Do progressive Democrats owe Joe Manchin an apology for demonizing it these past few months? Well, no, look, this is how the governing process works. You've got activists and organizers who've been pushing and pressuring. In fact, Joe Manchin himself said, and I quote, that their dogs came after me after there was a lot of righteous anger after he pulled out the first time. And so this shows that our democratic process only works if you work out. And then there are people who have been out there fighting on climate legislation, fighting on a more fair approach to taxation, who really do share the credit with Joe Manchin on this. No apologies needed, but this is how the governing process works. You just watched a CNN host with a straight face. Mind you, seriously ask progressive Abdullah El Sayed if progressives owe Joe Manchin an apology. Really? You're seriously asking this on national television. What do you even say to that? First of all, before you parade Joe Manchin around as a hero, we don't even know if this is going to pass yet because Kirsten Sonoma has remained silent and she's long opposed narrowing the carried interest loophole, which is making Democrats nervous that she won't support this. So we don't even know if it's going to pass. Second of all, we have to applaud this coal baron for dictating the terms of climate policy. Are you serious about that? Yes, there are some good things in this bill, such as some investments in renewable technology. The problem is that it also simultaneously allows for more environmental destruction. Why? Because that serves the interests of Joe Manchin's donors in the fossil fuel industry. As Jake Johnson of Common Dreams explains, the agreement was reached as part of an effort to secure Manchin's support for the Inflation Reduction Act, a proposed budget reconciliation bill that includes renewable energy investments, drug price reforms and a number of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, because its provisions fall outside the bounds of reconciliation. The side deal must be passed as separate legislation, according to a one page summary obtained by the Washington Post. The agreement and its current form would set new two year limits or maximum timelines for environmental reviews for major projects, a potentially massive victory for the fossil fuel industry that could also entail benefits for renewable energy production. It would also aim to streamline the government processes for deciding approvals for energy projects by centralizing decision making with one lead agency, the Post Notes. The bill would also attempt to clear the way for the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would transport Appalachian shale gas about 300 miles from West Virginia to Virginia. This pipeline is a key priority of Manchin's as the New York Times notes that move would take cases involving the pipeline away from the fourth district where environmentalists had found success. So if you were one of the individuals who found it a little bit odd that a modern day coal baron was this enthusiastic about so-called climate change mitigation legislation to the point where he's willing to try to persuade Kiersten Sinema to support this. That's why, because there's a lot of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, including pork for him, specifically for his donors. Now, on top of that, I want to share this video from the people versus fossil fuels that talks about the Mountain Valley Pipeline, because this would be a disaster if it were approved. Mountain Valley Pipeline is a project of Equitrans midstream. It's a 42 inch high pressure, fracked gas pipeline that is creating a sacrifice zone across Appalachia. I'm Russell Chisholm. I'm on top of Brush Mountain, Montgomery County in Southwest Virginia. Behind me is the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This is Maurice Johnson. I'm standing on Doe Creek Farm in Giles County, Virginia. It breaks my heart to see the destruction that's happening here on this farm. We've been resisting Mountain Valley Pipeline since 2014. The resistance to this is because we understand that pipelines are inherently bad, these kinds of pipelines. They take away the property rights. They take this threat in our water and our environment, especially this pristine water that's here in Monroe and Giles County. I'm glad that Joe Biden has declared Code Red for climate. But it has been Code Red down here in Appalachia for a long time with the fossil fuel industry calling the shots. It's not just a regional fight anymore. And it's now a national fight. And I say it's a global fight. So it is time for us to take our message from these hills, from this devastation and destruction to the front steps of the White House and demand that Joe Biden keep his climate promises, put an end to these projects once and for all. So I'm asking you to join me to the Build Back Fossil Free Rally. Join me in Washington, D.C. October 11th through the 15th to stand in solidarity with all the pipeline fights across the country. Our planet depends on it. Think about that. This climate change mitigation compromise and it is a compromise, right? It is going to lead to the approval of that pipeline, among other terrible things for the environment. So, you know, I think that we need to wait to decide on whether or not we support this based on cost-benefit analyses from environmental groups because there's already a number of poison pills in this legislation that make it seem as if maybe it's more bad than good. I genuinely don't know. There's good things in that legislation, right? But the problem is that when it comes to the environmental impact, is there so much destruction that it's going to kind of negate from any of the good when it comes to investments in clean energy? Now, despite the negatives here, Joe Manchin gets to pretend as if he's some sort of a hero because of the good provisions in the bill. So take a look at this interview that he had on Fox News, where it gets pretty heated. Yeah, but the elections are going to need some help. You've got a president who is not going to make a statement on that. Approval rating is like as low as Congress's. Well, can't we all do something right? You know that when you get into the thirties, no one's that popular. Harris, are you scared we're going to do something good to help our country? And someone might take credit for it? Are you kidding? Service is in the Bible. That's what we do. We serve our fellow man and woman. That's exactly what I'm going. Don't don't make this personal because it's not. So look at the way that he's framing this. He's framing this as him serving the people, the people of West Virginia, specifically, when if this passes, it would lead the way for the approval of a pipeline that could potentially poison their drinking water, not to mention trample on indigenous sovereignty. So he gets to have plausible deniability, right? He gets to pretend as if, oh, well, I'm the hero. Applaud me because there are actually good things in this legislation like a tax right on tax hike on corporations. So he gets the boost about that while downplaying simultaneously all of the negative environmental impacts that this bill will have. Take a look at this clip. We got to know the bottom line on taxes. Let me tell you the bottom line on that, Harris. You want to know the bottom line, the joint committee on taxation? That opinion was only written by my friends on the Republican side. It was not done by the whole joint committee. So that is unfair, too. So let's be accurate what we're doing here. The bottom line is how in the world can you be raising taxes when all we're saying is the wealthiest corporations in America, 55 of them pays zero to help this great country of ours to defend ourselves. Well, how does this change that? Because that's that's part of the corporate structuring, right? It's a minimum of 15 percent. The tax rate was at 35 percent before 2017. Right. Then it went to 21 percent. That was a tremendous savings, but that's not good enough. I guess all we're saying is at 15 percent minimum, everyone in West Virginia, I know and most people around the country, pay a 21 percent corporate or greater. So why can't the greatest billion dollars of revenue a year? Why can't they pay at least 15 percent for this great country? Are you trying to also say, because this is this is the part that counts? I mean, people look at the corporations and they know they've got great tax accountants. Heck, they have complete departments trying to come up with ways to to find loopholes and keep more and to hire people as well. I mean, let's not forget that, too.  And I'm reading and I am reading, Senator, that it's been any taxes, who's paying any taxes that doesn't have a corporation that has revenue of over a billion dollars a year? Not one person. Not one person, Harris, you're assuming because they'll pass that on. The companies were paying zero. No, no, no, I'm asking a different question than you're answering. I'm saying Americans, four hundred thousand dollars and below now are going to be taxed. That's wrong. That's a lie. That is a pure outright lie.  Not at all. And you know one thing, how about the people that are going to be saving as far as on their Medicare, two hundred and eighty eight billion dollars who are paying a higher price than they should, aren't they? They didn't even assume that in the evaluation. They didn't talk about any of that. How about if gasoline prices go down because we're producing more or to make more gasoline? Those are going to fluctuate. See, this is why I hate this so much, because right there, he's undeniably correct. He's correct. And he, I think, did a good job at shooting down her lie. But the problem is that, again, he gets to pretend to be the hero currently while bolstering, you know, this populist image that he may be trying to cultivate, saying we're trying to, you know, raise taxes on corporations. But at the same time, minimizing the harmful aspects about this legislation, such as the unpopular Mountain Valley pipeline. So it's frustrating that we're in this predicament where the only opportunity where Democrats can get anything accomplished with regard to climate mitigation is to essentially let a coal baron dictate the terms of what is and isn't possible. And even if there are good things in this bill, aside from the climate thing, you know, more subsidies for the affordable care act and whatnot, corporate tax hike. You know, we don't know if this is going to do more harm than good with respect to the environment, because again, sure, we're allowing for more investments in renewable technology. But how much environmental devastation will this bill cause? It's a total catch 22. So this is where we're at, where this is our only chance at climate mitigation, but we don't even know if it's actually going to do what we hope it does. Oh, well, Joe Manchin gets to pretend to be a hero. And media will pretend as if he's a hero, except for right wing media who is attacking him because they're against this because they don't support that the corporate tax hike. And they also don't want any investments in renewable technology. So it's such a bizarre predicament to be found in. But either way, you know, if Joe Manchin is this enthusiastic about something that should be a huge red flag for everyone. So either way, you know, we don't necessarily know if this will even pass because Kyrsten Sinema is in agreement with Republicans that corporate taxes shouldn't be raised. Capital gains taxes shouldn't be increased. So we don't know what's going to happen.


Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the Everton News Daily, Sky Sports are today reporting that Everton have 8 names on the managerial list but nothing will be decided till next week. Some of those names are Nuno Espirito Santo, Rafa Benitez, Roberto Manez, Galtier from Lille, Eddie Howe and Duncan Faggs, the 6th day mentioned, the other two may be names of managers who are currently in the Premier League. I don't know, they have not speculated but they said no offer has been made to any manager and nothing will be decided till next week, so it looks like we can all have the weekend off worrying, speculating on who the new Everton manager will be. This is obviously after a few days of real uncertainty within the Everton fanbase, there was bed sheets placed at Goddison Park last night by some Evertonians, showing their displeasure with the mention of Rafa Benitez as Everton manager. That's meant to some members of the sitting journalists have come out today having a go at Everton fans before that and before the things that have been said on social media. We'll have to wait and see whether Everton have looked at the things that have been put on social media polls and just general disregard for Rafa Benitez as Everton manager, whether that comes into play when making the decision for whether he would be the Everton manager or not. That's not going to happen now till next week, so we can all stop speculating for the time being. The club look like they are protecting the asset, maybe they feel like it would be wrong for the player to go out on a free and it would be interesting to see what they do with him next. They had trained with the first team and as I said he was on the bench a number of times last season coming on against Brighton. The player himself has said, I want to play for Everton, the main goals for me are to play at Gullison Park and to score at Gullison Park. I have trained with the first team all that's good and I enjoy it. I look at them, the movements of the strikers for Charleston and Dominic Arvaloon and to try and learn from them every day. I wanted to get more time on the pitch in the Brighton game and enjoy the opportunity. That is all you want to be around the first team and hopefully getting into the team. Fair enough, he's shown a lot of ambition by wanting to sign a contract. A lot of people would probably feel that at 23 it would be time to move on but he's going to give it a go and see what happens. He was in the Premier League training squad for Wales, for the Euros as well so he's been quite close to that Wales squad as well. It's going to be interesting to see what happens next season for him whether a new manager coming in likes to look at him and gives him a try or whether Everton will send them straight out on loan. I hope that after the season he can get a fee for him. That's the cold hard light of football but we wish him the best of luck. Over night in the Copa America, Richard Charleston scored and assisted in Brazil's 4-0 win over Peru taking them top of their group. He was actually only on for the second half but that put them top and the enemy in a paid 90 minutes as Columbia drew 0-0 with Venezuela. Both teams are expected to get out of the group because really it isn't that hard, there's only two groups in the top four get through. Brazil play, Colombia on Thursday, early hours of Thursday UK time so if you fancy watching Richard Charleston play against Jeremina that is the one to watch. There you go, that's all from today being a pretty quiet day on the Everton front. Don't forget Jordan Pickwood will be involved for England tonight, maybe Dominic Carvalhoon as well as they play. Scotland that will be an interesting one so if you want to catch that obviously do so, I will. Make sure you give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already if you want more daily live videos. The link is in the description and it's on the screen. Thanks for watching, see you later.


Hi, beautiful. You look so good today. Thank you for being here today with me. Look at you, looking back at me, staring at each other, looking gorgeous. What's up? Today we're watching people get box braids and slash do the box braids themselves. And today is going to be a huge learning experience for me because I have never done box braids. I don't know much about box braids. I just am fascinated by box braids. Nothing is more satisfying when I see a black woman or a man braid hair. It's like magic coming out of your hands. It's beautiful. Every single section is perfectly detailed. It relieves all of my stress and worries. I need some of that today and I'm gonna get some of it. Let's watch some girls get some really sickening box braids and hopefully I can learn a thing or two. Let's do it. Up first, we have a video by Exclusive TV and this is called How To Knee, Length, Knotless Box Braids for Beginners. Easy technique plus parting space tutorial. This is exactly what I used to start with. I need to know how this all works. Your boy is starting from scratch. I've never seen a few videos before but I haven't really paid full attention so here's my time to actually understand and appreciate the art of box braids. So the exact look that we're going for today falls into the very full categories. So I'll be dividing the bottom section from her ear down into four equal rows and the top section will be divided into seven rows. So I'm sure some of you watching have seen all of this before and like whatever. But some people I know have never seen this before. So just get ready for the most satisfying thing ever. I'm going to head to part out that first row or rather make a rough draft of the first row. And once I have a good idea of what I want the row to look like or the size that I want that row to be, I go ahead and just place some gel directly into the parting space. With using a comb with a very, very skinny rat tail, I'm cleaning up that parting to be exactly how I want it. So first of all, you're already seeing that the part is like perfect. And then we're adding that gel in there. I definitely have seen that before. I think the gel is supposed to make everything stay intact and make it easier to get a grip on the hair, except I don't really know because gel kind of makes things more slippery. So I guess we'll find out. The gel is very important because it makes cleaning up that line easy and sharp. Once the row is prepped and ready, then that's why you prep the hair for the braids. I'm doing so by using my comb to section out the hair for each braid. And I'm doing four braids in this exact row. So again, I'm using the gel directly into the parting space to sharpen those parts. And we have created all four sections.  I still haven't even seen a braid be done yet, but like you just have to appreciate like the amount of time that is put into box braiding. I've had friends have box braids before and I've heard the stories and like they're there for the entire day or like six hours or whatever. It's a long, long, long, long process. We're gonna start off by sectioning off the braiding section into three parts vertically. And start braiding the client's hair alone. Okay, wait, I'm learning a lot. Mainly right now, the fact that she has that glob of gel in the back of her hand, that is such a good idea.  I'm totally using that trick from now on when I braid hair. So simple, I know.  But once you've braided the hair a couple times and usually I do about two times, then I'm going to hook the smallest braiding hair into the right side and I hook it tightly and slip it right through my index finger and start braiding as normal. Okay, so I've definitely done this before. I always end up with only two strands and I'm curious to see how you end up with so many strands of hair. How does this work?  Again is open. This is why we trust the braiding experts because that makes so much sense.  Duh, Brad. Look how tight she's getting that to the scalp. Like look at how precise and tight it is. Okay, now she's on the second row and we're just going to start seeing those little squares start to form. And I think she's doing like a bricklay pattern which means there's no braid that's directly on top of each other. That way the hair looks fuller and thicker. The next row there's going to be a braid in between all the other braids they should just did on the bottom row. So there won't be no gaps, no spaces because if you put all the braids on top of each other you'll end up with like stringy, weird, thin looking hair. But look at her go. The finger placement is so different for me. Like I've never braided on top like that. I've always gone like from underneath but I think that's how you get that really tight, beautiful braid. And look at the sections you guys you can't tell me this isn't so fine. There's such a huge difference between somebody who's like mediocre at braiding and then like an expert like this. You can really notice the difference in the quality of braids. It's so worth going that extra mile to make these braids look perfect. Oh my God. The amount of time, I know I keep saying this but like how do your fingers not cramp up? I would love to know.  Okay, let's watch her finish this up. So this part is all about making everything come together with some finishing touches. I'm starting with my pair of scissors and trimming away any flyaways.  It's tedious. I don't know what that foam was but I'm interested in knowing what it is. But it's very beneficial with making your braids look crisp and making them look neater for a longer period of time. And the next thing that I do is use some foaming mousse. Honestly, if you ask me what this does for the braids I wouldn't even be able to tell you. I just know that my clients always find it so satisfying. I saw that honestly it really has no real purpose in it but I always did it for their satisfaction and just to massage their scalp a bit, you know? I was literally just wondering like why do you put foam over the braids? Like does that do anything? Because it seems like the braids are already very tightly braided and there's a lot of gel on there. So I'm not sure foam is gonna make any difference but she said her clients like it. So we're gonna do it for the clients, you know? To finally seal the deal, I'm going in with some edge booster edge control and look at the precision and length. Look at the precision and length. Sorry guys, like I'm so happy with the outcome and so was my clients who literally by the way went on vacation right after which braids are perfect for. Oh my God, she looks incredible. You can just be on the go without so much maintenance, you know, like frontals and stuff like that but she was definitely feeling the look. Wow, those things are to her knees and they look luxurious. Thank you for that.  Let's check out our next contestant. Up next we have a video by Candice B and this is called tiny box braided video, dot, dot, dot. Okay, creepy title but it's okay. I don't know the dot, dot, dot was forehead. I don't know, it was just like ominous. Like girl's your head okay? She clearly has much shorter hair than the last girl. I'm interested to see how she gets this braids nice and tight and also already are you a f***ing joking with these sections? No, is she about to braid that little thing? I mean, it is called tiny box braided video so that makes sense but how do you even braid that? Oh my God, you can't even see the braid, it's so small. Look at her fingers go.  I can't wait to see how this all goes down. The fact that she's about to sit here for probably like two days and do this, I can't even f*** style my hair more than once a week. Nevermind, do this. That's dedication.  The amount of time that is spent on hair in that culture is just unlike any other. Any black girls and guys out there, like I have to applaud you for just the incredible amount of time and energy that is put on hair. I mean, this girl is gonna be there for ages. Oh my God, look at how many there are already. She's only done like one sixth of her head. It's gonna look so fresh when she's done though. I have to say like this is gonna look out of this world. It's almost gonna look like it's just her hair I feel like. It almost doesn't even look like braids because they are so, so tiny. I also feel like you don't really see many women rocking this extremely tiny box braid look. Like it's quite unique and definitely the most time consuming thing imaginable. Oh my God, look at her going towards the ends too.  I would have to take like 10 breaks and I would be so miserable. I would literally just start shaving my head because I'd be so irritated because I'm still doing my hair. Like the days that I bleach my hair and I have to take like, you know, two hours or three hours of time to do it, I'm like, this is torture. This is torture. But now I'm never gonna complain again because this is gonna replay it in my head and be like, if she could do it, I can do it. Well, I can bleach my hair, not braid it. She seems fine though. She seems like she's doing great. The other thing I just know, I know this hurts. Like I know her scalp is throbbing. Is it not? Somebody let me know in the comments. Like, does this hurt? I've had a braid in my hair before once or twice when I had longer hair and that hurt. Not even that. It hurts putting my hair in a ponytail when I have long hair. Like I couldn't wear my hair in a ponytail for the entire day or else my head would be throbbing except we do have very different hair.     Or I'd be like, girl, you're still going at it? You're still doing it, okay. I legit thought she was like done with her hair and she still has the entire back to go. So she is dipping her hair and boiling hot water, I believe. And don't worry, I'm pretty sure people don't braid their hair like this with real hair. This is synthetic, more or less, plastic hair. I think, y'all can correct me if I'm wrong, you dip it in boiling water to kind of loosen up the hair and make it fall like natural too roundness of your scalp. Does that make any sense? I'm not a braiding expert, but that is what I've obtained over watching these videos for a little while. In about a week or two, maybe I'll be redoing the perimeters of my hair just a little bit longer because I have a lot to do. Thanksgiving is coming up and the holidays, I'm trying to stretch these for the long run. Oh my God, the work you put in was definitely worth it, I think, in my personal opinion, I wasn't the one doing it, so you might not think so. But I just realized something. I knew this, but I didn't really think fully through. She has to rebraid the hair as it grows out. How does that work? I would like to know one day how that works. How do you braid hair that is already in a braid? You have to take the entire braid out. No, yeah, how else would you do it? That just made it even crazier. This whole thing is wild. She has to take all the braids out, like on the perimeter of her head and her part, in order to get that new growth in. Oh my God, thank you for sharing that, Candice. That was just wild. Like, I didn't think braids could get that small. Amazing job. Up next, we have a video by Nifem Beauty, or Nifem Beauty.  That was a lot. Okay, first of all, she has one inch of hair. She's gonna braid it to be 50 inches. Yeah, no, sure. I didn't know that was possible. Here you see, I'm taking color 1B, color 27 and 613 to give me a darker variation of blonde. So I can use it at the back of my braids and different areas within my braids, because I'm going for braids with gradient look. I'm already highly interested. She just mixed up her own color of hair with three different colors. Y'all are genius. And she's doing blonde. I think it's gonna look so fun on her. Now over here, I'm showing you my part in. So I make wigs. And whenever I make wigs, I start from the front. And as you can see, I'm starting from the front, so I know exactly how to cut on the front.  Her hair's short. So it's easier for me to see it and easier for me to braid my hair, because it's quite short. My mind is about to be blown. Like the fact that she's about to go from that length to like this length, it just looks remarkable. I'm already shook and I haven't even seen her start yet. You wanna watch with me? Let's watch what's going on. You gotta sit though. You gotta sit. You gotta sit down. And so over here, I'm taking the lighter variation for the front. And now I'm gonna use my living conditioner to help bring back moisture into my hair because my hair gets dry quickly. This helps to moisturize my hair and make sure it's not gonna break after I take my braids out. And now I'm gonna show you how I do my part in. I did tiny part in spaces because I feel like it's the easiest way to make it short like mine. So what I did here was I took the extension and put it right underneath my natural hair. Then I braided my natural hair right to the side. Then I took my natural hair back to the middle of the extensions. Then I parted some extensions in my natural hair and started braiding forward. I realized with this technique, it's easier for me to braid and may more comfortable for me to braid and grip my hair because it's quite short as you can see. And I just continuously braid forward. So I continuously braid forward till I reach the breast level. And this is where I add extra extensions to my hair. So at this point, I take an extra tiny bit of extension and I added right at behind my braid and then I braid forward again. I don't have much more to say. Each one of these videos just keeps getting more and more intense and wild and like just like how was it possible? Like I get it, like I get it. But at the same time, it's like the combination of just pure talent with just like mental strength to have to sit there for like hours and days or I don't even know how long it takes and do this. The fact that it comes out so perfect is just so cool. So I just continue this pattern and try my very best to make sure they're all aligned and equal so you can get that neat look. Now for the back of my hair, since I didn't have a mirror to look at the back, I really just restyled. How do you do the back of your hair without looking in braids like this? Also, have you noticed how not one of these women have complained about the process?  And I just continued braiding my hair. Oh my God, she looks incredible. Oh, like I didn't think I could do it. Oh, you did it. You really did it. Also the color variation is so pretty. She's highlights and low lights and it's just creating this neutral blonde. It looks amazing with her skin. I remember really when I started it, I was very nervous and I was like, oh my God, can I do this? Can I hold my braids? And I did and I'm very happy about how it turned out. And I hope you guys find it really helpful. And if you're also a student and you have different things to do too, just don't rush. Like this entire thing took me like all together four days. She just said it took her four days. That was even longer than I was expecting her to say. Where are people at the time? Holy s***. It's literally over the knees and tiny. Okay, it wasn't even to her knees. It was like past her knees. She takes the cake today for the most spectacular braids. Oh my God. And just as a reminder, this is the hair length she started with. This to this. Amazing job. Thank you for sharing that video. Those videos were spectacular. I feel rejuvenated. I love watching calming videos like that. They were just so satisfying and the results were incredible. And thank you guys for teaching me how to braid better. I appreciate it. I learned a lot. Make sure you guys follow me and my haircare brand. Everywhere else. Here are my social media handles right here. If you would like to shop my hair color and my hair care brand, it's called X-Mondo. It is linked right down below for you. So check it out. That's all for today. Thank you for watching.  And I'll see you next time. Bye.


Hi, I am Chandan Nay. I am Information Management Officer. I am responsible for launching the Dispacement Tracking Matrix tool for the CCCN cluster here in Nepal. Dispacement Tracking Matrix is a tool which identifies different needs of IDPs settled in different camps in rural as well as the urban settings. It is a cross-cutting tool which we try to gather information about health, education, protection and communication factors taking into all those information as a baseline and giving it to the partners where they can use for their own programmatic use as well as for intervention. We work closely with the immigrant community as well as the Nepalese government and we go down to the district level. Our team goes there and they talk with the district chief and then we identify the villages. We go into those villages, identify our key informants which can be the chief or other group leaders. We take in information from them, whatever is there in our tool and then we send those information back to Kathmandu or our headquarters here and we compile those data and send out the data as soon as possible from our side. And this is how we try to help to get through all the data to the immigrant community as well as to the government for fast action. It's very sad to see the data here, like when we go through the data we really see what the real extent of damage there up in the districts. I'm not going into the field, our team is going there but when I see the data, when I see the different questions asked like the destroyed houses and all, I see almost 90% of them are reporting to have destroyed houses. They don't have anywhere to stay. They have problems with north food items. They have problems with food distribution. They are really in need and that's where I want to convey my message and from through the team that there has to be work done here in the near future. Before or when the monsoon comes in, we have to act.


Hello, everyone. As he said, my name is Amy Rose and I'm coming from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Data Systems and Society. We just changed names one month ago, so I'm still getting the long name down and my work is focused on regional electricity markets, the technical design, regulatory design, and market design for these kind of markets. And I'm focusing on the African region and the various power pools that are being proposed and currently exist in Africa. I previously worked with the government of Kenya on renewable integration and the kind of work that Johannes will be talking about later, where we were looking at the impacts of large penetrations of solar and how they could, the intermentancy could be assisted with all of the reservoir hydro that exists in Kenya right now. But I'm excited to talk about power pools today, so let's get started. I think first it's important to establish what is a power pool, and this is effectively a group of two or more utilities who agree to coordinate their planning and their operations. And the actual level of coordination can vary quite a bit, from fully integrating their systems and operating as if they're a single company, like we see in the United States, to simply agreeing to share information and support each other in times of emergency. So when we look at the African continent, it's currently envisioned to be divided into five power pools and the north and green. We have among the North African countries this Komalek pool, which is a French acronym. And then in blue we have the East African power pool, which is still in its infancy and starting to come together. We have the ECOWAS community creating the West African power pool, which is still being developed. In pink the Central African power pool, which is by far the least developed, it's still kind of at a concept stage right now. And then in orange, the Southern African power pool, which is by far the most developed and most influential on the continent. And this is where I'll be focusing most of my comments today. And there's a lot of excitement about power pools among governments, among international organizations, among donors. And the UN in 2005 said that power pools are the best strategy to deal with the energy problems in Africa. So that kind of shows you how excited some people are about this. And why? Why are people, not just in Africa, but all over the world, there's a growing trend towards power pools. And there's a lot of reasons for this. The first is really a desire to have greater economic efficiency and supplying electricity. By pooling demand and pooling supply, these systems can better utilize their most efficient generators and drive down production costs. Also by pooling demand, you can capture economies of scale to build larger plants that have lower per unit cost, which is important in areas like Central America or sub-Saharan Africa, where national systems tend to be pretty small. And also there's a desire to drive down prices through increased competition, both at the wholesale level by increasing the size of the market and at the retail level where consumers can have a larger choice of suppliers. And the second big motivation and one of the things that really drove the development of the SAP is a desire for greater security of supply. Both strategic security of supply by diversifying the inputs you're using for electricity and protect yourself against things like fuel price spikes or droughts and then operational security of supply where systems can support each other in real time in case a plant goes down or there's a fault in a power line. And typically for international power pools, this is just one part of a much broader regional integration strategy that's happening at the same time. So I just want to continue this motivation in the African context real quick and you can see that the energy resources in Africa are not uniformly distributed in size or location. So you have lots of coal obviously here in South Africa, but oil and gas is distributed kind of in the west and the north and then if we look at hydro, there's in the DRC huge hydro potential, but also in Ethiopia. And so there's a desire to try to connect these systems and be able to share these resources. And then if we think about the economies of scale argument, this plot shows the installed capacity, so the size of the systems, in African countries, I've taken out the northern African countries as well as South Africa because they just skew the whole scale. And so you can get an idea of kind of the size of the national systems in sub-Saharan Africa and then think about the size of a typical utility scale power plant, a coal plant, a gas plant, a nuclear plant. If we're being conservative, about 300 to a thousand megawatts. So that would be this yellow bar. And look at how many countries have systems that are below the size for even a single utility scale plant. So there's a huge opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa to pool demand and actually have a demand that's large enough to justify the investment in some of these cheaper plants. So now let's talk about the SAP. It's 20 years old now, created among the SATA countries. Excuse me. And the size is about 56, 57 gigawatts. Obviously, South Africa is by far the biggest portion of this, both on the supply side and the demand side. And trade has been growing every year in the last 20 years. They now have markets for long-term bilateral contracts, shorter-term bilateral contracts, a day-ahead market, a post-day-ahead market, but by far it's long-term bilateral contracts that make up the vast majority of trade that's happening in the SAP. And even though they've developed a lot in the last 20 years, there are a number of challenges that remain to help the regional market grow even more. And I've divided these into kind of three main challenges. The first is really the need for more investment, more investment in generation capacity, but also transmission capacity. And the second is the need to increase competition, to have more people participating in the market to help drive down prices and improve efficiency. And then the third element, which is also incredibly important, not both at the national level and the regional level, is to improve the regulatory capacity of the member countries. And so there are a variety of reforms that are taking place to try to address these challenges. And I would say reforms that need to happen fall in three categories, in talking about market structure, regulatory structure, and then very specifically transmission regulation. And in reforming all of these, the systems are going to have to move towards a greater degree of regional integration. So let's talk in more detail about each of these three areas. First, market structure. The important thing to first think about is who gets to participate in the SAP? There's a traditional, like in most Sub-Saharan African countries, the basic model is there are a lot of state-owned, vertically integrated utilities, and those are the main participants in the market. But this is changing slowly. The SAP has recently changed their rules to allow independent power producers, so private companies, can become members of the SAP. And all of the member countries have either adopted or in the process of adopting frameworks to allow independent power producers to operate within their country. The barrier comes when you think about how do these members get to participate in the market. The predominant model in most of the countries, all but two actually, is still what's termed the single buyer model. Where, for example, here in South Africa, you can have a lot of private companies building generation, but they all have to sell to Ascom, and it's only Ascom that gets to participate in the regional market. So if we have 15 countries, then we can only have 15 people participating in the regional market, and that doesn't help increase competition. So this is the first barrier. And the second one, which some people have said is an issue, is that the SAP is still largely reliant on long-term bilateral trades. And there are good reasons for this.  So you're going to sign a long-term contract with a generator to make sure that you have security of supply for your plant. Similarly, if you're a generation company and you're interested in building a new plant, or if you're a bank that's going to fund a new project, you want to make sure that that project is going to make money, and they'll be able to sell their power. So a lot of these projects come with the condition that they have to sign a long-term power purchase agreement with some consumer.  So the question is, at least in the medium term, but the question is, is this a problem? Can we have competition but also still rely heavily on these long-term bilateral contracts? And I would argue no, because if you're a generator, you're profit maximizing company. So if there is someone offering power in the market that's cheaper than what it would cost you to use your own plant, you're going to keep your plant off and buy from the market. And this isn't just me being an academic saying this, but in the SAP, before we had lots of shortages in the last few years, this is what generators were doing. So as we get more transmission capacity and people are able to trade power, then they'll go back to this mode of operating where, if there's a cheaper generator, they'll buy from the market. And you can still have competition, but also have the security of supply that comes from this long-term bilateral contract, which becomes more of a financial instrument rather than a physical instrument. And that might have been a little jargony, and we can talk about it later if you have questions. But moving on to regulatory reforms. First, let me paint kind of the regulatory history of the SAP. And the first 10 years that the SAP existed, there was no regional regulator. Actually, in the first five years, only four member countries had national regulators. So the utilities are accustomed to operating under this mode of setting their own rules and policing themselves and resolving disputes among themselves. However, if you want to foster competition, if you want to get the private sector to start investing and participating in a big way, you need to have some kind of regulatory authority. Because if you're a private generating company, would you want to go up against ESCOM if you have a dispute? Probably not. So right now we have, in the last 10 years, this Regional Electricity Regulators Association, which has been established. But it's just an association, so they don't have any power to set rules and enforce those rules. And what's currently in the process of happening is RARA is going to become an authority. All of the ministries of energy have backed this. The SAP Coordination Center is supporting this. And it's going to go to the SATIC Ministerial and hopefully be approved fairly quickly. And once RARA is an authority as a regional regulator, then they can start to develop regional rules to set the rules of the game that everyone has to follow. And this will help kind of level the playing field and create some certainty for new investors. Additionally, another thing that's still kind of in the works is that at the national level, as well as at the regional level, a lot of the regulatory institutions are still new. And they're still kind of struggling to define what are their rules, what are their responsibilities and get the training on how they should go about actually carrying out these functions. And finally, transmission regulation. I would say there's probably a very small and sad group of us that get really excited about transmission regulation, so I'll try to keep it very brief. But I spent the last week talking with people at RARA, at the SAP Coordination Center, at ESCARM, at NERSA, and they all told me the same story. Transmission is the big problem. We need more transmission. We need investment and transmission. How can that happen? And the reason they all said this is because when you don't have enough transmission, it's a problem for everyone. Generators need to make sure they can evacuate their power. If you're a transmission company and you want to build a line, you need to make sure you're going to recover your cost because you can't pick that line up and move it if the demand moves. And if you're participating in the market, you want to make sure there's enough transmission capacity to actually make that trade happen. And this plot on the right, this is from the SAP Coordination Center, and it shows over the last five years in red, these are the volumes of energy that were matched in the day ahead market. So there's a buyer willing to buy, a seller willing to sell, they get matched up, but in blue, this is the energy that's actually traded. And that gap is insufficient transmission capacity, so they just can't send the power, even though there are people willing to trade. And without going into too much detail about transmission regulation, I would say the basic issue is that we need to change the mode in which transmission lines are built in the region. The current, the term of art for the current way lines are built is called merchant lines where two companies, two countries decide we should build a cross border line because we would really benefit from trading power. So they agree to do this, and then between the two of them, they have to negotiate how the cost is going to be split between them, how the line will be priced, and it's a long process. And what if the line has to cross some third country, and they're also going to benefit, but they don't even want to benefit. They don't want to have to pay for this. They didn't ask for the line, and so it leads to this long negotiation and under investment. And this is what's been happening in the SAP. An international experience has shown the only way to get sufficient cross border transmission capacity is to move to a model of regulated lines. And what this is, is you have a regulator like RARA, once they have authority to do so, who will look at a line that's proposed, they'll assess. Do the benefits from this line outweigh the cost? If yes, then RARA approves the line. It is up to RARA, or whoever the regulator is, to allocate the costs among all the beneficiaries, and then they have to pay. So there's zero risk to the investor. If the line costs 100, they're going to get paid 100. The only difference is how that 100 gets split among the beneficiaries. And we're not claiming that this process is easy. There are transmission allocation and how you price transmission is a huge field. But moving to this model of regulated lines has been the only way in Europe, in the US, in Central America, all the markets I've looked at, the lines actually get built. So just to conclude and wrap up about the opportunities for regional trade, and why despite all of the headaches that are going to be involved in getting these reforms done, why it's worth it? First off, just from an economic point of view, there's huge savings that can happen from regional integration, and from coordinating planning and operations. The estimates range quite a bit depending on what policies you assume happen, but billions of dollars can be saved. Secondly, by creating a stable regional market with firmly established rules, you can attract private sector investment, which is something that all of these groups I've talked with say they desperately need. The national utilities have weak balance sheets. They're unable to make the investments that are needed in generation, and also in transmission. And so private sector investment will be key, but you need to have a stable regulatory framework and a market that feels fair in order for those companies to come. And then finally, there's a real opportunity here in the Satic region to create regional expertise and market design, market operations, and also how you regulate a regional pool. All of the other power pools, the West African Power Pool, East African Power Pool, they're all looking to the SAP, and they're coming to the SAP to get training on how do you design a power pool? And so there's a real opportunity for the SAP to develop these lessons and pass it on to the other pools. Thank you.


No topic seems to rile the internet up like talking about cannabis. All the elements of a perfect storm are here, highly biased advocates on either side, a lot of misinformation, and an open forum to discuss it. What has been missing, I think, is an accurate look at what science can support about the effects of cannabis and how it works. What I propose to do in a short series of videos is to dig a little deeper into the biology behind cannabis and cannabinoids. I'll be using primary peer-reviewed literature throughout, sources in the description. First we need to understand the different classes of cannabinoids. Your body manufactures endocannabinoids, and these have abbreviated names like 2AG, AEA, and NADA. These substances are made by your cells to regulate the way your various systems work. In order for these signals to do anything, they have to be received. And for that we need a receptor protein on the surface of a cell. A cannabinoid receptor is a very specialized tool that detects one of these endocannabinoids and passes the signal to the cell to respond appropriately. You can think of these receptors as equivalent to a light switch and a circuit diagram. Your body has two types of receptors specialized for endocannabinoids. We call them CB1 and CB2. CB1 is on the surface of nerve cells in the brain, and we'll talk about that shortly. CB2, though, is found mostly on white blood cells, but also in the heart, lung, and blood vessels. In the brain, when the light switch that is CB1 is flipped on by endocannabinoids, it modulates the way that nerve responds to other signals. Here's a key point about cannabinoid receptors. They are a class of receptors called G-protein coupled receptors, or GPCRs.  Instead, they change the way other light switches on the same circuit work, reversing the normal on-off response, or dampening or amplifying the response through a long chain of events. They're modifiers of other responses, rather than being direct signals themselves. We'll talk later about the consequences of that. In the brain, endocannabinoids, binding to CB1 receptors, change the way our brains store memories, set our mood, tell us we're hungry and sense pain. However, the second receptor, CB2, uses different endocannabinoids to change the way our immune systems work, including making cells self-destruct or produce damaging free radicals. They can also change the tightness of our blood vessels and how we respond to bacterial infections or other invaders. We've talked so far about endocannabinoids, the ones our bodies produce. One of the other classes are the phytocannabinoids, the cannabinoids found in plants, or more specifically in cannabis. THC and CBD are phytocannabinoids, and combine their represent the two most abundant substances found in POT. These substances, when ingested, interact with our cannabinoid receptors more strongly, regardless of whether they are smoking or eaten or vaporized. The action of phytocannabinoids is to alter dramatically the balance of the endocannabinoid system. That's why they're used by recreational users. They interfere with normal mood regulation, normal pain sensation. They put the user in an altered state by overwhelming normal function. Our light switch is in a super on, can't be turned off state that lasts as long as the high. THC binds the CB1 receptor, which gives the psychological high, altering the way the brain functions. But it also binds CB2 receptor, which means that it changes the immune system and affects the lungs, heart, and blood vessels. The other major cannabinoid found in POT is CBD, which blocks the receptors without producing a signal to the cell. That means it's an antagonist. It opposes the actions of agonists like THC. It also has no detectable psychoactive effects. The mixture of agonist and antagonist, the nature of cannabinoid signaling as a modifier of other signals, means that the health effects of cannabis are hard to study, somewhat unpredictable, paradoxical from one situation to the next. Cannabis for example in nerve cells is both neurotoxic and neuroprotective. It increases anxiety and also lowers it. It reduces vomiting and nausea, or it can drive it to a new high called hyper-amesis.  It causes changes in the brain that mirror schizophrenia, yet in patients with schizophrenia it can help to manage their symptoms. It's a bronchodilator and also can trigger asthma. It relaxes blood vessels and also makes them constrict. This is not a good profile for a therapeutic drug, and I would argue not a good profile for a recreational drug either. It's a bit of a nightmare for a researcher trying to make sense of things. This is why I'm skeptical of any unqualified claims of health benefits. What phytocannabinoids do in a highly simplified setup, say neurons growing in a flask or human tumor cells injected into mice, will likely not be replicated in a large population of people. Some will be treated effectively, others might possibly be worsened. So far we've talked about endocannabinoids, the signaling lipids our bodies use to regulate normal functioning. We've talked about phytocannabinoids, the plant-based substances with high activity and low specificity that often have contradictory, unpredictable effects. The last class of cannabinoids are the synthetics. The most interesting of these combine high activity and high specificity. They have names like JWH 018, HU 210, AM 2201. They're made by chemists in labs and have been since the 1960s. I personally have high hopes that at least a few of these are going to end up as actual effective therapeutic drugs. The final product will likely not be psychoactive on purpose so that people don't use it to get high and end up damaging their brains or other organs as a result. Unfortunately we've already seen what happens to JWH 018, which is a major component in K2 or SPICE when it hits the streets. It's accounted for a few dozen deaths from cannabinoid overdose and the abuse potential is very high. These substances have high activity but lower specificity than most of the synthetics, mostly because they're based so closely on the plant equivalents. In a few years though, I suspect we will see the emergence of better cannabinoid drugs. They're not going to be miracle cures for anything, but they will complement other effective therapies and broaden our arsenal and that's something I fully support. In part two I'll talk about some of the long term consequences of using cannabis on your physiology and we'll address the old myth that no one has ever died from cannabis. Thanks for watching.


So hello everyone, so now we work with ARM hardware and especially the HPC servers, and so we work with bare metal servers. So we need to have a set of tools and an infrastructure that allows us to provision and install the whole open HPC stack, run benchmarks, and in general, analyze the performance of ARM servers and see if we do a CI and see the performance gain and try to get a clear picture of what is happening. So we do this with multiple tools. So we got a provisioner, which is Mr. Provisioner. We use Jenkins as a job dispatcher, the HPC stack we use is open HPC, and this whole thing is installed and coordinated with Ansible. So how did we set up the lab? So we have to house the services and the tools. We have multiple KVMs. We use Libhurt. And so the provisioner, the Jenkins, and the other services, the regroup in the file server are all installed on those virtual machines. These are installed by Ansible Recipe. That is more or less all contained in the HPC lab setup. You see the link just there. So for the network setup of this administration part of the lab, we use static IPs. We have two different networks. Because we use Bermittal servers, we have the BMC network, which is used to administer all those servers, reboot them, and in general access the IPMI sole. And we have the other main network, the provisioning one. Of course, on both of those networks we run DHCP. This DHCP is hooked up to the Mr. Provisioner so that they talk to each other. So as I said, all of this is installed via Ansible. And we use as well SFTP to store all the results of the tests we do. And we of course need to be able to store them securely and provide a private storage space because our members, private members to Y-Way, Qualcomm, KVM, whatever, they do not want the public, anyone to be able to compare easily their servers to the Y-Way server to a Qualcomm server. So we need to provide them with a secure and private storage space. And we use as well a package cacher because we need stability in the lab and we need to have a fixed and set environment to do all our tests. There is a private git repository, the whole thing is not public because there is some configuration in the Jenkins since it's all hooked up to the LDAP, that is of course we can't share. So one of the big services, big tools we use is Mr. Provisioner for all the provisioning of the bare metal servers. And this includes talking to the BMC to reboot it, to reboot the server and pixie boot it of course. And I'll show some screenshots after that. But of course this, we also have console access so we can monitor serial output from the machines as they are being provisioned. Mr. Provisioner is built in Python with the Node.js front end and Postgres SQL back end. It talks to the KIA, ISC's KIA DHCP which features events and easily dynamic network, subnet. And all of this is done per MAC address. We provisioned them with first the bootloader, the bootloader chain loads, the pixie install from the distribution, whether it be CentOS, OpenSusie or Debian. And KIA also features, also accept Mr. Provisioner providing machine discovery. So that is easily accessible. And all of this is automated. The Jenkins, we have a couple of jobs. The management of the Jenkins is all done via Ansible. Everything is in a GitHub repository, meaning everything is versioned and very easily manageable. And finally the fast server, as I've already mentioned, needs a secure and private storage space. We've got a package cacher and some storage for the tool chains that we use for the benchmarks. Again, because we need a fixed and set environment that doesn't change between runs. A reproducible environment. So here is Mr. Provisioner. So this is what you would see if you click on one of the machines in the Provisioner. So you have a quick overview of some of the parameters, the architecture, what's its status, the BMC associated with it, and multiple interfaces. We have the BMC interface in it as a quick reference. This is how we do it. This is not necessarily compulsory. You've got a couple of actions on the side. So you can access the console, reset the IPMI console, and of course Pixi reboot and reboot. And PowerCycle, the machine. As you see above, there is the other, the other services provided by the Provisioner, which is how the images you have, the pre-seeds you use to automate all the installs, the list of BMCs, the Discovery tab, which is the Provisioner talking to Kia to see which machines have been brought up on the network, and the multiple networks and infrastructure, architectures that are more the... we delve into how the Provisioner itself works and the different settings associated with the different machines. So here are the provisioning settings. As you can see, there's a sub-architecture which corresponds to which bootloader you will give the machine on Pixi boot. And then the kernel, kernel command line, init-hardy and pre-seed files that we use to provision the machine. There's the users that access to this machine and can do stuff on this machine. The users have SSH keys associated with them, and these SSH keys are then used in the pre-seed to provision the machine directly with those SSH keys so that you don't need a root password. There is no password, no users. There's only SSH keys and SSH authentication. And, of course, there's the event log, as you can see, you can see the DHCP requests and, in general, the DHCP traffic. So you know if the machine has effectively installed the OS and has correctly rebooted and asked the DHCP for an IP address, meaning it's initialized at least the IP stack. This is the serial console. You can download the log, which is very useful for bogzilla reports. And then we come up with the Jenkins part. So here are the main jobs that we use in the lab. There's the benchmark job, the OpenHPC install and test suite jobs, and there's the whole provisioning job ecosystem. The provisioning job ecosystem consists of two main entry points. She has the cluster provisioning job and the machine provisioning job. So you can either provision the whole cluster or provision one single machine, which is especially useful for benchmark. So we have the multiple configuration options. Note that this is still in progress. We have the benchmarking job. We support Lule, Shimano, and OpenBlast with all the different options and configurations available directly from the job interface. And the OpenHPC jobs install and test suite. Still work in progress, but we have a couple of options. And here is the OpenHPC matrix that we have to test. So all the different dimensions that we need to be able to test in different configurations. And here, especially what is important is the different provisioning options inside the cluster. So how does the master provision the slaves? So this is either done all flat or denseable or done with werewolf. At the moment only werewolf supports R64. We will work on XCAT support hopefully. And in conclusion, we have tried to make our lab very modular by developing territorially and trying to get the best design. We have multiple configurations because we need to test multiple dimensions. This is low maintenance because everything is automated and wonderful and the SDI is versioned so we can easily pinpoint problems. And finally, we have multiple options with OpenHPC because we need to test all the different configurations possible in the environment. And we are still working on some of the werewolf options but this is something that will come. And that's pretty much it. Thank you very much.


Now in recent days much has been made about Rory McElroy's comments about the driver he had in his bag over the weekend at the players' championship. It seemed to have failed him, he seemed a little bit disappointed but I reckon there's a club under this head cover which is perfectly suited to both Rory McElroy and plenty of average golfers out there. This one is going to be a bit of a surprise. So in today's video I'm going to be looking at the TaylorMade Stealth 2 HD model and that's all important because this thing has blown my mind just how forgiving it is and TaylorMade themselves claim it to be their most forgiving driver in the Stealth 2 lineup and that's largely due to the way this weight has been positioned. They've got an incredible 30 grams of weight positioned right at the very back of this club head which is a significant number more than I have seen from any other brand in terms of that weight position at the back and then they've obviously stuck some weight in at that heel area which is aiding that draw bias. Now slightly tongue in cheek in terms of the comments about Rory but in all reality this is quite possibly the most forgiving driver that I've tested so far in 2023 and out here on the course at Hollywell I'm going to show you a few shots as to why I think this could be a real interesting product for a lot of average golfers and I don't understand why TaylorMade aren't making more noise about it. So what every golfer needs more than anything right now is forgiveness so when they're not hitting the ball that great and in my opinion Rory wasn't driving the ball that great over the weekend then what he should have looked for was ultimate forgiveness in his driver head. If you want that then there is a product within Stealth 2 lineup that is perfectly suited if you're losing the ball to the right then this thing is even more suited. They have shifted weight like I've never seen before in a driver head and it makes it the most forgiving driver I've possibly ever tested and no one's even talking about it and maybe it's time Rory did. Well what's really interesting is that really high ball flight is the first thing to notice but maybe more importantly is the fact that this thing does what it says on the tin. In fact draw bias is something that I've really stayed away from to be honest with you in the past I play for a little bit of a cut and what I really like about this is that I can still play that exact same swing but the weighting system is negating that movement in the ball from left to right and I'm hitting straight shots. I'm going to hit another one off this very same tee and see if I can back that up. Well that's incredible and rarely do I hit two shots that are almost identical in their ball flight and I would imagine landed in very similar positions but the key fact is that's two balls that are straight and Rory why aren't you using this driver. Today's video is brought to you in partnership with HotGolf the online golf mega store bringing you the hottest deals in golf and of course the clubs featured in today's video. Find the link to the HotGolf website in the description below and check out some incredible giveaways and offers. Right before I go any further into this review of this HD driver I'd really be interested to know as a side note what you thought of Rory's comments regarding his driver's performance after that players championship. I found it an odd one to be quite honest with you and we all like to blame our tools at times but when you've signed a multi-million pound contract it wasn't what I expected to hear from Rory so I'd be interested to know what you think. Now one of the issues that many golfers have with a HD or a draw by a striver sorry is the way that the club head sits at a dress mainly because of the offset that it normally has and it's very difficult. Golfers like me included that seem to think that the ball is or the club head is set up aiming left at a dress and interesting enough Rory mentioned the point that one of the issues he has with driver at the moment and the tweaks they've tried to make is he doesn't like the way he sees that club sat at a dress. What I'm going to say about this HD model is in all honesty with both the standard stealth plus normal heads placed together at the address position I can't honestly see a great deal of difference between them so the draw bias is less about offset in my opinion and more about waiting which is a real positive to many golfers who like I said would have an issue with that offset at address. Once again just a towering ball flight so so impressed with what this thing does and again as you can see that ball just doesn't move what I would normally expect to see is definitely with my swing is a spin of a ball moving if there's only just an element of it moving from left to right I'm not getting any if anything that draw bias is helping me move the ball a tad to the left so right to left but really it's just negating that spin and giving very much a neutral ball flight maybe I should have been considering draw bias drivers for quite some time obviously a bit of a fill. I'd be really interested to know your thoughts so far on the tailor-made stealth 2 lineup in general to be honest with you it's been an interesting period in terms of obviously club releases and your feedback if you've tried any of these new stealth 2 drivers would be greatly appreciated because don't forget what happens is this is my opinion but in the comment section down below people will feed off what you say and take advice from what you say in that comment section so please like I said get involved in that comment right time for another drive this time across the corner and I say across the corner for a reason we've done a few videos from this position in recent weeks and the main thing I talk about is confidence this is not a whole that I would ordinarily pick driver but right now there's a few models that I've been playing which are really becoming a stronger part of my game and that is driver playing driver which never used to be the case now this one we're going to shift out to the right hand side and hopefully the wind brings it in a little let's see if we can do that oh look how solid that is there's no better feeling to be honest with you than it's in a nice easy swing and seeing that ball sail off straight really enjoyable to hit I mean I am a big fan of the sound and feel it comes off carbon wood and I know that isn't the case for everybody out there I've read and heard the criticisms I don't really understand it to be honest with you because I think I definitely put it up there with probably the best feeling driver I've played but again it's all very personal isn't it it's what you feel it comes back into their hands what you hear and all those things go into that element of feel I really struggle to criticise it and in terms of this HD model I'm assuming Scotty Schaeffler must have this in his bag I'm going to very briefly talk about aesthetics because I realise it's very subjective very personal I think from a shelf appeal perspective that sort of black and red high gloss I'm picking this thing up all day long really looks good in my eyes but then it is that address position I want to be slightly contradictory of what I say in many videos and that is I love a matte crown and I would have preferred what they did in previous iterations and even that sort of finish on the sim drivers for me was really really nice I would prefer that it wasn't the gloss crown they do a more matte finish at the front edge and then there's a little bit of red edge in detail all around the club head itself it differs from that of the plus model and for me I think the aesthetics on this standard is nicer to look at to be honest with you and that red does one thing it sort of almost makes the club head look a little bit smaller almost like a 440 cc driver so again for me at that address position I like what it does I'm sure maybe that colouring is not intended to do that but that's the way I see it at that address position and again the red face well I don't object to that I actually quite like it that's it done as ever there's only so much you can do in a club review especially out here on the course I collect dry ball data but in all honesty we've done that in the initial review of both the standard and the plus models I'm not expecting to see a great deal of difference in terms of what we see there but I really do like testing out on the course because that is reality and what I've seen is exactly what I've seen some pre-testing off-camera and that is this for me hits this ball incredibly straight I find it very forgiving driver and tell me they're very much the kings of marketing and in this instance I think they're failing a little bit in that they're not making more of a big deal of this HD model on the website they claim it to be their most forgiving version and for me I would really be pushing that idea and concept because I think and again talking about me personally I would have been put off trying it because it's the HD version a draw bias and naturally I wouldn't have been interested in trying that head you tell me it's super forgiving and that draw bias is actually not affecting me that great at all like I said in my sense it's actually improving what I'm seeing in terms of both like then I am all in so don't ignore this one it's super forgiving it's right up where there with the G430 max with the Paradimax super super forgiving driver that's the key takeaway from this for me don't ignore it and Rory maybe you should give this one a try anyway that's me done I'm absolutely frozen thanks for watching it's sunny but cold I'll see it tomorrow night