop right at the front door of the house. Oh, it's wonderful. You're going so fast. Is it heaven? Keep your head down. Watch that tree. It's cold We're teetering david. Hold on. We're almost there. Hold on david. Hold me. I'm gonna fall There's mama at the front door of the house. Let's you all make this a good one. They are slipping off. I'm going. No, you're not. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on.  No, you don't say so You don't believe it, eh? Two grown people well if you can get yourselves out of the snow the griddle cakes are ready and waiting griddle Hey david help me up. I'm in a drift out of my neck I'm gonna highly help myself My legs are so stiff. I can hardly Oh, what's the matter darling my arm. I aching every inch of my this is what's becoming that gay couple So free of heart so very young went sledding an hour ago Yep, this is all that's left. No, this is all that's left. This is just the pieces And you win mrs. Brown. Oh, what do you mean? Well, we're not quite as young as we work. Oh, no One hour ago You want your teenagers friends to feel welcome in your house One of the easiest ways to manage that is to have plenty of coca-cola in the refrigerator For coke is the number one requirement of any youthful get-together Have a case put in the car today when you're marketing Coke offers a pleasant inexpensive way to make people of all ages feel at home Have you ever seen such a pair as claudian david? I wish I had my ski suit here I'd show them a thing or two about the bellywobbin.   Oh, don't remind me. I know I do My wife's been after me to get one for a few days now. I I just don't seem to have had the chance That reminds me. I noticed davids was a little shaggy today too. Well, it usually is Why don't you remind him? Oh, david doesn't usually forget that sort of thing. He must have a reason, you know Besides, I don't think men like to be reminded. How right you are mrs. Brown Maybe tomorrow. We'll have a haircut till then. Goodbye joe. Goodbye mrs. Brown Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying or of war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere These broadcasts are adapted for radio by mania star and the entire production is supervised and directed by william brown meloni And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola


Hello friends, how are we doing? It's time for a video I get excited about, but also I feel I always feel very nervous to this video. We'll get into one in a second. But we're going to be talking about my most anticipated releases for the first half of the year. I always do it in two halves because there's loads of books that are going to come out in the second half this year that we're all going to be excited about that haven't even been announced yet. New Richard Osman book, he's got a book coming out in September. Do we know what it's about? No, actually I listened to his podcast. This is, we're already off on a tangent. I in my brain, I want to keep this video very concise because we've got a lot of books to talk about but here we go. He has started doing a podcast called The Rest is Entertainment where he talks about like movie and TV. If you don't know Richard Osman worked in TV for many, many years before he started writing books, he like created a lot of famous TV shows. I think like Deal or No Deal. I don't know if he created it, but he like created a lot of really famous, particularly game TV shows here in the UK. So it was predominantly what he talks about, but he did speak about his new book the other day and he was like, yeah I've barely written it. I've got to get it in by March. So there's Richard Osman book coming out this year that we don't know anything about or we know a little bit about. We know the vague synopsis about a father, daughter, father and daughter-in-law, detective, agency, GUI. But anyways, tangent over. We're going to be talking about my most anticipated release this is my first half year and I've got over 40 books to talk about. 40 books. I don't like to read synopsis to you in this video. I like to turn up and just tell you the things that stand out to me, but I like to free will it basically. I have just gone through and read the synopsis of all of these books. So like it's not like I'm underprepared. I have read the synopsis of all of them, but I'm not going to read the synopsis out to you. I'm going to tell you what I think is going to make you most excited. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to phrase in my own way. There's no plagiarism here. I'm saying people who read our synopsis are plagiarizing. I will speak for myself. That's a horrible thing to say. No it's not. I'm very nervous because we want to keep this book, this video snappy. We don't want it to be 40 minutes long and we've got over 40 books to talk about. So we should just begin, shall we? And I'm going to tell you about all the books that you should be excited about coming out this year. Really, I have no business talking about 40 books. I'm excited about coming out in the first half of the year when I read about 35 new releases every year that come out that year. So it can all that. Um, but let's get into it, shall we? I'm excited for a lot of these books. I get very excited about new releases because I'm just so full of promise. I just want to say I'm putting the release dates. We're going in order of release date. However, some of these release dates are UK ones. Some of them won't be UK ones. Some of them will be the US ones and the book won't come out then in the UK and I just didn't know that. The New World Children's Moe comes out in February in the UK, but it's already out in the US. So I've got it down it's coming out in February because it's not out for me. But some of these books are they've got the release date wrong for UK and some of them it will be the UK release date and those videos will be like, what? That's coming out here in the US. Moving on. Okay, first we have got The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins. I have read Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins and I really did enjoy it. This one sounds very intriguing. It's about this Heiress who dies. She's very notorious. I think she was like kidnapped at some point. She's got like millions and millions of pounds of wealth and her wealth goes to her adopted son and at first he ain't interested in it. He's like, no, I'm all right and he goes off, gets, goes to the countryside, gets married. But then his uncle dies and it goes back to him again. He's like, okay, right, I'm coming back. I think it's to do with him and his wife going back to this house and family secrets, family tensions. Maybe someone's gonna murder them for the money. Who knows? You know, Rachel Hawkins, I've only read one book, but for me it was very like fun thriller. You know, it was very like we're here for shits and giggles. We're here to have fun. We're not going to take ourselves too seriously. And that's The Heiress. Then we have The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh. This is a debut and it's set during a hurricane and I believe a woman and her son who recently, the woman's recent gone through a divorce, left the son's father. Everyone in their apartment block gets chucked out because they're like, it's not going to be safe in the hurricane. So they go to her sister's family home. The husband's a little bit weird. Then I think some of the husband's family turn up and then someone dies and they're all trapped in this house in the storm. I saw the drama me. I just love it. I love and I was like, close circle murder mystery. I feel like that. I didn't read a lot last year. I actually didn't read. I've got a video coming up where I'm going to recommend the 10 best murder mysteries I've read in the past year. And it was actually a struggle. I am not reading enough murder mysteries. I feel like we had a, we had like a increase in them and then they're dying again and I'm not happy about it. I'm really, really excited about this one. It sounds incredible. The cover, I feel like it's so much ferric. I'm so ready for it. Then we have Only If You're Lucky by Stacey Runningham, who is an author I somehow read. They're two first books, even though they're not like an incredible author to me. I've read them. This one very interestingly is about female friendships is about, I think, a university and one of them is like this star girl, you know, the other ones shy and they become friends and they move in together and then a nearby like guy from another, what's the word, frat, I don't know, American words, is murdered and the star girl, she goes missing and um, shy girl is like gonna investigate, you know, which is interesting because Stacey Runningham's first two books have been very much based, I feel like, on a little bit older characters, very much to do with like couples, more domestic thrillers. She hasn't uncovered female friendships yet. I'm intrigued to see how she does that. Then we have The Mystery Guest by Nina Proz, this is the sequel to The Maid. We're following Molly The Maid again at her hotel and a murder happens. I think it's like a really well-known mystery author is murdered. Is it his secretary? Is it the doorman? Has Molly got something to do with it but Molly's going to investigate it again and I did enjoy The Maid. I didn't love it but I think it was a fun mystery so I'm excited for the next one in the series to come out. Then we've got one that I actually already know, I got a advanced copy, well I think this is a finished copy but I got it advanced, is Helly and Death by Oscar Jensen. This is Scandi, what's it called? Scandi Cosi, a love letter to Agatha Christie. Okay, I got to tell you what it's about, so it goes a snowstorm, a country house, old friends reunited, it's going to be murdered.  Let me tell you before I press play I like the song. I'm in love with the song. Okay I'm not going to read you out many synopses but this one sounds, I got, I got to read you out the start of this. Torben Helly, I'm sorry, a Danish expert and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers has been dragged to a remote south snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a 10-year reunion with old university friends. Things start to go sideways when their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations at the table. Then these are followed by an apparent suicide and group faces attest to their wits and their trust, Snowden and Cut-Off, Torben decides to draw upon all the tricks of golden age detectives pass in order to solve the mystery. This is very exciting, this is very exciting, I'm really excited for this one. Oh I think this is going to be great. Look at it, I love a floor plan. That's how you get me. So I, I really need to get to this soon. I feel like because it snowed in it could snow soon. What can I read this for? Okay let me go like rearrange some of my videos so that maybe I can read this in February. Then we have got No One Can Know by Kate Asmarshall. I haven't read any Kate Asmarshall's adult thrillers that she's started coming out with yet but I'm really intrigued. So this one, a girlie and her husband, she finds out she's pregnant, they're broke, everything's going wrong, she's sacked from her job and she's like okay, my love, it's something I haven't told you. I actually own my old family home with my sisters, we own it jointly, we can't sell it but we can go live in it rent-free. Okay? Only thing I haven't told you is my parents were murdered there and people maybe think I did it. A profound silence has entered the chat. So I think it's about her reuniting with her sisters, mystery, who murdered their parents, etc, etc. I'm very excited for it. Then we have one, another one that I got on Arkov. Death on the Lysotania by R.L. Graham. Lysotania is one of the most luxurious ocean liners within 1915 and there's a murderer on board. There's a murderer on board and we're stuck on a boat and someone killed someone. A man's body is discovered in a lock cupboard with a key inside and no gun to be found so he's shot but the room is locked. Locked room and a mystery. I love a good locked room and a mystery. I think I'm gonna enjoy that. Then we have Come and Get It by Kylie Reid who is the author of Such a Fun Age. This one has very mixed reviews already. A lot of people are giving it three stars, I've seen have got the arcs of it. It's about this professor and students and money, indiscretion, bad behavior, desire, consumption, reckless abandon. I'm a little bit nervous for it. I really liked what Such a Fun Age was saying, what it was doing. I'm interested and I love the cover. I think the cover is very fun but a lot of people are saying it's kind of just like people at college behaving badly. So then we have Bride by Annie Reid where there's a few in this video that I'm not gonna spend too long on but they're my most excited ones because they were on my 24 books read and 24 video and this was one of them. It's a paranormal romance between a werewolf and a vampire who have to go into an arranged marriage to preserve the alliance, the tentative alliance but their rivals between their clans. And you're going home sweetie. That's what it is. I'm very excited. She can just keep writing. She can just keep writing and I'll keep reading. You know, I love you Allie. I love you. Then we've got 14 days by the author's guild. I wrote dynamics by Margaret Atwood. I think it's edited by Margaret Atwood but it's set in this apartment block in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns and they meet on the roof every night. Like the residents of this apartment block meet on the roof every night and they're like chatting about their lives and it's written by various authors but I think that you don't know who's written each chapter. So each author is written a different chapter but you don't know who it is. Who are some of the other authors? Oh Celestine, Emma Donahue, Neil Gaiman, John Grisham. So yeah, there's a lot of really prominent authors. I think this is an interesting idea and also not knowing who wrote each chapter. I wonder if I'll be able to like pick them out or if anyone would be able to pick them out. Next we have an education in malice by Essie Gibson. Some people said this is a sequel to A Daryl of Blood. I don't think it is. I think it's just another vampire rebook. We're set at this like school for girls, isolated and Carmina's there. Carmina is a student. Yep, yep. I'm excited for this one. Dark academia, you know, it's coming out in February. I feel like it should come out in autumn or like, you know what I mean? It should have come out. That's a bit late because then we're getting into springtime and like we're in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts. Then we have The Warm Hands of Ghost by Catherine Arden, another one that is on my 2024 TBR because it's Catherine Motherfucking Arden, baby. I don't know why I always say that.  Like it's just Catherine Motherfucking Arden. This is a horrible one book which doesn't make me nervous. But we're following a brother and sister. The sister is a nurse and she has just found out that her brother has died but for some reason she doesn't really believe it to be true. And then we're following the brother a year earlier when he finds himself I think in an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier and they're trying to fight their way out together. I just think it's a standalone. It's Catherine Arden. She's gonna give it to me. And the way she's been speaking about this book has me very intrigued. She's speaking about like what a labor it was, how difficult it was to write. Like how, what, she's been negging it up.  She's been negging it up. And so yeah, I'm really excited for this one. Then we have What Feasts at Night by T. King Fisher. This is a sequel to What Moosa Dead. And this one we're following Alex Easton again as I think they go to their old family hunting lodge and they turn up and the caretaker is dead, the lodge has been overturned and there's like a strange silence hanging around the lodge. It's again, it's a short novella. It's horror. I love T. King Fisher. I'm reading all T. King Fisher stuff so I'm very excited for this one. Then we have one that's tentative. It's tentative. It's tentative. We Have the Women by Kristen Hannah. It's a book set in the Vietnam War. I don't know. I'm just like you all know that Kristen Hannah's got another book coming out.  My purpose is to make you cry. And I don't know how much it earned it. Like I don't look back at that and think I was really emotionally invested but like I bold reading that book. I remember reading it still. The reviews, oh my god guys. It's got 2,900 advanced ratings and people have obviously got ARCs and it has got a 4.68 average rating. Everyone loves me.  So this is basically telling the stories of women during the Vietnam War where their stories have been forgotten essentially. Then we have Miss Lady in Parts Half-Nine by Sean Allquire. I think I'm gonna read this as soon as it comes out. I have a video that I think I'm gonna push back a couple weeks so that this book can go in the video. I can read it as soon as it comes out. This is The Next In The Way We're Children series. We're following Anne C again who we met, well we met in like a previous previous book but we really followed her in the last book In The Way We're Children series. If you don't know what this series yet is, where have you been? But it's about these portal worlds these kids go to and it's the perfect one for them. And Anne C maybe is a little bit easier at finding doors. Maybe she finds it a bit easier than other people. So maybe she's gonna help some other people find doors. Maybe we're gonna go on a quest. It's been a while since we had a quest. And basically the books alternate between being in a world, in a portal world, like in a character's portal world, and then another one where we maybe start off at End of the West School for We're Children and like either it's set at the school or we travel from the school if that makes sense and this is one that starts at the school. And I love those ones. I think I'm more for school galley. I like the school setting. Oh god, we're only in February still. Then we have Tender Beast by LaZelle Sanbury. LaZelle is an authortuber. I used to watch a lot when I was really in my authortuber days. I haven't been watching as much because I'm that's not my focus right now but maybe it will be by the end of the year. But LaZelle has the Bloodlight Magic Geology, Delicious Monsters which came out last year which I had one of the things about and this is her release this year. And I just, I own Bloodlight Magic. I need to read it. All of her books sound incredible. This one is about a family dynamic. I think it's about these four siblings and the eldest one is told when her before her mother dies to look after Dom I think and she's like okay. And then she finds Dom with blood on his hands and there's a body and she's like uh and he's like I promise I didn't murder. And so it's about these family secrets and family dynamics. I think that's a very interesting idea of a book. Next one I can't tell you much about. I can't remember. I can't remember and the plot I read it. I didn't give me much. It is a dark and drowning tide by Alice and Saf. I just added it because of the cover. I'm gonna be quite honest with you. Great gowns, beautiful gowns. It's sapphic fantasy with a sharp-tongued folklorist and her academic rival must team up to solve their mentor's murder. Sapphic fantasy romance. And listen I'm not the biggest like romanticy fan as we keep proving but I think something about this one and it's I think I'm hoping it's gonna have very lush lyrical writing based on the cover. This is entirely based on the cover. But like when I saw that cover I couldn't not add it to my to my spreadsheet. Could I? Nope. Nope. Then we have Murder Road by Simone St James. I'm really excited about this one. So a young couple they're driving down the road they're trying to find they're like we're on our way to our honeymoon where do we like where's our where's our resort and they pick up a hitchhiker and find out they look at the hitchhiker and there's blood seeping out of their coat and then this like truck starts running towards them and the hitchhiker dies. Gag a trandra. Here's the thing. So most of James's books always have like a speculative element to them. So I'm suspecting that there's like a loop or like old murders are being relived on this road. It's set in 1995. Oh, I suppose it James. I love I love her fresh take on books. It's kind of like a horror kind of like a murder mystery kind of speculative. There's so many layers to it. So I'm very excited for Murder Road. I think that could be a good one this year. Then we have The Best Way to Burry Your Husband by Alexia Cassele. This one is about four women who kill their husbands and they're helping each other bury the bodies basically basically. Good for her. Good for her. Good for her. I'll see you tonight. See you tonight. Then we have West Sleeping Girls Lie by Farida Abikey Ahmeday. This is the author of Ace of Spades which I didn't love and everyone else loved but I want to give her another chance. This is again set at like a boarding school. She loves a good like prestigious school setting. Girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and cover-ups after her roommate disappears and a student is found dead. So I'm out of mystery. I'm intrigued. I love the cover. I'm going to give her another go. I'm going to give her another go. Then we have The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentil. This is about a mystery writer who turns up to like her brother's house and is like let me in. Let me in. I need to write these books. But then her mentor is brutally murdered and her brother is the suspect. I read The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentil which I didn't love as much as I was hoping but I did really enjoy it.  Then we have The Kellaby Code. Here's the situation with this one. The Kellaby Code. It's got some 16 ratings so not a lot of people have read this yet in terms of arcs but it's got a 3.25 average rating which is not a good start. I'm a little bit concerned but part of that is probably because it's got so few ratings like a one it's got one one star and that will throw it off a lot. But it's about this guy who is living a world he can't afford to in which he doesn't belong but he like does stuff with his friends but then he finds out his friends are like dating and he's like absolutely not. I love one of you.  I don't know. The plot doesn't give me a lot but Rich Nosman recommended it on his podcast the other day and said like it's his favorite book he's written ages. So like I have to listen to Richard. Where would I be if I didn't listen to Richard? I have to so I've added it to my spreadsheet. Richard loved it so I've probably got to read it. Then we've got Icarus by Kate Ankrem. I really enjoyed everything I've read from Kate Ankrem. She's got very very unique writing and this is I'm not going to tell you the whole plot because it's really confusing but all you need to know reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he's been stealing from. And if you've read Kate Ankrem before and you know her writing you just know what we're in for. You just know what we're in for. That's what I'm going to tell you. You have to know if you get the girls are gonna get it and the girls are don't don't. Like if you know the vibe of Kate Ankrem you know what we're going for and I'm very excited. Oh then we have one I'm so excited for. I think this is gonna be so good. We have How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin for fans of Knives Out and the Thursday Murder Club. This one's so fun so it's about this woman who when she was young in 1965 she receives a prophecy from like a fortune teller saying yeah girl you're gonna be murdered. Sucks to be you. And so she spends her whole life trying to solve her murder. She's compiling dirt on everyone in life. She's got dossiers baby and then her is it her niece? Oh her granddaughter? I'm not sure. Some relative. Oh it's her great aunt. Yeah okay yeah okay so it's her great niece. She turns up the house and finds this woman murdered. She's been murdered and so she's trying to use all the dirt that she's dug up and like the secrets and everything to like figure out who's done this murder. I think this is gonna be a great release this year. Then we have as you guys know if you watched my last video one of my most exciting releases again it is The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Tartan. We all need to take a moment. We all need to take a moment. Okay so we've got the last 122 people left and three scientists in this world. They are on this little island. The whole rest of the world has been destroyed by this fog. They are protected on this island from this fog okay. They are like they're fishing, they're farming, they're living their lives like whoo we're on the island. Then one of the scientists is murdered and it triggers a lowering of the security system and so the fog's gonna come get them if they don't solve what the murder happened. They have 92 hours and the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before which means someone on the island is a murderer and they don't even know it. The murderer doesn't know that they did the murder. Sorry. I'm not kidding that's the best song I've ever heard. Oh my god. I'm so excited for this one. This is gonna, this is gonna be first house. This is gonna be first house. This is gonna be first house. I'm so excited. Well we have a lot of my most excited perks coming out in a row. Then we have Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez. This is also this video and the next one was in the video. Just For The Summer is about this boy and a girl who both when they date people that person after they break up goes on to find their soulmate, the love of their life and so they decide to date to cancel each other out. Abby Jimenez has become one of my romance girlies. I trust her. I get along with her. I love her romances and this one's like her first one that I've read that's a bit speculative so I'm very excited for it. Then we have The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson. This girlies mother disappeared when she was younger. She's lived in the shadow of her mother's disappearance forever.  This is gonna be me and Holly Jackson reunited. We're gonna get along again. We're gonna be besties again. We're gonna forget if I've survived ever existed. We don't need to talk about that. But yeah, I think this is gonna be a return to form for Holly Jackson and I'm very, very, very excited. Then we have The Gathering by CJ Tudor who is a very reliable author for me and I'm just gonna read you out the synopsis because it's so short. It says, A small Alaskan town, a missing boy, a brutal murder, a detective bought in from out of state to assist the former sheriff who investigated a similar murder 25 years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath or something even more terrifying? That's all we know. But the idea of it being set in this small, isolated Alaskan town, very exciting to me. Then we have The Familiar by Lee Bardugo. I'm gonna be honest with you, the plot of this one is not going in my head but I love Lee Bardugo and I'm excited for something different from her. I'm very, I love whenever she comes up with something different. Grisha first.  I guess that really upset her and I heard that she never wants to see my face again. Sabrina! This is a historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age and I think there's like political maneuverings and secrets and hiding and scheming. Just look at the cover. We've all added it to our most anticipated pay releases. The synopsis is sometimes when I'm doing this video there's just certain synopsis that don't make it into the brain. Like I try and they're just not easily digestible. They don't make it in. But I'm very excited. I'm gonna love it and I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it this year. Oh then we have One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole. Again, I didn't love None of Us What No? When No One Is Watching. I didn't love When No One Is Watching as much as everyone else did but this one sounds very interesting. We've got Konitia Nash who has Disassociative Identity Disorder. So she has lots of altars. They have lots of... The synopsis refers to the characters both she and they. They've become a caretaker of this historical estate. They get stuck on the island because of like a storm I think and this guy that she hates and what her life crashing down is murdered and she's the prime suspect and they have to figure out what's going on. So I think that sounds like a very interesting synopsis so I'm excited for that one. They only have When Among Crows by Veronica Roth. I've really been intrigued by a lot of the stuff Veronica Roth has been coming out with lately. I feel like Divergent happened and I feel like she disappeared but I don't think she did. I think she came out with like another trilogy. But I really enjoyed Poster Girl by Veronica Roth. I really love the short story arc that she wrote in one of the like Amazon Kindle collections. And then she's come out with two novellas. A very different sounding and I'm just intrigued by this one. Step into a city where monsters feast on human emotions. Knights split their soul to make their weapons and witches always take more than they can give. We're gonna go find Baba Yaga for an enchanted flower. I don't know. I just like the cover and everything that Veronica Roth is doing at the moment intrigues me so I added it. Then we have The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry. I love the cover for this one. I love it. This is about a woman who is cleaning the house of a reclusive horror director. She loves horror films.  Look at these props that were in these horror films. I'm dusting it. And then she starts to hear a voice behind a locked door of someone calling for help.  I love the cover. I think it's gonna be camp. Camp. It's camp. It's camp. I don't know what to tell you. Then we've got The Main Character by Jacqueline Goldis. I really enjoyed The Chateau by Jacqueline Goldis. I know that everyone loved it. But I enjoyed it and I love the cover of this one. So we've got this mystery author who hires real people and conducts intensive interviews with them for her mystery books. Okay and she puts the main character, the new main character on a train with her brother, her best friend and her ex fiancee all passing on this plane.  What's going on? It's like going on a plane. It's on a train through like Italy. Like the kind of... What's the word? You know what I mean? Like the nice parts of Italy. Like on the coast where everyone's like what's going on all day? We're there, right? That's the vibe. And it's secrets. It's set on a train. I love a train. I love isolation. I love secrets in the past. So I'm really excited for this one. I love the cover. I think it's gonna be a fun one. Then we have Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie Macklemore. This is about two sisters who get sent off to this private boarding school. One leaves within a day.  She's like acting very strange. Is possibly murderous and then it goes missing like say. And her sister's like what? What's going on? I've already read one, Anna-Marie Macklemore. But Anna-Marie Macklemore's books always make it onto my most anticipated racist list because I always love the synopsis of them. Then we have The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. I really... I will read the synopsis out to you again because it's very short and we don't know a lot yet. I spoke about this in my other videos. There's another one that's on my 2024 TBR. It says, welcome to the opening weekend of the manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets and an ancient word. And the characters we have are the founder, the lover, the mystery guest, the kitchen help, the detective, all have an agenda, all have a past but not everyone will survive.  I will defend you to the death and I will always read your books. Thank you. Then we have another Ali Hale's word. We have her like normal adult romance book. It's sciencey. It's love. I think that they're wanting to buy each other's companies and they have like a secret affair. I don't know if that's quite... Or like she works at the thing.  It's Ali Hale's word. We know what we're going. You don't need to know the synopsis. Then we have She Left by Stacy Gray which I think is this a debut? Yeah this is a debut that I thought sounded interesting. So this is about a girl who walked out of a house party, left her friends one night and the neighbor all brutally murdered and 20 years later 10 people with connections to the crime have been invited to a remote cliffside house by a journalist looking to do a story on the crimes but then not everything's what it seems.  They're isolated. There's a lot of isolated house books this year which I love. I love that for me. At the end of the day all I want to say is thank you Lady Gaga. We have How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig Dulley. It sounds like another... There's a lot of horror movie. I've got The House that Horror Built, How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive and we've got Horror Movie. This is apparently a darkly humorous horror novel. This is a famous 80s slasher director set out to shoot the most terrifying horror movie ever made using an occult camera that might be and probably is demonic. So we need to know babes. It's all we need to know. Craig, thank you. The idea of a demonic camera probably just starts wailing. The camera just starts wailing randomly. Absolutely. Absolutely. Then we have Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. This is Riley's first time writing a male protagonist. How does he do it? What a brave step Riley. This is about a guy who I think in their backyard him and his friend were sleeping in a tent one night.  In the night someone sliced the tent open with a knife and stole his best friend. 30 years later he goes back to his old family home.  And something that Riley Sager's been playing with a lot in his recent books is is there a supernatural element or isn't there? That's been a running theme in a lot of his books and sometimes there has been a supernatural element and sometimes there hasn't and that excites me.  I love a speculative element but like with him he's always got a hint of like is there or isn't there and sometimes there isn't sometimes there isn't. You know with someone's in James you always pretty much know there is going to be a speculative element and that is that is going to be there but like I like that Riley's keeping us guessing so I'm excited for that one. How have we got left? We've got two left. We've got The Cautious Travelers Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks. I think this is another debut. So it's the end of the 19th century and the world is a wash with marvels. I love anything that's like Victorian times. There's nothing so marvellous as The Wastelands, a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow. Nothing touches us abandon wilderness except the great trans Siberian Express, an impenable train built to carry cargo across continents but which now transports anyone who dares to cross the shadowy wastelands. On the platform steps a curious cast of characters, a grieving woman with a borrowed name, a famous child born on the train and a disgraced naturalist all heading for the great exhibition in Moscow. I love anything on a train. I love the cover. I love the historical setting. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm obsessed. And our last book is one I just mentioned. It's Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. I've never read anything by Paul Tremblay but I'm willing to give him a go. And it's like this cursed, you know the cursed film trope slash genre. In 1993 a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spent four weeks making horror movie and a tourist disturbing art house horror flick. The weird part, only three of the film scenes but ever reached the public. I've started reading The Good Snoppy's Archie because it's just exciting. And then basically three decos later Hollywood wants a reboot and there's only one surviving like member of the cast or character and he's gonna try and like help them make the film but everything starts coming back to him and like the memories and the darkness and what have you. Okay everyone that is almost anticipated releases for the first half of the year. Wow, that was a lot. I feel like I got through the most good pace and didn't bore you though. I tried to keep things moving but yeah let me know any of these that you're excited for too. Let me know which ones you think I'm most gonna love because as we know we're trying to make this like my best reading year ever. It's not off to a good start so I'm really gonna need some things to pick up the numbers. I'm really excited for a lot of these. I think a lot of them have really high hopes and high potential that I'm gonna love them. So let me know also if there's any books that you're really excited for coming out in the first half of the year that I have not mentioned. There could be. There could be some books I have not mentioned that you're very excited for but let me know and I will see you guys soon in another video. Bye!


Hey everybody, welcome to Barn's Takeout. My name is Martha Lucy. I'm Deputy Director for Research, Interpretation, and Education at the Barns. Today we're going to be looking at a painting by Gustave Courbet called Woman with Pigeons. It's right here in room 14. There it is. It was done in the, probably done in the mid-1860s. Now, a little bit about Courbet. He was a very provocative artist, one of the most controversial artists of the 19th century. He was the leader of the realist movement, which meant that he refused to depict mythological and historical subjects. No more painting people in togas, he said. He wanted to paint the people of his time, peasants, stone workers, laborers, and often in doing this, his work was very political. So he focused on contemporary life and truth and pretty realities. And that work was, the realist work was the late 1840s and 1850s. So this painting, Woman with Pigeon, was done later in the mid-1860s. And by this time, his work had become less political. He had started painting landscapes and portraits and lots of nudes and erotic scenes, paintings like The Origin of the World and the painting in the Barnes Collection of the Woman with the White Stocking.  It's called Woman with a Parrot, done in 1866 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. And that painting, Woman with Parrot, was presented at the Salon of 1866 and it was very popular and very scandalous. The bird is perched on the finger of a reclining nude and her hair is sprawling all over the silky sheets behind her and the bird there seems to kinda, it helps create a feeling of sensuality and kind of wildness. And there's the evocation of the sense of touch created by the bird's claws. Okay, but for this painting, how do we understand this painting? This Woman with Pigeons? Is it another, is it a realist painting? Is it a scene from contemporary life? I think that yes, in a way, there is a tradition in European art of showing women in domestic interiors with birds, especially in the Dutch genre painting of the 17th century. There are birds all over the place in those paintings. You can see them in the background sometimes in cages and they are shown there by Dutch artists as sort of details of what ordinary life, what an interior of a household looked like, but they were also used by those artists in metaphorical ways. So a bird in a cage with the door closed meant that the woman's virginity was intact. And if the door was open, that meant something else. So we could see this painting by Courbet as kind of a continuation of the Dutch tradition.  And that's very likely because pet keeping was popular in the 19th century. People kept birds as pets, and especially as the city modernized and there was this feeling of alienation, pet keeping became more and more common as a way of kind of bringing comfort and humanity into your life. This painting though, it doesn't fall very easily into that category of a realist painting. And I think that that's because we don't see a background. She's not in some domestic space where we think, oh, we're seeing a woman with her birds. It's also not an overtly erotic painting like the one that I just described of the reclining nude with the bird perched on her finger. And it also, it seems to sort of, it has the format of a portrait, but it's not quite a portrait either. And I think that this is what makes it such a strange and intriguing painting is the way that it kind of falls between categories. It sort of begs interpretation. And it's on the one hand, it feels like a straightforward painting of a woman with her pets, but on the other hand, it feels like it might have some sort of allegorical meaning. So let's look at what's going on here. This woman is holding two pigeons, one on her finger and the other, she's kind of clutching to her breast and she's holding, she's sort of looking at them protectively and fondly. She's gazing down. It's a warm picture. It's intimate. There's a slight smile on her face. She clearly likes these birds. But there's a difference in the way that she's holding these birds. One bird, she is holding firmly this one and clutching it kind of against her shoulder. The other one is simply kind of perched on her finger, but this one, you can see that she's applying some pressure just a little bit. There's this kind of indent there into the bird's feathers by her thumb. And then there are some interesting differences in the birds themselves. So this one, let's look closely at the birds. This one has a pink ribbon around its neck. This one does not. They have different markings, but even the way that they're painted, this one is more loosely rendered. The eye is sort of blurry. This eye is painted with clarity. You can see a little sparkle in it. And so it sort of feels like this bird is in motion and this one is static. And you get a sense that he is gendering these birds, that this is meant to be the female bird and this is the male bird. He's giving the female bird the more passive role. The male bird is in motion taking action. And I'll come back to this in a minute. The birds touch beaks, which of course evokes a kiss. And I think that you start to realize, or at least I did, what essential painting this is. So maybe it sort of is more in the category of the nude woman with the reclining nude with the bird on her finger. So here you've got this bear shoulder that's sort of lit up. You've got the evocation of touch with the bird's feathers against her bare skin. You've got these flushed cheeks, very pronounced. And so maybe she's thinking of her lover's kiss. Maybe this is some sort of allegory of love. I mean, we know that Corbet used birds as symbols of sexuality in other paintings. Compositionally, I think that he might be in this area making reference to the famous sculpture by Canova called Cupid and Psyche from 1787, which is at the Louvre. And in that sculpture, you have to look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. Cupid is bending forward to revive Psyche with his kiss. And it's just that the composition is so similar. It has this sort of X structured composition and even the way that the bird's wings are lifted up, they mimic Cupid's wings in that sculpture. But then I think that what's also interesting in what might make this sort of an allegory of love and human love is the way that Corbet really does seem to want to equate this bird if we can accept that it's meant to be a female bird with the woman holding her. Look at the ribbons, ribbon around this bird, ribbon in her hair.  This round, brown eye with a shine on it seems to be picking up on that earring, but also the way that she's holding it close to her. She seems to sort of identify with it. She is the woman, the bird is the female in this situation. So that's my spin on this painting. I think it's fun to sort of think about it as a scene of everyday life, but also to think about it as maybe he's meaning for it to mean something else. I hope that you enjoyed this. Thank you for listening. I'm Tom Collins, New Bauer Family Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.