For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held in Senegal's capital Dakar on November 29th and 30th. The meeting was attended by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and leaders from across the African continent. The conference was held in an interesting time as trade between China and the continent has increased substantially. In 2019, direct trade itself amounted to around 200 billion US dollars. A lot of the discussion has been on increasing the extent of cooperation and extending it to new fields. What were the major results of the conference? Mikhail Ayuzog, a researcher with the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research and a member of the Secretary of Fire Africanism today, who was at the conference, answers these questions. I think it's important to start off with understanding that the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has been in existence now for 21 years, relatively short when we consider the kind of longer historical institutions like the African Union or the United Nations. But what this Forum for Cooperation means is that different African states are trying to build a kind of collective agenda for Africa's development in relation to China and in relation to different cooperation, partnerships, and exchanges. In the last 20 years or 21 years now, what we've seen is we've had a lot of important advancements, not without different challenges because this is an experimentation, this is relatively new, but Chinese infrastructure investments have totaled over 110 billion in the last 20 years. And this has also boosted different industries in Africa. So we've seen over 16,000 kilometers of railroads and roads, at least 20 ports being built by Chinese companies through different financing agreements. Over 80 power stations have been built and Africa's trade volume with China is now around, I think as of 2019, at 106 billion whilst the US has significantly dropped. I think in 2019, it would have been around 30 or so billion. So Africa now stands with China as they kind of forerunner in terms of their economic and slowly, I think, more of their political relationships. And so every three or so years, we have seen these meetings for the forum where we have a conference and this is usually or would have been a whole taking place last year in Senegal Dakar hosted by the Senegalese government. But due to COVID-19 and the various restrictions, it had to be moved to this year, and usually would have been a heads of state meeting, we would have seen different African heads of states, well as President Xi Jinping and high level Chinese diplomats being at the event of person, but they again, due to security and safety reasons, decided to have a ministerial meeting or a ministerial conference. So we had different foreign ministries being represented and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was one of them who represented China and was present physically here. But in the opening ceremony, we did have the opening ceremony coached by President Xi Jinping and President Makisal of Senegal. And I think an important aspect that kind of speaks to, you know, good gesture or good gesture and good faith was that other African heads of state were allowed to have the platform and to speak on the platform online, of course. And so President Xi, of course, South Africa spoke from online as well as the presidents of Egypt and Comoros. So they were online whilst many of us were sitting with the with the representatives of the foreign delegations in a conference hall in Senegal Dakar. A couple of things about actually how things went and what was achieved was, you know, they signed a really important, it's called the 2030 vision, which sets out not only the kind of key thematic areas of deepening cooperation, which the theme of the ministerial meeting was deepening cooperation, but it also set out, you know, the importance, of course, of solidarity around the COVID-19. It looked at different security issues. It looked at and raised the issue of climate cooperation. It was a big emphasis on technology and, you know, digitization and different forms of capacity building. And if I can go through in Xi Jinping's opening speech, he set out very clearly what the kind of nine main action areas were for the kind of exchange we're hoping to have in the next three years in this 2035 vision. And I mean, critics have said that the package given by China was not necessarily as high as in 2018 because in 2018 it was a 60 billion in financing was pledged and this currently still being dispersed. And in total, I think the main dispersal looked like around 40 billion, but if you calculate the different sections that were covered, it actually could actually amount to almost the same. It's just been given less specificity in this initial proposal and it's probably only, you know, a few weeks time will understand really the depth of the financing. But what I think is important and is a failure of a lot of Western journalists and analysts and experts is this focus on purely on financing and not really thinking about the comprehensive approach that was being proposed. And just to mention, I said these nine areas of action, they were poverty reduction and agricultural development. They were trade promotion, where they're going to try to have what they call green lanes for African agricultural exports. And very interestingly, they're proposing that in three years time that by 2024, China's hoping to have at least 300 billion in imports from Africa, which it currently stands at 100 billion. So that's quite a leap within the next three years. So that was probably one of the more interesting proposals. But otherwise, they mentioned, you know, they want to initiate and support 10 connectivity projects, which, you know, would be increasing the kind of digital infrastructure in Africa. They looked at 10 industrialization, it was kind of like a 10, 10, 10 project way within agriculture, they want to have 10 projects, they want to build 10 schools. They're hoping to have at least 10 industrialization and employment promotion projects. And there was also a good amount of emphasis on capacity building and trying to develop deeper cultural and people to people exchange. There was also interestingly a question of peace and security because China, it does have a security presence on the continent in terms of the collaborations in the Horn of Africa around the piracy issues, and it has for the last few years. But it seems like Africa is calling for more support in various UN and peacekeeping missions, which would of course, inflame some issues, existing issues of the kind of new Cold War that the US is trying to dominate the African continent with its foreign military presence. But that's just some of the areas that were raised. And of course, the big headliner in terms of one of the outcomes was that China has pledged to donate and produce in total 1 billion vaccines for Africans and 600 million of those will be donations, whilst 400 million will be bought, but will be produced with an emphasis on being produced in Africa. So that was one of the big, I think, headliners that also got the Europeans and Westerners concerned about what China's future role will be on the continent. The conference took place even as the United States has been portraying China as a country Africa needs to be careful of. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was in the continent recently, and even before a number of US statements have focused on containing China. How successful has this campaign by the US been? How do African countries see these attempts by the US? Michaela talks about these issues. I mean, of course, it's not coincidental that Anthony Blinken took a trip to Africa and visited, I think, three, four African countries ending his trip in Senegal. It's no coincidence that he did so. I think it was 19th of November and the conference began on the 29th. The China Africa Conference began on the 29th. And in, I think, one of his most reported interviews, one of his main things he said is that our Africa policy is not about China. This is kind of the thing that he's been pushing, which, again, interestingly, if your policy or your approach to Africa isn't about China, why do you need to talk about it so much? But it's very clear that that's not the case because he arrives 10 days before the China Africa Forum of cooperation is supposed to have its conference. And if we look historically in recent years at the US's presence on the continent, the US government's new Africa strategy, which was released in 2019, basically characterizes the situation in competitive terms. One of the lines that I have here in my notes is, it basically says, great power competitors, namely China and Russia, are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across Africa. They are deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to gain a competitive advantage over the United States. So this is like in their Africa strategy, their focus point is on this kind of financial competition. So Lincoln's saying that their policy in Africa is not related to China is a lie. And the documentation, the historical policies prove that. And then two, it hasn't been a successful campaign in all honesty, because for a number of reasons, I mean, one is that they clearly don't have necessarily we are taking Africa for what Africa is. But two is that the way in which they tend to speak the rhetoric is often very patronizing and a lot of African leaders feel that it carries a historical weight of the kind of white supremacist colonial project that patronizes to African leaders and patronizes that they don't know how to make good choices about their own countries and about their own destinies, which if you contrast to China is totally different because even the themes that were coming out and the kind of even if you want to call it rhetoric that was coming out still has a level and a degree of sincerity that is absent in US diplomatic speeches and conversations and policies, which for China it's about the common future, a shared destiny advancing together. And even if we look at the numbers in terms of the priority that China has made with diplomatic visits, I think since between 2009 and 2018, Chinese diplomatic visits between China and Africa were like 222 trips. And of those 82 were top diplomats like he and others visiting. And Wang Yi, I think he's visited the continent, the foreign minister Wang Yi, he's visited the continent. I think it's at least three times. This was his third visit this year. And he actually just got to Ethiopia and visited them, I think it had an important show of solidarity when they're having a very difficult situation there. And coming from the African side, at the last point maybe I'd raise is that in the speech of Aisata Telsal, who is the foreign minister of Senegal, I was surprised and intrigued by the fact that she raised in many ways how China has been leading the kind of international multilateralist wave or shift and allowing African countries and developing countries to take the stage and to be more equal partners in terms of global governance and international relations and politics. So that was definitely an interesting point. But what I will say as an overall challenge that I think was very noticeable in the conference as well as in the documentation that came out of the conference is a little bit of an absence of Africa. It felt like the agency and the protagonist wasn't there from African leaders. There wasn't a sense of originality and creativity. Most of the documents do read like they are Chinese written documents, documents coming straight from the Chinese government. And I think that's fine that there's an important contribution coming from China but there wasn't a sense of discussion and co-creation of not only the declarations, not only the agreements and the China Africa vision of 2035. But there was still a lack of Africa coming to the table because whilst China was emphasizing that they would send 10,000 I think it's high level African professionals will go to China to receive certain education and things like that. We didn't see Africans saying well why don't we get Chinese people to come to our schools. We have great intellectual traditions, rigorous intellectual traditions where we could be offering even on a soft power basis maybe we can't offer China the same level of financing and you know economic investments. But a sense of creativity around well we as Africans have, we have history, we have knowledge, we have our own technical skills. Why don't we make an agreement to have you know at least 10,000 Chinese students come to different African universities on scholarships that might even be paid by China but nonetheless show this sense of exchange. And in there was a business conference that was happening parallel to the Foucaque conference which was called the 7th conference on Chinese and African entrepreneurs. And even there it was very clear that this is still the Foucaque project is still within the hands of the elite of Africa who aren't interested in giving space to the working people of Africa because we have one of the youngest populations or youngest continents with the youngest populations with averaging ages around you know 24-25 and in the business conference we didn't see a sense of acknowledging how do we bring young people into the entrepreneurial space even on a kind of liberal rhetorical basis. And if you looked in the room and even in the Chinese diplomatic course staff they have a lot younger people, a lot younger people. We were still seeing you know in the Congolese delegation we're all over you know 50 years old. I mean maybe some more a few younger but we're not seeing a reflection of the reality on the ground which is that young people are the majority but giving them space to develop in partnership with China is totally absent. So if I can just end as a last sentiment what I really liked in President Xi Jinping's speech was he quoted Senegal's first president Leopold Sengor when you know a few decades ago he basically said let us answer present at the rebirth of the world. So let us answer present like we are here at the rebirth of the world. And that kind of offering from Xi Jinping you know drawing on Sengor, Leopold Sengor I thought was an important call to action, protagonism and agency on the sides of all of the people involved and from the side of the Africans and our African leaders specifically it doesn't necessarily feel like they are present and are trying to advance at the highest level possible a development agenda that China could positively collaborate with us. So I think a lack of presence is one of the challenges that we as African people are going to have to deal with and we know that that only cannot come from China but has to come from us within our different nations and within our different struggles for advancement and total liberation.


Next question is from Fulvio the Castle. What's the best way to increase core strength and performance? Okay, so since performance was included in this, I'm gonna avoid the kind of aesthetic exercises because you could definitely do exercises that develop the muscles like a bodybuilder, really get them to look really great. And then there's performance, which means how well does my core perform in lots of different movements? I mean, most movements involve the core to some degree. So when we're talking about performance, really it's about stabilization, it's about keeping the core stable, it's about transferring energy. Can I use my legs and my upper body and have the core transfer that energy very well? Cause if you'll notice, if you run or walk, there's this kind of counter pendulum that happens. Cross-sectioning sort of pattern. Yeah, so I like rotational exercises. I like, what is it called? Counter or anti-rotation exercises. Stabilization movements where I'm holding and stabilizing explosive, medicine ball slams and throws. I mean, those are really gonna give you phenomenal core performance in terms of athletics and being able to move. I think you have to break down a little bit more exactly the difference between, cause strength and performance are different goals. So if you came at me and you said, I just wanna build strength in my core, the training routine would look different than if you came to me and said, I wanna have performance in my core. Like when I think performance, I think of speed, acceleration, control, stability, explosiveness, rotational strength, all those are, that's all performance driven, right? I wanna be able to have this stable, strong, explosive, reactive, controlled core. And then if you say I wanna have a strong core, like it's building strength, just like it's building strength in quads or biceps or any other muscle. So it's a different adaptation. Now there's carryover from each to both of them, right? If you never train your core and you get stronger, you're gonna have some performance benefits. And also if you train for performance benefits, you're gonna get some strength benefits from it. But they are different adaptations where we're trying to go after there. Well, I know in terms of performance, a couple of exercises just for like sort of a visual that come to mind are like chops, like wood chops or like upward chops or just rotating across your body with either your hips being in anti-rotational stabilized position or rotating with you. So there's both of those elements to it where I like to be able to compartmentalize that. So a lot of times in athletics, you need to be able to have like a nice stable base in order to produce ground forces, but also you need your upper body to be able to rotate ferociously. And you'll see that a lot in baseball. You'll see that a lot when you're hitting a baseball or you're throwing a punch or how to generate that kind of force from the ground through your legs. Be able to anchor your hips and then be able to drive and take that momentum through your arms. So what I'm hearing from both of you guys is that if someone came to you with this specific question that I want core strength and I want performance, it sounds like you both would go, I'm gonna focus on performance because I know that I'm gonna get some strength from it because both the exercises you guys are recommending right now are more performance based. Yeah, and I would say it's strength is very specific. So, okay, I want a stronger core for what? You just want to be able to do- For the look of it or? Yeah, more reps with a high resistance exercise like a leg raise or a decline sit-up. Or just stable in a squat in a deadlift. Yeah, performance, I tend to think more of sports than football, baseball, tennis, those types of sports. But yeah, I mean, strength is just, it's very specific. Like I can get very strong with a decline sit-up with resistance and really activate my core, have a good, strong, stable core. That would be terrible at throwing a ball. Yeah, because there's a lot of technique, skill, and speed that's involved in that. So, you know, and this is, by the way, it's a good attribute.  Like we have the NoBS six pack formula, which is really an aesthetic-based and strength-based ab and core program. Really developed to build the abs so they're more visible. And there's carry over there. But if you want like athletic and sports performance, train your core like an athlete. Well, that's where I would lean you to. Okay, so perfect example. NoBS six pack abs, more strength-based core stuff in there. Maps performance, more, more. Yeah, you start with the foundation of the strength, to be able to gain that control, but really stabilizing the spine. So, you know, being able to do that on command is the first step. Cause you need to be able to be anchored and be grounded where you are and be strong in that position, whatever it is. And then the performance to me is now adding a lot more variables to that where things need to rotate, things need to anti-rotate and how you're able to kind of put all that together is performance.


not good vibe right here on the isak kwa to takutizumannon茜qew Corporation not good vibe right hereze Lalitubu Fika's night boy band three members moja yuko, they'll be telling us why he is not here and fun fact about this band They are from three different nationalities. Yes, so they'll be telling about telling us about that dynamic of working with Working working together from different nationalities and more about themselves and what they have for us today So let us start here Introduce yourself to our people back at home.  It's not okay. When you when you look at it When you look at it, it sounds hard, but when you pronounce it Fox fredito My fox fredito He's not willing Yes, so I'm the rwandan night that we imagine because I'm he's the kenyan night and Introduction for kuro or yuta since he's not here. He is our japanese night So we have a kenyan night Kenyan night rwandan nights And a japanese night. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. The night thing is kind of the whole medieval type of thing Interesting Who are we saving the music industry or the So kindly tell us about how the band came to be and Yeah, how you work together. Okay. So first of all, we are not a a band We are not more of a band faker's night is more of a an afro asian tri music group Yeah, which is an afro asian tri music group and we are three as he's saying The kenyan night the japanese night and The rwandan night and basically for me the kenyan night and the rwandan night we met through michael france Where we he was in another group and I used to know the guys and then stuff happened Kukapuan angori waka split kiasi and then that's where I came in and I came in with the japanese night And that's how you came and uh You too came away from that Okay, it's it's broke anyway. So yeah, it broke and plus you are also mutual friends. So Also stuff happened between us So it also affected me in some way So my story on how it was cause we didn't usually I didn't usually talk with him like for a year when he was coming to my studio. She was kind of weird So Like I said, we met through mutual friends the mutual friends was a group I used to be in And he used to be like the background character when he comes to The recording sessions all time used to be just in the background I didn't usually talk to him because I'm kind of introverted So talking to new people was kind of hard. Yeah, but I think it's kind of Bad when I don't talk to him for like a year And then here you are today in a band doing music together Wow On how it went I I'm the I'm the producer of the group also. So I run my studio So at that time I when you're recording I do the mixing on that I used to know he could sing but I didn't really go into it So after you're not talking to him anyway, so But after a while I when we broke I broke with my group. It was not a really good break But I'm not gonna go and get into that But after I broke from the group that's where kind of me and karanu started connecting Because again, it also affected him in a way where we at least found something You had to speak Yeah, so like even vent there and that's when we started talking So when we were talking at that point actually I already met with Yuta It was online like everyone I meet every day It was in an app called hello talk Uh, it's where I usually learn Japanese myself. So When I was teaching myself Japanese, that's where we talked with Yuta I came listen to us Our songs we did a song with him called master money in Tokyo with my old group And so at that time when I was venting my anger After the bad break, that's where we decided we decided to bring up the idea. Hey Why not try and make a group for ourselves and You know try something else and that's when I said I told him Yo buddy, we still have Yuta's number When we just text him we see what he thinks and he he was completely on board That's why we started with rising up My job from there and that was so our Styles kind of machine Okay, so how is it working? With people from different nationalities. I mean we have different beliefs We have different cultures. We have different styles. How do you make different time zones for that matter? How do you make sure that you keep producing music and everything is working flawlessly? It's been really amazing honestly And uh, you know also it has really made us Personally it has made us grow our like our talent and our our craft Yeah, exactly our craft. Yes So yeah, it has really been amazing We get to explore stuff, you know Uh, we've got uh to do collabs with the different artists from other countries like USA South Africa and Nigeria A lot of countries korea Yeah, it has really made us be outgoing Yeah, yeah, it expands our knowledge also in music because we usually don't specify to one specific genre But if you try to Give us a genre it's usually afro-asian Ah, okay But usually we try to mix different genres like We even have songs where we have done a bit of country We have a bit of trap We have done a bit of rock That is on the album Yeah, some of them also are singles like we try We usually try to expand our knowledge in different genres because we don't want to Stick in that put ourselves in just one bubble. We like to try different things So also when other artists come any other artist comes and says hey Fekus nights of like to do a collaboration and he maybe does EDM So we can just go hey We are cool, we like to explore, let's try it out We see what we can do So so far what is um what is what is working most for you in that in terms of styles As much as you explore everything you can go EDM you can go country you can go afro What do you think is Your stronghold As he said afro Asian trap Afro okay Which we actually came up with it Because there's no I have not seen any artist around Africa or Asia doing Afro Asian trap Yeah, we we actually decided to come up with it since we are both from Africa and Kuro Neles from Japan So we decided to make it a thing and it actually worked out Mix it with the language and all Of course most of our songs you hear like Like me Rwandese But I also do a bit of French because also my family is also a bit of from France So I try to Put a bit of Languages also so people from different countries can listen to it So like France I put a bit of uh French in it like our last single And also I put a bit of Rwandese which I'm terrible at it And I'm learning this I'm learning so anyone who's watching don't come at my neck There were lots But that's why we like to put on different languages like even for Kuro Likes to put a bit of Japanese a lot and mix it with a bit of English I tried listening to one of the songs and I was like Actually it's kind of funny because when you listen to when it does English You're gonna It's gonna be hard to get into it a bit because of his accent It's gonna sound Japanese But when you Genius to look at the lyrics and listen to him why he's rapping That's when now it actually gets into that at that point you just get it But yeah, his clothes is those type of clothes even you don't if you don't get what he says You'll still go you still go with it. Okay. So um, what is um Fakers nights, where did that name come from in very few words So it basically came from the first initiatives of our names Where it goes Fakers, which was Fox Reddito E was for I used to call myself Also baby, I create memes at Karan Wangari the Eggman. That's why I used to use that name as my stage name You killed it Yeah Don't talk about it And Y was for Yuta Kurokawa F-E-Y-K-E Fox Eggman and Yuta Kurokawa And since the name came to fake it couldn't make sense since since we are three of us We decided to make it into plural Fakers Fakers nights Anyway, so tell us a bit about your most recent release goddess So goddess is a goddess It's a feel-good Vibe music Kusuka two mamas Ya me suko umeramba oku I love you so much Because actually that's what you want you women so That's what we gain And na piyapu piyatuna to boka apo kiasi Apu nani na journey be kusaku tajoka bonda Exactly So it's a feel-good song Ya kusuka meramba Ya So how is the song doing out there How is the reception? The song is actually doing great Mostly on streaming platforms All that goes In France U.K. Also in South Africa So the song has been received well Actually when we Released the music video that's where it started Skyrocketing On Spotify iTunes people now started buying it On YouTube now that's why you need to work on it Then I go check it out It's actually pretty good In my opinion the video is good We've been really selling out mostly in Europe Than here We're working on it You need to come back home So where can people find you guys on social media So that you can get to listen to Godess You can find us on all social media platforms And streaming platforms at FAKERS NIGHT F-E-Y-K-E-R-S NIGHT K-N-I-G-H-T-S FAKERS NIGHT Ahchiranu Wangaaari For my music page And karanu underscore Wangaaari For the meme For me you can find me at Official Fox Fredito On all social media platforms And Fox Fredito For my old streaming platforms Because I also do solo music myself And YouTube Fox Fredito I have two channels one is for music And one is for dancing You wanna check out my dance videos So, yeah, thank you so much for coming through. We appreciate your time and hope to see you more and, you know, keep the conversation going. So, yeah, up next is FAKE AS NIGHTS. Yeah. Dance. Ah, no, thank you so much. God bless.


on the ground from Galvanize, San Francisco. It's theCUBE covering Amplify Women's Pitch Night. Now, here's Jeff Frick. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at Galvanize at the Girls in Tech Female Founders Pitch Night. And it's 10 finalists. They're pitching to a room full of ECs, trying to get some money and some really interesting creative ideas. We're joined now by Anna Vidal. Welcome. And her company is called Adioma. And the greatest thing, they gave us a little summary before we go live. It says, explain to your company in seven words or less. That's like the biggest struggle that most entrepreneurs have, right? They have so much to say. You got it down to three. Yeah. A visual writing tool. So welcome. Yeah, that's it. Thank you so much. So tell us more about your tool. Sure. So Adioma visualizes your article. It's like any text you write, you can just upload it and it will visualize it into a visual language.  Yeah, what does that mean? So I'm thinking like icons in the newest IOS, right? Yeah, exactly. So it's icons and visual layouts. So we've all gotten used to icons, right? Like there's emojis, but emojis wouldn't work if you wanted to say visualize science or law. Right. I'm a lawyer by background. So it wouldn't be so great to put emojis into depositions, you know? But so there are universal icons that we already use like they're in the airport and healthcare and in traffic science, like everybody knows what they mean. You don't have to ask somebody for an explanation when you're at the airport. Like what does that icon mean, right? Never happened. So there's already visual language. We're just expanding it to cover all kinds of meaning. So the whole visual language would cover the whole English language basically. And then we're putting them into universal templates. So a timeline, a tree, a cycle, you know what that means? Like nobody needs to tell you, right? Right, right. So that's what we're putting together. And so if you have an article or just ideas, brainstorming in your head, you can just type it up and upload it and boom, you've got a visualization just like that. And you said so it comes out like an infographic. Yeah, yeah, like an infographic. It's kind of a higher value. So that's incredible to me. So, and there's no, it's not like mechanical turk, there's people in the back room that are basically redoing this is all done inside the computer. Yeah, it's all algorithm based.  So I was in law school out of all places and I felt like really overwhelmed by the amount of text. Well, some people would say then you shouldn't be in law school but I had a different idea. I thought I know I'm a visual learner and I can handle complexity if I make a picture of it for myself. So I drew out cases while in law school and it helped me a lot. And I thought, well, why can't we apply the same kind of model of visualization to other areas? But there was no tool to do it simply. So I ended up learning Photoshop and Illustrator like the professional tools spent a couple years of my life on that but became a designer and I thought, okay, well, now I wonder if there's a way to make it easier for everyone because then I got clients who would order these visualizations but they would run up like $10,000 or more and not everyone's... Because you were just charged by the hour or by the S&M. Exactly, yeah. By the project but still, yeah. I mean, Google can afford it to buy one from me and they did but not like small startups and businesses, right? So I thought, okay, maybe there's a way to automate it. And a lot of my clients started saying like, is there a way to do it simpler? So I started doing it like step by step first, like organizing all the icons in one place, tagging them, making sure that we have like word icon match set, like so it's easy to find one. Like, let's say you're looking for some complicated word like litigation or IPO. So there's an icon for that. So we cover the whole language. So you've built kind of the icon library and then you've built kind of the mapping and then you've come up with these kind of information conveyance templates, whether it be a tree or a timeline or some of these other things. Yeah, exactly. And then it just scans it and does the match and does it do a cool design and kicks it out? Yeah. I got to see this. That's awesome. Well, it's funny because, you know, one of the popular things we've got a lot of conferences that happens now that people are doing more and more is they have one of these designers up on stage next to the keynote with this big giant board. And they're drawing hand drawing visualizations along with the kind of the cadence of the keynote. But again, it's a very manual process. These people are very specialized in their craft but the output is a really cool visualization of what was a mini minutes or 45 minutes presentation but you automated the whole thing. Yeah. And my next big thing is to do mind maps in the tool and it's totally possible we're like getting closer to it but yeah, I think it should be democratized like there's 60% of the world is visual thinkers. Some of us are like not comfortable to admit it because, you know, the text guys are supposed to be smarter but it's like, no, everyone is smart. If you're a visual thinker, you just need the right tools to express yourself and the right tools to consume information. So a little bit about the company, how long have you been at it? How many people are there kind of, where are you kind of in your stage of life in the company? Yeah, so we launched on September 1st and since then, so there's three of us, me, a micro founder and our advisor and we've got like more than 5,000 visualizations created on a platform. We covered 10,000 words, 10,000 English words. You can search only by English right now but you can type any language. And we're profitable, which is awesome. Great. Already, yeah. And the second month, we made 10% revenue growth over the last month. And who are your customers? Who's using, I mean, obviously a lot of people could who has found you and is using your service? Yeah, so it's mostly educators, bloggers, so people who write anyway, so they've been writing their whole life. Now they just want to make a visual equivalent of what they write and just put it up there so people can scan it. And then third one is startup founders because they want to explain their idea. So I use Adioma to explain Adioma all the time. And you just scan it and you're off to the races? Yeah. So where can people go to try it out, to upload their latest blog and learn more about the company? Yeah, so go to adioma, A-D-I-O-M-A, dot com and sign up, it's free. If you pay a little bit, you get a higher resolution of your image and you get more templates, it's $40 a month. Still like it's a screaming deal compared to hiring a designer. And we even give you a vector file for 300 bucks which means like you can print it out, you can scale it infinitely, you can edit it in Photoshop. Is it with all the individual objects or vectors or the whole thing? Like the individual objects. The individual objects as well. All right, I got to check this out. Yeah. Antivital, great story. Good luck tonight. How'd your pitch go with the folks downstairs? I feel good. You feel good? Yeah. Okay, well you're already profitable so you're probably ahead of a lot of the people. All right, Antivital from Adioma. Check it out, I'm Jeff Rick. You're watching theCUBE. We're live downtown San Francisco at Galvanize. Thanks for watching.


This is stock number 10054A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used sports car headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean, extremely good looking 2014 Ford Mustang GT Coupe. This vehicle has the 5 liter V8 motor. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this car is extremely clean all the way around, inside and out. Black is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the car with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before actually seeing it in person. It comes with some American muscle, painted alloy rims, dark gray, metallic really good looking rims on here Michelin. Pilot super sport tires these are 235, 50 ZR18s and they have lots of good tread left on them. Didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender. Has the HID headlights, the LED running lights. I think those are LED fog lights as well not 100% certain on that. Front bumper very very clean no scuffs no scrapes no cracks very nice condition. Passenger fender no dents or dings on that and the passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the car you can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the car hear the car and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises very clean down this side I didn't see one single dent or ding previous owner of this car actually traded this in on a GT 500 so you can tell he took really good care of his vehicle. This has Rausch dual rear exhaust we do have the factory exhaust in the trunk which I'll check out in just a second here rear bumper is very clean deck lid and spoiler are in the excellent condition as well do like the green stripes on here look really good this one has the capitalist fuel fill and down this side of the car just as clean as that passenger side no dents no dings and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well very very clean down this side has the power mirrors with the built-in blind spot mirrors inside the GT coupe package gives you the black cloth interior power driver seat no rips or tears on that seat factory floor mats throughout back seats are very clean as well no rips or tears those seats do fold down and it does have the latch child safety system if you want to try and get a car seat back there power mirrors power windows power locks and auto headlamps as we hop inside the car here you can see that this one only has 7,854 miles on it you get the leather wrapped steering wheel cruise controls on the left bluetooth and audio controls on the right and information center controls on the left as well comes with the AM FM CD player outside temperature display compass display and then you have your climate controls down there has an RTR six speed manual transmission shift knob on there sync for your bluetooth has an AUGS and a USB jack GT floor mat on that side and the passenger seat is very clean as well this car has never been smoked in smells very clean the headliner is in excellent condition and you do get your map lights up there we'll take a quick look under the hood and we will also check out the trunk to see all the factory goodies that came with this car so we have the air intake we have the factory exhaust back here as well and then we have the original lug nuts too and then the original fuel door and capitalist fuel fill and then it has raxiom advanced lighting solution fog lights in it which we're going to check out in just a second I just turned those on but very clean back there and one more down one more time down this side of the car and I'd like to thank you once again for checking out the video today hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around inside and out there those raxiom fog lamps really nice and bright and under the hood we have the five liter 32 valve v8 motor engine bay is super clean runs very smooth has a nice cold air intake this car has been fully safety then inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this car one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks scvs minivans wranglers sports cars you name we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more hd videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel on your left a link to more sports car videos like this one on your right if you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2014 Ford Mustang GT coupe thanks again


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casegraves.com Coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles at basketball two box fat pack break number four random team break number four and The first 20 spots get entered into a randomizer try to win an extra spot right here. So Good luck to these early birds right here. There's the first 20 right there chance at an early bird spot Let's put the names in here. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it name on top after seven two and a five seven times one two three Four and seven then final time after seven it's bill bill you're on top and you get that extra spot The early bird catches the worm there you are All right now. Let's assign you a random team We'll put it put the results into this list right here New dice roll for the names and teams. Good luck three and a two five times for names and teams one two three four and five After five times you got Michael Hughes down to Daniel Ruiz of Florida three and two five times teams That's one two And fifth and final time after five times we got okc down to motor city all right Michael with the Thunder Joe with the Wizards Daniel Nets my Lakers calves and maves Joe with the trailblazers Ashley you have the clip show last spot mojo as well Asa with the Pacers Brandon with the T Wolves Olly with the Pelicans I've heard of them Peter with the Sixers Daniel with the Bucks Marty with the Jazz Richard with the Rockets Jeremy Port Grizzlies Matt hedges with the Celtics Matt Michael Hughes with the Spurs Billy of the Knicks Jeremy with the Kings Richard with the Nuggets Mark with the Warriors Daniel with the Magic Matthew With the Raptors bill with the Bulls bill your early bird spot Suns Amber with the heat and the Hawks Jarell with the Hornets and Daniel with the Detroit Pistons All right, let's sort by column B And I'm gonna pause the video and when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back everybody a Lot of trade chatter, but no deals were done in this two box break random team number fourth Another two box are coming up right after this in a separate video number five People were in a Chronicles retail mood right here. I know the hobbies have been really exciting but the The retail have some value to the occasional autograph in here as well See these are the retail hangar packs right there This break should be about 20 minutes or so and then we'll dive into The the next two box break and then we'll we'll turn you over to Sean after that What time it might be? No, I think we might be Yeah, right on right on target Sorry guys I'm more difficult to open No, it hasn't Travis Has it sold out I Think I just have I Just have Chronicles number five after this and Then everything else that has sold out will be will be Sean Sean will take care of Orders if it's sold out it'll happen. We're just gonna figure out what order it's gonna happen Correct. Yes the only vet commons that do ship. Well, this is kind of a weird set Because almost everything is an insert the only common The only commons look like Look like that So LeBron and second-year Lucas and Yannis's that look like this Chronicles base card will ship But this Westbrook won't ship and it's a veteran comment But everything else is an insert so everything else will ship So if I missed like a million dollar card here or something like that, don't worry It'll still ship. We're just let me know and I could set it aside to have it sleeved up But we're gonna set the sleeve up pile right there So that's already an insert that'll ship anyway to the Lakers to you but obviously It's Kobe white obviously like John Moran's and Zion's all set aside right away So this will go to Jeremy Port who got randomized the gris and these I think it's kind of hard-seeing this lighting but these bronzes are So the score insert which will ship and the bronze parallels right there are exclusive to this particular Salo pack and the prism cards are especially interesting because they are They are prism updates basically They are not basically they are So if you see one, they're not they're not too common, but and a good question someone had earlier or any of these numbered no At least I haven't seen one yet. You shouldn't be able to tell by the parallel But no numbers just yet. It's like that LeBron will ship. I I haven't seen one yet I have to be a little more careful with these and I can't really speed through these like usual There's a Yanis base Because there could be so many crazy things here We need to set aside night there's our first Zion and I think that's a elements bronze John Moran There you go, Jeremy Port with the jaw and there's the Zion for Ollie. There you go, Oliver With the pelicans first of many possibly Oliver Has anyone been looking these up? How much is each each one of these go for? I'm sure they'll vary depending on design But so there's there's one of the score inserts right there Set that aside There you go, Daniel in the Lakers We fouled off his foot I found like 60 mile per hour baseballs in the batting cage off my foot and it hurts. I can't imagine Any of any major league pitch Smokey, I'm gonna I'm not gonna DM you or Instagram for for sports picks. I do all right myself. I don't need help Thank you though. There you go. Oliver another Zion. I know there's another John Moran for Jeremy So that Zion goes for that playbook Zion ronkel saying goes for about 50 So, yeah, what what seems to be going for the most fluxes maybe because that's a that's a product that hasn't come out yet I mean, it may never come out and it may just be teasing here in these sets Another Zion here for Oliver another John Moran for Jeremy for Apparently this dunk right here. He never made it That's why I learned today There's the flux right there. All right, that's their first box. There's a John Moran crusade and that Zion looks like it's bronze Jeremy port with the grizzly. Oh, did the blue jays play their first home game in Buffalo today? That's what I'm here on the Dodgers broadcast here. There's Zion the Reds and you can see the bronze Right there. So that's the bronze parallel Which is exclusive to this set The luminance John Moran Robert ronkel saying that just goes for a lot just because that photo is just nasty I know I really do like the photography on these Especially luminance. That's really nice All right, so I'll leave those right there a little bit later just so After the video so the shipping team knows to top load those and make sure those are protected on their way to you Yeah, I do like the luminance design a lot Tiny bit toasty Got another two box break of this coming up right after this. This is break number four break number five after this and then and then I think that probably Sean will Sean Jasper will take over around then and then he'll go through some more orders and see what else is sold out And then And then take care of you for the for the late night hours a little bit of a hassle to open but Great stuff inside here. Good luck onwards. Oh, is that an autograph? No, it's just the Reds PJ Washington, Jr. I don't know why he was turned around like that, but just in case It's super a special Jarell Taylor Sean constantly pulls heat in your opinion sister. Oh sure does There it is There it is Turns out the more you invest the more chances you have to get bigger. It's Scared money. Don't make money There you go. Jarell nice. Yeah, Jarell. It's like, yep. That's lol. That is true That's a bronze ion out of elements. I think You'll be able to see it better in person Oliver Actually, I think we can see it right now Right you can kind of tell the difference So on the right is the regular version and the bronzey sort of versioned on the left You can kind of tell in the text right there too. Pelicans is in bronze and Lakers is in the regular silver I don't know how much of a difference those bronzes make but according to the box They're exclusive to the set John Moran Gray is Jeremy Ford. Sorry. I was chewing on a On a cough drop. It's way too early in the week for my voice to be Breaking. Is I yelling over the weekend? No, I don't think so I think I fell asleep with the window open the chilly Beach night air of Santa Monica, California got to me. Wait Zion you're supposed to come over here, Zion Playbook Zion Also bronze, maybe I don't know if there's another example of playbook There is another example of playbook Right, I know I saw it. I was like wait a second. So I doesn't go in that pile John Moran bronze. Yeah, I think so You see the differences right there That one will go to Jeremy Port Yeah, so these are base cards.  All right, that's threads Zion right there And we've got what is this a prestige Zion? Every pack as a Zion and jaw Would you rather it not have Would you rather it not? me Yellow my tube. It's who knows It could have just it could have floated in the air through my window and into my mouth. It's possible But not likely Think the value is gonna shoot down pretty soon. Probably not Let me know if you can find any of these retail packs in a store Go ahead. Let me know if you could find these at like at Retail on eBay at a decent price. It's not like a zillion dollars a box or a pack I think maybe if all the packs of these were opened up all at once And then all dumped into the secondary market at the same time, then yeah, I think you would have a supply demand issue, but Remember we're looking at an extremely small sample size here. I know it seems like a lot But it's an extremely small sample size for of what we're pulling and Small sample size of how many breakers are actually popping these open to Because believe it or not look at the secondary mark You may not see as many as you think at that point. That's where grading comes into you stop the great everything as well All right, there you go two box fat pack random team break number four 2019 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles basketball get into the action ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jasky's case breaks calm I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


Hello and welcome to our video summarizing everything you need to know about the streetcar name desire. My name is Barbara and in this video we will specifically be looking into all you need to understand if you're writing about this play and you want to engage in understanding its context, more specifically the place biographical, historical, as well as its literary context. Now do remember that this video is a follow-on from our more detailed streetcar name desire video where we go over the plot if you want to understand the plot, lots of different aspects to understand with regards to the characters and themes, so make sure you do check out that other video. However this video will specifically go into lots of detail relating to context. So let's first start off with biographical context. Now Tennessee Williams who's recognized as one of the greatest American playwrights gained most of his notoriety for this play following its production in 1947. Now it's really important to understand that many of his characters in this play are based on his own family. So Williams' own mother Edwina was a beautiful southern belle born to a respectable southern family and just like Blanche she suffered from psychological problems and mental stress and she depended on her parents for financial support and following the family's decision to move to St Louis she lost a lot of the privileges that she enjoyed as well as the social status that she had in her hometown and she really struggled with this change. Also parallels can be drawn between Stanley the character in the play and Cornelius Williams, Tennessee Williams' own father who was a really angry argumentative drinker as well as a gambler. Now the marriage between his parents was a really unhappy one and also Williams' concern with the developing of madness in his protagonist is really also based on his own experiences. So Williams himself was really sensitive as a boy and he found a lot of solace in writing. Also do bear in mind that his own sister didn't really have much of an escape so she also became really mentally unstable she suffered from schizophrenia as she grew older and eventually her mother had her undergo a lobotomy which is basically a medical procedure removing part of her brain in order to try and cure this schizophrenia however this really caused his sister to completely suffer a mental breakdown in her 20s and Williams really held a lot of guilt and regret that he wasn't able to save his sister from this madness. So we can also see this in the play because Stella is faced with a similar predicament when she decides to commit blanche towards the end of the play to mental institution. So Williams' own family's history of psychosis really made him really paranoid and in later life despite a lot of the success that he enjoyed he himself also suffered from depression which was made worse by taking lots of drugs and also drinking alcohol. Also do bear in mind in terms of the setting that he chooses which is New Orleans in the Deep South but also of course Blanche is a southern belle who comes from Bel Rev. Although he was nicknamed Tennessee he was actually born in Mississippi and Blanche's romanticization of her family mansion Bel Rev can be linked to Williams' own maternal grandparents whom he adored as well as his nostalgia for a way of life that was really characterized by his early life. So the setting for Streetcar and its busy lively atmosphere is drawn from also his own experience of when he moved to New Orleans in 1938 and the French Quarter in particular had a reputation for its decadence and easy morality which is obviously shown in the Elysian fields. Now let's move on to looking at historical context. So now this play was published in 1947. Do bear in mind that the Second World War had ended in 1945. This was a time of great change globally but of course also in America. So Tennessee Williams explores the social tensions within America following this upheaval and the play really represents the changes to American culture and also what some saw as the decline of civilization following America's emergence as a modern capitalist country. Now this play shows the decline of the old south, its advantaged way of life and do remember that in the 19th century the success of the southern state's economy which largely was agrarian so dependent on its cultivation of its plants, things such as creating cotton and producing cotton through exploiting slaves, it really made the southern states very prosperous by the end of the 19th century. However following the American civil war, the abolition of slavery, the wealth of these plantations really declined and this actually didn't really affect the northern states whose economy was actually based more on industry whilst the southern states suffered economically. The north improved and of course this shift is also symbolized in the characters of Blanche. She represents the declining southern states especially the plantation states whilst Stanley represents not only the new south but also the north which is characterized by lots of immigration, lots of freedom, lots of mixing even racially and all of this is embodied in the two. Now do bear in mind that in the 20th century America's economy prospered and industrialization really grew lots of the cities including New Orleans so there was a lot of urban development modernization and thus the struggle between the north and south is expressed and reflected in the opposing values that Stanley and Blanche hold. So Blanche on the one hand symbolizes old word values of the south while Stanley who's a decorated soldier the son of a Polish immigrant he represents the new America. Now Williams portrays Stanley in a way that matches experience of many men at the time who returned home from the Second World War. There were the everyday American hard-working men who were also self-made in pursuit of the American dream so this play really explores the impacts of these cultural changes as well as the way materialistic desires and values destroyed the charm of the old south and also it's important to consider also the role and position of women in this time so Stanley does refer to the Napoleonic code in Louisiana in the second scene and this hints at the cultural misogyny that restricted women in American society a southern ladies the roles open to Blanche and Stella were quite narrowly defined and both women were constrained by social expectations of things like chastity being passive as well as dependent on men for survival so for instance Mitch's rejection of Blanche because of a sexual freedom reflects the social hypocrisy of the time. So now let's look now at literary context so this play can be viewed through very different literary contexts firstly it can be seen as a modern tragedy do bear in mind the concept of tragedy actually comes from Aristotle's definition a tragedy is a story where a character has a fatal flaw something about them that ultimately causes their demise so like other modern tragedies Williams really focuses here and this is what makes it a modern tragedy on domestic conflict and he finds interest in the minor dramas of common people within the play so the plot centers on Blanche's downfall in her social status and her fatal flaw is her inability to accept these changing social circumstances but also her sexuality which is also seen as another fatal flaw so Blanche is really confronted with her sleazy past as well as the fatal flaws that lead to this ruin also bear in mind that Tennessee Williams is really influenced by playwrights like Henrik Ibsen he wrote Adoles House and also just to plug this in we have created a summary to Adoles House so make sure you check that out however Williams was really influenced by Ibsen and how he used social realism in his plays and this is also apparent in Williams's own writing so he reflects the realistic detail of the city of New Orleans the apartment and the rendering of a family drama that explores all of these themes such as class and gender relationships also do consider the way in which Williams broke with tradition of realism and he developed what he called plastic theater which is a non-realist style that exploits expressionistic devices to symbolically reflect the psyche of the characters on stage so that's all if you found this video useful would really appreciate it if you gave it a big thumbs up and also consider subscribing to our channel but also we have plenty of revision materials relating to streetcar name desire make sure you visit our website which is www.firstretutors.com there you can download and purchase lots of useful revision material display and indeed other areas of English thank you so much for listening


Gun control. Americans have been lucky during the COVID-19 panic, but it's still a toss-up. By Jose Nino. An audio-mesis wire narrated by Million Quinteros. If history has taught us anything, it's that a crisis is the lifeblood of state growth. The coronavirus saga offers a treasure trove of power grabs that elected officials are seeking to ram through, while Americans must make significant readjustments in their daily lives due to state-imposed shutdowns around the nation. Some of the attempts to transgress on individual rights extends to other activities that have no relationship to public health whatsoever. Take, for example, the right to bear arms. At the federal level, politicians have already sneakily introduced the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020, a bill that would enact several gun control measures such as federal licensing for guns and ammunition, mandatory universal background checks, a prohibition on so-called assault weapons, and a ban on normal capacity magazines. In other words, the typical shopping list of civilian disarmament schemes that many federal busybodies desire. Due to the divided makeup of the current Congress, this bill will likely die. However, its introduction is indicative of the opportunistic nature of politician during times of emergency, real or fabricated. None of these political machinations are novel when we reflect on American history. It's often forgotten that most of America's foundational gun control legislation was enacted during the overlapping era of the Great Depression and Prohibition. This period was a maelstrom of social disorder, organized crime ran loose and the economy was in shambles. What history books gloss over is how both of those unpleasant incidents during the 1930s were the result of bad public policy. Alcohol prohibition incentivized organized crime while credit expansion by the Federal Reserve led to the infamous stock market crash of 1929. Subsequent economic interventions by the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations impeded a timely recovery. To their credit, politicians ended the absurdity of prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment in 1933. Nonetheless, most of the great leaps forward, such as the establishment of the Social Security Act and the National Firearms Act of 1934 have stayed in place. The latter has seen other forms of federal gun legislation built on top of it in an all too predictable manner. The ratchet effect that Robert Higgs has aptly described, whereby expansions in state power during times of emergency are rarely reversed, has been a mainstay of American politics since the progressive era. Considering previous episodes of American history over the last century, the present coronavirus pandemic seems like fertile ground for another instance of the ratchet effect. Surprisingly, the attempts to use this crisis as a springboard for infringements on the right to bear arms have not been so effective. The federal government has not only shown a surprising degree of restraint but also declared gun stores essential businesses at the end of March. In contrast, various state legislatures and municipalities joyfully lumped gun stores in with other non-essential businesses in their shutdown measures. Nothing says equality like dishing out equal misery via administrative fiat. Once the progressive die has been cast, policy becomes a matter of who can outdo the rest in terms of demagoguery. Champaign, Illinois, Mayor Deborah Frank Finan rose to the occasion by banning the sale of alcohol and guns last month. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell followed in her footsteps by banning the sale and transportation of firearms in the city. At the state level, Governor Gavin Newsom enacted a statewide stay at home order for California that did not list gun stores as essential businesses. Even middle-of-the-road states such as Pennsylvania initially saw statewide closures of gun stores. In a rather fortuitous twist of fate, grassroots pressure and the federal government's reasonable actions were able to compel several states and municipalities to reverse course. Liberty-minded state representatives in Pennsylvania successfully petitioned Governor Tom Wolf to exempt gun retailers from the across-the-board closures while Wake County, North Carolina opted to not follow through with its decision to deem gun stores as non-essential. Although pessimism is often warranted, thanks to the almost predictable nature of government, swelling under any given administration, the current coronavirus pandemic offers another comforting prospect, more Americans becoming armed. Many new gun owners have rushed to gun retailers to acquire a means of protecting themselves and their loved ones, at a time when uncertainty looms on the horizon. In this process, otherwise politically aloof individuals are seeing firsthand how rigid the current gun control system is, especially the federal background check system. The process of buying a gun in America is not as simple as many TV pundits make it out to be. Nonetheless, the National Instant Criminal Background System, or NICS, experienced a record number of background checks. Americans still have residual constitutionalist instincts on gun ownership, despite the constant fear-mongering from media-talking heads and years of social engineering at public schools. Americans are lucky that their current government has exercised some restraint, but on future occasions they may not be so fortunate. Politics is oftentimes a coin toss. The populace holds its breath, waiting to see how it lands. Eventually the coin will fall on the wrong side, and citizens will be subject to a torrent of state abuse. We must end this dangerous game to avoid the fate of despotism. Is it too much to ask our leaders to think beyond their terms in office? The short-time horizons of mass democracy incentivize impulsive policymaking. Regular Americans can at least do their parts by not giving prospective tyrants any more tools to use should they come into power. The safest bet for Americans who value their right to bear arms is to look ahead and take up the challenge of implementing radical decentralization in their own backyards. The empowerment of local jurisdictions is not only a matter of preserving freedoms, but also of building strong institutions that are ready to block the inevitable usurpations coming from above. As they say, for warned is for armed. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.